Thoughts on the score?
Hearing synths took me out. Too modern for a ww1 movie.
shareI thought it was one of the best parts of the movie. It's sort of like saying 'you can't use a camera like that to record a movie based in WWI because it's too modern'. And yes that makes sense because when there's a tense or sad scene, it's not like the characters are listening to the music whilst that tense/sad scene is taking place. It's meta, metadata, it's not inside the movie itself, just like a camera recording the movie isn't inside the movie.
Now yes you can definitely have music that egregiously doesn't fit the movie (like flight of the bumblebee when spoiler: main character gets killed), of course, but let's be realistic here; this music definitely fit the movie.