©KAW;17981089 said:
Yeah, you're right, those two songs wasn't music. It was crap, and it was in the movie during an already horrible scene. And so was this......this type of music doesn't belong on film, it dates the movie. Now, if you can produce a great film like Terminator 2, I'll forgive for having "Born To Be Wild" playing in the background. These Spidey films needs all the help they can get from not being dated.
I'm not sure if you're joking here, have made a mistake, or have been hearing the wrong lyrics and don't really know your classic rock tunes, but 'Born to be Wild' was not used in Terminator 2, it was 'You could be Mine' by Guns n Roses that was T2's contemporary rock tune.
'Born to be Wild' was used for 'Easy Rider' in 1969, and was also a contemporary song used for a movie.
That's now a classic use of a song in a movie, in fact Easy Rider was the first big movie to use a soundtrack of exclusively contemporary songs.
Anyway, songs by bands have been used sparingly in the Spider-man movies, that one used in SM2 when he is getting dressed is alright and fits the scene well, I don't know who it is, and am not bothered really what era it hails from, it fits the scene.
I don't care much for the use of 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my head' , mainly because it has been used so often in films and tv shows, and has become cliche and easy to use, great song though. It was in fact written for 'Butchcassidy and the Sundance kid', so was a contemporary song that was used effectively originally.
But if RKFOMH, was a contemporary song, and this was it's first time in a movie, it would have blown me away.
The funk song used when Parker is strutting in SM3 is fantastic, sounds like a timeless classic , and , most importantly, has not been overused in movies, in fact I don't recall hearing it in any other movie at all. So, it was James Brown? Good to know, because there are plenty of JB songs that are used far too often in flicks, like 'I Feel Good', 'Sex Machine' etc
I don't even mind the Macy Gray song used at the outdoor festival, not that I like the song particularly, but it's unobstrusive, and is not that bad really. Ok, she is/was a Sony artist and they wanted one for that scene, but that is the way of the world, and you do have live music performances in parade scenes like that. At least Macy Grey fits the outcast mould somewhat like Spider-man, she was a total outcast at highschool because of her distinctive voice, so I'm glad she was in the movie to stick it to all those creeps who bullied her back in the day, we could have got a much worse artist for the scene, like those Big Brothaz guys in ScoobyDoo2, or the Black Eyed Peas.
I honestly don't know what some people are complaining about. The arguments don't seem to make sense, who cares if the artist is contemporary or classic, who cares what era they come from.
The important thing is that the song fits the scene and is not a totally overused song that has been in umpteen movies before.
. Is a movie not allowed to have any other music besides an orchestral score?
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