and what is the deal with soundtracks?

[thehefner]

Ok. What the crap is up with movie soundtracks that feature clips of dialogue or sounds from the actual movie? This fucking pisses me the hell off! If I wanted to hear the music alongside the dialogue, I'd watch the fucking movie with my eyes closed!

I'm just cheezed off because I've finally found the 80's-tastic synth soundtrack for DAY OF THE DEAD (including the track the the Gorillaz samples for their song M1A1) and the music is accompanied by dialogue, zombie moans, and helicopter noises. Gah! I just want my cheesy 80's-tastic synth music, damn it!

Seriously, is there a good reason why soundtrack producers pull this shit? It's the soundtrack, damn it. It should be just the soundtrack, seperate from the movie.

At least they don't pull this shit on Ennio Morricone or Danny Elfman.

Comments

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Amen to that! I hate it when that happens. Or when I buy the score for a specific part that's barely even featured on the disc. That happened with the LA Confidential theme, which is beautiful...the CD is more of a "soundtrack" with the old popular music that got used in the movie. Cool, but not what I wanted, and 1:30 of a theme that featured repeatedly throughout the film doesn't quite do it justice!

And your icon is love. :-)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, *you* got the soundtrack, but not the SCORE. They did two seperate CDs! I did exactly the same, all because I wanted that very same theme!

The good news is once I started researching for Bub and Johnny Go, all those songs came in mighty handy after all!

Hehe! Yeah, I saw it on scans_daily and I just had to steal it. I hope whoever made it won't be pissed if he/she finds out, but it's just awesome.

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, *you* got the soundtrack, but not the SCORE. They did two seperate CDs! I did exactly the same, all because I wanted that very same theme!

Right, and of course they released the soundtrack first. Is the theme we wanted featured prominently enough in the score? Should I pick it up, too?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I never bought the score, but if you kept hearing it in the movie I'd say that's a safe bet. Of course, it's also a safe bet that it's long out of production, so you'd have to hit up ebay. That what I did when I wanted the score (by X-Files composer Mark Snow, NOT the soundtrack with the Harvey Danger and Flys songs) for DISTURBING BEHAVIOR.

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

Of course, it's also a safe bet that it's long out of production, so you'd have to hit up ebay.

Actually, Amazon has it in stock (just a couple of copies left) and is ordering more soon. :-) If you're interested....

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I think I'll turn it down, just because I have money that must needs go elsewhere, but if you get it, let me know if I should too! That is one of my all-time favorite movies (a phrase I say a lot, I know, but I really mean it).

[kmousie.livejournal.com]

That is one of my all-time favorite movies (a phrase I say a lot, I know, but I really mean it).

Yeah, I know. It's one of the things we first bonded over. :-)

[yancentric.livejournal.com]

The one on my network has this track listing:

Goblin - Zombi: Dawn of The Dead (Import - Remastered 2003)

1. L'alba dei morti viventi
2. Zombi
3. Safari
4. Torte in faccia
5. Ai margini della follia
6. Zaratozom
7. La caccia
8. Tirassegno
9. Oblio
10. Risveglio
11. L'alba dei morti viventi (alternate take)
12. Ai margini della follia (alternate take)
13. Zombi (sexy)
14. Ai margini della follia (alternate take)
15. Zombi (supermarket)
16. L'alba dei morti viventi (Intro - alternate take)
17. Zombi (The living dead's voices!) (Bonus track)

If that's different from what you have, I can grab it for you.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ah! Now *that* appears to me to be the European soundtrack for DAWN OF THE DEAD (the one I'm talking about here is DAY). I dunno how much you know about the European cut of DAWN, but it has a totally different soundtrack (a much better one in many places, and a better movie as a result).

It's on your network? For how much? I don't remember any tracks off-hand.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

AUUUGH THE QUITELY IT BURNS US, PRECIOUS!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Aw geez, even All-Star Superman Quitely? But it's Quitely sans the squinched faces that look the same for every single person and the other problems he has exhibited over the years. It's really pretty!

(says the guy who really deeply doesn't care for Jim Lee, Michael Turner, or any of the other highly popular Image-inspired crowd)

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Alright.

Listen, my friend.

Listen.

I will concede that it is pretty, for Quitely. In fact, I will even not flip out about the fact that we are discussing Quitely in less than derogatory terms.

That's how much I respect you, man.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I truly understand how huge of you it was to say that. I do not take it lightly. I say thankee-sai, so I do.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

...and that art from Quitely isn't bad, actually. It's actually, dare I say it...pretty.

You know what it is? Everyone looks so much the same that it's hard for me read a comic that Quitely draws, because I'm so distracted by thinking "everyone has cherubic round faces, except for the one guy Quitely has to draw with a preternaturally long, thin face." In the X-Men it was Cyclops, in the Authority it was Jeroen, etc.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

And in All-Star Superman, it's Jimmy Olsen.

At least it wasn't so much a distraction with, say, WE3. But generally, oh yeah, you're totally right.

'Course, I seemed to be the only one who HATED Igor Kordney's (sp?) art on New X-Men, and rather preferred it when Quitely or Van Scriver would show up.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Good lord, we ARE soulmates when it comes to comic art preferences. I think Kordney's art was horrible. I mean absolutely horrible, horrible, unwatchable, unviewable, an affront to anything resembling stylistic grace.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm truly glad to know someone else feels this way.

PS, yes, read JUSTICE, it fucking rocks. It started out "meh" and by issue 4, wow.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Really? I value your recommendation immensely. I shall purchase it tomorrow and forego food or something for a while.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I am fucking loving it. Issue one was "meh" at best, with some weak-ass dialogue (Superman's especially, *shudder*), issue two had an awesome revamp of the Riddler and a chilling cliffhanger, issue three really starting to get darker, and four? Four was hardcore. I have never seen the League get their asses handed to them so badly I fear; or at least, it was one of the only times I was actually *afraid* for our heroes. I still have no idea how the hell Hal's gonna get out of this one.

Again, it's Ross' take on Challenge of the Superfriends. It's Superfriends vs. Legion of Doom to the death.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Okay, but do the events in this series count in regular DC continuity?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's out of continuity. One Leaguer dies in the first issue (but is still alive in subsequent issues since they're flashbacks leading up to the events in the first). In some ways, I prefer it OOC, because that makes the stakes kinda higher; anything really could happen here. And so far, it's pretty dark as hell.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh.

*sighs*

Say goodbye, money! Say goodbye to Kali!

Here, have some fictional accountability:

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Here, have some Rictor humiliating the rest of X-Force by airing dirty laundry. Threads are hilarious, especially the ones with Boom Boom and a goth version of Tinkerbell:

http://community.livejournal.com/sages_of_chaos/5193910.html

Re: Here, have some fictional accountability:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Ok, I gotta ask, whom do you play? Or am I not supposed to know these things?

Re: Here, have some fictional accountability:

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Actually, Colossus just posted a comment in that post complaining about his hooker boots, which has me on the FLOOR laughing.

It's totally okay to ask! I play Siryn, song_of_erin. I'm not really doing well tonight, so I'm off in my comments, but the rest of X-Force is on fire in that post. Dom, Tabby, Ric, Shatterstar, Sam, etc. We also have a totally awesome Cable that knocks everyone's socks off, even people who don't know Cable, because he's so brilliant and cranky and Cable-like.

My Siryn has developed a friendship with the Silver Surfer at Sages. We started this scene (http://song-of-erin.livejournal.com/22160.html) a couple of months ago, and are picking it up again now that Surfer's player is around again. He seriously is the best Silver Surfer I've ever seen written. It's like Jim Starlin is SPEAKING TO ME.

Re: Here, have some fictional accountability:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

That is... kinda totally awesome. I'm gonna give it a much better read tomorrow when I'm not brain-dead and exhausted from work and rehearsal.

Hehe, you might enjoy this. A friend of mine who's not a friend anymore (long enough story for a book) used to love to play as Colossus on X-Men Legends, just so he could constantly say, ala Yakov Smirnov (Smirnoff?) "IN SOVIET RUSSIA, MUTANT HIT YOU!" I am frequently tempted the make an icon of that; it never fails to amuse me.

Re: Here, have some fictional accountability:

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. Please make an icon of that. That is SO funny.

:-DDDDDD

Um. I'm digging through some old She-Hulk issues and finding some brain-breakingly funny 4th Wall smashing. I shall have to post these on scans_daily, because...this is too good to not post. Ever read Sensational She-Hulk when Byrne was writing it?

Re: Here, have some fictional accountability:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I tell you, I would, except... well, the friend who did this was my best friend but is not anymore (again, whoo boy, wait for the Hefner Monologues...) but he's still on scans_daily and heykidzcomix, so he'd see it. I imagine he'd leave me alone, but I dunno, he's enough of a Guy Gardner fan with the mentality to go, "Hey, way to totally rip off my idea!"

Then again, considering what he did to me, I suppose he bloody owes me.

You must post! For I have heard much but read little, as there are no reprints currently available.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Here's a BIG FAT helping of WORD, my dear. So very much word.

You know what was cool? The soundtrack to the remake of Dawn of the Dead. The use of music in that movie was fantabulous, because it wasn't grating, it was tongue in cheek at times, and it actually lent value to the film, rather than detracting from the dramatic goings on.

My pet peeve is overuse of music in film and TV shows. I tried watching Grey's Anatomy (Gray's? Grey's?) a couple of times and had to grit my teeth to prevent myself from destroying the television set when the music kicked in constantly for the last fifteen minutes of each episode. So. Irritating. Shut up already and let people act out scenes that might be emotionally effective if you didn't have Michelle Branch playing loudly over every line of dialogue! Fer chrissakes!

The last soundtracks I really enjoyed were the ones for LOTR and Kill Bill, aside from DOTD.

Ennio Morricone and Giorgio Moroder. Man, you don't get better than that.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I have a number of problems with the DOTD remake (namely that if they just called it something other that DAWN OF THE DEAD it would have instantly been two letter grades better!), but I do concede that those first fifteen minutes, everything up to the end of the credits with Johnny Cash, was awesome.

Did you see the extra short film on the Uncut DVD? I thought there was more heart in that short movie than the actual film.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't! And we all know Romero's originals rock the hardest.

I did think the cast in DOTD was excellent, however. Good ensemble acting. Some absolutely riveting scenes.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And I loved the Matt Frewer cameo.

Ken Foree's cameo as the televangelist is even better in the uncut version, where his new "when there's no more room in hell..." speech in expanded into an awesome monologue.

It was scarier that Romero's, but not better, I like to say.

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Okay, apparently I'm a freak even in geekish circles (see icon). I actually kind of like when I get bits of the dialogue. It helps me keep the music in context. I would give my left arm for just such a version of the Sense & Sensibility soundtrack. If I just want the music, I go find the original artist. They usually include stuff they've done for movies in albums that have come out at around the same time.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

See, for me, I prefer to have the music out of context. I love the feelings it evoked in the movie for a reason, but I want to be able to appreciate it seperately as music on its own. Like, I would *spit* if the awesome soundtrack to LOVE, ACTUALLY was loaded with clips from the actual movie. SPIT, I tells ya! And I'm talking about movie scores here; the composers don't generally put those out there so I could find them anywhere else but the soundtrack.

[gnort.livejournal.com]

you ever listen to the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now? Half of the tracks are Martin Sheen's voice overs and most of the actual songs on there are preceded by Martin Sheen talking, very unpleasant. If they only did it once or twice it wouldn't have bothered me so much but a majority of the 2 cd set was just talking and that's not a soundtrack