Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:44 pm
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The Mission. Brilliant Ennio Morricone score -- his personal favorite -- laid on top of a limp, morose mess. A movie with Jeremy Irons as a Jesuit missionary and Robert deNiro as a slaver named Mendoza should be much much better.
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Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:53 pm
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Cool World. Actually a cool concept with some trippy Bakshi animation, but not particularly well executed. But the soundtrack is awesome. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Thompson Twins, The Cult, and so on. I still listen to it often.
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:54 pm
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Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:19 am
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I haven't seen this movie, but if it was bad, 1492: The Conquest of Paradise has a great score by Vangelis which the Greaseman frequently used in his bits.
Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:24 am
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Something that's also radio related is this. I don't think The Last of the Mohicans is a bad movie, but I don't think it's nearly as good as it's music, which became the theme song of the Big O and Dukes Show on WJFK.
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:31 am
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I can't post anything from Kenneth Branagh's Henry V because that's a great movie that matches the movie score. In fact, I'll call that film the finest English-language film adaptation of any William Shakespeare play. But I did think of something else.
I actually LIKED Cloverfield, but I know other people who hated it because they hate the found footage genre as a whole and don't like ANY of those films. There are others who aren't that extreme, who still didn't share my admiration for Cloverfield and disliked the movie. All those people either didn't see the movie or left as the credits were rolling. If they did so, they missed this GREAT piece of music:
Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:36 am
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If you dig out of a record bin and get the soundtrack to the 1978 movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and you'll hear several good cover versions of Beatles songs. You might even think the album is worth buying. But the movie? It's even worse than reviews have made it out to be.
Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:27 am
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I would wager that the vast majority of soundtrack CD's I own are from movies I have not seen--for example, I have every Elvis soundtrack CD, but have yet to actually sit through any of his movies from start to finish. And while I do own soundtrack discs for movies I have seen and didn't like, while I may not mind listening to those discs, I'm hard pressed to call most of them as "brilliant". Except for one, and I know it will be an unpopular choice: "Head", the 1968 film starring the Monkees. I love the soundtrack and even own the Rhino Handmade deluxe box set, but the movie itself bored me to tears the one time I sat through it. Maybe someday I'll give it another shot, but I'm in no rush.
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Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:55 am
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Vision Quest (1985).
Actually I've never seen this movie but I owned the soundtrack lp. The big hit was Madonna's "Crazy For You". Some nice 80s stuff from Dio/ Journey/ Don Henley/ Red Rider/ John Waite/ Sammy Hagar etc.
Incidental music by Tangerine Dream!
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:12 am
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The Harder They Come---not a bad movie,but it was slow going for me.Perhaps I would've liked it better had I understood the dialogue. But the music is great;maybe the best reggae album ever.
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Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:24 am
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She's Having A Baby (1988). Silly little film with Kevin Bacon and a very cute Elizabeth McGovern (now on Downton Abbey) it had a killer 80s soundtrack.
Music by Stewart Copeland.
Artists include XTC/ Gene Loves Jezebel/ Kristy MacColl/ Kate Bush (where her song A Woman's Work was never used better)/ Bryan Ferry and of course Dr Calculus.
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Post subject: Terrible movie, brilliant soundtrack
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:16 am
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(T)Eddy wrote:
I can't post anything from Kenneth Branagh's Henry V because that's a great movie that matches the movie score. In fact, I'll call that film the finest English-language film adaptation of any William Shakespeare play. But I did think of something else.
I actually LIKED Cloverfield, but I know other people who hated it because they hate the found footage genre as a whole and don't like ANY of those films. There are others who aren't that extreme, who still didn't share my admiration for Cloverfield and disliked the movie. All those people either didn't see the movie or left as the credits were rolling. If they did so, they missed this GREAT piece of music:
I loved Cloverfield.
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