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The score here also has a vague European influence. I think I saw someone in the TCM forums describe it as "like The Third Man score translated to guitar and bongo drums." I look forward to seeing the film again just to listen to the soundtrack; it's so well used and unobstrusive (despite the unique sound) that I missed much of it.
Congratulations [DIRECTOR], you are the most frustrating filmmaker working today. I used to be able to write you off as an overrated and untalented filmmaker – no more. [MOVIE] is a technical marvel. This film is beautiful in a way that surpasses everything that [DIRECTOR] had done to date… combined… including [PREVIOUS MOVIE]! Unfortunately, like every film he has made, the story is flat, the pacing is poor and many of the emotional moments just seem to hit the wrong note.
Congratulations [DIRECTOR], you are the most frustrating filmmaker working today. I used to be able to write you off as an overrated and untalented filmmaker – no more. [MOVIE] is a technical marvel. This film is beautiful in a way that surpasses everything that [DIRECTOR] had done to date… combined… including [PREVIOUS MOVIE]! Unfortunately, like every film he has made, the story is flat, the pacing is poor and many of the emotional moments just seem to hit the wrong note. ...I wanted to like this film, I really did, but [DIRECTOR] once again fails to connect as a storyteller. Throughout the film he either coaxes the wrong notes out of his actors or edits the wrong takes into the film. It must be all that time spent in his own imagination that gets in the way of him getting the human aspect of his films right. [DIRECTOR] is an utterly hopeless filmmaker who needs to be kicked out of the director’s chair and restricted to a creature house so that we can all enjoy his visual tour de force stylistics without sitting through his failed attempts to hang them on his lackluster scripts. Leapfrog George Lucas on the way.