Movies today have no suspense/pacing

[Asr]

This thread has taken a turn that was entirely unexpected. I'm still trying to figure out how this became a thread about the SAW movies...

 

[daywalker2007]

its all about the score!
without a proper score you won't have any goddamn suspense!

my friend, you are 100% correct.

one of the biggest reasons why movies today just aren't good enough, is the actual music scores.

In the 80s, and even 90's, there was a wide mix of different types of movie scores.

At the same time, you would have Jerry Goldsmith doing Alien, Harold Faltermeyer doing Beverly Hills Cop, and then Alan Silvestri doing Predator.
And Brad Fiedel doing Terminator 1 and 2.

The mix was varied, and you either got an electronic score, a full orchestral score, or a mixture of both, and the composers knew when to up the ante in the music to drive along the scenes.

Take for example Aliens, and Predator, both defined by the music and the scenes that go along with them.

It all started to go downhill in the late 1990's, when Hans Zimmer's method of generic scoring took prevalence in Hollywood. Thats why are there are so many Zimmer clones these days like Steve Jablonsky, Klaus Badelt, Ramin Djwadi, etc.

The few experienced ones that are left are either resigned to doing low budget or indie films, while these generic scores get raped to death and are spat out at us.

Take for example the Bourne Identity scores, and pretty much any Hans Zimmer type score. The generic sounds plod along, no new ideas, and no real quality. The same boring crap gets regurgitated every day.

Even the Dark Knight for all its quality, could have been even better had it had a score good enough for its story. Never mind though.

It looks like we are in for more generic crap movie scores this upcoming new year, where the two note chord bashings by the Zimmer clones will rule again.

How awful is that!