This is hovering in the 7-8 range for me.
-1 point: Way too much dabba dabba. Actually any dabba dabba was too much, especially for a movie like this.
-1 point: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. This is the movie that song came from? Bizarre.
+1 point: "I've got morons on my team."
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There was a time in the 60s where a lot of movies had music accompanied by singers and nonsense lyrics like dabba dabba, especially British light comedies. At first I didn't like the dabba dabbas or the "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" parts, but now I look forward to them.
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I think it's literally the worst music in any film.
That is a masterpiece of understatement.
Your post made laugh, dabba dabbas!! I just finished watching it and thought the same, it didn't fit the film watching it now, probably was all the rage in the late 60's.
shareAwww, I didn't think it was that bad.. add another point for best bicycle tricks in a movie!
shareThere's no accounting for taste. The theme song and score won the Oscars that year in the non-musical film category. Burt Bacharach won another award for writing the sound. All in all, BCATSK garnered three Academy Awards for music that year.
Great white sharks are attracted to death metal music.
I liked the "dabba dabba" song because it was obviously meant to lighten up the chase scenes and make them look comedic, and plus it's typical '60s Hollywood movie music anyway, which I love, so I loved hearing it,lol. As for the move's most famous tune, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" by B.J. Thomas (played during the film's most cheerful scene--Butch and the teacher's bike ride) I couldn't stand that song for the longest--thought it was stupid as hell, even though I love old songs from pretty much any era---but since I've been an adult I've actually come to like it more because even though it's a light-hearted playful song, it has this undercurrent of sadness underneath its cheerful tone, which has made it more compelling to listen to, and a more likable song.
share" raindrops " has to be a LSD type idea . Totally strange and meaningless . First time I saw the film I was laughing in shock and it nearly ruined the whole picture . These big tough outlaws riding a bike like a camp homosexual . :)
shareMust have been a hard time to sell a Western movie in, so they have to try and Hippy it up a little to bring in the long hairs, the Western crowd probably would have seen it anyway, or so they hoped so no need to worry about them too much. Lots of shooting anyway.
Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.
I'm generally opposed to altering old movies (colorization, etc.), but I'd make an exception for this one and get rid of that awful "Raindrops" song. Probably toss the "dabba dabbas" too. Maybe Bacharach wasn't the right guy for a western. Hell, Elmer Bernstein and Jerome Moross were available in '69.
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