FAMILY PLOT is a cut above those, mainly because of Williams' score and the cast (Barbara Harris especially), but I don't think it's "great" by any means and has a lot of the same "fatigue" issues. I think once we're past the convoluted "info dump" (that takes-up most ...

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He noted in an interview he didn't love the score and expected the movie to be different and more like the first movie -- and he was right. It needed more of a lightness of touch, something a little more sprightly and romantic. Instead he recycled sections of the first score but they're not well ap...

The Sound of Freedom (7.5/10) A polarizing film, hailed by some as an important exposé of the most heinous criminal industry of all -- yet pilloried by others as right wing propaganda. Child trafficking is among the lowest, most venal acts imaginable, so I don't understand why a film which spotligh...

Going back to your original post tho, I've since seen Harriet , and have to admit that Blanchard's score did not serve the dramatic interests of the film very well, and was its weakest link. However, Gleiberman's description of the score as "Jerry Goldsmith-meets-Aaron-Copland" was way-off...

The Gauntlet (7.5/10) Not one of Clint Eastwood's best, but a solid thriller with some satisfying action. I was never a fan of Sandra Locke, but she was Eastwood's muse for a long time and you kind of have to take her along if you want to enjoy any of Clint's work from the mid 70 to the 80s. The pa...

I don't remember anything about the score. Was it really even worse than Where The River Runs Black?

I wish you have the guts to admit your backlash is because of the gay characters. When you say "It's not the presence of gay characters that annoys people," it absolutely is. Basically you are saying, "I am ok with gay characters unless someone say something about them. Keep their im...

Is this going to get a Blu-ray release?

Or is Netflix going to prevent one so we have to pay $22 a month to watch it?

I am all for women directors (Sofia Coppola has done great work), I'm all for non-white directors (Antoine Fuqua is awesome), and in fact I consider Akira Kurosawa the greatest director of all time. But -- again -- this is Lucasfilm hiring a director with negligible experience in "high concept&...

How about the option for turning off all end credits pop-ups shilling other stuff on Prime or that horrible "Next episode" thing for the extra surcharge? :? That would be nice too. I get so tired of being redirected to another movie (which is of no interest to me — and which amazon is cle...

The pacing needed more energy, it needed the narration and those shots of the fall and the Midwest landscape in Autumn, and to be honest, it needed Horner's score. According to Cinefantastique Magazine, Clayton and Bradbury were very unhappy about Disney's removal of the "house climbing" ...

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Whenever a critic singles out a score like this today, I know it's gonna be one of the best of the year. :lol: It's just sad that the few genuinely "old-school" film scores being written these days always get slagged off like this by critics, even if it's written for a movie that looks li...

What's saddening is that a lot of people will watch this movie and not realize how much the new "score" compromises the film.

Sadder still, some people will say the new score is better than that "old fashioned music".