Now I bet someone else also mentioned this but seriously WTF. A legend like Morricone scoring Red Sonja. That's probably the reason why the music was the only good aspect of this film. I mean this is like John Williams scoring Battlefield Earth or Steven Spielberg directing Saw 6.
"I'll be back"
How dare you insult Red Sonja! Morricone is indeed a master score composer - on fact, the greatest cinema composer - but to suggest that this spectacular fantasy flick is beneath him is a barefaced snobbish insult indeed!
"don't think...feeeeel"
james-clayton.blogspot.com/
I agree with jimmy-chopsocky. This is a good fantasy film, so what's the big deal?
Freddy Krueger: Come here. Come here, my little piggy. I got some gingerbread for ya.
Hey sorry I like 80's fantasy flicks as much as the next guy but considering the genre and the relatively low budget this film had Morricone seems to be too big of a name thats what I was trying to say.
"I'll be back"
Well, you also said the music was the only good aspect of the film.
----
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Basil Scored Conan the Destroyer, composers compose they generally don't judge the film.
sharewell im sure john williams or morricone can't guest if a film is going to suck or become a cult.
shareSure they can. Hell, I'm pretty sure Hans Zimmer was born with a magic crystal and a sound studio attached to his neck.
"People should know when they're conquered" - Quintus
Master composers aren't exclusive to great movies. If you look through the credits of Morricone or Zimmer you will find lots of low budget stuff, kids movies and so on. They aren't involved in stuff as much as you would think.
shareThe most extreme mismatch of film and composer that I can think of is Robot Monster, one of the worst films of all time, which had an early score by Elmer Bernstein! Of "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape" fame.
shareWell, he had to start somewhere. He also did Wild Wild West near the end of his career.
shareYeah but he also stooped so low to do the soundtrack to Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars... a dreadful film, and a dreadful soundtrack...sounded like he used discarded material to "The Untouchables", with a bit of church organ style synth thrown in ...it just did not work at all...awful.
regards
Fitvideo
The Red Sonja score is fantastic. Not quite as good as the Conan music, but great nonetheless.
shareActually I did not say the Red Sonja score was bad , I quite liked it ... but it is odd that he should score such a dog of a film.
Perhaps I expect too much of Hollywood, after all we are living in times where they are remaking The Karate Kid , Dirty Dancing and The Flight Of The Navigator ...
regards
Fitvideo
Mission to Mars Sountrack has to be the worst movie score i have ever heard.
shareI've seen a few turkeys that were scored by Morricone. Orca with Richard Harris,Sahara with Brooke Shields, Lovers and Liars with Goldie Hawn, Butterfly with Pia Zadora and Bluebeard with Richard Burton. These were all since he became an icon.
shareI don't know about the others but "Orca" was a great film. Although it's usually deemed as a "Jaws" rip-off it's actually quite different and original.
shareEnnio Morricone has scored many awful movies in his prolific career. He's composed, I think, over 500 scores. You don't think they were all directed by Sergio Leone, do you?
Anyway, the score for this movie is enchanting! I've been addicted to it lately.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Its the same score he knocked out for an earlier Fantasy flick called "Hundra". Its pretty feclin shamful to be honest.
shareRats, phil, you beat me to it.
But in all honesty, the score to Hundra sounds so much like the score to Red Sonja, it's frightening.
There is no i in debt, but there is in debit.
Dude just re jigged ir slightly, guess he figured no one saw Hundra so he'd get away with it. Thought id seen every sword and sorcery flick from the 80s so when i stumbled across Hundra just a few weeks back i was a tad suprised. Wonder what other gems are still out there waiting to be discovered, the joys of the internet eh.
shareI was a bit surprised as well to see that Ennio Morricone composed the score for "Red Sonja," but not unhappy. It is a good score and it ups the quality of this Grade C S&S flick. Although it's not as good as Basil's works for the two Conan movies.
I suppose it wouldn't be below the composer to score a low-budget flick if s/he views it as work. Hey, it pays the bills.