BijouBob8mm wrote:
Does anyone else here feel CLASH OF THE TITANS was undermined by its score? I've always felt the music on it was such a let-down. EYE OF THE TIGER wasn't an award-winning score, either, but there was just something about CLASH that makes me wince. (And the one shot where Perseus goes to cut the rope after first mounting Pegasus...when he raises his sword and pauses, it's like he's striking a pose that throws off the pace of what should be an exciting scene.)

I agree wholeheartedly with you, BijouBob! I always thought that Alex North would have been a perfect choice to do the score for the film. At the time, he was doing the score for DRAGONSLAYER.
I did a little experiment. I have the CD soundtrack of North's score for 1963's CLEOPATRA. I synched the music from the cue "Caesar's Assassination" with the beheading of Medusa. Fantastic! The music puts one in mind of a slithering snake to begin with. What did Rosenthal use for this sequence?.. a harpsicord. A HARPSICORD!! Works great for The Addams family or The Bookworm on TV's Batman, but not here.Sorry. Not IMHO.