I guess there are a couple of posts already featuring the same subject but nevertheless...what score do come to mind that just dont fit the movie. Recently I watched GAME OF DEATH and John Barry s music is just so out of place and unsuitable...also as I mentioned earlier Tiomkins SHADOW OF DOUBT...ruined the picture... Some other scores you guys can think of? This is not about if they are good or bad...the score itself can be still great...just in connection to the movie.
Inception - if I am thinking of the right film - had an awful score. It was like someone chose an album at random and let it play under the film. No relation to visuals.
I always thought it was a little strange to put "Yoda's Theme" over a shootout in Cloud City in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, but at least it's performed in an adventurous spirit and tempo. Similarly, putting "Princess Leia's Theme" in immediately following Obi-Wan Kenobi's death in A NEW HOPE could be viewed as equally odd, but for some reason, it never bothered me the same way as it seems to fit because the music comes across as tragic and the narrative has now shifted back to Leia's story and the Rebels, etc. Others may differ.
Personally I think the Game Of Death score is about the only thing that breathes any life into that stinker of a movie. I think it works pretty good to be honest, a bit cheesy but the film isn't Citizen Kane.
When this subject is brought up, the first film that immediately springs to mind is Ordeal By Innocence (1984) with Donald Sutherland and Faye Dunaway. It's a dark Agatha Christie mystery but Dave Brubeck's score consists of improvisational jazz doodles which are at odds with the film. Brubeck's jazz combo underscore provides zero suspense or tension and that's what that film (sorely) needed. For some inexplicable reason, the producers (or someone) tossed out Pino Donaggio's more appropriate score and replaced it with Brubeck's. Go figure!
Yeah I know it sold millions and millions but James Horner's Titanic score remains a terrible fit with the movie. I do not have a problem with anyone liking or loving that score on it's own, but it is a terrible fit with the movie.
Ladyhawke... Awful music to illustrate the movie but a great listening experience outside
Ugh. That score ruined the movie for me. I don't know why Donner didn't have Woolfson write piano sketches and then have Powell expand them like they did for the orchestral pieces on the Alan Parsons Project albums either. Powell didn't write them! He orchestrated. You want the APP sound without Woolfson? It's not gonna happen. And it didn't.
Anyway, much of Morricone's score for Mission to Mars didn't fit. Thankfully, the rest of the movie was a disaster so the score was still the best part!
Yeah I know it sold millions and millions but James Horner's Titanic score remains a terrible fit with the movie. I do not have a problem with anyone liking or loving that score on it's own, but it is a terrible fit with the movie.
Agreed. I was really turned off by the score as heard in the film. I've grown to enjoy it quite a lot on it's own. But I was very disappointed with what I heard at the time, and expected something far more orchestral and epic for the film itself.
Star Trek Nemesis. Goldsmith's score seemed at odds with the visuals at times. Goldsmith's music never seemed to match the pace of the visuals, especially in the second half of the movie (not that the visuals were anything to phone home about) and seemed to counter rather than compliment them. That said I love the score away from the movie. Go figure.
Two of the last, if not the last, films I saw in a theater had this problem:
"Gravity" A terrible score that didn't help the film, distracted from it sometimes, and left a good fil needing a better score.
"Lone Survivor" A completely annonymous and interchagable score by Explosions in the Sky and Steve Jablonsky. It was background sound that did nothing to help the emotions on screen. Perhaps even mroe annoying is all these SEALs and Marines films getting these boring and bland "big name" composers; I can't think of a single one off hand that got a composer who'd do something worthy of the film.
I've brought this up before I think, but I always felt the opening section of Spirited Away doesn't fit the film at all. It's practically obnoxious, in fact.
(It's good music, just not fitting...and the rest of the score is fantastic)
Probably the best example someone already mentioned: Ordeal by Innocence.
I'd like to submit something I just watched this week. Manchester by the Sea. In the movie (SPOILER AHEAD SPOILER AHEAD) the main character comes home to find he accidentally set his house on fire causing his children to die. The music for this scene was very melodramatic and loud when it should have been sad and subtle. I found it almost laughable.
