Monday, February 16, 2026

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Big Empty

   We are talking about an odd movie today, The Big Empty.


Debt will make you do some crazy things. When a struggling actor gets the chance to get debt free, he takes that chance. He is asked to take a suitcase to a small town in the desert and give it to someone named Cowboy. The town he gets to is strange. There is a man who hold John at gunpoint to try and get his girl back, a conspiracy theorist who believes in aliens, and the FBI trying to find 75 people who have gone missing from this town. 


No this time I got to really enjoy the music of this movie differently. I really got to listen to this movie more than watch because I was ripping up carpet in the living room. So, watching wasn't really happening. However, the music was great... until I got to one part of the film and I was having many questions about why the composition was done the way that it was. It really didn't match the red of the score, or the movie, at all. However, I do feel like the music matched the movie very well  

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Brian Tyler Takeover: The Hunted

 So, we finally get to watch one of the earlier movies in Mr. Tyler's career. From 2003, The Hunted.



When a former special operation officer is found to be murdering people in a State Park in Oregon, his former survival instructor is forced to locate him. 

So, this movie is not overall the great in my opinion. It was kind of slow and very easy to  no pay attention. Which is odd because when you have the cast of Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro, you asking for a pretty great film. I think that for a thriller action movie it might have needed more of both.

As for the musical score. For the record again, I know nothing about music so I have no clue what I am really talking about. 

It could be that I had a hard time paying attention to this movie, but I don't remember there being so much of a musical score. There was one point of the end of the film that I felt like it was prominent, but I am not sure. That one point of the movie the score felt like it was movie and well placed. 

Hopefully, the further we go down the line the more it will hear and understand.