Definitely not. One of my favourite scores of all time!
I do not care about the music. It just doesnot work in the film. I remember seeing the film with friends who just do not care about film music laughing with the score of the film. So I guess it doesnot work.
Yes. That sums it up very nicely. The music isn't bad per se, it just sounds preposterous in the context of film. Also, I don't subscribe to the idea that a score must be orchestral or that it must authentic to the period - or a sort of period in this case - but of all the different options available, the composer chose the one that would date the fastest and the worst. Lost opportunity.
I believe it was Thor that mentioned the synth score for Le Nom de la Rose, but it is a manifestly false equivalence since the main reason Horner used synths was because the period instruments required were near impossible to tune. In any case, Horner used a great approach - and I ain't Jimbo's - NUMMER ONE FAN - that served the film very well. The mix of Gregorian chants and his masterful score still give me chills to this very day. Masterful.
- I'll try to find the source. It was in an issue of Soundtrack magazine IIRC, although that was almost four decades ago. Times flies.
Jarre's The Damned is one of my favorite scores of his--at least as a purely listening experience.
Never having seen the film, I can't comment on how it worked in the film, except that Jarre in general knew what he was doing.
He certainly did, and I should try to listen to it on its own. But as we see elsewhere in this thread he can be divisive. (And in this case the producer overruled the director's preference.)
