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Horrible depressing soft rock soundtrack

posted 11 years ago by DeathByTelevision
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The Farrelly brothers clearly have an afinity for a lot of bland soft rock that I can't stand, but this movie takes the cake. The music just doesn't fit the tone of the movie, and where I can tune out their music choices for the most part in their other films, in this one, they stick out like a sore thumb. There were scenese where the music was so noticably wrong, it really detracted from the movie. I wouldn't say this movie rates up there with their very best like Dumb and Dummer or Kingpin anyway, but the help of an outside music supervisor would have helped.

[–] Mylobage 11 years ago

Given by the influx of support you're receiving **cough** is say you have a solid argument.

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[–] robster77783 11 years ago

Just watched the film again for the first time in years and all the way through found the the songs really jarring. Might just be us lol

[–] PotterFan1029 10 years ago

I agree, and I hardly ever notice the background music when I watch a movie.

[–] Degree7 10 years ago

Soft rock? Do you take the short bus in the morning? Or are you just deaf?

The soundtrack is alternative, power pop. You made it sound like it was the *beep* Carpenters.

~ I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

[–] DeathByTelevision 10 years ago

Oh, excuse me. Maybe some people can justify the turd of a soundtrack by quibbling over whether the music is soft rock or alternative. My bad.

(BTW, I know Power Pop - from Big Star to Cheap Trick to Fountains of Wayne, and I know "alternative," which became a bastardized term slapped on anything released in the nineties. So, rather than looking like a pretentious tool, why don't you just stick to what everyone, including yourself, knows I'm getting at:

The soundtrack doesn't fit the movie.

[–] Pregnat_asian_woman 10 years ago

Late 90s and early 2000s was a very annoying time for the type of music they like and it shows in this film.

[–] Blubonnet_Spearman 9 years ago

Farrelly brothers movies often have these kind of soundtracks

[–] GorillazButter 9 years ago

I'll take their soundtracks over the overused John Williams sh!t that plagued the film industry in the 90's.

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[–] MsLadybird99 9 years ago

Lot's of Steely Dan.

I wouldn't call it soft rock.

[–] pepetoony (1780) 6 years ago

Agree 100%. Every damn song sounded exactly the same, and I hated literally every one of them.

[–] thalia (313) 6 years ago

Pretty creepy

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Awesome soundtrack!
Pete Yorn and Wilco!