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90% Of The Problem

posted 12 years ago by richard.fuller1
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It still won't be a great movie, but it will be more appropriately a movie refelcting of its time, but 90% of the problem is the musical score.

Remove that, replace it with something tamer, the movie will be dated, but okay.

Even just tone down the Sousa score, it will be okay. It just comes blaring thru like that.

I watched Halloween (1978) and not having seen it for a while and noticed the same shrill music piece turned up over and over. The opening piano piece was only played twice after the opener; when the doctor saw the car & Laurie was going out of the house and then at the end.

Im 30 minutes into this so far, and the march has blared thru too many times. Hopefully it won't return, but I suspect it will.

[–] vpilutis 12 years ago

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[–] richard.fuller1 12 years ago

For its time, it would simply be dated.

It was harmed mainly with a sneer because it was 'Tarzan' in the role and the Sousa music ruins it even more. As others have been telling me, it was deliberately ruined, which is truly obvious.

But movies still put 'comedy relief' in there that isn't funny (hence Saul of the Mole Men's comment "grumpy robot machine". The complaining sidekicks were supposed to be funny and they never were) and the Sousa march is really no different than seeing hip-hop or rap songs at the end of movies.

It wasn't a good film, but it was apparent even the attempts to sabotage it there weren't sincere and eventually waned.