Film Scores that ruined or hurt an otherwise good film.

a-dev said:

You didn't like Skyfall? I think that's a vintage quality Bond song.

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Song is ok. Everytime I hear it though I think of Elmer Fudd when Adele sings the word crumbles. She sings cwumbles instead and I hear Fudd. She needed her back up singers on that one.

Wor-Gar said:

Not sure what the official worst Bond song is. Likely Moonraker or Octopussy.

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Both of those are bad as is the one Madonna did. I agree on the Garbage song. Manson has a better use of talent than on that song.

Yep. Shirley Manson could have done one of the greats if they had used her talent -- that amazing voice -- correctly, and not on a very standard ballad.

Watched True Romance recently and really don't like the music to the film at all. Really doesn't mesh with it for me.

Conan The Barbarian (1982) awesome film but the music just helped take it to another level.

Rbeato said:

Conan The Barbarian (1982) awesome film but the music just helped take it to another level.

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Agreed but this is a thread about music that made a film worse.

Conan the Barbarian is one of the greatest film scores of all time.. In my top three for sure.

The Batman. It's been said before, but I every time I would be upon the precipice of complete immersion...BAM...Imperial March.

Now I like a few of Giacchino's other works, but man...those couple notes completely (and repeatedly) took me out of the film.

goatchumby said:

The Batman. It's been said before, but I every time I would be upon the precipice of complete immersion...BAM...Imperial March.

Now I like a few of Giacchino's other works, but man...those couple notes completely (and repeatedly) took me out of the film.

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I actually loved that part of the score...

I find Michael Giacchino's scores in general to be a mix of hit and miss to be honest. Sometimes a score of his has a great main theme, but the rest is bland, sometimes the whole score seems bland.


I found the score to Wonder Woman 1984 pretty poor. Granted, it wasn't a great film to begin with, but the score itself betrays you when watching the film. The first track you hear during the start and the Amazon Olympics is great. It's the WW main theme but explored further and it gives you good hope for the rest of the film. But after that Hans Zimmer seems to just phone it in and even worse, uses John Murphy's "Sunshine (Adagio in D-minor)" track at one point. It is a great piece of music, but it didn't fit in that movie at all and just felt lazy.

The scores for Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and Dominion were also bland, his work on the first Jurassic World was really good.

I definitely agree on the robocop 2 soundtrack. It sounded like a 70s soap opera opening theme.

Prime Clone said:

Justice League. From the opening song the tone shifted from the epic Hans Zimmer themes of MoS and BvS to something... far less epic.

(Of course you may not agree JL was "otherwise good", but the soundtrack sure didn't help)

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Agreed- awful awful patch of music from the past and awful stuff overall. I actually thought it was the weakest thing about JL

Never Say Never again...would have worked much better with a good score