Favorite 80s Movies Ruined by Saxophone Music
Not to say this movie is ruined by the music, but it does draw you out of it a bit, especially when the music is typically-80s sax and electronic stuff.
And this is a bit ironic since the first Mad Max had his wife playing saxophone for him, and it fit the tone of that movie, but here it just - doesn't work. Although I suppose maybe they utilized the saxophone (even working it into having a character playing in several scenes) as a callback to the first movie but still...
Anyway, let's start a list of otherwise great music in the 80s that had a bad score (particularly with saxophone music. And as a person who once played sax, it does have a place in music but I don't know what composers of the 80s were thinking.) Anyway, here's a few movies to start the list:
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Lost Boys
St. Elmo's Fire
At least one of the Lethal Weapon movies
More?
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