I certainly concur with your feelings about the awful score for NSNA...probably the worst score Legrand ever wrote. The title song (by Lana Hall, for a time married to Herb Alpert and a lead singer for Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66) is simply awful to my mind, and nothing that comes after...
It can only be defended by how much it entertains its viewers, and that is such a subjective thing that you can't really criticize people for liking or defending it. I have always been a big Coppola fan, but I am not a completist. I do not like a number of his films, and that is entirely due to...