[A Navy Vet]

What a shame. People often don't realized how important the music/scores affect the feel of a movie. Horner was a great composer along the lines of John Williams. Without their compositions, many movies would be boring no matter how great the direction, acting, story-line, cinematography. Music can make a mediocre movie better, but also make a good movie mundane.

Example: Texas Rising on HBO. Their music was right out of old TV westerns like Bonanza and the Big Valley. I stopped watching after the first episode. Even my wife commented, "What's with the old 60's 70's western music?"

[SamAdams76]

Music is as important to a movie as dialogue. Imagine watching classics like "Goodfellas", "Jaws" or "Titanic" for instance, with just the dialogue and no music at all. Totally different movie experience - and not for the better.

Even when movies were "silent", they would have a band in the theater playing the film score.

Getting back to the plane crash, I'm not a pilot but always wondered what the appeal was of flying solo. I would always want to have a co-pilot with me - just in case.

[beaversmom]

I definitely understand what you are saying. The soundtrack is one of three essential elements of a great movie to me...the other two being direction and acting.

A perfect example of how music conveys a range of emotions w/barely a word spoken in the scene linked below. The scene, as lovely as it is, would be greatly diminished w/out the score.

https://youtu.be/-tuNR-uD_mE

[bravo whiskey]

I remember a show about movie scores. They did a scene from JAWS without music and then with music. Quite a change in the impact of the scene.