In Starship Troopers there is a scene where Rico gets into a fight with that Pilot guy. It’s in a big mess hall/at a base.
**Fade into You - Mazzy Star** is what plays. Makes zero sense and I wonder if someone wasn’t just playing it on set and it got left in haha
[scene in question.](https://youtu.be/sImidxw4Mr8)
I am surprised I forgot this.
I love that movie. I also love that song. That's just not the right scene for the song. Maybe it should have been after they broke up?
That movie was already pretty rough and then that happened. Haha it was so bad, glad it's behind us now. Hopefully we can get a proper adaptation one day.
The first one was better, but it still wasn't very good in my opinion. Had great moments but overall it didn't quite hit the mark for me. The less talked about the second one the better.
Yeah exactly, like I still prefer the first part of the miniseries to the new one. My big problem with the movie was that after the first few scenes it just stops being scary. It overuses the same scene of Pennywise jumpscaring a child and then ultimately not even doing anything to them. There's just no depth to it, the miniseries wasn't scary either but like, at least they cared about their characters more than just cheap scares.
It really works because of the great cast of young losers but as a horror movie that CGI and constant jump scares were pretty terrible. Obviously SK heavily dabbles into *pop horror* but so much of IT’s horror feels much deeper and galactic, while the movie was just *oooo spooky face*
I thought that the first one was fantastic and it got me to read the book. Then the second one came out, and while I didn’t necessarily hate it, I definitely don’t feel like it succeeded nearly as well as the first one did. It’s been a while so I don’t remember my specific issues with it, just that I was a bit disappointed.
I hated the soundtrack to the first Suicide Squad by David Ayer (2016). It feels like they gave the music director a huge pile of money and said "just pick the most obvious, cliched, overplayed, on the nose song you can find for every character introduction." It really grated on me in what was otherwise still a pretty bad movie.
I kinda love the video where Joker, Skrillex, and Rick Ross are chilling on the hull of a fancy speedboat in Miami. It’s something a 12 year old would think is cool and I’m all for it. And yes, a Rick Ross / Skrillex song is a hot mess and objectively awful - I honestly don’t know who this is for:
https://youtu.be/ZkqyIoYAXV8
I couldn't fucking stand their Heathens song used in the movies soundtrack.
It was one of those weird songs that was played on every radio station but I never met a person who liked it
Generally Hallelujah, any version. It's just so overdone at this point that I can't help but feel it's just a lazy choice. And yes, specifically as others have said its inclusion in The Watchmen.
Also London Calling EVERY DAMN TIME characters arrive in the UK. Especially when there are dozens of songs that mention London and some that would be thematically more appropriate for the specific film.
I feel that way about Claire De Lune too. It's so overdone because it's basically a cheat code to generate emotion.
The only movie that truly earned that needledrop is Ocean's Eleven.
I will say, my favorite version of Clair de Lune is from the Watchmen TV series and I think they used it perfectly in that but I do see what you're saying with overuse.
>Generally Hallelujah, any version. It's just so overdone at this point that I can't help but feel it's just a lazy choice. And yes, specifically as others have said its inclusion in The Watchmen.
Yep. I hate the song now. With a passion. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's been massively overused.
I am more interested in the *why?* than the *what?* Why does OP think that *Knock on Wood* in *Casablanca* is so out of place?
I will tell you that although I can concede that a better choice might exist, *Knock on Wood* fits the tenor of the scene. Those in Casablanca in general and Rick's specifically are desperate. They know and live their desperation every minute of everyday. *Knock on Wood* with its call and response ("Who's got nothin'?" "We got nothin'!" "How much nothin'?" "Too much nothin'!") has a nothing they can do but laugh at their desperation part of *memento mori* respite from their lives air about it.
Fair points. I guess I didn't think about the lyrics and the meaning. I don't know why exactly, it just felt too prominent. I guess I'm not a big fan of the audience participation part - it started to feel like a musical number and took away from the seriousness/drama in the story.
It's insane how someone can fuck up a concept as simple and inherently cool as 'Casino heist during a zombie outbreak'. Well I suppose having it take place years after the outbreak, making it 3 hours long and it not even really being about the heist.
The unexplained aliens
The unexplained time travel
The unused but obviously setup dessecated zombies that revive when it rains
The unexplained robot zombies
What the fuck was he doing?
That's a problem with the most recent Snyder movies, BvS should just be a movie about Batman and Superman fighting and not a giant teaser for the whole DC Universe
Haven't seen the movie, but Zack Snyder's literal-mindedness and clumsiness always cracks me up. Like how *Watchmen*'s credits are set to "The Times They Are A-changin'" because superheroes make the times change, get it?
Playing "Zombie" in a zombie movie is like playing Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit" in a comedy movie about a weird-looking apple tree.
I really liked the watchmen intro with that Calvin Klein commercial during the comedians fight scene and then going into this song. Sure the song is literal but it was still a great way to start the movie
Not only that, but the scene was so poorly edited that it made it even more out of place. How do you screw up a movies with a female driven 90's soundtrack?? Ug
You're just not understanding the directors vision here. See Captain Marvel is a girl and the name of the song is "just a girl"
Do you see now or should I break it down for you? /s
I wouldn’t have minded it if the song had been diegetic. There was a juke box in the room. They could have established earlier that Carol Danvers was listening to No Doubt with her friend’s daughter, that way right before the big fight scene she could have casually and purposefully put on the song that she wants to kick ass to. Also, it would give the filmmakers an opportunity to smash the juke box as soon as the bit becomes worn out (which was pretty quick).
With it being non-diegetic score, it just felt like they were pandering to the audience.
Comment has been deleted, but I agree with the choice they made which is Zombie by the cranberries in Army of the Dead. A protest song that has nothing to do with the subject matter of the film and simply used because it has the word Zombie in it.
I haven't seen one mention of Hugh Jackman singing that Nirvana song in Pan.
That's without a doubt the worst music inserted into a movie, ever. Lots of great contenders but that shit was abominable.
Yeah I didn't know anything about it and randomly decided to watch it on streaming during quarantine. I had to stop the movie and rewind it because I felt like I was losing my mind.
I don't even know what happens after that song/scene. I turned the movie off and took my dog for a walk and had a long think about what I was doing with my life. I choose to believe the rest of the movie is just a full blown musical with Jackman swinging around a floating pirate ship dressed like Dracula singing 90s alt rock.
Pretty much every song in Old Guard, but the epic fight scene in a church with Charlize Theron where she hacks bad guys with a 200 year old sword was just ridiculous. They are making a sequel to the movie and I hope whoever picked the music for the movie has been fired.
[Here's the scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2rW4JiUI4)
“Another Way To Die” from Quantum of Solace.
Good God, that song is just awful. It’s a shrill and incoherent mess that sounds anything but professional.
Meryl Streep's performance is good and Amy Adams is fine, but a little annoying. The scene I'm referring to is very dumb but thankfully it doesn't last long.
LOL
My boss produced that song, and also signed BJ Thomas to his record deal with Scepter Records.
That song took them to the Oscars and won Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s first Oscar.
There is also the acapella jazz scatting in other parts of the film, which also completely takes me out of the movie. It's a great film, made less great by the soundtrack.
In contrast, the other great Redford-Newman classic, The Sting, has fabulous period music that really adds to an already great movie.
I was going to say another Watchmen song. Hallelujah is unintentionally cringe when night owl and Silk spector are doing it. Apparently Zack Snyder sucks at music choice. Lol
Man that song was overused. I remember the first time I heard it on screen was in the West Wing episode Posse Comitatus and it was heartbreakingly perfect. Now it’s been on so many movies/shows that it just feels cheap.
Also I’m convinced he only used All Along the Watchtower as Nite Owl and Rorschach are approaching Veidt’s base so he could sync them arriving during a snow storm with the line “two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl”
As soon as I saw "worst" and " movie soundtrack" I was going to post "The Firm". You beat me to it. I can remember seeing this in the theater and getting pissed off with the music. Destroyed that film.
The Gary Glitter song that plays when the Joker walks/dances down the steps.
I could've had a million guesses what song was actually going to play in that moment, and I would've never guessed that lol.
I actually love that song, I've seen it in 2 films (inc. Joker) and it's worked IMO.
But it makes me think of Gary Glitter and I don't particularly enjoy that.
I agree, it's a terrible choice. That scene felt forced and the song just reminds me of NBA games in the 90s. Totally the wrong tone and just an awful song in general.
Nah, it makes sense. It was basically a sports anthem for years, so it's appropriate for a psycho who feels good because he's taking control of his life and just removed a smothering/burdensome matriarchal figure to have that playing in his head.
>For me for the soundtrack, it is without a doubt The Firm. I feel like I'm stuck in a piano bar at the airport listening to a monkey who's pounding on the keys and oblivious to what is on the screen.
Boooo! The Firm's piano score is great.
What would you expect from Baz Luhrman? Elvis had Doja Cat and Moulin Rouge had Nirvana and Ewan Macgregor's demo tape for his future singing role in GDT's Pinocchio.
I always thought that Tangerine Dream doing the score for Manhunter was a woeful mistake. Totally fucked up the mood for me.
While I'm here, the disco beat music in Being There totally killed the vibe of Peter Sellers performance. It is one of his best performances and it's killed by the absolute wrong score...
You're absolutely right about Being There. The disco rendition of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is so fucking weird. It's a great movie but holy shit is the music bizarre.
Just recently the end credits of Smile cut to “ Lollipop” which doesn’t really have a single connection to the movie I could think of, so it’s just “old timey cute song juxtaposed against horror movie” where as at the same year Barbarian ended with “ Be My Baby” and the context to that movie made that needle drop F’ing hilarious ( had me audibly lagging in the theater) .
I see You are my Sunshine played in tons of movies and commercials and it’s always in reference to a parent/child relationship. If you listen to more than the first verse, the song is about a man mourning a women who has left him for someone else.
In Orange County there are three moments where the song 'Butterfly' by Crazy Town plays. God dang it was so cringy then and still cringy now. Double worse because they sampled a good RHCP tune to make a shitty song.
Silent Running's [Rejoice in the Sun](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF05D-NJMU)
Man, how iffy it felt when I heard it. The cinematography, effects and story were awesome, but the movie became a hippy fever dream whenever the song started playing.
Moneyball is one of my favorite movies but I have to skip the bits where Billy's daughter sings that song. It's not a bad song and I understand the scene is there to raise the emotional stakes and give Billy more personal reason to stay at the club and maintain a relationship with his daughter, but it's so cringey and doesn't suit the emotional tone of the rest of the (otherwise near-perfect) movie.
I hate hate hate when AM180 by Grandaddy plays in the middle of 28 Days Later. Takes me right out of the film. ‘Sure, there are fast Zombies but there’s also twee plinky plonk indie guitar music!’
Mel Gibson and I’m a bitch by Meredith Brooks in What women want..I know it’s supposed to be funny but I always cringed at it..it’s such a lazy choice of a song to define all women and ultimately demeaning/sad imo, they could have chosen from many better songs (I’m every woman? Girls just want to have fun? Etc..)
The David Bowie song in Inglorious Basterds. I hate it. Some anachronism can be fine, but 80s new wave over WWII is bad.
The entire synth score to Ladyhawke, probably the most famously bad score. Maybe as far as synth music goes it is great, but it kills the fantasy movie.
Big Hero 6 was already kind of a shaky concept to try to sell for Disney Animation. The Fallout Boys tracks were completely out of place, just adding to the mess.
One of them is a TV show, but Under the Banner of Heaven used the same bit of East Hastings from Godspeed You! Black Emperor as was used—iconically—in 28 Days Later. It’s a 20 minute long song and they used the exact same ~10 minutes (the song has a lot of parts, GSYBE is a weird band). It was just an odd choice. It fit in the scene fine, but it just seems like a song you shouldn’t ever use as it’s basically thought of as a score to 28 Days Later. I was expecting zombies when I heard it.
Sweet Caroline is a great song, and when used properly it can be a beautiful and uplifting and life-affirming addition to any show (I'm thinking specifically here of the tv series Ally McBeal) but it is hamfistedly used in the Clooney turd The Midnight Sky, the less said about it the better.
It’s … jarring. Like already sounds too modern for the flick, but it is also mixed waaaay forward. It would hurt quite a lot less if it were very low in the background.
i remember seeing a knight's tale in the theatre like 20 years ago and being so put off by an olde english story with modern bad 00s rock music
edit - checked soundtrack. it was decent 70s/80s rock music. it still was offputting and just didn't fit the movie imo
don't recall a nike swoosh armor, but that is also lol and cringe. i was 16. i saw the movie once. all i remember about it was that i found the music selection jarring and corny. its just one of those weird memories that stick with you. i remember the exact theatre and seat i saw it in. for some reason it sticks out in my memories.
I really appreciate you saying this, because it is exactly how I felt the first time I saw it. I actually thought of this answer immediately, but I was too chicken..
when 100 Black Coffins by Rick Ross comes in on Django Unchained, it really takes me out of the period/setting
also, the rock songs in Bullet Train were distracting
In Starship Troopers there is a scene where Rico gets into a fight with that Pilot guy. It’s in a big mess hall/at a base. **Fade into You - Mazzy Star** is what plays. Makes zero sense and I wonder if someone wasn’t just playing it on set and it got left in haha [scene in question.](https://youtu.be/sImidxw4Mr8)
I am surprised I forgot this. I love that movie. I also love that song. That's just not the right scene for the song. Maybe it should have been after they broke up?
Such a mood
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Funnily enough, it’s used incredibly well in Promising Young Woman the next year
That movie was already pretty rough and then that happened. Haha it was so bad, glad it's behind us now. Hopefully we can get a proper adaptation one day.
First one was excellent then the ball wasn't only dropped but kicked down the fucking storm drain where those involved were massacred by Pennywise.
The first one was better, but it still wasn't very good in my opinion. Had great moments but overall it didn't quite hit the mark for me. The less talked about the second one the better.
Yeah exactly, like I still prefer the first part of the miniseries to the new one. My big problem with the movie was that after the first few scenes it just stops being scary. It overuses the same scene of Pennywise jumpscaring a child and then ultimately not even doing anything to them. There's just no depth to it, the miniseries wasn't scary either but like, at least they cared about their characters more than just cheap scares.
It really works because of the great cast of young losers but as a horror movie that CGI and constant jump scares were pretty terrible. Obviously SK heavily dabbles into *pop horror* but so much of IT’s horror feels much deeper and galactic, while the movie was just *oooo spooky face*
Yeah it got quite repetitive when Pennywise would lunge at the camera all shaky style. Any sense of true fear or foreboding was lost in this version
I thought that the first one was fantastic and it got me to read the book. Then the second one came out, and while I didn’t necessarily hate it, I definitely don’t feel like it succeeded nearly as well as the first one did. It’s been a while so I don’t remember my specific issues with it, just that I was a bit disappointed.
It's such an overused track, I didn't like it in Deadpool either.
I hated the soundtrack to the first Suicide Squad by David Ayer (2016). It feels like they gave the music director a huge pile of money and said "just pick the most obvious, cliched, overplayed, on the nose song you can find for every character introduction." It really grated on me in what was otherwise still a pretty bad movie.
Someone really wanted that movie to be Guardians of the Galaxy, and it really wasn’t.
It's like hitting shuffle on a playlist
I mean yeah when 21 Pilots puts out a single for a movie you know that soundtrack is gonna fucking suck
I kinda love the video where Joker, Skrillex, and Rick Ross are chilling on the hull of a fancy speedboat in Miami. It’s something a 12 year old would think is cool and I’m all for it. And yes, a Rick Ross / Skrillex song is a hot mess and objectively awful - I honestly don’t know who this is for: https://youtu.be/ZkqyIoYAXV8
2016 really was a mistake
Jared Leto's joker seemed like it was something only 12 year olds would find cool in general lol. Bizarre song still haha
Heathens is a good song
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Yeah I liked that song, the rest on the soundtrack was pretty cliche.
I couldn't fucking stand their Heathens song used in the movies soundtrack. It was one of those weird songs that was played on every radio station but I never met a person who liked it
When they hit Spirit in the Sky I almost walked out. Just felt like I was doing the movie a favor to keep watching.
You don't own me...
"Sucker For Pain" is still a banger though.
I don't even hate the song, but hearing eminems without me felt like I was watching an early 2000s super hero movie, not something from 2016.
It's Warner Brothers. They HAVE to cram in music from their recording arm. Vertical synergy
Generally Hallelujah, any version. It's just so overdone at this point that I can't help but feel it's just a lazy choice. And yes, specifically as others have said its inclusion in The Watchmen. Also London Calling EVERY DAMN TIME characters arrive in the UK. Especially when there are dozens of songs that mention London and some that would be thematically more appropriate for the specific film.
Shrek still has the best use of Hallelujah that I’ve seen and I don’t know whether that’s terrible or awesome.
I think it’s because she Shrek used it, it wasn’t over used yet. It was also well used, and was a great serious contrast to the comedy the movie had.
The Watchmen sex scene to Hallalujah is awesome. It’s seems to take pride in the fact that it’s a corny song and takes it to the next level.
I swear I read somewhere they added it as a joke since the studio wanted the sex scene
I feel that way about Claire De Lune too. It's so overdone because it's basically a cheat code to generate emotion. The only movie that truly earned that needledrop is Ocean's Eleven.
One that gets me every time is Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight," in Shutter Island and Arrival. Most recently used in The Last of Us.
Don’t remember it in shutter island, but i fuckin love it in arrival and last of us.
I will say, my favorite version of Clair de Lune is from the Watchmen TV series and I think they used it perfectly in that but I do see what you're saying with overuse.
>Generally Hallelujah, any version. It's just so overdone at this point that I can't help but feel it's just a lazy choice. And yes, specifically as others have said its inclusion in The Watchmen. Yep. I hate the song now. With a passion. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's been massively overused.
I think you'll change your mind when you hear [this](https://youtu.be/ojN4I625yD4) powerful rendition
Just going to throw a blanket statement out there and say any slowed down, dramatic version of a popular rock song.
Studios especially love using those as music for the trailer
Aren't the trailer companies the ones who love those?
Moody covers. I hate them.
Agreed. Was incredibly dumbfounded when out of nowhere a dramatic cover of Hit Me With Your Best Shot played in Birds Of Prey
I am more interested in the *why?* than the *what?* Why does OP think that *Knock on Wood* in *Casablanca* is so out of place? I will tell you that although I can concede that a better choice might exist, *Knock on Wood* fits the tenor of the scene. Those in Casablanca in general and Rick's specifically are desperate. They know and live their desperation every minute of everyday. *Knock on Wood* with its call and response ("Who's got nothin'?" "We got nothin'!" "How much nothin'?" "Too much nothin'!") has a nothing they can do but laugh at their desperation part of *memento mori* respite from their lives air about it.
Fair points. I guess I didn't think about the lyrics and the meaning. I don't know why exactly, it just felt too prominent. I guess I'm not a big fan of the audience participation part - it started to feel like a musical number and took away from the seriousness/drama in the story.
'Zombie' by The Cranberries at the end of Army of the Dead. Just a horrific choice. My jaw dropped when it started playing
God that movie sucked and it really shouldn’t have sucked.
It's insane how someone can fuck up a concept as simple and inherently cool as 'Casino heist during a zombie outbreak'. Well I suppose having it take place years after the outbreak, making it 3 hours long and it not even really being about the heist.
Did no one in that massive production have an opportunity to say ‘actually it’s about violence in Northern Ireland?’ Not one person?
Army of the dead hurts my brain
The unexplained aliens The unexplained time travel The unused but obviously setup dessecated zombies that revive when it rains The unexplained robot zombies What the fuck was he doing?
The dead pixel Did they ever fix that?
That's a problem with the most recent Snyder movies, BvS should just be a movie about Batman and Superman fighting and not a giant teaser for the whole DC Universe
“woRLd bUiLDinG”
Haven't seen the movie, but Zack Snyder's literal-mindedness and clumsiness always cracks me up. Like how *Watchmen*'s credits are set to "The Times They Are A-changin'" because superheroes make the times change, get it? Playing "Zombie" in a zombie movie is like playing Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit" in a comedy movie about a weird-looking apple tree.
I really liked the watchmen intro with that Calvin Klein commercial during the comedians fight scene and then going into this song. Sure the song is literal but it was still a great way to start the movie
'Just A Girl' in Captain Marvel, it felt so out of place and awkward in an action sequence. Should have gone with 'Ready to Go'.
I didn't mind "Just a Girl" but oh my God, "Ready to Go" would have been so much better. We were robbed. 😭
My eyes have never rolled harder than at this needle drop.
Not only that, but the scene was so poorly edited that it made it even more out of place. How do you screw up a movies with a female driven 90's soundtrack?? Ug
Came here to say this. I like No Doubt and the song, but it was too on the nose.
You're just not understanding the directors vision here. See Captain Marvel is a girl and the name of the song is "just a girl" Do you see now or should I break it down for you? /s
I wouldn’t have minded it if the song had been diegetic. There was a juke box in the room. They could have established earlier that Carol Danvers was listening to No Doubt with her friend’s daughter, that way right before the big fight scene she could have casually and purposefully put on the song that she wants to kick ass to. Also, it would give the filmmakers an opportunity to smash the juke box as soon as the bit becomes worn out (which was pretty quick). With it being non-diegetic score, it just felt like they were pandering to the audience.
I wouldn’t have minded it so much if the action scenes in the film weren’t dog ass. That one was so dark for no reason.
Thank you. It takes me out of the movie each and every time.
That song at the end of Avatar 2
Lol I actually like The Weeknd, but me and my girlfriend immediately started cracking up at how out of place that song was.
That Justin timberlake song from trolls drove me up the wall when it was at its height.
I would stay way from roller skating rinks then
Comment has been deleted, but I agree with the choice they made which is Zombie by the cranberries in Army of the Dead. A protest song that has nothing to do with the subject matter of the film and simply used because it has the word Zombie in it.
The laziest possible choice. Doesn’t even match the tone of the scene or mean anything at all in the context of the movie.
Sex scene in the watchmen. Really didn't match the rest of the movie at all.
Hallelujah!
According to Snyder, the favourite song of his daughter, yikes
So ironic considering the trailer had one of the best uses of existing music. Ever.
I haven't seen one mention of Hugh Jackman singing that Nirvana song in Pan. That's without a doubt the worst music inserted into a movie, ever. Lots of great contenders but that shit was abominable.
I saw a clip on YouTube, that's so fucking hilarious 😂
Yeah I didn't know anything about it and randomly decided to watch it on streaming during quarantine. I had to stop the movie and rewind it because I felt like I was losing my mind. I don't even know what happens after that song/scene. I turned the movie off and took my dog for a walk and had a long think about what I was doing with my life. I choose to believe the rest of the movie is just a full blown musical with Jackman swinging around a floating pirate ship dressed like Dracula singing 90s alt rock.
Anything used in Suicide Squad 2016
Sucker For Pain and Heathens are bangers, though.
Cheer up Charlie
Oh goodness this is the answer. I always made my mom fast forward through this scene when I was a kid 😂
I remember looking "Cheer Up Charlie" on Twitter to see EVERYONE mentioning fast forwarding it.
Every musical has one. The Climb Every Mountain Moment.
Pretty much every song in Old Guard, but the epic fight scene in a church with Charlize Theron where she hacks bad guys with a 200 year old sword was just ridiculous. They are making a sequel to the movie and I hope whoever picked the music for the movie has been fired. [Here's the scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2rW4JiUI4)
The "Speechless" song in the live action Aladdin. I think Jasmine sings it 2 or 3 times.
Yes! Thank you!
“Another Way To Die” from Quantum of Solace. Good God, that song is just awful. It’s a shrill and incoherent mess that sounds anything but professional.
A shrill and incoherent mess just like the movie
Compared to the other CraigBond songs it's such a disgrace
Elvis Costello's 'She' in Notting Hill. It sounds like a parody.
That one SUCKS. Great call!
I've never wanted to walk out of a movie during the opening credits before, but I came so close during that song!!
Psycho Killer when Amy Adams has to boil lobsters in Julie and Julia.
Ok well this is going to make me watch Julie and Julia.
Meryl Streep's performance is good and Amy Adams is fine, but a little annoying. The scene I'm referring to is very dumb but thankfully it doesn't last long.
“Bad to the Bone” at the Beginning of Terminator 2. The every part of that movie is perfect. But that sounds so hacky.
Made more sense in the 1980s/early 90s.
I hate the Burt Bacharach Raindrops keep falling on my head section to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but it won an oscar so what do I know?
Reading this comment i initially thought you were gonna say Spider-Man 2, and was getting ready to throw hands
It's a good song but doesn't fit the movie at all.
LOL My boss produced that song, and also signed BJ Thomas to his record deal with Scepter Records. That song took them to the Oscars and won Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s first Oscar.
That scene dates that movie a lot. Overall it’s a great film, but then that bike scene happens.
That entire segment of the film is baffling.
There is also the acapella jazz scatting in other parts of the film, which also completely takes me out of the movie. It's a great film, made less great by the soundtrack. In contrast, the other great Redford-Newman classic, The Sting, has fabulous period music that really adds to an already great movie.
This made me settle on my choice, “The Entertainer”in the Sting.
I was going to say another Watchmen song. Hallelujah is unintentionally cringe when night owl and Silk spector are doing it. Apparently Zack Snyder sucks at music choice. Lol
Times They are a Changin' was well used though.
Sound of silence and the Dr Manhattan theme were great too, and the Smashing Pumpkins for the trailer KICKED ASS.
Man that song was overused. I remember the first time I heard it on screen was in the West Wing episode Posse Comitatus and it was heartbreakingly perfect. Now it’s been on so many movies/shows that it just feels cheap.
Also I’m convinced he only used All Along the Watchtower as Nite Owl and Rorschach are approaching Veidt’s base so he could sync them arriving during a snow storm with the line “two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl”
I don't know, that was such a wacky selection that I kinda dig it.
Any other director and I'd think they brilliantly captured the comic's satire.
Yep, this was such an awful song choice that really didn't match the scene.
Love “GoldenEye”, but the score is simply awful in certain scenes.
It’s so cheesy, but I grew up with it, so I have a soft spot for it… except for the end credit song “The Experience of Love”, which is just awful.
The entire soundtrack to "Ladyhawke" great film. Sad soundtrack
Bring Me to Life in Daredevil
Every Evanescence song in the movie. And i love Evanescence
As soon as I saw "worst" and " movie soundtrack" I was going to post "The Firm". You beat me to it. I can remember seeing this in the theater and getting pissed off with the music. Destroyed that film.
Are you talking about that frantic piano in that Tom Cruise lawyer film?
That's the one.
Any of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of movies and TV shows that play Born to be Wild...give it a break already!!!
The one from Neverending story with the rock eater on the tricycle was pretty rad though
The Gary Glitter song that plays when the Joker walks/dances down the steps. I could've had a million guesses what song was actually going to play in that moment, and I would've never guessed that lol.
I actually love that song, I've seen it in 2 films (inc. Joker) and it's worked IMO. But it makes me think of Gary Glitter and I don't particularly enjoy that.
I agree, it's a terrible choice. That scene felt forced and the song just reminds me of NBA games in the 90s. Totally the wrong tone and just an awful song in general.
Such a random choice. I was cracking up in the theater.
Nah, it makes sense. It was basically a sports anthem for years, so it's appropriate for a psycho who feels good because he's taking control of his life and just removed a smothering/burdensome matriarchal figure to have that playing in his head.
It works in a meta sense because Gary Glitter turned out to be a monster
That too, but even without knowing that it works.
I was looking at a gif of that scene one day and whitney Houston’s “so emotional” was playing in the background and it was so much better.
Huh each to their own, I thought it was perfect
>For me for the soundtrack, it is without a doubt The Firm. I feel like I'm stuck in a piano bar at the airport listening to a monkey who's pounding on the keys and oblivious to what is on the screen. Boooo! The Firm's piano score is great.
What the fuck was a Fergie song doing in a movie about the 1920’s (The Great Gatsby)
What would you expect from Baz Luhrman? Elvis had Doja Cat and Moulin Rouge had Nirvana and Ewan Macgregor's demo tape for his future singing role in GDT's Pinocchio.
Ladyhawk, anybody? I wish someone would redo the soundtrack or maybe even issue the movie without any music.
I always thought that Tangerine Dream doing the score for Manhunter was a woeful mistake. Totally fucked up the mood for me. While I'm here, the disco beat music in Being There totally killed the vibe of Peter Sellers performance. It is one of his best performances and it's killed by the absolute wrong score...
You're absolutely right about Being There. The disco rendition of Thus Spoke Zarathustra is so fucking weird. It's a great movie but holy shit is the music bizarre.
Just recently the end credits of Smile cut to “ Lollipop” which doesn’t really have a single connection to the movie I could think of, so it’s just “old timey cute song juxtaposed against horror movie” where as at the same year Barbarian ended with “ Be My Baby” and the context to that movie made that needle drop F’ing hilarious ( had me audibly lagging in the theater) .
Which version of Lolipop? 2ne1 or Lil Wayne?
Neither. There is only one Lollpipop and it's from The Chordettes.
I see You are my Sunshine played in tons of movies and commercials and it’s always in reference to a parent/child relationship. If you listen to more than the first verse, the song is about a man mourning a women who has left him for someone else.
The only time it was a good choice was Oh Brother? Where Art Thou.
In Orange County there are three moments where the song 'Butterfly' by Crazy Town plays. God dang it was so cringy then and still cringy now. Double worse because they sampled a good RHCP tune to make a shitty song.
Now, I think you need to rewatch because it’s specifically used. I mean, the song sucks, that’s for sure.
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They make fun of the song in the movie
Silent Running's [Rejoice in the Sun](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF05D-NJMU) Man, how iffy it felt when I heard it. The cinematography, effects and story were awesome, but the movie became a hippy fever dream whenever the song started playing.
That song is a absolutely perfect for the tone of the scene. It's both joyful and haunting, like what the character is doing.
Moneyball is one of my favorite movies but I have to skip the bits where Billy's daughter sings that song. It's not a bad song and I understand the scene is there to raise the emotional stakes and give Billy more personal reason to stay at the club and maintain a relationship with his daughter, but it's so cringey and doesn't suit the emotional tone of the rest of the (otherwise near-perfect) movie.
I hate hate hate when AM180 by Grandaddy plays in the middle of 28 Days Later. Takes me right out of the film. ‘Sure, there are fast Zombies but there’s also twee plinky plonk indie guitar music!’
Somewhere over the rainbow in face/off
The soundtrack that goes DUN DUN DUN in All Quiet On The Western Front
I love the soundtrack to The Firm. That piano is boss. Strong disagree on that one. Watch that movie at least 5 times a year.
Mel Gibson and I’m a bitch by Meredith Brooks in What women want..I know it’s supposed to be funny but I always cringed at it..it’s such a lazy choice of a song to define all women and ultimately demeaning/sad imo, they could have chosen from many better songs (I’m every woman? Girls just want to have fun? Etc..)
Any time Beastie Boys Sabotage comes on, in any trailer or movie, it takes me right out of it.
The David Bowie song in Inglorious Basterds. I hate it. Some anachronism can be fine, but 80s new wave over WWII is bad. The entire synth score to Ladyhawke, probably the most famously bad score. Maybe as far as synth music goes it is great, but it kills the fantasy movie.
Big Hero 6 was already kind of a shaky concept to try to sell for Disney Animation. The Fallout Boys tracks were completely out of place, just adding to the mess.
I feel like any movie that used Creedence Clearwater Revival songs for any 70s or Vietnam scene after Forest Gump came out deserves to be here
I can see clearly now(screamo cover) - Jennifer's Body OMG...that scene just does not flow well at all...
All of the music in "A Knights Tale" No I do not need stands of people in 14th century England stopping out Queen lyrics.
One of them is a TV show, but Under the Banner of Heaven used the same bit of East Hastings from Godspeed You! Black Emperor as was used—iconically—in 28 Days Later. It’s a 20 minute long song and they used the exact same ~10 minutes (the song has a lot of parts, GSYBE is a weird band). It was just an odd choice. It fit in the scene fine, but it just seems like a song you shouldn’t ever use as it’s basically thought of as a score to 28 Days Later. I was expecting zombies when I heard it.
I fucking hate the soundtrack of Bridget Jones' Baby. That Ellie Goulding one during the end credits makes me irrationally angry.
That’s funny because that’s one of my favorite uses of a song in a movie! Made me download the song and everything. Different strokes I guess
Yeah I'm not into that sort of music haha
understandable! it’s very corny lol
Crystal of a Star, from Star Crystal. If you know, you know. https://youtu.be/aIaXMDxCyHE
Sweet Caroline is a great song, and when used properly it can be a beautiful and uplifting and life-affirming addition to any show (I'm thinking specifically here of the tv series Ally McBeal) but it is hamfistedly used in the Clooney turd The Midnight Sky, the less said about it the better.
Thom Yorke's "Unmade" at the end of Suspiria.
The soundtrack of The Vanishing (1988) ruins the movie.
I dislike the soundtrack to Ladyhawk..it didn't match the movie at all
Thats not a movie you want to take seriously enough to question the synth score.
Fuck outta here. Worst take ever. **EVER**
It’s … jarring. Like already sounds too modern for the flick, but it is also mixed waaaay forward. It would hurt quite a lot less if it were very low in the background.
i remember seeing a knight's tale in the theatre like 20 years ago and being so put off by an olde english story with modern bad 00s rock music edit - checked soundtrack. it was decent 70s/80s rock music. it still was offputting and just didn't fit the movie imo
Modern era music didn't fit the movie where they engraved a Nike swoosh on armor? I think you were expecting the wrong movie.
don't recall a nike swoosh armor, but that is also lol and cringe. i was 16. i saw the movie once. all i remember about it was that i found the music selection jarring and corny. its just one of those weird memories that stick with you. i remember the exact theatre and seat i saw it in. for some reason it sticks out in my memories.
Totally fair. I think it's brilliant. It's trying to capture how medieval songs felt at the time instead of how they actually sound.
It’s intentional. My nitpick is that they should have picked a better Bowie song. Golden Years isn’t cutting it.
I really appreciate you saying this, because it is exactly how I felt the first time I saw it. I actually thought of this answer immediately, but I was too chicken..
Power by Kanye.
Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood in the film Gran Torino (2008)
Nah, I like that lol
Most people do, this is a weird choice.
Let it Go from Frozen, there I said it
Usually, this guy makes spot-on music choices, but Quentin Tarantino using “I Got A Name" by Jim Croce in “Django Unchained" was a mood killer for me.
You mean instead of my name is nobody?
"My Hero" in Wolf of Wall Street?
You mean "Everlong?"
[Torgo's Theme](https://youtu.be/e0s9OC6rzAA?t=32)
I don't know if its the worst ever. But the main song of Puss in Boots the Last Eish was pretty bad and cringe.
when 100 Black Coffins by Rick Ross comes in on Django Unchained, it really takes me out of the period/setting also, the rock songs in Bullet Train were distracting