The movie had a nice feeling all the way through, exept, when out of the blue, we were treated to what seemed like a song leaking from the neighbouring studio shooting some kind of breakfest tea commercial.
How many people got paid to smuggle that completely unfitting corny song in there? Almost ruined the movie for me...
"I am NaN, I am a free man!"
Lol man... My thoughts exactly.
sharelol i thought so too...crappy song by a crappy band
shareI actually kind of liked the song. Plus, you do know that Owl City isn't a band, right? It's the pseudonym of one guy called Adam Young.
shareI found the Owl City music completely out of place, too. It wrecked the movie.
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"I found the Owl City music completely out of place..."
Really? I actually thought it fit fairly well. The tone of it is bright and hopeful (like the characters are at that point in the movie), and the lyrics are all about chasing/believing in your dreams (which is also occurring for the characters at the time).
The style does break from the sweeping instrumental score but I'd guess about 90% of movies (especially action movies like this one) do that all the time. The brighter tone of the song also helps ease a lot of the built-up tension from the first half of the movie which, if left alone, would have overwhelmed the intensity of the end battle and made the ending extremely abrupt. You would have had nothing but 'fuzzy intro-tension-tension-action-BATTLE-the end'. Now *that* would have really sucked.
I think it fits very well where they put it, however, as I mentioned, it does break from the instrumental score and it did throw me for about a quarter second the first time I watched the movie. So maybe they could have still used that song there but a purely instrumental version instead and left the lyric version only for the credits. *shrug* it's a thought.
Will never understand why they didn't stick with 30 Seconds To Mars' 'Kings and Queens' as used in the excellent trailer. Would have worked perfectly.
shareDude what are you talking about? I loved it. What else do you wish for? You like Justin Bieber, dont you?
shareActually, Justin Bieber would've probably been better than that cheesy out of place song. The song was just very corny and didn't fit.
"orchestra, orchestra, orchestra, POP SONG!!!!, orchestra.." seriously, wtf?
@kazim464: The hell? me: "This meat tastes rotten and seems to be of extremely low quality...", you: "What else do you wish for? You like to eat burning rubber with dirt, don't you?"
Dude, Adam Young sucks and Justin Biber sucks even more, neither of their songs should be in a movie or near my ears, ever.
"I am NaN, I am a free man!"
I honestly don't mind the song, though it's not my favorite genre either. That being said, it definitely did feel out of place in the movie. However, it definitely didn't ruin it for me. If you don't like it, skip over that scene on the DVD when it gets released.
shareYep felt the same...completely out of place.
I mean, the movie is kinda epic, it needs epic songs.
It was too childish...The movie concept and that song is like "vinegar and olive oil" they can never..ever mix together!
I agree, it felt completly out of place, made it more chilish too, obviously they chose him because his name is Owl City.
"We do not inheret the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
I didn't really mind the song, but thought they needed a more of a British, or Australian band to fit the movie since all the characters were of that language, like maybe Keane singing "The Night Sky", or they could have written a different song for the movie.
The Night Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIWhSDoG5Lk
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A Bad Dream (for the scene with Soren and his brother, Kludd) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLoYVnh4sY&feature=artistob&pl aynext=1&list=TLxOvdqI_ZcOk
I'll always catch you when you fall.. -Will Young, Who Am Ishare
It was also annoying that it was being played at the same volume as the other sound effects and some talking going on. It was like the music and sound were competing with each other. They did a great job of using the La Niebla song in the fire scene tho.
shareYeah, that song didn't fit at all. The movie was close to being a classic until Twilight and Digger were introduced as comic relief(Something Snyder should no longer incorporate into his films because his sense of humor is corny and irritating). After that the movie started falling apart slowly until that Adam Young song came out of nowhere and demolished it. There were bits of brilliance following that travesty but the damage had already been done.
shareI have to agree with the person above to some extent. Comic relief worked very rarely, and that song was completely out of place and downgraded the movie. However, I still loved The Guardians, but it could've been perfect.
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