Are any of you disappointed with the kind of music made for films today?

What I've realized is music isn't as big of a key player as it used to be. When I watched films from before, you instantly recognized a piece, the music created the mood, the atmosphere, it enhanced the emotion.

You can't watch The Mission and not have Gabriel's Oboe hypnotize you. It's the first part I'm instantly connected by.

Yet today, many scenes are shot sans any music or if music is included, it usually is a background score which doesn't overwhelm a film.

I grew up with Ennio Morricone, Gabriel Yared, Max Steiner, Georges Delerue, Riz Ortolani, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, John Williams, Hans Zimmer and many more. Aside from Max Richter, the current film composers don't catch my ear.

I read comments about Jonny Greenwood's score for One Battle After Another and they write glowing praise about the music, and I'm like, what music? I don't get it. I don't like subtle instrumental music. I want to be moved by the score and I don't see it anymore.

You would never be touched by Titanic if James Horner's "Hymn to the Sea" didn't swoop you in. Sometimes the score of a film overtakes the film, "To the Stars" from Dragonheart.