That's how every John Carpenter movie is. He has some absolute classics and some absolute duds, but ALL of his scores are great. There are a lot of bands today (called synthwave or outrun) that are a throw back to a synthpoppy 80s sound that never actually existed. The thing is, John Carpenter and Vangelis we're doing it in the 70s. That's how ahead of their time they were. The idealized version of 80s music that is being made now, in the 2010s, was being done a decade before the music currently being emulated. I feel like he doesn't get nearly enough credit for being such a visionary musician.