Eighties movies had the greatest songs ever!
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Fluke_Skywalker — 17 years ago(May 21, 2008 03:11 PM)
Yeah sadly the catchy pop soundtrack has all but faded from existence today; much like the montage. BTW, where in the heck are the montages Hollyweird!? Not
menage
[we know you still have plenty of them]
montage
.
Movies like 'Hustle & Flow' [never seen it, but I'm familiar with it] and 8 Mile [see 'Hustle & Flow'] spawned hit songs, but they were films where the lead characters were supposed to be rappers so that makes sesne. What's missing are the great mood setting, background songs [and montage music. Grrrr]. Take a look @ all the Summer blockbusters this year and there might not be a hit song among them. The only big movie(s) that had a big soundtrack of late that spring to mind are 'Spider-Man 1 & 2' 'Hero' [from 1], 'Ordinary' and 'Vindicated' [from 2].
I'll add another on the list of great 80's movie songs, "Glory of love" by Peter Cetera.
Cause theres thunder in your heart Every move is like
lightning
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mcfly-31 — 17 years ago(October 12, 2008 02:38 AM)
I think because so much marketing goes into today's films, and today's box-office returns are so huge, they feel no need to tie it into a hit song. Back then (the 80s, and even 90s), a hit song could aid a film's success because it got constant airplay. Thus, made the people want to check out the film. But that was in the day of struggling to keep a film afloat until $100 mil. Nowadays the average "big" opening is about $50-60 mil.
Plus I just don't think that the popular genres of today could have a theme song that fit. Superbad, Iron Man, Pirates, Pixar stuffcould you imagine anything fitting into a song that would describe those films? "Say You, Say Me", "Power of Love", "Danger Zone" (maybe for Iron Man). Remember when powerful stuff like "Somewhere Out There" was even written for animated movies (An American Tail)??? -
mikekaraoke23 — 16 years ago(October 11, 2009 05:20 AM)
i disagree mcfly loads of 80s movies didnt need songs to make a film a success like ET or short circuit or the goonies or crocodile dundee or starwars or teenwolf or willow all big hits but the songs were great the soundtrack songs wasnt always on every min of the day but was on quite alot. i mean rocky 4 made 5 hundred million
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CCRider01 — 15 years ago(March 24, 2011 04:26 AM)
"I think because so much marketing goes into today's films, and today's box-office returns are so huge, they feel no need to tie it into a hit song. Back then (the 80s, and even 90s), a hit song could aid a film's success because it got constant airplay. Thus, made the people want to check out the film. But that was in the day of struggling to keep a film afloat until $100 mil. Nowadays the average "big" opening is about $50-60 mil."
Films also cost a LOT more to make and have much larger marketing budgets. Factor inflation, piracy, and more entertainment options (video games, 500 TV channel universe), and an average film today probably makes LESS profit in its theatrical release than in the 1980's. DVD/BluRay and International box office can certainly offset this, but they still had VHS tapes in the 1980's. Also $50-60 mil openings are not your typical film. -
Chelle-the-Belle — 17 years ago(October 13, 2008 05:02 PM)
All I can say is..it's all about the 80's!!!!
This movie has an amazing soundtrack! Watched this over the weekend and I instantly recognized one of the instrumental melodies (sounded a lot like a particular Chicago song). My smart movie/music buff boyfriend informed me that David Foster worked with Chicago, therefore the similarities. And then later in the film, I heard a bit of the St. Elmo's Fire melody, too. Great piece of work and a wonderful movie!
p.s. The last memorable movie song I can think of? Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. And that was was back in '97, I think. -
Padwanna — 16 years ago(June 30, 2009 01:39 PM)
Yeah man, the 80's had some classic tunes. Who can't forget Highway to the Danger Zone! Phoar wicked tune!
I don't get why people are so down on 80's music. It defined an era, and had it's fair share of wicked cool tunes, just like any other decade.
Padwanna!
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