From Jeff Waye Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 01:01
From Jeff Waye Sent Wed, Apr 21st 1999, 01:01
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