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What if they fixed the music?


So I just watched this movie for the first time in 28 years. The first time I was a child up past my bedtime, and mystified by cool movie I'd never heard of before. But this time I was surprised to see so much potential go to waste.

The soundtrack in particular seemed really, really dated. Though there were moments when it shined.

Anyway it got me thinking, that they ought to try redoing the music with an orchestral version of the original Tangerine Dreams sound track. What do you all think?

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I think a redo of the music would ruin the etherical atmosphere that was created by the amazing Tangerine Dream soundtrack; Nineteen Eighty-Four's director, Micheal Radford, tried that when the film was released on DVD - the theatrical release (at least in America) had this incredible Eurythmics score, but Radford had that replaced with a completely different one for the DVD, which, IMO, RUINED the whole mood.
When a film has a loyal following for many years and then someone goes and makes changes, it tends to alienate that fanbase and sour the experience.

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If you've ever seen Miami Vice (a cop show that evolved into a music video cop show, 'In The Air Tonight' was used quite effectively in the pilot.) it should come as no surprise that The Keep sometimes plays as a music video movie, it's how Michael Mann rolls.

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The music is part of what makes this movie so special to people. It's an 80s movie and the soundtrack reflects that, just like Michael Mann's other 80s movies (Manhunter & Thief). I think its weakness has more to do with the cheesy dialogue but I do admit the soundtrack sometimes intensifies that. You have to really take it or leave it with this kind of thing, it's already been cemented as an 80s novelty so you can't really change it or you'd look like a jerk (the George Lucas kind.)

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I think that's a dumb idea. If you watched this and somehow came to the conclusion that the soundtrack needs to be changed then I think the whole thing went over your head. The score is intertwined with the film and the dreamy visuals... it can't exist without THIS music.

All of these 80s ambient soundtracks are popular again and being released on vinyl and in deluxe CD sets. I think most of the scores are better than the films but in this case they need each other because they're one in the same... Besides that, TG are Krautrock pioneers and this score is one of their last great works before getting into their really cheesy 80s ideas... BR+CD box set is the way to go with this.

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your mom's ass is dated. THe music is the best part of the movie. These frickin plebs are annoying me on IMDB. Go back to your BRAWM WRAM transformer movies.

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HORRIBLE soundtrack! For 2015, or 1983, or any other year!
An awful movie, but the soundtrack was the WORST part.

(The saving grace was the soundtrack for the scene where Prof Cuza is carrying the talisman down that long passageway with all the crosses illuminated in the wall. That was a beautiful sequence.)

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It always seems like for every one person disliking Tangerine Dream score there comes up one another person who absolutely loves it, and I am very proud to be the latter. Replacing any TD score simply does not make any sense. Once TD scores it's there forever, you can't replace it with anything else.

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I despise the term "dated." And you don't "fix" a Tangerine Dream score.



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