Non-Elfman music on Spiderman opinions?

[Anonymous]

Of course we all know that Elfman’s music is the most important of any music involving the Spider-Man movies, But being that its not just a super-hero story, but a story about a young man and his struggles with life, its fitting to have contemperary(did I spell that right?) music along to. I must say the majority of the bands chosen on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack are alot more fitting than the ones on the last movie, I mean the last movie was more like one of those NOW music compalation’s. The majority of the bands on here are bands with very angst-ridden lyrics, alot of which wrote the songs to reflect Peter Parkers point of view, like the songs from Dashboard Confessional and Yellowcard. Now me personally, I’ve gotten sick of the whiney “emo”(such a stupid name) punk stuff, and me having my roots in punkish music I’ll admit I liked it breifly about 2 or 3 years ago lol, but its just annoying afterwhile, However I do see how this music is appropriate for the context of the film, and can see it being alot more meaningful than that awful wannabe ballad from that guy from Nickleback and the guy from Saliva, it was just awful. I know my little brother thinks its pretty darn cool seeing Dashboard/Taking Back Sunday/Midtown on the same cd with Elfman tho haha.

[Anonymous]

I think the use of “Music from and inspired by” (like with SPIDER-MAN 2), on any soundtrack album is a sure sign of a crass commercial byproduct. I mean, these songs aren’t in the movie! Teen angst or not, songs end up hurting movies in the long run. Watch a bad ’80s genre movie, and check out the painful pop tunes. In 15 years, will SPIDER-MAN 2 stand the test of time if it’s riddled with b-grade new rock tunes? The great thing about movies like BATMAN RETURNS, DARKMAN and SPIDER-MAN is these are films without pop songs. Can you imagine a montage of Peyton Westlake/Darkman pining for Julie to “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover” by Sophie B. Hawkins???

Ryan

[Anonymous]

Sometimes songs work good in a movie. Pulp Fiction, Magnolia, for example.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t like Spider-Man as much as I do now if there was comtemporary music in it. Macy Gray crossed the line for me, lol.

[Anonymous]

I’m not a fan of the “music inspired by” albums at all. I mean, yeah, I listen to other music besides scores. But, if the song doesn’t have a place in the movie, then it doesn’t make sense to use the movie to promote it, you know?

I mean, I don’t mind songs when they’re used in the movie–when they serve a purpose and such (although very few instances come to mind, where a song works as good as a score). But to take on a bunch of songs and try and say this is from a character’s perspective and all–well, I take it as a bit of an insult. I mean, anyone can listen to a song and think, “Hey, this reminds me of this movie–or this character” and such. So, figure I don’t need Hollywood hotshots further depleating my own creativity.

[Anonymous]

personally, I think as long as its not being used to underscore the film, maybe like as like he’s in his apartment and turns on the radio and one of the songs from the soundtrack is on, and isnt really that loud, I mean thats the type of scenes those songs should be in, but I’m not a fan of the songs being used in place of a score, I mean thematically a rock song can go with a movie, but it doesnt reflect the emotion the same. I mean Elfman did several of those when he was with Boingo, I mean some I feel he probably regrets lol(Weird Science) but then others werent to bad, like Somthing Isn’t Right, I mean sure I’d rather listen to those as just Boingo songs and not movie songs, but still I dont think it harmed the films anymore than they already could have beenl I mean 80’s films have the most dated look than any other era pretty much, I mean there is no getting around that, I mean look at Legend and several other fantasy films of the 80’s that suffer do to rock or synthesized scores. I think we all know that Tangarine Dream’s music for Legend isnt even compareable to the original score by Jerry Goldsmith. Thank goodness for James Horner’s score for Willow cause that truley showed the world what a fantasy score should be. I know James Horner is no longer what he used to be, I mean I think its bad that Gabriel Yared’s score wasnt used, I mean I havent even seen the film, but I’ve listend to both, and I like Yared’s style which was like the music from classic epic’s or biblical films, which I think is very fitting for the movie, and not to say that Horner’s was bad, its just nothing special. Okay I’m getting way off the topic, However, I think as long as the score is the musical heart of the film, and that rock songs are either barely heard in the film or played in the second half of the credits, than its cool so long as they fit the theme of the film.

[Anonymous]

Well, like I said, I don’t mind so much as long as they’re actually used in the film. But, more often than not, that’s not the case. And lots of times, even when they are used in the movie, it just doesn’t fit–it’s just the music and movie industry trying to make a few extra bucks off of each other, and nothing more. So I just think if people are going to include songs in a movie, they should just take the time to consider what they’re using and why.

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