@Errikos said:
I believe that the lesson for all aspiring composers to be learned here, is to get off their - deceptively high - horse, and fathom the fact that the masters of film music always maintain the high standard of their work regardless of that of their collaborators, because they know that in the end, no matter how good or bad the finished film is, it is their name that will be splashed across the big screen for the music credit, no one else's...
This is supposed to be words of wisdom, but it is words of doom.
The doom of the film composer, who is condemned to writing music for crap. Except for once in a while, when after years of labor he claws and struggles his way upward to the highest goal conceivable within the art form - to write music for SOMETHING A LITTLE BETTER THAN CRAP! Even Jerry Goldsmith, at the height of his powers. As correctly pointed out - Basic Instinct. A piece of rotting garbage, offered up to a brilliant genius for his music that will forever be sullied by the garbage.
My adivce is - don't get off your high horse. Get on one. You will be extremely original at the very least, because absolutely nobody else today even tries.