10 Great Movies With ONE Terrible Element

Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride is such a wonderfully charming, funny, and brilliantly conceived piece of work that it feels bad to say even a single derisive word about it.

But c'mon, the musical score sucks, alright?

The score was famously composed by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, who made the "eccentric" choice to record almost the entire score with a Synclavier sampling machine. To say that the corny synth/orchestral arrangement has aged poorly is quite the understatement indeed.

It simply sounds incongruous and poorly suited to the film's frothy fantasy adventure stylings, and has only felt more so with the passing of decades. If Knopfler couldn't or wouldn't use a proper orchestra, he should've considered another approach instead.

Somewhat fittingly, the score was performed live by a real orchestra in 2021, which one can only imagine must've sounded much better than the distractingly cheeseball work that ended up in the movie itself.