None of the songs on the soundtrack listing look right....does anybody know the song sung at the end of the movie when the ending credits begin? It's a slower song sung by a man...? Its driving me crazy! Please help! =) Thanks!
shareLove all that fantastic music, and Richie HAvens is a wonderful performer.
When I finally found the DVD on Ebay a few years back, I also bought the soundtrack at Amazon cause I new I needed both.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
I SO wish that one of the movie channels would start playing this movie again as they did around 4(?)yrs ago. It's the perfect summertime movie. It takes us all back to not only vacationland, but to that magical summer of '69, Woodstock, the woods of upstate NY, picking wild blueberries, smoking dope, swimming in lakes & waterfalls, i could go on & on.
Viggo was the perfect blouse man(er.. cuckhold). He was quiet, sensual, & sensitive.(mystery men are always sexier). Hippies were not the norm back then. we loved being different & weird & tossing aside conventional crap. it was all still new then.
But the MUSIC says it all. i just looked at the songtrack titles right here on imdb and just the listing was enough to bring pangs of nostalgia.(as don draper would say). oops wrong board.
A Walk on the Moon is essential summertime viewing. and don't go moralizing like those old threads, you'll ruin it for those of us who love it all.
Yes it would be nice if they would start playing this movie some. Instead we get the same old stuff, over and over again.
This was a perfect role for Viggo, he plays under-stated so well.
I love all kinds of music, but I really enjoy classic rock, music from the 60s and 70s. And whoever helped put together the soundtrack did a wonderful job all around. The water scenes were perfectly set to Joni Mitchells - Cactus Tree, and the moon landing/back of the bus scene was even better with Jefferson Airplanes - Today. Perfection!!
Edit-Don't know why I said River at first, was listening to my ipod this evening and River came on and I instantly thought about the water scene, and how I posted the wrong song here.lol
Who's moralizing?
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
abt moralizing..
I was referring to old threads, mostly before last month, up till around May 1. So many of them read as tho the music was merely incidental(OR they don't even notice it!), and the main theme is adultury. : >) (I don't agree)
Well you know how people over-analyze everything today. To me it was about everything, the time, the circumstances for Pearl, the music, the moon landing. It was most certainly NOT just about a cheating wife.lol
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
The song is "Follow" and it can also be heard in "Hideous Kinky" starring Kate Winslet, set in early 1970s Morroco. It is a great song - another one I love by Richie Havens is "Just Like A Woman".
I agree the soundtrack of this movie is wonderful.
I'm glad someone finally said it! We are seeing life through the eyes of a written character, Not following a real person around town with a camera, watching her cheat on her husband. I totally agree, that it captured a lot of the feeling of that time, and we're meant to understand, how Pearl would want to experience the change and excitement of it all, and yes, even to be tempted to sleep with another man. I look at it as a character study- Did the writers make us feel the emotions they put to paper? Did the actors do a good job of bringing the characters to "life"? Did the location and the music transport us back, so the audience could feel the mood it was meant to convey? I think it did, and I enjoyed it. The movie isn't asking us to decide if she's guilty or not guilty of adultery, or whether or not her husband deserved a cheating wife.
shareNetflix streaming is running it now. I just watched it last night.
Man, that movie really takes me back to my 20's....and my marriage to my first ex-wife.
It brought back so many memories of the Summer of '69 to me. Some of these I treasure after 40 years; some still manage to hurt and make me sad, even after all the time that's gone by.
I SO wish that one of the movie channels would start playing this movie again as they did around 4(?)yrs ago. It's the perfect summertime movie. It takes us all back to not only vacationland, but to that magical summer of '69, Woodstock, the woods of upstate NY, picking wild blueberries, smoking dope, swimming in lakes & waterfalls, i could go on & on.
This movie is on tonight on TMC. I am looking forward to seeing it and gearing the soundtrack!
shareThis movie is on tonight on TMC. I am looking forward to seeing it and gearing the soundtrack!
Some great music in this film. But, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty both came out in 1970. Also, Richie Havens opened Woodstock, and Wavy Gravy's "breakfast in bed for 400,00" bit came the next morning. In the film it was in the same few minutes.
shareIt was all done so sweetly, favorite actors, actresses and musical artist with fave songs set to this growth story all in a neat row. Who could not like the first love making scene to the moon landing with Marty Balin's ballad 'Today' softly playing in the background. Even the tiny schmalziness of the scene culminating with Neil Amrstrong's "one small step/giant leap for mankind" right as the song ended can be forgiven. Viggo & Diane played it perfectly...
And those lazy days of summer up by the river, first loves, fresh picked berries, community family & fellowship, all the simple things that we as human beings all truely desire & hope for.
Just peace, cause this all ain't nothing but a dream.
(Not the driven frantic frenetic mania of the neurotic US material stream of life or what we see now taken over the world, in Asia, the Middle East, when all people just want is peace.)