Horrible soundtrack ruins movie

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2012)

Well this is a deception: Not even 10 minutes in and you have already been bombarded with all the musical themes of Lord of the Ring - unchanged, not re-harmonized and not re-orchestrated either. From that point on I thought to myself "can they really be that cheap?". Are they in it only for the money? This is a different movie after all, shouldn't it deserve it's own soundtrack considering we're going to be feed 9 hours of that stuff...
More comments about the music: The soundtrack here is lame, even by the low standards of the movie industry. How about a chord inversion from time to time? The only new theme here is just bad and lacks originality. The rest is taken from Lord of the Ring, it's not even modulated (a tone below would have been appropriate for a prelude, along with an inversion of the harmonic polarities or a modulation to the relative modes) nor transformed slightly. The orchestration is just as rudimentary, a if out of a 75 musicians orchestra the composer, with all his energy, is only able to achieve a total of 4 or 5 colours.
We get it, a minor third and a fourth, 4 horns in unison, V-VII-I in minor; it's all it takes to get out the cash out of the musically-uncultured customer. Where is the sophistication? Why is there no "Hobbit themes"?
General comments: So yeah, the music ruined it for me, if you wish to get a review about the "amazing script" (some even dare call this a masterpiece) please read the following or preceding reviews.
Frankly, it's still Jackson's fault, it's the usual mistake "good" directors will make - to take the popular named music composer, where the really great directors like Paul Thomas Anderson will have a real control over the final result (or perhaps the term is critical judgment).
For me it's nothing more than what you can expect from the trailers. Too much CGI, scenes that are twice too long, but a nice cinematography - the later which justify a 6.
Overall: This movie cannot stand on it's own and relies way too much on the Lord of the Ring success.