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Mostly it just doesn't work, Jun 27 2004
While I was watching the film, there were some spots that I thought the music went pretty well with what was on screen. However, most of the time I was wondering what the heck the composer was thinking. Near the end the score even turns into something you'd hear in a horror film rather than a drama. The score is just too all over the place. The main theme is also repeated way too much with basically no variation at all. I didn't know Eastwood scored it until I came hear to see who scored it. I did like the film a lot. I just think Eastwood should stick to directing.
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You've got to be kidding!, Mar 8 2004
I limit my comments here only to those tracks composed by Clint Eastwood, a good actor, a terrific director, but alas, a terrible composer. Never have I heard as poor a soundtrack to as good a movie as Mystic River. Throughout the movie my wife and I were both wondering who had written the music--we're both musicians and we tend to notice soundtracks. Neither of us had seen a composer credit, and when she asked me I hazarded a guess based on its completely primitive nature. "I wonder if Eastwood did it himself," and of course I was proved right. His music to Mystic River is based on a single four note idea, and it's not a very good idea at that, sounding like part of the second phrase of "Here Comes the Bride". Unfortunately, as with far too many self taught composers, Eastwood has no idea what to do with that motive, so he mostly repeats it ad nauseum. It's not that a soundtrack must be fast and exciting to be good, or that a soundtrack must have lots of different melodies--check out Hans Zimmer's soundtrack CD to The Last Samurai for an excellent example of a largely introspective work with limited themes. But for a soundtrack to work as anything but background music it's got to have some interest--melodic, harmonic, timbral, rhythmic, something...and Mystic River has none of that. I'd argue that it doesn't even make good background music, being disruptive of the film's action and incongruous at times. There are so many truly excellent composers working in Hollywood these days. For his next film I hope Eastwood hires Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, or John Williams rather than wallowing in self-indulgence. Would it make sense to get one of those guys to star as Dirty Harry?
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