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Movie Score that doesn't match the movie

Never say Never again has one of the most inappropriate scores I can think of , a jazzy score doesn't match an action movie at all. The movie isn't very good to begin with but it drags it down further.

I wanted to list movies that had movie scores that didn't fit at all.

Never say never again
The Third Man I really hate this score too, especially since the movie is so visually rich, it just takes me out of the movie
Mission to Mars , not a great movie but interesting visuals but a terrible score that makes what little is interesting of the movie and makes it unwatchable
Goldeneye I'm not fan of movies being redone after the fact for to update visual effects or whatever, but do I ever wish there was David Arnold alternate score on that Blu Ray. Parts of the score are ok but other parts sound like a bad porno.

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I dunno...the jazzy score seemed to suit 50-something Connery as not quite up-to-snuff aged agent 007.

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Can't really think of other scores that don't match the movie--they all seem to wed pretty well. I suppose some of Zimmer's heart-wrenching strains in Pearl Harbor were a little over the top.

I agree about Goldeneye. Goldeneye came out not too long after Terminator 2, and I think the composer was trying to copy the minimalist, metallic, synthesized low gongs and thuds Brad Fidel did for T2, to make Goldeneye the financial success T2 was. But Bond is not Terminator. Bond does amazing superhuman things, but is not made of metal, is quite mortal, and feels emotions! A Bond score should be splashy, melodic and romantic, in my opinion. That film felt so deflated, partly because its music lacked emotional color, was cold and bleak, like Russia where the story of Goldeneye mostly took place.

Thankfully, the score to the next Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, returned to the traditional, fantastic sound!

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the first time i felt that way was as a kid watching 2001: a space odyssey....i'm not saying that kubricks decision was a bad one, only that it disappointed me personally

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I'm kinda with ya on 2001, pharmakon. But I can see, and hear, why Kubrick elected to use classical pieces instead of Alex North's original score. I listened to Alex North's original score, and it sounded like a B 1950s sci-fi thriller like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Kubrick's vision was a bit more grand and ambitious. Even though the classical pieces, with the exception of Also Sprach Zarusthra's brass syncing to the sun coming up over the Earth, aren't really "score", they do lend an elegance and grandeur to the visuals.

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I guess because I grew up with 2001 with the Classical music and it always seemed to fit to me.

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I actually really love Goldeneye's score as it most of the time fits with the movie really well, and give it it's own unique identity in the Bond series. The famous low gongs and thuds you mentioned doesn't actually remind me of metal, but rather the cold, distant, isolated feeling of Russia, and gives it a haunting feel. After all, Russia had a pretty deadly and bloody history, and that kind of history is going to be repeated again in the events of the movie.

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I had The Host Soundtrack on replay for months before I even saw the film but when I did, the music didn't seem to match at all!

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As soon as i read the title i thought of Goldeneye. That weird metallic urban sound in the Pre title sequence is actually pretty good but then the music that plays when bond in the DB5 is racing Onatopp in the Ferrari that music is atrocious.

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As much as I am a huge fan of Goblin, their score for Deep Red is really weird and out of place, for the most part. The death scenes are played with funky, cheesy music that would fit better in a comedic chase scene. And then there are those bleep beep bloop bloop noises...
It still kinda amazing though.

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Maurice Jarre's cartoonish score for Ryan's Daughter. Not completely his fault, as David Lean told Jarre he didn't want a Celtic-sounding score. Unfortunately, Jarre's response was so inept that it unintentionally parodied the screen's lovely story.
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