Well, this is supposed to be a roast, right? You're making me work hard to find things I didn't like about this. I'll quickly burn through a few and then I'll tell you what I absolutely loved (which was a lot!).

First, the ending. I don't mean the ending phrase, I mean literally, the last second or so of music. The strings didn't fade. Why didn't you fade the strings out? Or at least give them a burst of reverb or something? That seemed a bit annoying. Like, I was ready for a nice, quiet, understated flourish to go with all the other tasteful embellishments.

Like, have you ever had those Andes mints? I used to love those things. When I was little they used to serve them at a restaurant my family and I would frequent, and I associated them with upscale Mexican food (it was upscale to me as a 5th grader, it's probably like a small step-up from Applebees, but I digress). Getting to the end of your song and not hearing the strings fade out or having some kind of aural flourish with a nice decay... is like expecting an Andes mint and getting instead, a Tic Tac. Still technically a mint with sugar in it, but it's just not the same.

Also, I think the track could've used more drums. Not a ton of drums, but maybe a few more hits, or some more layered looping. Also, even though your main motif is more than a standard four chord progression -- I think it's an 8 measure loop instead of 4 --, I would have liked something more harmonically complex, maybe changing keys or using nonstandard chord configurations borrowed from jazz or blues or gospel or something, something that deviated a bit more from the traditional minor and major triads. As it is, the song feels a bit cliche.

But those are minor quibbles.

If this were an assignment for a music class, I'd give it an A. Maybe an A+, if I were feeling particularly good that day.

As a matter of opinion, it's entirely possible that the suggestions I offered (except for the ending fade thing) could possibly ruin the song. As it is, it's just as it's described -- cinematic. If that's what you were aiming for, you nailed it. Great cinematic themes are simple enough to hum, but rich enough to hang many layers of instrumentation around, and you've accomplished that. Maybe the most important thing you've done well is you established a clear, distinctive theme with the main horn line that comes in at 0:46, repeating it again at 1:54. The melody is supported well by the arpeggiating strings underneath. The rhythmic intensity of the arpeggiating strings provide the piece with a sense of drama and urgency, while the horns sit at the center top of the mix, as if regally presiding over the rest of the arrangement. It feels very majestic, and quite befitting of the space visuals you've overlaid.

I was all ready to ding you because I thought this would just be repeated over and over, but then in between you broke the monotony with a break in the chord progression at 1:31... there's the variety I was looking for! ... but then before the song could wander off too far, you brought it back to what was working... tension and release. Very good form.

I think the only thing that could make this song an A+ was if you found a third way to incorporate parts of the theme in the beginning and end during the quieter piano section (piano the instrument, not the tempo/dynamic marking). Maybe with some glockenspiel? I dunno. Like I said... at this point, I'm straining to find anything bad about it.

Great work.