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Music that you are absolutely SICK of hearing in films

Alyson — GMT

I love the Stones, don't get me wrong, but if I hear "Sympathy for the Devil" in one more film or trailer I may scream. It is soooooo over done- I get it, he's a devil, but we love him anyway, in a suave sort of way - fanfuckintastic! I was pumped about Righteous Kill until that waaaaay overworn song got into the trailer, now the whole thing makes me queasy. I just want people to be more creative when scoring these things. Does anyone else have this issue? What songs are starting to turn you off every time you hear it in a film?

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JackO — GMT

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. Like the ending to In The Valley of Elah, and scenes in Crash, and Babel. Then there is the hard rock in action films. Like when they played that Sum 41 crap, not once but twice in Wanted, I just about walked out. Good thing I stayed for the ending though!

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Buscemi — GMT

-Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain and Tennille (one of the worst songs ever written) -Don't Cha by The Pussycat Dolls (unless it's mocked) -gangsta rap soundtracks in films about white people (example: Drillbit Taylor) -bad cover versions of good songs (example: Across The Universe) -songs that don't fit the setting or style of the films or are just anachronistic (Moulin Rouge is an exception) -the bands Simple Plan, Sum 41, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Good Charlotte and everyone in the "angry, tone-deaf white boy band" genre -modern-day bubble gum pop -bad indie artists, the kind heard in Zach Braff films or Juno -scores by David Newman (the guy always reuses his score from Matilda) or unneccesary horror scores (example: The Strangers) -EMO! All film soundtracks should be assembled by Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese or John Waters. They know how to assemble soundtracks.

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geezer9687 — GMT

Buscemi wrote:

-bad indie artists, the kind heard in Zach Braff films or Juno

Finally something we can agree on Buscemi. And you are probably the only one that agrees with me. The stupid, ridiculous indie crap in Juno was so bad it hurt my ears. Almost took away from how great the movie was. Almost :D

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lillylovelost — GMT

Or sometimes that epic music that is always used with a choir and it's all dramatic and shit (it works in Lord of the Rings, but THAT'S IT) I agree with the Juno stuff. I actually did like the opening song though. But that's because it's from many years ago, and not from people who sing about "monkey's on your back" and "hot fudge sundaes" and "sprinkles are fun" or some other shit. I don't know what is in the songs but it's annoying as fuck. I know what you mean about Tarantino. Fuck! when I hear that music start during the opening credits of Pulp Fiction, I am pumped.

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numbersix_99 — GMT

Buscemi pretty much nailed it, but I'd like to add that full orchestral version of the Requiem for a Dream theme. It's used in every "epic" trailer.

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friskytiger81 — GMT

numbersix_99 wrote:

Buscemi pretty much nailed it, but I'd like to add that full orchestral version of the Requiem for a Dream theme. It's used in every "epic" trailer.

YES!!! Hey trailer guys, please have more creativity than to scan through Clint Mansell's scores from REQUIEM & FOUNTAIN!!! I'm so tired of hearing that "da-duh/duh duh duh duh...".

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bernox — GMT

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...

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bernox — GMT

lillylovelost wrote:

Or sometimes that epic music that is always used with a choir and it's all dramatic and shit (it works in Lord of the Rings, but THAT'S IT) When I hear that music start during the opening credits of Pulp Fiction, I am pumped.

I'd also throw The Phantom Menace into that argument. Say what you want about how crappy/boring/poorly acted it was, but I thought the theme was pretty cool and worked well. I'm with you on Pulp Fiction, lilly. "Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!!" immediately followed by Miserlou is one of the better opening sequences put on film.

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geezer9687 — GMT

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.

I couldn't agree more. That song gets me pumped! I love the Celtics opening. My friends and I would get SO excited for the KG Scream!

Music that you are absolutely SICK of hearing in films

Kompressr — GMT

Juno's indie music was a tad annoying, although I think if I hear "Kung Fu fighting" by Carl Douglas one more time, I will throw myself under a car.

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StnMan5 — GMT

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

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brockster — GMT

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?!? If movies didn't have music they would be much, much more boring. THe music helps with the emotion, it doesn't minipulate it!! Can you imagine watching the Lord of the Rings without that soundtrack? God that would be stale. Or in Top Gun when Goose dies would it have had as much impact if they didn't play that instumental song?? Speaking of Top Gun, I think that 80's movies had the best soundtracks by far. Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, Footloose, Caddyshack, Say Anything, Dirty Dancing, Purple Rain..... That's all i can think of now... Kenny Loggins in the king of sountracks, obviously...I wish they would make a sequal to Top Gun just so he can come back and write a sequal to "Danger Zone." However, Val Kilmer would have to lose a lot of weight and Tom Cruise would have to gain his sanity back.

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friskytiger81 — GMT

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.

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friskytiger81 — GMT

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

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Anytime I hear "Bodies" I start laughing because I think of the silly, silly "Daredevil".

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geezer9687 — GMT

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 :D

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JackO — GMT

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!

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friskytiger81 — GMT

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.

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A_Roode — GMT

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.

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Donte77 — GMT

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

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lillylovelost — GMT

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

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bernox — GMT

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 :D

Thanks, geez :wink: -- 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".

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becs — GMT

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

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bernox — GMT

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)