The Academy Awards usually gets it all wrong. So what ever won the Oscar for best original motion picture soundtrack is probably over rated. Not all but most.
Do not get me wrong, I love most scores by both George Fenton and Marvin Hamlisch... but these two scores were just very disappointing to me. They never grabbed me the way I thought they would.
Do not get me wrong, I love most scores by both George Fenton and Marvin Hamlisch... but these two scores were just very disappointing to me. They never grabbed me the way I thought they would.
But to place them in the same category of horrible scores like MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and SOCIAL NETWORK is quite odd.
Of late? I can't tell you how many times I've played How To Train Your Dragon and its never grabbed me. Especially strange since I adore a number of other Powell scores (Chicken Run, X-Men 3 and Bourne Supremacy especially).
Do not get me wrong, I love most scores by both George Fenton and Marvin Hamlisch... but these two scores were just very disappointing to me. They never grabbed me the way I thought they would.
But to place them in the same category of horrible scores like MIDNIGHT EXPRESS and SOCIAL NETWORK is quite odd.
Perhaps I am being too harsh on them. I know a lot of people love both of those scores (Gandhi and Sophie's Choice)... my Mother among them. And, they are very well done. Off the list... (just not my cup of tea)
but...
THE SOCIAL NETWORK and MIDNIGHT EXPRESS are just worthless, over-rated junk that won Oscars...
Actually this is very subjective I couldn't hazard a guess, but I do think it would have to be a score to a film that has dated over time. Perhaps Saturday Night Fever.
I love Georges Delerue; I think he's one of the very best . . . it's ironic that he won an Oscar for A Little Romance -- possibly his least interesting score (a very poor man's Vivaldi). Although, I have a feeling that the Oscar was probably more of an homage to his entire body of work. Take, for example, the outrage of Gregory Peck winning the Best Actor Oscar for To Kill A Mockingbird over Peter O'Toole's dazzling "debut" in Lawrence of Arabia. I'm pretty sure Peck's Oscar was a "lifetime achievement" award. And, while I'm at it, Mockingbird's laughably dated Hollywood/liberal/PC adapted screenplay won the Oscar over Lawrence's brilliant script. For what it's worth, Steven Spielberg said the Lawrence script is possibly the best screenplay ever written.
