Pretty Intrusive Music

Westside Story on steroids. Not only heavy-handed but inappropriate in tone. Every tension cue sounded like a finale. Much of the music was simply too complex. Foot chase scenes had music appropriate for a speed boat race. The less active scenes had music obscuring dialog in places. All music could have been mixed down 30%. The finale scene with Terry bloodied didn't even need music. Then a harp came out of nowhere and some Twilight Zone vibes. When the cymbals started crashing, we got the Roman gladiators battle the Martians.

I think Lenny was trying to show off and ended up being a detriment. Either that or he thought he had weak scenes that needed hyping. Thankfully, the movie is so potent it survived. This music would have crushed a lesser movie.

His investing advice left me in a drunken IRA haze.

Exactly my thoughts during the scene with Terry and Edie arguing in her apartment (right before they fall over and start kissing). The music in that scene came across as cheesy and over the top.

I did not like the score *at all*. The music itself is not bad but it belongs to the epics and melodramas of the Golden Age of Hollywood, not a grounded story like this.