On one side: The wannabe blockbuster, a fresh script, huge potential for an original large-scale score, by one of the promising new composers of our time.

On the other side: The cheap TV flick made to entertain desperate housewives. A low-budget thriller about a mother who wants to kill her son-in-law.

The outcome: Mother 1, Vendetta 0.

It might have something to do with expectations, but I picked up the Vendetta soundtrack the other day. I don't know how the score is in the film, but the material on the CD is a superbly well-crafted, large-scale, professional lot of droning, pointless, completely forgettable and pathetically useless orchestral noise.
That, for the film with the bigger budget, and the original plot line, from the fresh composer, and so on.

Then, today, I was channel surfing when a scene on a lame TV channel caught my ear. The music was a waltzy piece, with a lovely tune, underscoring a scene of a woman walking up the stairs where another woman pretends to have been beaten by her daughter's husband. I sat through nearly 45 minutes of crap... (ugh!) A daughter marries a garagist. Her mother hires goons to kill him. Goons are cops. Mother is crazy. Blah, blah blah... One of those Hush-like cheap, predictable TV flicks that entertain some people between Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. Hardly original material.