Music ruins it abit
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Brasil123 — 12 years ago(April 28, 2013 07:42 AM)
"one's taste in music should not be allowed to influence one's enjoyment of a movie."
to that I say: "No person's pretentious comments in a movie forum should be allowed to influence one's enjoyment of a movie."
you do not define what should and shouldn't be allowed to influence one's enjoyment of a movie. You can make suggestions or if you care enough, argue something.
hellish? yes.
unstructured? yes.
racket? questionable.
none of those things keep it from being a great beep piece of music that captures the pathos of the film.
I don't think you're wrong, sjjvdberg, just that you should maybe open your mind to different tastes in music and film, or at least try to understand why someone would like it other than them buying into anything put in front of them, or having inferior perceptive ability. -
dopesickkid — 18 years ago(June 25, 2007 09:07 AM)
The music didn't ruin it at all it added to the mood of the movie. Thats what a soundtrack is supposed to do. What did you want a 100 peice orchestra? For a quiet spiritual western movie? The music was perfect for the movie
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NotASpeckOfCereal — 11 years ago(November 12, 2014 08:11 AM)
I feel that his main theme is good, I like it, but we definitely needed a few more variations, and perhaps some other themes than that one repeated over and over again.
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MorgieSteph — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 03:28 PM)
This was a great movie with great music, I loved the music and it fit the movie perfectly, especially the mournfulness at the end and over the credits, I wonder if it's available for purchase?
Bathia Mapes: "Go to the house of the curse". -
MorgieSteph — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 03:29 PM)
This was a great movie with great music, I loved the music and it fit the movie perfectly, especially the mournfulness at the end and over the credits, I wonder if it's available for purchase?
Bathia Mapes: Go to the house of the curse -
mrkmac — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 05:50 PM)
You nailed it. This style of guitar was more about atmosphere, much like what Ry did in Paris, Texas.
Personally, I don't think Neil is the greatest guitarist or singer in the world, but he is a great song writer and I like his songs. Same feeling I have about Dylan. -
brutalplanets@yahoo.com — 18 years ago(June 05, 2007 03:59 PM)
Wouldn't have changed a thing, the music was perfect. The fact that the song played over the opening credits isn't on the soundtrack seems downright retarded to me, though.
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MorgieSteph — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 03:32 PM)
member since April 2004
This was a great movie with great music, I loved the music and it fit the movie perfectly, especially the mournfulness at the end and over the credits, I wonder if it's available for purchase?
Bathia Mapes: Go to the house of the curse -
vaya_con_dios — 18 years ago(July 25, 2007 12:57 PM)
oh, the music was perfect. such a very simple theme, played with such depth and so perfectly. I believe that those who have seen the movie and do not like it, or didn't like the music, are much too rational people, or have seen it in an unaproppiate mood. that means, they have not watched and listened with the eyes and the ears of the soul, but with the mind.
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messiah-cakes — 18 years ago(September 01, 2007 02:57 PM)
I disagree. What exactly made it compelling and provocative? The anxiety, the horror, the haunting nature of unfinished cords looses all its emotive power by the third time they're played. You end up wanting the chord progression to finish, and, by association, the movie as well. You stop paying attention to the details and the characters and just .wait..impatiently throughout the film for that end when you'll be able to play the original Neil Young song to your personal enjoyment. And, though it sounds marvelous in this description, it's not pulled off well in the movie. Like I said, it ends up being uncreative and repetitive and dry, instead of emotive. It ends up being such a lack of emotion, that it drags everything down with it, kinda like a mop, or a clingy girlfriend.
And, I don't think its fair to justify the music choice with some absurd rhetoric about the increase in comparative meaninglessness and degradation of human culture and human spirit throughout the film..because, really, i think all of these subjects would have been treated better without the soundtrack. Nothing distracting. The film is already minimalist, so the oddly-timed, repetitive, uninspiring, and downright cheapening music could be scraped for the sake of an actual story worth raving about.
And this is from an AVID Neil Young and Jarmusch fan.
Seriously, the story's nice, and the acting is pretty interesting.WHY does the music have to suck so badly? I don't think I'll ever see this movie again, and I do feel like I've wasted my time watching it, just because of the music. -.-;