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HardRockSamurai

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Ever see a movie that has a song in it, a song that just doesn't quite fit?

If you don't quite understand what I'm talking about, I'll give an example. When I went to see the Twilight movie (it was for a date, but I still regret seeing it to this very day), there were two songs in the movie that left me speechless. Firstly, because they felt so out of place they might as well have been flamingos at a panda convention. Secondly, because I actually like those songs, long before Twilight came out and ruined them for me. Can you guess which songs they were?



To this day, I still have no idea why those songs were in the movie. The Radiohead one is borderline understandable, but Muse? I know WHY Muse was in the movie, but it just didn't fit at all.

Has this ever happened to you?

Have you ever seen a movie with a song that just doesn't fit?
 

Curtmiester

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I can't remember the title but I saw a action movie with Queen in it. WTF is up with that?
 

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Curtmiester said:
I can't remember the title but I saw a action movie with Queen in it. WTF is up with that?
You mean Highlander. Queen were perfect in that film.

I have never seen a film with music that didn't fit. Buth then, i mostly watch cheesey westerns and old war films XD
 

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I'd have to say the soundtrack in A Knight's Tale was annoyingly out of place.

Seriously...I was not aware that commoners in medieval England knew about Queen.
 

Lyri

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Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah in "The Watchmen", it's an adequate song but his version just didn't sit right.
 

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Wizzie said:
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah in "The Watchmen", it's an adequate song but his version just didn't sit right.
That's the original, so it's right by definition.

I totally agree on Supermassive Black Hole, though.
 

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There was this ancient piece of shit movie called "Creepers" (1986) starring a very young Jennifer Connelly and directed by Italian horror master Dario Argento, but this was NOT one of his best movies. Anyway, during a particularly tense scene, what should start up but Ace of Spades by Motorhead. Uh, yeah. Completely blew the whole movie, not that I don't like Motorhead, but it just felt so... So... WRONG. Apparently the American version of the flick was really heavily edited which would explain the rambling storyline and incomplete soundtrack.

Whatever, Connelly was hot then, and she's hot now. What, I was like 15 when that movie came out, stop looking at me like that!
 

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HardRockSamurai said:
Ever see a movie that has a song in it, a song that just doesn't quite fit?

If you don't quite understand what I'm talking about, I'll give an example. When I went to see the Twilight movie (it was for a date, but I still regret seeing it to this very day)
Good thing you clarified that, otherwise you might have had to turn in your penis. ;)

BTW, your avatar and my avatar should totally hang out. Weed, guns and kittens sounds like an awesome weekend...
 

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berethond said:
That's the original, so it's right by definition.
I totally agree on Supermassive Black Hole, though.
I actually didn't know that Cohen wrote the song to be honest, but now I'm more informed. However I still think any other version could have been used to better effect, at the time it cropped up I couldn't stop myself laughing and cringing too.
 

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Trace2010 said:
Kenny Loggins

Playin' With the Boys

Top Gun

Only one I've ever seen.
No, no, NooooOOoOOooOoo!!! You HAD to pick that song, didn't you? DAMMIT NOW ITS STUCK IN MY HEAD! Playin' playin' with the boys... I'll be stayin' playin' with the Booooys... One of life's simple jooooooys is the boyyys...

Is it just me, or was/is Kenny Loggins juuust a bit fruity?

I hate the fact I know most of the words to that song.

Fucking 1980's, why won't they leave me alone?
 

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Wizzie said:
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah in "The Watchmen", it's an adequate song but his version just didn't sit right.
Why not? He wrote it you know... (Although the version in Shrek was pretty good, do you remember who covered it, or should I just use the google?)

Ok ok, Leonard Cohen can't sing for shit, but man can he write... One of Canada's greatest exports. (I live 3 blocks away from the house that used to belong to the two girls that inspired the song 'The Sisters of Mercy')

(Edit) Had to take out the link, don't need to be in the department of redundancy department
 

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Wizzie said:
berethond said:
That's the original, so it's right by definition.
I totally agree on Supermassive Black Hole, though.
I actually didn't know that Cohen wrote the song to be honest, but now I'm more informed. However I still think any other version could have been used to better effect, at the time it cropped up I couldn't stop myself laughing and cringing too.
I like his version a lot.
Undercover said:
Wizzie said:
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah in "The Watchmen", it's an adequate song but his version just didn't sit right.
Why not? He wrote it you know... (Although the version in Shrek was pretty good, do you remember who covered it, or should I just use the google?)

Ok ok, Leonard Cohen can't sing for shit, but man can he write... One of Canada's greatest exports. (I live 3 blocks away from the house that used to belong to the two girls that inspired the song 'The Sisters of Mercy')
Rufus Wainwright.
Although Jeff Buckley did much better.
 

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I've never really experienced this, but I think that the D-Day landing scene in saving private ryan with the Benny Hill theme song over it would be about as out of place as you can get. You know the song.
 

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Undercover said:
Why not? He wrote it you know... (Although the version in Shrek was pretty good, do you remember who covered it, or should I just use the google?)

Ok ok, Leonard Cohen can't sing for shit, but man can he write... One of Canada's greatest exports. (I live 3 blocks away from the house that used to belong to the two girls that inspired the song 'The Sisters of Mercy')
The post above yours say why, but for more indepth an answer it's just the way he sings and how the song is arranged.
The scene in question was a tender moment in the otherwise dark film, but the arrangement of the song first and foremost is slow bass, organish sound on a keyboard, it sounded more like a slow porn tune.
Which is not what the film needed and I just don't Cohen's voice either.

The people I viewed the film with shared my opinion, we where laughing for quite some time.

berethond said:
Although Jeff Buckley did much better.
I'd have vouched for this version in favor of Cohen's, that's just my personal taste though.
 

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berethond said:
Wizzie said:
berethond said:
That's the original, so it's right by definition.
I totally agree on Supermassive Black Hole, though.
I actually didn't know that Cohen wrote the song to be honest, but now I'm more informed. However I still think any other version could have been used to better effect, at the time it cropped up I couldn't stop myself laughing and cringing too.
I like his version a lot.
Undercover said:
Wizzie said:
Leonard Cohen's version of Hallelujah in "The Watchmen", it's an adequate song but his version just didn't sit right.

Why not? He wrote it you know... (Although the version in Shrek was pretty good, do you remember who covered it, or should I just use the google?)

Ok ok, Leonard Cohen can't sing for shit, but man can he write... One of Canada's greatest exports. (I live 3 blocks away from the house that used to belong to the two girls that inspired the song 'The Sisters of Mercy')
Rufus Wainwright.
Although Jeff Buckley did much better.
Thanks ;) Yeah a lot of people have covered Cohen, its cool that younger folks get to hear his music, the man has a lot to say. I sang an acapella version of 'I'm your man' at a karaoke bar once after one too many Guinness'ss-es and apparently did a pretty good job of it, considering all the marriage proposals...

I don't think I've heard Jeff Buckley's version, TO THE GOOGLE!

(You got good taste in music there)