Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments

9. The Score

Glass 2019
Universal

West Dylan Thordson is a very talented musical composer. His prior scores for films like Foxcatcher, Joy, or even Split have not only been interesting music in their own right, they've also captured the spirit of their respective films incredibly well.

However, something was distinctly and very noticeably lost in translation between Thordson and Shyamalan during their collaboration on Glass.

Split was a thriller, through-and-through, which channeled claustrophobic horror and suspense thanks to Shyamalan's distinctive visual work. Thus, Thordson's score of screeching strings and sudden thuds fit perfectly and complimented the visuals. However, Glass is a very different film. One would be very hard-pressed to point to even a single moment of the film that genuinely earns the term "thriller".

Yet Thordson's score plays like an overtly horror-thriller score in every way; the kind of thing you'd expect to hear backing any number of other Blumhouse productions. Its spindly strings and orchestral accents feel grossly out of place and result in a handful of laughable moments where literally nothing of interest is happening on screen and then there's just suddenly come creepy music thrown in.

As stated, Thordson is a very talented composer and the music here isn't bad in the least, it just feels like it was made for a completely different film the vast majority of the time.

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