why would they let Prince doin the Batman OST?

[Mistah_Jay]

Really,what were they thinkin?Is it to make the joker feel more funky and 80's.I mean could u imagine if this were done to begins or TDK.I can't imagine if that happened again.What if the producers think it would be cool if the joker while doing his killing spree,he would dance to i dunno The Black eyed Peas.You know I could imagine a scene after he announce "Starting to night People will die.."then the music kicks in "Let's getting Started Haa,let getting started in here"

 

[Catman]

Prince was a HUGE star at the time and was signed with the WB record label.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Really,what were they thinkin?Is it to make the joker feel more funky and 80's.I mean could u imagine if this were done to begins or TDK.I can't imagine if that happened again.What if the producers think it would be cool if the joker while doing his killing spree,he would dance to i dunno The Black eyed Peas.You know I could imagine a scene after he announce "Starting to night People will die.."then the music kicks in "Let's getting Started Haa,let getting started in here"

1. Nicoloson suggested it, being a Prince fan, and since he was the movie's big draw at the time, they wanted to use whatever ideas he had.

2. The comparison you did doesn't really work, in that Prince did original songs that fit with premise and ideas of the movie.

3. Prince > You, so shut the f**k up.

 

[CFE]

3. Prince > You, so shut the f**k up.

I was JUST about to say that!!! lol

CFE

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

Prince is God. Dont ask any more silly questions.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Really,what were they thinkin?Is it to make the joker feel more funky and 80's.I mean could u imagine if this were done to begins or TDK.I can't imagine if that happened again.What if the producers think it would be cool if the joker while doing his killing spree,he would dance to i dunno The Black eyed Peas.You know I could imagine a scene after he announce "Starting to night People will die.."then the music kicks in "Let's getting Started Haa,let getting started in here"

The Black Eyed Peas are hardly today's equivalent of Prince, in talent or popularity.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Prince is God. Dont ask any more silly questions.

Quoted for TRUTH.

 

[Noir]

Uh.. Since when were the Black Eyed Peas our generations Prince?

 

[K.B.]

Prince rocks and his batman album kicked ass.

 

[Noir]

The Bat-dance!

 

[CFE]

This thread is silly...and pointless

CFE

 

[Mr. Socko]

Michael Jackson was considered for during the soundtrack as well.

 

[K.B.]

lol he would have just tried to use "someone in the dark" lol

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

Come on, though. Let's be honest. Prince is great, and the songs in the movie are fun, but aren't you really looking at it from a nostalgia standpoint?

Pick whatever "modern equivalent" you want, hell pick Prince himself (the man still rocks) and honestly tell me 99% of the fan community wouldn't be crucifying Nolan for using such a soundtrack. It would be a damn bloodbath.

 

[K.B.]

The thing is is that the combination of actors/director/material/the time etc made it one of those rare times when everything works.

The reason I don't think it would work with Nolan is because it takes a certain "magic" that you can't produce or force, just take a look at the forever and bnr soundtracks.

 

[Bat Attack]

I really don't listen to Prince so I wouldn't know what to say (although I have listened to all his albums, I just probably won't again). But I thought the music fit the Joker well.

 

[Ibn]

1. Nicoloson suggested it, being a Prince fan, and since he was the movie's big draw at the time, they wanted to use whatever ideas he had.

2. The comparison you did doesn't really work, in that Prince did original songs that fit with premise and ideas of the movie.

3. Prince > You, so shut the f**k up.

Wouldn't have been as harsh, but yeah, pretty much.

 

[Ibn]

Come on, though. Let's be honest. Prince is great, and the songs in the movie are fun, but aren't you really looking at it from a nostalgia standpoint?

Pick whatever "modern equivalent" you want, hell pick Prince himself (the man still rocks) and honestly tell me 99% of the fan community wouldn't be crucifying Nolan for using such a soundtrack. It would be a damn bloodbath.

Yep. Riots. Bloodshed. Death

 

[CConn]

Come on, though. Let's be honest. Prince is great, and the songs in the movie are fun, but aren't you really looking at it from a nostalgia standpoint?

Pick whatever "modern equivalent" you want, hell pick Prince himself (the man still rocks) and honestly tell me 99% of the fan community wouldn't be crucifying Nolan for using such a soundtrack. It would be a damn bloodbath.

Yeah, it would. Because Nolan's fan community has absolutely no sense of humor.

While yeah, I do enjoy it A LOT more due to nostalgia, The Joker dancing around to a song like Partyman was a fantastic scene. Very in keeping with the Joker's personality and motis operandi. It's crazy, it's random, and totally nonsensical, it's the Joker.

Also, the rest of Prince's songs were integrated quite well into the film. It wasn't like, say, Daredevil where you have hard rock blaring at the beginning of every scene, instead they integrated Prince's music into the movie. At one point, his songs issuing from a boom box of a off screen extra. In the end battle, his music is played at the Joker's mock parade. Of course there'd be music for something like that. And the Prince song worked as well as anything would. It's little things like that that made Prince's soundtrack a bit better than just any pop-singer littering a movie.

 

[Mr. Socko]

While yeah, I do enjoy it A LOT more due to nostalgia, The Joker dancing around to a song like Partyman was a fantastic scene. Very in keeping with the Joker's personality and motis operandi. It's crazy, it's random, and totally nonsensical, it's the Joker.

QFMFT!

Finally, someone else who understands! I thought it was a great scene too, I can't believe so many people hate it.

 

[KormanRogers]

QFMFT!

Finally, someone else who understands! I thought it was a great scene too, I can't believe so many people hate it.

Amen on that

 

[The Sage]

3. Prince > You, so shut the f**k up.

Prince is God. Dont ask any more silly questions.

Gentlemen you make me proud to be associated with you everyday.

 

[Nepenthes]

Pick whatever "modern equivalent" you want, hell pick Prince himself (the man still rocks) and honestly tell me 99% of the fan community wouldn't be crucifying Nolan for using such a soundtrack. It would be a damn bloodbath.

Point taken, but consider that Burton was faced with the task of making Batman contemporary and (I hate to use this term) 'cool' again. Nolan movies are an entirely different response and direction to what B89 had to do. So you're right but it's just a slightly unfair comparison.

Also using Prince was a stroke of marketing genius. What would batmania be without the batdance?

While yeah, I do enjoy it A LOT more due to nostalgia, The Joker dancing around to a song like Partyman was a fantastic scene. Very in keeping with the Joker's personality and motis operandi. It's crazy, it's random, and totally nonsensical, it's the Joker.

Last time I watched b89 that scene stuck out like dogs balls on cat, and the music had little to do with it. It's overlong, there's no sound apart from the song (like a music video, which takes you out of the sequence), not much is actually happening apart from Jack farting around i.e. no sequence or progression, and Jacks antics themselves seem more like a half-hearted rehearsal. The camera work is also fairly static and mundane. For a party scene it just seemed pretty tedious

they integrated Prince's music into the movie. At one point, his songs issuing from a boom box of a off screen extra ...And the Prince song worked as well as anything would. It's little things like that that made Prince's soundtrack a bit better than just any pop-singer littering a movie.

definitly agreed, it's a better way to include song tracks

the only way I could stomach contemporary tracks in TDK would be a club scene or lounge bar etc. but even then I'd prefer if it were something lesser known, selected for mood rather than cross promotion or appeal

 

[Riven]

I'd take a Prince soundtrack in a superhero movie over Nickelback or any other nu-metal crap they seem so fond to overload the Spiderman movies with...

 

[The Shredder]

I have no problem with Prince's soundtrack for the film. Alot of the songs; "The Future", "Partyman", and "Trust", fit very well into the scenes that they were incorporated into.