Misplaced Music in Movies

[FROGGEman2]

The fight music in the first Pokemon movie. WAIT WAIT! It was on TV, and I loved it when I was younger, so why not? It was kinda sad tho, back then, it was impressive, now, hilarious.

 

[rickthetrick]

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.

He could have meant Flash Gordon and they used Queen's One Vision from Highlander in the movie Iron Eagle.

 

[Cortheya]

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

I agree it didn't seem to fit to me

 

[DerekTheMagicDragun]

The reason it didn't fit in Watchmen is because it was during a sex scene.

A rather raunchy sex scene.

No version would have fit, despite the lyrics working well.

Actually, it does fit. That song is all about sex. "Remember when I moved in you, and the Holy Ghost was moving too"? Sounds about right to me.

That's why I said 'Despite the lyrics working well'

I know what the song is about. But the MUSIC doesn't fit.

 

[Altorin]

Hallelujah during the sex scene in Watchmen.

It was... So badly placed that I burst into laughter in the theater over the music all by itself.

 

[ckam]

Watchmen is filled with these.

 

[Berethond]

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.

He could have meant Flash Gordon and they used Queen's One Vision from Highlander in the movie Iron Eagle.

And they wrote Who Wants To Live Forever for a movie.

I don't remember which one, though.

 

[scnj]

That was alright for me. It captured the awkwardness of the moment well. The one that seemed out of place for me was 99 Luftballons. Great song, but distracted from the scene.

Which scene was that again, I can't recall it.
Near the ending per chance?

The scene where Laurie meets Dan in the restaurant.

 

[Aqualung]

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?

Spoiler: Song #1

Spoiler: Song #2

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?

Apparently, the author is a big fan of Muse and the were her influence when writing the book. Which strikes me as odd, how such wonderful, brilliant, creative music could influence something so rubbish.

And you've seen Twilight? Even I haven't touched that movie with a 10 foot pole, and I'm feminine enough to have cried during Titanic.

 

[Srkkl]

The end credits for Watchmen were kind of wierd, the song anyway.

 

[Srkkl]

That was alright for me. It captured the awkwardness of the moment well. The one that seemed out of place for me was 99 Luftballons. Great song, but distracted from the scene.

Which scene was that again, I can't recall it.
Near the ending per chance?

The scene where Laurie meets Dan in the restaurant.

I know what your talking about, I just kind of laughed it off though, but it really didn't fit. It started out all Bob Dylan depressing and then an 80's pop song comes out of no where.

 

[Srkkl]

Hallelujah during the sex scene in Watchmen.

It was... So badly placed that I burst into laughter in the theater over the music all by itself.

I honestly thought it was perfectly placed, for humors sake anyway.

 

[Lazarus Long]

I can only think of intentional examples, like Layer Cake. About halfway through, there's a scene of a fairly brutal beating, set to Ordinary World by Duran Duran. It really shouldn't work, but it does.

I think Hallelujah works in Watchmen because as raunchy as the scene is, it's such a revelatory, life-changing moment for both of them.

 

[dwightsteel]

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?

Spoiler: Song #1

Spoiler: Song #2

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?

The funny thing about the whole Muse thing, is that Stephenie Meyer claims Muse helped inspire the Twilight series, so apparently we have them to blame for the crapfest that we know and hate as Twilight.

Edit: and apparently I'm not the only one who knew that.

 

[Woem]

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

Spoiler

This is exactly what I was thinking. The Shrek version was OK, but it's really used too often these days. In a recent interview [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/10/ghomeshi-interviews-leonard-cohen] with The Guardian, Cohen commented that he didn't like the adaption for The Watchmen either, and that he'd like a moratorium on the song for movies and tv shows.

 

[dwightsteel]

The latest Star Trek

When young little Jimmy was driving the antique Corvette Stingray, cruising down the open road, blaring.... the Beastie Boys?

WTF?

actually, I kind of dug the usage of the Beastie Boys.