Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 4:10pmLEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS is one that comes to mind. The film itself is decent but overall forgettable. However, it is helped immensely by the incredible score by Thomas Newman. One of the best fantasy scores I've heard in quite a while.
#2re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 5:29pmThomas Newman is incomparable. His scores are always stunning.
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#2re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 5:30pmStar Trek V: The Final Frontier is 90% unwatchable, but the Jerry Goldsmith score is one of his most listenable.
Funny Face
Broadway Star Joined: 7/6/06
#3re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 5:37pm
Memoris of a Geisha
The Da Vinci Code
I do like those movies, though. Just not as much as their scores.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#4re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 5:39pmSo many...my current favorite is "One Night with the King"...the score is by J.A.C. Redford (who is overdue for an Oscar nomination -- someone give this guy a chance).
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#6re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:21pm
KING ARTHUR
Holy cow! It's one of my absolute favorite film scores, the movie with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley was something else though...)
Also:
DaVinci Code
Snow Falling on Cedars
#7re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/10/07 at 11:23pmI think A Little Night Music is worth mentioning, even if the score was written before the movie.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 7:11am
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, a pretty silly movie with a terrific score.
MARS ATTACKS! not Tim Burton's best, but a wonderful score by Danny Elfman.
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#9re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 12:57pm
THE GOOD GERMAN
LADY IN THE WATER
THE VILLAGE
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#10re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 1:42pmMunk, yes, the good german has a BEAUTIFUL score.
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#11re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:51pmThe Road to Wellville - so-so movie, great score by Rachel Portman
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#12re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 3:45pm
The Perfect Storm
James Horner's most emotional and vivid of the last 15 years, and oddly enough, captures the spirit of the book without being weighed down by the movie star-laden film adpataion.
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#13re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 3:46pm
Xanadu
Flashdance
Thank God It's Friday
Car Wash
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#14re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 4:11pmAll the Star Wars films.
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#15re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 4:18pmMunk took mine but The Village which is hated by most people (although I liked it) has an INCREDIBLE score that is quite moving and some extraordinary vilon work by this young play (of course I forget her name...hilary something?) and Lady in the Water as well. James Newton Howard is amazing!
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#16re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 4:42pmI love both The Village and Lady in the Water, as films.
#17re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/11/07 at 11:44pmThe Village was just terrible and Lady In the Water was improbably worse. I didn't hate the scores though.
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joey
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#18re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/12/07 at 12:51am
I would have said The Perfect Storm as well.
John William's stirring score for The Patriot is one of my personal favorites of his.
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#19re: Mediocre/Terrible Films With Amazing Scores
Posted: 8/12/07 at 1:37amI actually love LADY IN THE WATER as a film...but I think that THE VILLAGE is just awful.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
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