In my other life, when I'm not in a theater watching whatever art films manage to find their way down to San Antonio or in front of my TV watching obscure experimental films I scared up from Netflix, I am also a music critic. And there's one area where my two favorite forms of opinionated bloviating come together: in the OST, or "original soundtrack". Music has been a big part of the moviegoing experience since before there were talkies, and a good score or the right selection of a song on the soundtrack can make a film memorable just as certainly as an overbearing and obvious score or the use of a trite, predictable song can make a film irritating. On occasion, we'll take a moment to review some of our favorite soundtracks or scores, starting off this week with Basil Poledouris' score from Conan the Barbarian.
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