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friskytiger81 wrote:

bernox wrote:

NO! NO! NO!!!

Requiem For A Dream is possibly the greatest song ever created to use for a sports team's highlight film. After seeing my nephew's football video and the Boston Celtics team intro before each game, I cannot be convinced otherwise.

So don't try...

What the...?!?! Are you kidding? I'm talking about the song from the film, "REQUIEM FOR A DREAM" written by Clint Mansell. If you're using that song for your kids highlight reel, please let me see this. Maybe we can splice some shots of Jared Leto's arm with the gaping wound, and maybe Jennifer Connelly at the "business party" earning her drug money. Little Johnny scores a TD, cut to: a fully naked Marlon Wayans.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/celtics-intro/2650199492

Here's the link

brockster wrote:

Jacko wrote:

It's not really a specific song, it's more like a situation. Like when movies use music to manipulate emotions when on screen, there is nothing there
.

I'm not getting this?!?

I don't mean that music is bad in films, I mean there are certain situations in a lot of films that use music, rather then the plot or the story or the characters to convey emotion. Here is a good example of two differences. The end of Saving Private Ryan was good. Why? Because it used the entire movie to sum up why we should feel bad over Captain John Miller's death and what it meant to Private Ryan. There were no Velveeta Cheese orchestral numbers, there was no ridiculous emo tunes crying about how bad the scene you were watching is bad. On the other hand we have the ending of In The Valley of Elah, where after a short discussion, we zoom up on the American flag and the cheesiest, whiniest, forced, contrived, song ever. There was no summation of the plot, it was just a whiny song put in there to make the audience feel bad about itself. There are some moments where the music is just makes a mess of things. That scene defintely didn't need any extraneous whining in order to understand the significance of the plot in the grand scheme of things. Watch it yourself and see if you agree!

JackO wrote:

brockster wrote:

Jacko wrote:

It's not really a specific song, it's more like a situation. Like when movies use music to manipulate emotions when on screen, there is nothing there
.

I'm not getting this?!?

I don't mean that music is bad in films, I mean there are certain situations in a lot of films that use music, rather then the plot or the story or the characters to convey emotion. Here is a good example of two differences. The end of Saving Private Ryan was good. Why? Because it used the entire movie to sum up why we should feel bad over Captain John Miller's death and what it meant to Private Ryan. There were no Velveeta Cheese orchestral numbers, there was no ridiculous emo tunes crying about how bad the scene you were watching is bad. On the other hand we have the ending of In The Valley of Elah, where after a short discussion, we zoom up on the American flag and the cheesiest, whiniest, forced, contrived, song ever. There was no summation of the plot, it was just a whiny song put in there to make the audience feel bad about itself. There are some moments where the music is just makes a mess of things. That scene defintely didn't need any extraneous whining in order to understand the significance of the plot in the grand scheme of things. Watch it yourself and see if you agree!

I agree. Haggis keeps doing that. He hates subtlety like an illegitimate child. In another non-Haggis film, PAY IT FORWARD used these terribly cheesy song that really, really made the end unbearable. As if the movie wasn't a heavy dose of idealism, it is all wrapped up in a cheesy blanket of a song where Spacey and Hunt exit their home and extras are waiting with candles. What they didn't tell you was that they were there for an Annie Lennox concert.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: 'In the Valley Of Elah' would have been one of the best films I saw last year if it had ended with Tommy Lee Jones sitting in the bedroom and holding the package that he'd opened. The freakin' music video and two minutes that follow where I would have cut ruin the film utterly. Where's Nico? He'll back me up.

Never did watch this movie but I agree. The flag waving music video needs to be cut and then played on CMT.

StnMan5 wrote:

I'm almost positive we had a similar thread awhile back, but I'll go ahead and throw it out there again.

Salisbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
Bodies by Drowning Pool
Baba O'Reilly by The Who

You know what sucks? Is that I loved Solisbury Hill and Baba O'Reilly BEFORE they were overused to death! I still love them, but it makes me cringe to hear it in some shitty movie trailer.

OT: 500th post. cool

geezer9687 wrote:

friskytiger81 wrote:

bernox wrote:

NO! NO! NO!!!

Requiem For A Dream is possibly the greatest song ever created to use for a sports team's highlight film. After seeing my nephew's football video and the Boston Celtics team intro before each game, I cannot be convinced otherwise.

So don't try...

What the...?!?! Are you kidding? I'm talking about the song from the film, "REQUIEM FOR A DREAM" written by Clint Mansell. If you're using that song for your kids highlight reel, please let me see this. Maybe we can splice some shots of Jared Leto's arm with the gaping wound, and maybe Jennifer Connelly at the "business party" earning her drug money. Little Johnny scores a TD, cut to: a fully naked Marlon Wayans.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/celtics-intro/2650199492

Here's the link

Thanks, geez

-- here's some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Dream_(soundtrack)

Ohhhhh, now I get it, frisky -- you meant the song from Requiem For A Dream!!! Well, according to Wiki, there are THIRTY-FOUR songs on the RFAD soundtrack, so which one are YOU talking about???

I'd like to submit this as a Fantie nominee for "Stupidest, Most Self-Serving Post Of The Year".

I'm going to assume you are being innocent and not facetious... so, typically thats what the theme song is called Bernox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESWaQ-9k6M

Gotcha, becs, fair enough -- I am very familiar with the original Lux Aeterna.
The reason I got so defensive about it with frisky is because I know the part of the song being referred to, and it CLEARLY cannot be used for sports highlights. However, if you move your link to 2:50, that definitely qualifies.

Basically, geezer and I are referring to the last 3:40-something of the song. When I searched it, it was considered the remix of the original Lux Aeterna.

I'm sorry, but you can't help getting jacked up when you hear it.
Well, at least I can't...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPzFbNzenk (Boston Celtics team intro)

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