The original is better.

Yeah, the first act is my least favorite part of the movie too. Lots of awkward dialogue/acting ("Silly man, of course I'm not sure") and a clunky exposition-heavy prologue with William Hurt. It gets much better after that though.

While the "full-on Spielberg" version of A.I might have been a better movie, it wouldn't be nearly as interesting as the odd/bad Kubrick homage we got.

It helps that Guardians of the Galaxy was scored by one of the worst composers in Hollywood, Tyler Bates.

What a muddled and simplistic take on film music. It basically boils down to "major key in sad parts + thematic identities = emotions".

"Do E.Ts dream of electric Reese's Pieces?"

I don't know if "unsubtle" is the right word. The themes in Williams scores might be "obvious" but his work has more finesse than 99% of all other film scores.

It helps that almost all of Newton Howard's best scores are for shitty films. He's seriously underrated though.

That's a shame. Hopefully Ready Player One will fare better (though the source material isn't very promising).

"Nominating Trent Reznor and the Arcade Fire were good first steps."
Ugh. The Social Network is one of the worst best original score winners in Academy Awards history.

Cool! Though I'd rather they just stick to the first 3 (do Nicholas Hooper's workman-like and pedestrian scores for The Order of the Phoenix and The Half Blood Prince 'really' warrant a live-to-projection treatment?)

But one of the things that has distinguished this series from the very beginning has been the old-fashioned musical score. Placing contemporary music in a Star Wars film would be disastrous.

The Achilles tendon cutting scene from Problem Child has ensured that I never stand next to nor leave my feet dangling over the bed.

I prefer the lightside ending, cheese and all.

Wow, I actually agree with something Terry Gilliam said (minus the part about liking Ant-Man)

Meh. Rich Evans' George Lucas impression is better…

"The prequels' scores are some of the most oppressive, bad film scores I've ever heard"
You're kidding right? What would you consider to be a "good" film score?

Is anybody else tired of these idiotic "they were dead the entire time!" and "it was all a dream!" fan theories? I sure am.

Spider-Man 3 has many great (yes, great) parts. There are just far too many for one movie. I'd still love to see another Raimi Spider-Man movie.

Good. It should help clear the bad taste out of my mouth from the dreadful "too-cool-to-be-a-musical musical" Les Mis.