That's pretty much it. The music was wrong for this period fantasy piece and it hasn't gotten any better. I love Rutger Hauer in this romantic handsome leading man role and would love to watch it again but I am afraid the music will ruin it for me. Please fix the music!!!!
shareMusic was fine. Digitally insert a different lead instead. Broderick can't act his way out of a paper barf bag.
shareI am actually going to try. Its one of my favorite movies and I actually like the quiet music. The action music is a travesty.
shareI re-watched this movie again today - and saw this thread. I guess the music never bothered me much as a young teen(I was 13 in 1985). But going back to re-watch this movie all these years later - I must agree that I think the score is WRONG for this film. There is nothing medieval sounding about it - it sounds like it was made for a very cheap 80's science fiction film and NOT for a movie that is set in medieval times.
So Yes I would rather watch a rescored version of this movie too.
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A re-score of the film would be ok with me, so long as they include the original score (or theatrical version) along with.
Maybe they could do this for a special edition blu-ray, which will contain the new version along with the old version.
Amen! I remembered this movie so fondly from its original release but was somewhat startled at the awful score. This could be re-released in theaters if the score was new.
shareI just watched it today for the first time and didn't really like the score much, it sounded more like it belonged on a buddy cop movie than this! the movie was great but most of the music was really bad. It'd be better with not techno 80's music.
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You people are a bunch of morons (those agreeing with the sentiment of the OP). The unique score to this great film is one of the many things that makes it ... well, unique.
I'm surprised any of you would like the film at all, since it shows some degree of good taste.
Just go back to your cookie cutter and incredibly mediocre lord of the rings / hobbit or whatever movies.
My first thought every time I think of this film is - "Great film, but what a HORRIBLE score". It is perhaps the ultimate example of how a musical score can tank an otherwise beautiful and wonderful film.
Somehow, someway, someone has to fix this.
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Whether it's unique or not is beside the point really. Unique / different doesn't win any points with me if it doesn't work. It's whether it's any good or not (obviously subjective). Different and good is always welcome but being different isn't a good excuse in its own right, particularly if it looks like being different for the sake of it rather than "I've got this new idea I'd like to try and I've thought about it and think it'll work."
Just occasionally it does work - the score when they nearly touch at sunrise works very well indeed for example, so it doesn't necessarily have to be orchestral (and let's face it most orchestral music doesn't sound remotely medieval either).
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I just saw the film, and while I enjoyed it a lot, the music was distracting, and didn't seem right for the material. The same year as this was done, Elmer Bernstein gave a magnificent score to The Black Cauldron that sounded appropriately medieval. I wish that Bernstein had scored this film as well.
sharethe score ruined this movie....God awful...same 2 tunes over and over like and episode of Quantum Leap
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