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How can you call yourself a movie based on a title of song!?!

posted 10 years ago by adog1990
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This movie is based on the hit Dire Straits song Money for Nothing. How could you call yourself a movie based on a song title without playing the Goddamn song!?!? The one cool cliche of movies you had and you ruin it movie! If you look at John Cusack in it, he is suppose to be acting. But he is thinking of the song (due to he loves music) and wanting the movie to play it. What a buzz kill! You are fired movie for ruin the good music moment in a movie.

[–] rooprect 9 years ago

Haha I haven't seen the movie, but my first thought was: Hmm, I wonder if the song is actually in the movie or if they're just trying to cash in on the popularity of that song which was huge at the time. Oh well, sounds like the latter.

I guess we add this to the list of other movies that trick us that way, like "Starman" (no Bowie song), "Can't Hardly Wait" (no Replacements song) and "A Thousand Kisses Deep" (no Leonard Cohen song, but at least they quote the lyrics in the beginning & end). Oh yeah, and my BIGGEST freakin gripe: "Dazed & Confused" which has a lot of lame overused 70s songs but not a hint of Zeppelin!

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[–] katiepittman 8 years ago

This movie is not based on a song. It's based on real events.

[–] 8 years ago

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