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Baron von Eevl posted:I appreciate when the lyrics are very on the nose in a slightly silly way. I'm thinking of Fire in Hot Fuzz or Red Right Hand in Hellboy. Or Army of the Dead and a certain song by the Cranberries....
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flavor.flv posted:I think this is a you thing Eh... It is pretty cringe-inducing when the lyrics directly allude to what's happening on-screen.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:12 |
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Samovar posted:Eh... It is pretty cringe-inducing when the lyrics directly allude to what's happening on-screen. "Always" and "in a subset of situations" aren't the same thing. Also, Umbrella Academy used "Order of Death" as music in season 2, so they're good forever in my book. https://youtu.be/EnWsAUSgsJo
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:14 |
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Samovar posted:Eh... It is pretty cringe-inducing when the lyrics directly allude to what's happening on-screen. this was my main memory of the Watchmen movie, using embarrassingly literal songs at every given opportunity
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:31 |
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The "Suicide Squad" (but not "The Suicide Squad") movie was also real bad about this IIRC.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:35 |
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You can pry the soldiers sailing down a Vietnamese river in a swiftboat scene with Fortunate Son playing in the background out of my cold dead hands
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:41 |
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I don't care if I'm wrong the Metallica scene in Stranger Things was great
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:47 |
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Samovar posted:Eh... It is pretty cringe-inducing when the lyrics directly allude to what's happening on-screen. I saw a trailer for Licorice Pizza in the theater and got the impression that the entire movie was written so that they could use Life on Mars? in the trailer and have it be way too on the nose
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:48 |
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Len posted:I don't care if I'm wrong the Metallica scene in Stranger Things was great That and Fury Road have convinced me that if they just put a dude playing guitar in a scene, it’ll be awesome, regardless of context.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:53 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Wait - was it Woodkid's Run Boy Run? poo poo, didn't even notice that and I love that song. Beginning of the second episode, when the run boy runs away. flavor.flv posted:You can pry the soldiers sailing down a Vietnamese river in a swiftboat scene with Fortunate Son playing in the background out of my cold dead hands Okay we can keep those. CordlessPen posted:The "Suicide Squad" (but not "The Suicide Squad") movie was also real bad about this IIRC. I lost count after like 10 songs in just the first act where every character gets a music video introducing them
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:53 |
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flavor.flv posted:You can pry the soldiers sailing down a Vietnamese river in a swiftboat scene with Fortunate Son playing in the background out of my cold dead hands The boat mission in cod blops was off putting because the music started playing and my brain shorted out and went "wait, that's not CCR"
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 15:59 |
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I usually don't care that much about using licensed songs in media but I can't loving stand it when they chop it up and gently caress up the song so they can fit the opening and the chorus into a 15 second scene
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 16:03 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:I usually don't care that much about using licensed songs in media but I can't loving stand it when they chop it up and gently caress up the song so they can fit the opening and the chorus into a 15 second scene I hate when the song isn't *for* anything. In Aquaman, there's a scene where the bad guy is doing something, he's by himself in a room, and Depeche Mode's "It's No Good" pops up on the soundtrack. For like 5 seconds, and then it stops. What was the point? The scene isn't one that demands a pop music soundtrack, and it's even non-diagetic so it's not like it's telling us "Black Manta likes 80s synthpop." It's licensing a song because, what, you're too lazy to write your own compelling background music?
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 16:14 |
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Barry Bluejeans posted:this was my main memory of the Watchmen movie, using embarrassingly literal songs at every given opportunity A some of them are in the graphic novel at least, the Dylan ones and Night and Day(?)
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CordlessPen posted:The "Suicide Squad" (but not "The Suicide Squad") movie was also real bad about this IIRC. They showed a jail in New Orleans and House of the Rising Sun played because it has the words "New Orleans" in it.
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Torquemada posted:A some of them are in the graphic novel at least, the Dylan ones and Night and Day(?) Using "two riders were approaching...the wind began to howl" as the ending quote for the issue in which two riders approach through the howling wind is so on the nose and stupid, but I love it. My IIMM with the Watchmen music isn't the Hallelujah scene. It's that they removed the ironic background commentary on the TV during Nite Owls erectile dysfunction episode, and also stripped out his psychosexual nightmares. Which means 90% of viewers are gonna take the Hallelujah scene as serious and cringe-worthy, instead of it being the funniest poo poo ever
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Strom Cuzewon posted:My IIMM with the Watchmen music isn't the Hallelujah scene. It's that they removed the ironic background commentary on the TV during Nite Owls erectile dysfunction episode, and also stripped out his psychosexual nightmares. Which means 90% of viewers are gonna take the Hallelujah scene as serious and cringe-worthy, instead of it being the funniest poo poo ever I've heard there was a secret chord That gave Christ wood, and it pleased the lord But you don't really care for boners, do you?
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 17:41 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Or Army of the Dead and a certain song by the Cranberries.... That was I thought well executed in 28 Days Later, since it was only instrumental. It was a kind of cheesy nod, but the music lent itself to the scene really well, even if it wasn't called Zombie.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 17:44 |
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Speaking of diegetic/non diegetic music that loving scene in Captain Marvel where the song starts playing and then she kicks a bad guy against a juke box, and you just know that they originally meant for that juke box to play a song after that, but they decided against it at some point but still left the song and juke box in the scene.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 17:49 |
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Phanatic posted:I hate when the song isn't *for* anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vIRIk8_AJE I'm guessing besides the general groove, they like the lyrics. Apparently the song is about a crush, but in context its a bad guy sayin "I gonna get u, it is written, u cant hide" quote:I'm gonna take my time
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 20:12 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:I appreciate when the lyrics are very on the nose in a slightly silly way. I'm thinking of Fire in Hot Fuzz or Red Right Hand in Hellboy. Nothing like Exit Music (for a film) showing up in a movie for the nth time. But drat I still like it in spite of that.
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# ? Jul 11, 2022 22:38 |
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Phanatic posted:I hate when the song isn't *for* anything. That would distract me from the movie while I tried to identify it. Which, with Aquaman would have been nice if I'd noticed.
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Len posted:I don't care if I'm wrong the Metallica scene in Stranger Things was great If thinking this scene is amazing is wrong, then I don't want to be right. RIP Eddie
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Naruto Episode 69: How does that ANBU member get a job as a ninja in the Leaf Village and not know who the 1st and 2nd Hokage are?
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 06:19 |
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If I see one more movie use Sympathy For the Devil or Where Is My Mind god dammit those songs are no longer allowed off the table enough already
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 06:56 |
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No more Perfect Day by Lou Reed, either. Doom Patrol was the peak of that song, everyone else should let it rest a while.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 07:07 |
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credburn posted:If I see one more movie use Sympathy For the Devil or Where Is My Mind god dammit those songs are no longer allowed Can they still play Sweet Dreams so the audience knows the female lead has been abused
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 07:24 |
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Where Evil Grows in Sonic the Hedgehog was perfectly on point.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 07:32 |
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Phanatic posted:I hate when the song isn't *for* anything. Diegetic music can be worse. Like the old "song on the soundtrack is playing on the car radio" in a driving scene thing, where they indicate that this is the case by putting filters on the music in an external shot and removing them when the door opens. This is frequently crap because when do you not turn off the radio before getting out of the car, but it's especially crap in Species because the car was a convertible with the top down.
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credburn posted:If I see one more movie use Sympathy For the Devil or Where Is My Mind god dammit those songs are no longer allowed Also, the Man Comes Around.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 10:31 |
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Hallelujah was absolutely run into the ground in the mid '10s.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 10:51 |
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My favourite little playing around with music was in the casino episode of What We Do in the Shadows, where excitable vampire Laszlo (played by the sublime Matt Berry) is all hyped up and plays into the opening credits by starting the theme song on the piano. But that isn't quite the same because I suppose you could say that 'You're Dead' is the theme song of the 'documentary' in-universe. Also it's a silly comedy. e: he also explicitly is the composer of some of the incidental music they use, which is fun
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Armacham posted:If thinking this scene is amazing is wrong, then I don't want to be right. RIP Eddie Eddie should have got to live He's a better character than Barb ever was and there's nobody going JUSTICE FOR EDDIE except Dustin
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Mamkute posted:Naruto Episode 69: How does that ANBU member get a job as a ninja in the Leaf Village and not know who the 1st and 2nd Hokage are? Except for named former members, like Kakashi and Itachi, the ANBU are never shown actually being competent.
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Titling a docuseries about ultracapitalist dickhead crypto bros "The Anarchists" is extremely irritating, to me.
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Armacham posted:If thinking this scene is amazing is wrong, then I don't want to be right. I liked it a lot but I couldn’t help thinking I’d have liked it more if it had been Slayer. Jedit posted:Diegetic music can be worse. Like the old "song on the soundtrack is playing on the car radio" in a driving scene thing, where they indicate that this is the case by putting filters on the music in an external shot and removing them when the door opens. This is frequently crap because when do you not turn off the radio before getting out of the car, Agreed, but: you turn your radio off before you get out of the car? Worst use of diegetic for me is in Gone in 60 Seconds where they have this ritual where they listen to Low Rider by War before they go out and steal cars. Except because the movie can't just sit there for 3 minutes and 11 seconds while the characters listen to this song, Nic Cage just abruptly cuts it off after a few seconds. It'd have been okay if they just switched it to non-diegetic and got on with the story, but they just stop it and it's (a) jarring as gently caress and (b) what was the point? It's like you wanted to establish this cool funky car-stealing mood, but then you just rug-pulled before you did it. Edit: Watched Mission Impossible: Fallout the other day. Okay, the masks that magically change not only peoples' faces but also their voice, height, weight, and gait are a rationally irritating moment, and I think JJ Abrams insisted on random light bars all over the place, but aside from that: Lark's this incredibly careful mastermind, but early in the mission he jumps into a lightning storm and almost loving dies. Pretty dumb move! Phanatic has a new favorite as of 18:14 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Phanatic posted:
Well everytime Tom cruise used a disguise there’d be quite a height difference…actually that would be hilarious.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 20:55 |
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Breetai posted:Hallelujah was absolutely run into the ground in the mid '10s. That one at least had the benefit of absolutely not being on the nose. Darn point missers.
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# ? Jul 12, 2022 20:58 |
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The diagetic car radio thing is weird since all cars handle their radios differently. My old Ford Escape would keep playing the radio after I cut the engine, and would shut it off when I opened the door. My current roommate's car cuts off the radio as soon as you kill the engine. I could see it being an irrationally irritating movie moment if you're used to how your car works e: now that I'm not sitting in the break room at work, I can see I didn't read the irritation right. Yeah, that poo poo doesn't make sense unless they clearly left the engine on liquidypoo has a new favorite as of 01:56 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Phanatic posted:
Voices are supposed to be taken care of by throat mikes but I think it is one of those things that gets kind of glossed over after the first couple of movies showing it. The first movie kind of did it best with the masks because outside of the ending all the times where Tom Cruise was pretending to be someone else it was just Tom Cruise in make up.
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