Nirvana?
Why were they singing nirvana? I was literally cringing the whole time, and it takes a lot to make me cringe, I've watched a torture scene without cringing, blitzkrieg bop wasn't as bad, though still pretty bad.
shareWhy, what's wrong with it? Is it because it's an older song? If so, a good song is a good song regardless of when it was made.
shareIt's just out of place in the movie. A movie that takes place in the 1940's has a song from the 1990's targeted for an audience born after 2000. Someone else pretty much nailed it saying they tried to pull a Baz Luhrmann and horribly failed. Also the fact it wasn't a continuing trend beyond ywo songs made it that much more out of place.
shareBut Blackbeard said that the slaves were taken from different eras, meaning they can travel through time as well as space, thus the crew wearing uniforms and costumes from different periods singing along. It's not a stretch to imagine he heard the song from the future and liked it.
Silly, but it doesn't break the films internal logic. But then you are watching a film about an ageless boy fighting pirates with pixies on flying pirate ships.
Yes this.
When he started singing it I thought, how on earth would he know that song? The he goes on to explain that his men and slaves were from all eras in time. I think had they explained that earlier, say while on the ship heading to Neverland, then it wouldn't have come across as so out of time to the audience.
True enough but it took me out of the movie, and I was almost out of the back door when they had the nuns sell the kids to the pirates.
shareAnd the fact that they used a fricking teen angst grunge song makes it a much bigger problem.
Seriously, they should've just replaced 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' with 'Blitzkrieg Bop' and be done with it (apparently, they inserted 'Blitzkrieg Bop' in one of the most inappropriate moments in the film).
I would've preferred if they created their own songs and used them instead, which apparently is what they did do but the studio opted for already existing music, wonder what they sounded like.
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Cause punk rock should have no place in big, pompous, crappy Hollywood blockbusters.
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It's not a good song. It's incoherent words made by a heroin addict.
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