Re: (idm) randomized thoughts on idm, 'pi' and hollywood
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the funniest movie soundtrack has to be for "lost in space" where they
crammed _all_ the soundtrack songs in the end credits, medley stylee.....so
lame....it's like "oops we forgot we must market a soundtrack, tack all the
tracks on at the end where most people are leaving and won't hear them at
all..." marketing genius.....
Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote:
quoted 26 lines It's this little crazy thing called a marketable soundtrack. We've been> It's this little crazy thing called a marketable soundtrack. We've been
> approached by people in the past wanting stuff, but it ultimatly falls by
> the way side as crappy MTV style alternative living music prevails so
> that when shit movie eventually loses tons of cash there are CD sales
> that can be had.
>
> Apparently none of these people learned from the genius that happens when
> one person is allowed to score a movie...best example in my book as the
> ultimate music complimenting film and vice versa would have to be all the
> Sergio Leone / Ennio Morricone projects. Let's face it, close ups of
> Eastwood / Van Cleef eyes and sweating foreheads for 5 minutes is only
> made exciting by how awesome Morricones score was. Come to think of it, I
> bet those soundtracks sold extremely well. There is a lesson here someone
> in Hollywood is ignoring.
>
> Jeff
>
> >i agree. i just saw the matrix and the soundtrack was absolutely
> >apalling. it seems they're willing to put big $ in special effects/etc
> >in movies these days, but these futuristic types of movies always
> >have the same crap music: noisey beats with plenty of guitar
> >a la ministry, rammstein, rage against the machine, marilyn manson,
> >etc, etc, etc. dammnit, how can they be so clueless when it comes
> >to putting together soundtracks these days? it's hard to appreciate
> >a movie's visuals when they're accompanied by formulaic pap
> >like that. andrew