So much hate for the music here...
...and yet, no love for that bloody amazing opening theme!
How that can not give anyone goosebumps is beyond me.
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MovieChat Forums > The Untouchables (1987) Discussion > So much hate for the music here...
There are some seriously anal people here that just can't comprehend authentic creative choices.
Hating music because it isn't the same as music they've heard in other gangster films. JESUS ALFONSE CHRIST!!!
Reading some of the comments here I feel like Ben Stiller in There's Something About Mary listening to his hitch-hiker "No!!! It has to be SEVEN MINUTE work out!!!!"
Eh, okay diddums.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
The interesting thing is that virtually all I've seen don't explain why they hate it, they just say they hate it. Good thing the Academy wasn't listening to such whiners when they gave Ennio Morricone a nomination for best score.🐭
shareThe interesting thing is that virtually all I've seen don't explain why they hate it, they just say they hate it.
Because they'd have to actually think for themselves. The fact that they've noticed that it isn't more of the same kind of music you get in this kind of film means they've done all the thinking they are prepared to do. Having an opinion requires as much thought as noticing something. It's much easier simply to express and extreme opinion correspondent with the dialectics of the evident variance in style.
NOT the same = confusion = NOT good = "I HATE IT"!!!!
Check out the way people who have only seen Tony Hopkins in the role react to Brian Cox's performance as Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter They are hilariously anal.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please. share
Really? I saw very detailed explanations of why people hated it. Among them: schmaltzy, overwrought,inappropriate for the time period to the point of being anachronistic, inappropriate for the scene ... and I totally agree.
shareI saw very detailed explanations of why people hated it.Stop reading the backs of those cereal boxes jane.🐭 share
There are places in the film where the score works but other times when it seems intrusive. I don't remember thinking this when the film came out and overall I think it's aged well. I guess over time tastes change so perhaps I'll have to come back on another 28 years or so and see what I think then.
shareI love the score. It's classic Hollywood composing that will survive past the modern phase of sound design and pounding drums being labeled as music themes. This movie wasn't meant to be doco style. It's big and operatic
shareThe only time the music really bothered me was in the hero/action sequences. If they just left music out of those scenes it would have been much better. Other than that, I like the overall score and there's some parts of it I think are great. The opening theme like you mentioned is great. For the most part, the less overbearing parts of the score accommodate the film's classic noir style well IMO. One of my favorite pieces is Capone's music; the ominous stringy synths with the saxophone. It perfectly conveys how sickening it is to watch him indulge in endless luxury while all the blood is being spilled underneath it all.
shareI love the music. Especially during the build up to the train station shootout, there is so much tense anticipation created through the strings and drums. Yes, the music is dated by today's standards, but it was an adaptation of a 60s tv show about the 1930s filtered through a 1980s sensibility.
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I thought the music was great.
shareSo did i.
And it's memorable. I know that because the music was used in a TV commercial a few years ago. I hadnt seen this movie for something like 25 years, but I still said "Hey, that's the music from the Untouchables movie!". And i dont have that good a memory.