James Horner -Avatar

I noticed that the music for Avatar isn't as good as it could be even when I went to see the film (that would be Saturday). That always brings me down a little -for me, movies need to be a full experience, and when the music doesn't live up to the film a part of it dies. But that's life, I suppose, we can't always have the best.

It's not a horrible soundtrack, don't get me wrong. It's good enough, does it's job of sort of filling the blanks, but that's all. The score lacks the final punch, that tiny bit of extra love that would turn it into a masterpiece. I keep getting the feeling I'm listening to the soundtrack through a wall, that I only hear the damped out, incomplete version of it. It really ticks me off. There's so much potential in it, so much unpolished greatness, and all I want to do is turn it into the brilliant soundtrack it (and the movie) deserves.

There are some nice moments of course, like when Jake runs with his avatar for the first time, but there aren't any great moments. Which leaves me very disappointed yet again, as it did after the movie. Such a shame really, it could have been so much better.