Moments in movies ruined by music

Nah, great track and I think the switch from "cool" music we'd had previously during this and the Crazy 88 to the silence afterwards actually emphasised the latter more, that the film moved from "fun" to something more dramatic, moves from offing larger than life bad guys to two former friends fighting to the death.
 
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Hollywood ruins a lot of its action movies with the corny motivating patriotic music. Many TV series I try have annoying shit music, typically the ones where they don't cuss and that seem to be aimed towards american suburban wives.
 
KBE6EKCTAH_CCP said:
Hollywood ruins a lot of its action movies with the corny motivating patriotic music. Many TV series I try have annoying shit music, typically the ones where they don't cuss and that seem to be aimed towards american suburban wives.
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Example?
 
KBE6EKCTAH_CCP said:
Hollywood ruins a lot of its action movies with the corny motivating patriotic music. Many TV series I try have annoying shit music, typically the ones where they don't cuss and that seem to be aimed towards american suburban wives.
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Most such films you could argue are already mindless jingoistic shit anyway like The Patriot, the laughable soundtrack fits right in.

 
As I've gotten older any time a movie uses licensed music makes me want to shout at the kids on my lawn. Even if it's a good song, even if it fits the scene it comes off as cheap (Even if they paid millions of dollars to use) and gross to me. It's in the same bracket as pop culture references in general

 
Zer said:
As I've gotten older any time a movie uses licensed music makes me want to shout at the kids on my lawn. Even if it's a good song, even if it fits the scene it comes off as cheap (Even if they paid millions of dollars to use) and gross to me. It's in the same bracket as pop culture references in general

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Never thought about it like that, but you're making a lot of sense sir.
 
moreorless87 said:
Most such films you could argue are already mindless jingoistic shit anyway like The Patriot, the laughable soundtrack fits right in.

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Well I think you raised the stake to slow motion heroic scenes, of which your exhibit is a prime example indeed.
I was talking more in terms of inspiring / motivating, it typically precedes the slow motion heroic by an hour or so.
 
Zer said:
As I've gotten older any time a movie uses licensed music makes me want to shout at the kids on my lawn. Even if it's a good song, even if it fits the scene it comes off as cheap (Even if they paid millions of dollars to use) and gross to me. It's in the same bracket as pop culture references in general

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I think a case of something which has been used well by a few very talented directors, Kubrick, Tarantino, Lynch, etc but has also become a rather cheap artistic choice in the last 25 years.
 
StonedLemur said:
Ok then lol
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A good example of what hes trying to say I found recently was this NFL draft movie(fictional). They were treating this GM flipping his 1 1st round pick into 3 picks like he cured cancer. The music choices are things you'd expect from an emotional high stakes drama where peoples lives were at stakes. Its a tone thing where Hollywood insists on all its stories following the heroes journey regardless of the subject matter.

For example you have most comedys go with the conflict and emotional endings of more serious movies. And it just feels weird as fuck. Another example is this movie about this woman "couponing" and you've got the fat vigilante trying to catch her acting like hes saving the world. The main character of every film has to be a hero.
 
ferrisjso said:
A good example of what hes trying to say I found recently was this NFL draft movie(fictional). They were treating this GM flipping his 1 1st round pick into 3 picks like he cured cancer. The music choices are things you'd expect from an emotional high stakes drama where peoples lives were at stakes. Its a tone thing where Hollywood insists on all its stories following the heroes journey regardless of the subject matter.

For example you have most comedys go with the conflict and emotional endings of more serious movies. And it just feels weird as fuck. Another example is this movie about this woman "couponing" and you've got the fat vigilante trying to catch her acting like hes saving the world. The main character of every film has to be a hero.
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Very well explained sir.
I know exactly what you mean.
 
ferrisjso said:
A good example of what hes trying to say I found recently was this NFL draft movie(fictional). They were treating this GM flipping his 1 1st round pick into 3 picks like he cured cancer. The music choices are things you'd expect from an emotional high stakes drama where peoples lives were at stakes. Its a tone thing where Hollywood insists on all its stories following the heroes journey regardless of the subject matter.

For example you have most comedys go with the conflict and emotional endings of more serious movies. And it just feels weird as fuck. Another example is this movie about this woman "couponing" and you've got the fat vigilante trying to catch her acting like hes saving the world. The main character of every film has to be a hero.
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To the degree people actually thought this was serious at the time not taking the piss out of such films...

 
For me it was the first battle scene in Gladiator.

The Roman legions and the barbarian horde’s battle lines had just crashed into each other and the director decided to make that moment a scrambled montage of speed up fighting footage and some classical opera music…

Was very vexed..
 
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