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Terrible Score

posted 8 years ago by cellapie
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I couldn't believe how awful the musical score was for this movie. Watched it for the first time in over 30 years this week. Then again, I'm not an Elmer Bernstein fan. Just dreadful!

"You know me Marge, I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-LAM-ing!"

[–] Arancini 8 years ago

The scoring reminded me of the National Geographic and Cousteau specials from 60's, which I thought fit in with the Carolinian wetlands sets...no complaints from me.

[–] liscarkat (16530) a year ago

It started off sounding like a typical '70s tv series or tv movie score, but I think it got better later in the movie.