# Movie rewatch ruined by the soundtrack **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382 "2019-11-13T21:18:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/21 "2019-11-14T14:24:39Z")
I’m in the minority – I actually like Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack for _Metropolis_. Most people hate it, although they liked the Morodor re-edit of the film (at least until the proper restoration twenty years later, then the addition of the REALLY “Lost” scenes shortly after that), so there were places that screened it but with a different score (usually performed live by orchestra or organ). My big complaint, in fact, is that the soundtrack album they sold didn’t actually feature the real score by Moroder and the others, but different versions of them. I also liked the original _Ladyhawke_ music, although I can see why it annoyed a lot of people. I honestly don’t recall the scores for _Gallipoli_ and _Sir Gawaine_. But I’m a big fan of Jean-Michel Jarre, and probably liked the former. Scores that didn’t work for me: – The “new” material they wrote for the film adaptation of **Grease**. Why would you use anything but 1950s-style music for this film, even if you’re trying to appeal to a 1979 audience? The title music was hideous. – Rick Wakeman’s score for the silent _Phantom of the Opera_. I love Wakeman, and thought his piece “Judas Iscariot” from _Rick Wakeman’s Criminal Record_ was the perfect kind of music for The Phantom – it _sounds_ like the work of a psychotic organist. But then I saw the film, and was appalled. It was terrible. I can’t say this was a “rewatch ruined”, because I’ve never wanted to go back and rewatch it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/22 "2019-11-14T15:01:33Z")
That’s four words, **Burp**. ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/23 "2019-11-14T19:37:38Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Somehow, pseudo-classical music, played by a full orchestra, doesn’t age quite as badly. Whatever my complaints about Lucas and Spielberg, at least their movies sound good. Yet add a male chorus singing dark-sounding gobbledigook, and we’re smack in the early 2000s. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/24 "2019-11-14T20:09:55Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’m assuming you mean the instrumental, incidental stuff, and not the Queen songs, right? I wonder how it would have been with songs from Marillion as originally planned. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/25 "2019-11-14T20:18:36Z")
**The Princess Bride** : I was never a fan of the synths. It’s not like it was a low-budget production; they certainly could have afforded a real orchestra, but Mark Knopfler chose to synthesize it instead. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it “ruined” the movie because it did not, but it was not a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/26 "2019-11-15T00:28:14Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > But what popped into my head upon reading the thread title was For Your Eyes Only. Re-score it without the wakka-chicka and it’s a fine movie, but the disco guitars pull me out of the film. I feel the same about **The Spy Who Loved Me**. Bill Conti’s pounding disco just screams 1977!!, whereas other films’ lush John Barry orchestral scores seem, let’s say, period appropriate (pre-Craig Bond always is a creature of the 60s, regardless of when the film was released) but not dated. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/27 "2019-11-15T00:47:17Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Two words: Giorgio Moroder If you’ve ever wondered why the soundtracks to _The Never Ending Story_ and _Top Gun_ have such similar music… Seriously. Listen to “Ruined Landscape” (the scene where Artax traumatizes a generation) and “Memories” (various scenes, most notably after the crash/bail-out scene with Maverick and Goose in the water). He just phoned that one in to whoever he happened to sell it to second. But back on subject, I recall either from the commentary or a making of documentary, the Director for _Chariots of Fire_ taking some of the blame for popularizing the synth soundtrack in the 80’s (though they can’t be blamed for Gallipoli, going off release dates). Vangelis… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/28 "2019-11-15T00:55:47Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Ladyhawk’s synth soundtrack is heinous. I wanted to be the first, but I figured that this would be the OP’s example anyway, it is so, so, so, so bad. Makes a movie I might otherwise use as background noise unlistenable… ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382/29 "2019-11-20T02:48:59Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Yes. Vangelis was appropriate for Blade Runner, not so much The Bounty. But what popped into my head upon reading the thread title was For Your Eyes Only. Re-score it without the wakka-chicka and it’s a fine movie, but the disco guitars pull me out of the film. I just finished watching, for the first time, _The Bounty_; if Vangelis had scored his soundtrack for orchestra, it would have been OK. The synths just sound _synthy_. Of course, the movie had several other problems worse than the score. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-rewatch-ruined-by-the-soundtrack/843382.md?page=1)