[Coleman]

[quote="Jimbo@":2f91f]

Originally Posted by Coleman

Every great movie has a great soundtrack to go along with it. This was the first time that I heard a John Williams' score and felt that it was insufficient.

I could pick out many points in the first half hour of the movie where I would insert some music selections. Music doesn't have to overpower the acting. That's not the purpose of music. Music is to give another edge, another flare of excitement, suspense, what have you.

It seems to me, Vance, that you think music is supposed 'to sound good to the ear' and all of that. People think of music as being all consonance. dissonance is what makes music interesting. When you hear some 4-3 suspensions (creates dissonance and eventually gives a great resolution feel once it's resolves to the 3rd scale degree). Things like this aren't worth arguing since you don't know what I'm saying. I'm not calling you ignorant or anything; I'm just saying there is no purpose in making a long drawn-out arguement to an uninformed person.

If you're gonna judge a movie just because of it's music...well then thats just lame.[/quote:2f91f]I never said the movie sucked because the music sucked. THe music was just one of the reasons why I thought War of the Worlds shouldn't be built up the way the media has been playing it to be. The unanswered questions, lack of key camera angle shots, non effective music, and unrealistic character abilites (getting out of every dangerous situation. Almost like "Dante's Peak" with Pierce Brosnan sp?) prevented the movie from standing out from any other movie on my list.