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Well i'm mostly against Top 40 Pop Music appearing in films but some aren't too bad. Spiderman 2 for instance is a great movie and the score was pretty good as well but why flood the movie with all these bands for a stupid CD. The CD of the music choices suck ( i think i liked 2 songs on the album and 1 that didn't even make it) They have to fill so many movie with pop culture music and its ashame that they do it. HellBoy could of filled the movie with pop culture music for the battles but they wisely kept it to a simple score (which is one of the best this year) with one simple (and well placed) Big Right Hand for HellBoy's grand fighting entrance. I wish more studios did what HellBoy did and allow the movie and the score to be the standout in the feature not some stupid flavour of the month band.
But i'm not saying all are that bad as you just need to simply look at Moulin Rouge which was filled with past pop culture songs and they all worked for the film (ok maybe Like A Virgin is an exception but i liked it) But they didn't use the band/group/the singer to sing there song and really made it there own. Maybe that is why it worked so well for the film. Shrek 2 is probably one of the few movies i have seen in the past few year that have used the original group/singer to display their music in the movie and work. The big opening number from Counting Crows is well done and hell Funky Town even works well in the movie. But maybe is because the animation department has more freedom to work with the material then live actors.
But still i hope we see less flavour of the month crap on my movie soundtracks and lets see them get bck into the great days when the score of the movie is what helped make the movie so special.
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