Coach of the Stageness

Over the weekend I asked my grandparents about the movie Stagecoach. The remembered it very well. The blur on John Wayne’s big entrance was something my grandmother was able to recall. She also told me how the movie Notorious ended, but that is for a different blog. I liked the movie Stagecoach. I hate the music that they put into old movies. I think that is really the only thing that modern movies do better though. If only they could have made me the folly artist. I have the music from the Wild West level in the game Time Splitters 2 on my iPod. Would it have been so hard for them to use that mp3 file when they made that movie? The music in those movies is way too strong to the point of making it cheesy. They try to intensify the suspense way too much. It is like the time my uncle got really mad at my cousin for destroying a bucket of water with a boat bomb (little spinning firework, ask me in person why I call them “boat bombs”). His anger was so great that he was funny when he yelled at my cousin, not scary. That part of the film where they showed the stagecoach and then the Apache biker gang is an example of over doing emotion. The panning and the music shift are just too sudden. If the pan was more gradual and the music transitioned into the generic Indian theme of doom, it might have been better. Sounds in other old films as well are poorly placed. Star Trek had some of the most annoying sound effects that I have ever heard. Overall though it was a good movie and my list of complaints is short enough for only one blog.