Does anyone have a score they rather enjoy on album but doesn't quite serve the film it belongs to?
I just saw The Bodyguard after having really enjoyed Alan Silvestri's score for a while now. The score has quite a few critics I think, but for me it's a solid score on album. Effective, haunting main theme and some unsettling suspense throughout...but in the film? Apart from the first quarter or so the music doesn't leave much of an impression and, though it's not a particularly bad movie by my account, it just didn't feel like it had a great score backing it up.
It just could be that I also think it's maybe matic score I've heard in a long time (and I don't just mean the mix) but I was surprised and my reaction to it. I have the album going now and I still like what I hear. Any similar cases for you folks?
Many have complained about the scores to John Williams's "Attack of the Clones", and to a slightly lesser extent, "The Phantom Menace" being so chopped up and out-of-sequence in the films, while enjoying the scores on their initial CD soundtrack releases.
Oh I think there's loads of those. One of my favourite spaghetti western scores is Franco Micalizzi's, Sacramento (1972), well I got the chance to see the film the other day, terrible movie & I didn't even notice the music.
I'm stumped on this one. Even something so seemingly out of place like Zimmer's score for Gladiator I enjoyed in and out of the film.
Edit: Well to some extent Titanic. Hated the new age sound Horner incorporated for the music, though over time I've come to enjoy it in the film as well.
Marvin Hamlisch's score for The Swimmer was over-the-top as heard in the film, specifically in the finale. I suppose that may have been the intention and it was Hamlisch's first assignment after all--but my oh my is his music magnificent on the album.
