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Idiotically misplaced music


What dipshit thought a vomitable metal tune was warranted?

It completely destroyed the ambience, you dipshit.

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I agree that it was out of place. I like the scene. I like the music. Just not together, and that music was out of place ANYWHERE in the movie. Should've been left out.

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Horror movies from the late 90s/early 00s often had the worst kind of metal songs.

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Stick with Britney Spears and Twilight, Hash. You'll be alright.

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Do you see any of that teen vampire shit in my posting history?

Contemporary music NEVER belongs in a horror film(or even most films unless they’re period films) because it DATES it.

Or did you really love that vomitable Prince music in the first Keaton Batman film?

Yeah...thought so.

P.S. I’M an old school headbanger but I’m not dying to hear Black Sabbath in ANY film

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Do you see any of that teen vampire shit in my posting history, fuckface?


Chill, my friend, it was a joke.

Nevertheless, I disagree with your rigid rule. As movies get older they're ALREADY dated due to fashion, décor, hairstyles, vehicles and often even the score. For instance, most 80's flicks can be identified by their decidedly cheesy 80's score (think "No Way Out").

Sometimes a rock/metal/whatever song fits a certain scene or end credits and adds an entertaining new dimension, like "Disconnected" by 9voltRevolt in Death Tunnel or "Crazy Little Voices" by RA in The Rage: Carrie 2. Or, for non-horror citations, "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. in Blue Crush or "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence in Daredevil. Those four examples are just off the top of my head. (And, no, I don't care whether or not you hate those particular movies).

Bottom line: You're adding legalistic rules to an artform (film) and genre (horror) that would do them a huge disservice.

As far as Tim Burton's "Batman" goes, I was never a fan, but it's a'right if you're in a cartoony mood.

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On the contrary...some films just turn into period pieces themselves and whatever was in vogue at the time is part of the ambience.

But films like Tim Burton’s Batman are stuck in the 90s when they could have been TIMELESS.

I puke when MC Hammer’s music was playing...at a charity gala/ball.

🤢 🤮

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I’M an old school headbanger but I’m not dying to hear Black Sabbath in ANY film


Depending on the storyline, their 70's stuff would fit in a period piece from the 70s; early 80s too.

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black sabbath is hard rock...pussy

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I’m OLD SCHOOL, kid.

Sabbath, Zep, Judas Priest, Metallica, Motley Crue, Megadeth, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc.

Edit: and no...I wouldn’t have wanted to hear any of them in this film either!

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you dirty old man

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Lol I agree

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IT was cool

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Oddly (not to take sides), this song in particular, "My Little Box" that was used with the scene was actually written as part OF the score, FOR the scene. Awesome song. That's still not to say that it was appropriate, but it is written by John Frizzell who also composed the GS score soundtrack and included it on the OST, whereas the Mudvayne's "Not Falling" which was heard in the movie as well as the end credits, and Monica Mancini's "Senza Fine" (heard right before the slice & dice), were not included on the OST. My Little Box was an awesomely cool song, but way out of place.

Okay, so my comment is a pointless one, but there it is.

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I agree. The movie took its time to create an uneasy atmosphere, but inappropriate music easily destroys that mood. It felt like a bank heist instead of a ghost story.

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It's definitely of it's time with that scene. I honestly think it works quite well in that instance. The movie doesn't play all that subtly up to that point, so I don't see any ambience destroyed.

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