Overuse of background music in Oppenheimer

[u/CoverZealousideal876]

Just finished watching Oppenheimer and while I generally liked it (at least at first), what really started to bother me as the movie progressed was the seemingly never-ending background music. At first I thought "cool, some visionary shit happening and epic music" but it just kept going on and on and on... Then I started paying more attention to it, which just took me out of it and kind of destroyed the movie for me.

Close to every single scene has background music - I think if there's 20 minutes of the movie's total 3 hours running time without any that would already be much. It was so excessive that near the end I started longing for a moment where I could just hear people talking without annoying noise lingering in the background. The right music at the right time can elevate a scene and even an entire movie and make it so much greater, but when it's there literally all the time I find it self-defeating. Am I the only one that was bothered by this?

[u/Edward_LeWard]

Yeah and the trombones are overused, think about it though, if they took away the background music during those imagine how goofy it would sound😭

[u/korach1921 → u/Edward_LeWard]

Months and months ago I took the Blu-Ray and extracted the center channel out (Nolan usually has super clean center channels) and it was so much easier to follow and more engaging without the score