There's lots of reasons to hate this movie. Lousy CGI, appalling writing. But perhaps the most annoying aspect of this flick is the music. The never ending epic music, blasting away, throughout the entire picture. Men pack ice into dead fish with a score more over the top than the climactic reunification scene in a Disney movie about a pet dog finding it's way back to it's boy master.
Music can make or break a film. In this case it made a bad movie unbearable.
The music interferes with everything. Everything was epic and bombastic, but in the worst way. It's a shame, because I love James Horner, but this was just so heavy handed that it made the real emotion in some of the scenes feel hollow.
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Agree.. the whole movie, along with the never ending music, was so over the top melodramatic it was impossible to take seriously.
shareThank you so much, watching again after 20 years and all I'm yelling at the tv is Shut off the stupid music!!
shareOdd. I prefer the music to the movie and the book second to that, with the movie itself a distant third. If the movie didn't have the music I would probably not rate it at all.
shareI think the music when the opening credits roll and the camera pans towards the names on the wall is absolutely beautiful and haunting. I have no issues with the score of this film.
Listen for yourself. It’s a beautiful piece of music. The part I’m talking about starts at 4:05: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCLZjRalbU