From Simon Paul Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 18:02
From Simon Paul Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 18:02
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: > 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