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Loathsome music

posted 14 years ago by anneandwalt-1
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I had to keep gritting my teeth throughout this whole production at the intrusive and unnecessary original score that stomped its way into almost every scene.
Intrusive and rather second-rate scores are something that have seemed to ruin far, far too many BBC productions over the last years.
It's not a coincidence that the "Golden Age" of BBC dramas and miniseries - I Claudius, Lily, Upstairs Downstairs, etc did not have any incidental music at all - and were much better for it.
It's a pity that while costumes and location filming all make many series look better, the over-use of constant piano/cello muzak makes things soppy.
E and E's score was particularly bad.
Next time you don't like a movie and you're not sure why - it's the score!

[–] defcon79 14 years ago

I never thought someone could hate music :)

I liked the score, esp the opening.

[–] kreemer 14 years ago

Thank You!

I kept wondering what it was that grated through this film. I like the film. It's very good television all round.

Then, just when I'm in it, I'm yanked out by this ATROCIOUS music, made worse by the sheer incidental nature of it. Did the composer watch the film or just write a score?

The music itself is not bad BUT it is so inappropriate, so intrusive, it's bombastic! And to make matters worse, it's almost direct copy of Philip Glass.

Swelling Orchestras ought to have a reason to blow their trumpet according to the play on the screen.

There is symphony EVERYWHERE. On the streets, on the fields, in the Universities, on the trains, hell they have a live string quintet at a restaurant whose ditty splashes all over the conversation that Einstein and Plank have about Gravity, Speed and Mass. And then a glorious transition onto Eddington on the fields of Cambridge riding through lush countryside with appropriately lush, sumptious composition, and straight into a solitary piano as Eddington tries to express...

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Thanks for the chance to vent OP

[–] bill_ferencz 14 years ago

Couldn't disagree more. The music was good and fit the movie very well in my mind.
Different tastes, that's all.