Title: save your cash--instead donate to save the rainforests
Product review: I think James Horner did a good job with braveheart, but then he developed a stupefying lack of creativity (he could be chewing on lead paint). He copied scores from one movie to another. I think a very essential collaboration exists between the director and music director, because the latter can literally bring the movie to its knees. A director who can't understand this relationship, hints at his mediocre abilities. At one extreme is saving private ryan where speilberg kept the music to the min. and let the unfolding events speak for themselves since that's what was required of the scenes. On the other, the thin red line, whose music (after suspending any judgement about direction) was like putting a car in reverse at 60 mph. Enemy at the gates fits this bill maybe at 20mph.
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