I guess none of us bothered with the Oscars this year?

[Chris Shaneyfelt]

You are so right, Paul - that three-note motif is laughable.

[Chris Shaneyfelt]

BWOM-BWOM-BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM (repeat for 150 minutes).

LOL! So true!

[AndyDursin]

I wanted to refrain from commenting until I had watched this, but that three note motif...Paul is right.

To me it sounds like a Jumbotron sound effect gone wrong at a pro sporting event

Dramatically? How can anyone argue that it's effective?

I also found some of the score absolutely "clumsy" and "wacky" in the wrong way too, like when the German kids get drafted into the army, there's this weird "drumline" percussion that plays a little here and there. I was like, there's a marching band around somewhere? Is it in back of the characters? No, wait, it's just the score.

[Paul MacLean]

To me it sounds like a Jumbotron sound effect gone wrong at a pro sporting event

Some people are praising this score for being atypical and pushing the envelope (and deriding its detractors for having narrow, reactionary tastes).

But Bertelmann's "foghorn" sounds a lot like something nearly two decades old)...