Posted on 07/09/2012 7:06:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Before I list these painful scores, let me clarify what I mean by “painful.” What I mean is “excruciating.” Bad scores are a dime a dozen, especially since the advent of the pop music score, which quite often replaced an orchestral score, thereby substituting a “composer” who had hardly studied the craft for someone who actually knew how to read an orchestral score. Usually the composers of a bygone era knew the craft of composition; how to develop a theme, how to evoke different emotion through the colors of the orchestral palette and the shifting harmonies underlying them, how to modulate from one key to another without the wrenching shift of the neophyte or the same chords repeated ad infinitum.
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I’m with you. I liked Vangelis and any movie that uses the great hymn ‘Jerusalem’ is OK in my book!
Heh, just listen to the awfulness that oozes from the tv speakers for most programs. The new “thing” is to end a show with some (hopefully relevant) music. Works when you’ve got talent like Northern Exposure...doesn’t work in much of the new stuff. I’ve forced my wife to watch HGTV with the sound turned way down...due to the most awful guitar music ever perpetrated on humanity. Those musicions should be sent to a Muslim country where they can be properly disposed of.
I get chills when I hear Jerusalem.
I didn’t read the list but I think “Chariots of Fire” must have been one of the greatest ever. Not even arguable.
You diss Mark Knopfler and you get on the fighting side of me...Knopfler's "Local Hero" score was excellent as well.
How could The Third Man possibly be on this list because of the zither music? That made the whole movie. Don’t know any of the rest but the author has zero credibility with me.
This guy is an A$$clown! The zither score for The Third Man totally makes the movie.
How could The Third Man possibly be on this list because of the zither music? That made the whole movie. Don’t know any of the rest but the author has zero credibility with me.
I’m with you. The score to the “Princess Bride” is a masterpiece. Period.
Anyone who slices and dices Knopfler’s score in that movie doesn’t know music.
The author criticizes the score for Chariots of Fire because a synthesizer score does not fit a film set in the 1920's. This is inconsistent which his criticism of the score for The Third Man, which did fit its time and place.
The article was just one guy's boring opinion.
Ladyhawk.
Good movie, but a DISCO theme?!
Godzilla VS Biollante, too.
I would say the all-time worst was Platoon’s grating over-use of Barber’s Adagio for Strings.
Most recently, I walked out of Inception because the score was so incredibly pointless and over-bearing.
The score for Prometheus stunned me for not only how bad and too loud it was, but also because I didn’t expect it. After Scott’s brilliant, low key use of Goldsmith’s scoring in Alien, I didn’t think for a second there’d be music like there was in Prometheus. The surprise made the score like, three times worse.
Me too.
I love the movie Office Space but the soundtrack is absolutely hideous. Lots of rap and hip-hop with really objectionable lyrics. I once watched it on a TV set where the closed captions were on and was absolutely shocked and disgusted with those lyrics.
Gallipoli was an example to me of a soundtrack that detracted from the film.
There, corrected it for your dyslexia.
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