Time to cast votes: Goblin soundtrack - great or terrible?
I loved it. I recently find out that a lot of people hate it with passion. What say ye? Yey or ney.
shareYay, definetely. Possibly the creepiest film score ever.
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Hated it. I dont' watch a movie for the music, I watch it for the story.
shareFine, but the question is did you like the soundtrack, not the movie.
shareAs I said, I hated it.
shareI liked it very much, although I think it's overkill. What I mean to say is that I liked the music per se, but I think it was overused in the film and the sound levels are just insanely uneven! I can understand that LOUD contributes to shock value, but I think it originated from a technical error, not the original intention that led to this result. The dialogue dubbing is pretty bad as well.
shareI thought it was great. It both fit and enhanced the films visuals.
shareAbsolutely love the Goblin score.
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A wonderful score... but I found it was extremely intrusive. It was played in all the wrong places
shareIntrusive is exactly how I'd describe it. Music is supposed to exist in the background subtley guiding our reactions, not assaulting our ears and screaming demands at the audience. I liked the music, but it was clumsily wielded as a blunt instrument.
The movie was still pretty good though.
The conventional wisdom is usually that if the audience notices the music, it is not doing it's job in a movie. That's the Hollywood wisdom, anyway.
You will notice this score everytime it starts but it's worth it and it helps the film. Very great score, especially the DTS on the Blue Underground DVD.
Which is funny for Hollywood to say, since its "Golden Age" of the 40's and 50's were filled with musicals.
Beyond that, Hollywood isn't really in a position to be telling anyone how to make good movies these days.
In musicals the music is often the main point of the whole film don't you think... so I don't think that's a very good parallel.
I liked the music in "Suspiria", although slightly repetitive, it added to atmosphere. I have to say I liked the soundtrack in Phenomena more though.
It was a ney on first viewing but having grown to appreciate Goblin and just rewatched Suspiria it's a very positive yey now!
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Thing is if you asked me to whistle the main theme music for you I could, ask me to do this with almost any other horror I've seen in the past 5 years and I couldn't (well, maybe Saw, after 6 or 7? The theme kind of sticks )
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I could easily hum a rendition of the Nightmare On Elm Street theme, or Poltergeist, The Omen, Fright Night or Coppola's Dracula. The music from Susperia beat me into such submission I was no longer aware of the tune, I was just waiting for it to end or fade into the background so I could watch the damn movie!
shareEasily one of the worst film scores ever composed. The soundtrack to this film is not so much music as it is noise. The word that best discribe it are : annoying, poor and pathetic. I personally have a theory that Argento made the score this awful in an attempt to cover up how dreadful the rest of the film was.
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