Toronto A question for movie geeks

Hi Guys,

I am looking for examples of movies that had inappropriate music in the film. I mean that the music worked entirely against the tone and mood of the film and was included specifically to sell soundtrack CD's.

Action movies would be preferred but any suggestions would be helpful. Please be aware that I am functioning under a time limit so sooner is better.

Thanks

Robin T.

 

Hmm... do trailers count?

The recent tear-milking machine "Pay it Forward" trailer used the Everclear song "Wonderful", which was a song about the childhood trauma from parents fighting, and divorcing.

 

The soundtracks for Legend (the Tangerine Dream version) and Ladyhawk were both illfitting Electronic music for period type movies.

Godzilla (1998) had a soundtrack that only 1 or 2 songs were actually in the film, as well as the X-files movie.



I'm a geek, and damn proud of it!

 

Thanks for the help guys,

We decided on "The corruptor" and "Romeo must Die" as the director is trying to convince the producer that shoe-horning in music that works AGAINST the film in order to sell CDs is a bad thing, for the film at least.

Robin T.

 

Dreamscape... which would have been a pretty good sci-fi film, save for the annoying John Carpenter wannabe synthesizer soundtrack. Not only was the score mediocre, but the incessent use of the synthesizer forever dates the film.

 

Bad film score, but great movie???

-Scarface-

nuff said...

=P
Syco-Sith

down with ghetto 80's synthesizers!

 

Titan AE had a lot of 'pop songs' that seemed added in to sell a soundtrack.
It reminded me of Top Gun.

Disney's Tarzan had that awful musical number in the junkyard. But maybe its just my personal vendetta against Rosie O'Donnel that led to my despising of that song.

 

It's true that Titan AE had a lot of songs (rock more than pop) but most were written for the movie, and as some might point out, they were a little TOO similar to the movie (actually describing the events going on)

But for one, almost every track was used in the movie, two they add to the scene, and three, weren't that distracting.

Ok, I might be a bit biased, having loved the movie and enjoyed the soundtrack, but I will say that I didn't consider getting the soundtrack until having seen the movie a few times.