Waste of a good soundtrack
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Waste of a good soundtrack
We've all seen some really bad movies. However, some of them weren't all that bad to listen to with headphones. So, name some B/D-grade films with A-grade music.
My nominees are:
-Starship Troopers: Yes, I know this one did have it's strengths and was a good popcorn flick, but the music, especially during the combat scenes, really helped it.
-Titanic: First let me state that I am only referring to the instrumental stuff, not Celine Deione's banshee wailing. The in-movie tracks always seemed like they would fit better in a good fantasy movie than that mess.
Honorable mention:
-AOTC: Somehow, the quality of the movie didn't seem to measure up to the quality of the music.
My nominees are:
-Starship Troopers: Yes, I know this one did have it's strengths and was a good popcorn flick, but the music, especially during the combat scenes, really helped it.
-Titanic: First let me state that I am only referring to the instrumental stuff, not Celine Deione's banshee wailing. The in-movie tracks always seemed like they would fit better in a good fantasy movie than that mess.
Honorable mention:
-AOTC: Somehow, the quality of the movie didn't seem to measure up to the quality of the music.
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Actually, I was a bit disappointed with the AOTC soundtrack. IMO, it tries to be too epic. It lacks a powerful "Duel of the Fates" or "Into the Trap" that the others had. There's plenty of music suitable for a love story, obviously, but when I want battle music, AOTC just seems to deflate. Generally, I ignore my AOTC disc and pop in TPM or the OT discs I have when I want Star Wars.
Which is why I nominate The Phantom Menace as not having lived up to its soundtracks.
I also nominate 'The Passion of the Christ' which I thought had a fantastic soundtrack, and I was sincerely surprised when it failed to win the Oscar for best score.
Which is why I nominate The Phantom Menace as not having lived up to its soundtracks.
I also nominate 'The Passion of the Christ' which I thought had a fantastic soundtrack, and I was sincerely surprised when it failed to win the Oscar for best score.
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A View to a Kill. Terrible Bond film. Pretty good music.
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Have to agree with Salm. Both Matrix soundtracks - Reloaded and Revolutions is damned good, I listen to them all the time when writing. I would say they and the LOTR trilogy are the best soundtracks to come down in the last 5 years. Like the Star Wars soundtracks I just never really stop listening to them.
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Yeah, all of the music in Matrix is great. In both Reloaded and Revolutions, both soundtracks (the orchestrated original motion picture soundtrack and the electronica / rock popular artists soundtrack) are great.Stravo wrote:Have to agree with Salm. Both Matrix soundtracks - Reloaded and Revolutions is damned good, I listen to them all the time when writing.
The orchestrated music has that Matrixy sound with those trumpet rifts in the action sequences and the popular music has the likes of Juno Reactor (who also helped make Mona Lisa Overdrive, one of my favorite songs; it's the song they play in the car chase in Reloaded) and Rage Against the Machine.
I keep listening to tracks like "Chateau" and imagine it being in a better movie. Actually thought of this tune when I first heard that Obi-Wan would fight Grievous´ bodyguards (who use staffs like the weapons in the Chateau-fight).salm wrote:Matrix II.
the soundtrack kicks ass while the movie is a pile of shit.
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Damned if I remember what it sounded like, but I remember I really liked "The Avengers" score done by Joel McNeely. He's the composer who did the music for Shadows of the Empire. The movie was just.....really, really bad, though.
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The Matrix Revolutions. Love the soundtrack. IMO, quite possibly the worst movie ever.
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Even being a fan of the books the movie is based on didn't help.
It has a few cool scenes but most of those had to do mostly with the music that went along with the scene. Akasha trashing the vampire bar for instance. The rest of the good scenes had to do with Lestat in concert.
I like the DVD because it includes the music videos of Lestat's band plus some extended "concert" footage. Otherwise the movie blows.
Even being a fan of the books the movie is based on didn't help.
It has a few cool scenes but most of those had to do mostly with the music that went along with the scene. Akasha trashing the vampire bar for instance. The rest of the good scenes had to do with Lestat in concert.
I like the DVD because it includes the music videos of Lestat's band plus some extended "concert" footage. Otherwise the movie blows.
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This was one of the few movies that was truly painful to watch in the theater.Caius wrote:agreed. glad someone else thinks so.Tsyroc wrote:Queen of the Damned
The sound was cranked up so high that it actually started to hurt at certain points of the film.
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