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I re-watched THE CASSANDRA CROSSING, yesterday, and was reminded of how horrible the score is. Right up there as worst film score for a major motion picture, with Webber's score for THE ODESSA FILE.
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Are you deciding what I think is horrible?! Yes, it is horrible! Goldsmith remains my favorite film composer of all-time, though.
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While I probably haven't heard even half of all of Goldsmith's scores, there is one I can think of that I felt didn't work in its film at all and that was so thunderingly repetitive I would never want to hear again in any form: Hoosiers. Never in a million chances would I have guessed this music came from the same man who just a few years before gave the world The Secret of NIMH, Alien, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But I know many people love Hoosiers, so this is clearly just a personal thing.
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I've always thought The Cassandra Crossing is one of Goldmiths's best!!
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No, it doesn't hurt. The main title is fine. However, what you hear throughout, is that horrible clang thing, which is somehow supposed to pass for a suspense score. It takes me out of the film, every time I hear it. I'd rather the scenes were silent. It stinks. People telling me it doesn't does not make it stink any less. While THE ODESSA FILE gets my vote for worst, ever, and the film I most want to have re-scored, THE CASSANDRA CROSSING comes very close.
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I really can't believe all the hate for CRIMINAL LAW. I think it's Goldsmith's best all-synth score, definitely more listenable than RUNAWAY, parts of which I like very much. CL is written very orchestrally with parts for piano, synth strings, brass, percussion and other looped samples such as the sound Peter Gabriel used in one of his songs (as previously mentioned on this thread). It's also very effective in the film...I recommend those that dislike the score on disc to watch the film and you may warm up to what Goldsmith was creating musically. I don't believe it! I thought I was all alone in the world.
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