Worst use of a pop song in a movie?
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" in "Spiderman-2"
share'In Dreams' in Blue Velvet
No!!! It's so great because it's so misplaced.
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Most pop songs are used badly in movies... They're usually a distraction and give a music video feel to the movie, rather than a cinematic one...
I've been watching a lot of older movies recently and it's very clear that the overreliance on songs (pop, rock, hiphop, etc...) over the past decades stands out... Something has been lost... the emotional and cinematic impact of a real score...
I've experienced the exact opposite recently with older movies. Namely, Bad Day at Black Rock and Shadow of a Doubt, where the score was excessively blaring and melodramatic, paired with some of the acting.
shareI watched Shadow of a Doubt recently as well, I thought the score was good! It's meant to be expressionistic as well as the whole "Merry Widow" Waltz thing, which is supposed to be noticed... It's symbolic of the secret that Uncle Charles is keeping as well as Charlie's ability and efforts in finding that out...
I haven't seen Bad Day at Black Rock...
Iron Man 3 opened with Blue (Da Ba Dee). What the hell was that about?
I didn't find the use of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" in "Insidious" frightening at all. On the contrary, I thought it was unintentionally hilarious.
share"500 Days of Summer" using "You Makin' My Dreams Come True" by Hall and Oates was misguided in the extreme (then again, the whole movie was rather misguided).
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So many candidates, so little time.
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