• invertedspear@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Heathens by 21 pilots for the Suicide Squad. It’s not even great 21 Pilots, but it’s way better than the movie.

  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    St. Elmos Fire. It’s a one hit wonder, but the movie it was written for was typical 1980s “friends with issues” pablum. The kind that was better written and acted in a dozen other movies.

    • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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      21 days ago

      I watched that for the first time earlier this month. I was NOT expecting what it actually was.

      I thought it was just at most like a concept album film, but way more likely to just have her as the soundtrack to a bad movie with a silly and relatable “fuck up your boss” theme.

      Now I know she was respected for her vocalized beliefs and inclusion, but I really didn’t think it would go that hard. I was blown away.

      Plus I was pretty high when I watched it, and some of those scenes were trippy af. It was a good day.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Imho, the pacing of that movie was pretty rough. I know my attention span is fucked these days, but when I watch other movies from the late 70’s / early 80’s, 9 to 5 drags hard by comparison.

          It did well at the box office, but I get why modern audiences don’t go back to it often.The direction feels really dated.

        • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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          21 days ago

          Was it only 15 minutes? High me remembers it as bring in one big dose, then just lil sporadic bursts the rest of the time.

          I have a weekly “get high and watch a movie (a mix of “whatever strikes our fancy at the moment”, or “missed out on when it came out because we were raised super Christian”, with a healthy dose of “pride-related movies”) and then watch a few episodes of whatever tv show we’re working on” day, so I can confidently say that being stupid high is the best way to watch stuff. Even if we do miss a lot of context and plot from talking about tangentially-related stuff the whole time.

          Good times.

          This coming month will probably be horror movies (obvz), and I’ve already picked a movie that actually did scare the absolute shit out of me as a kid, and the memory still has some trauma attached to it for me, but I’m hate-watching it to maybe help heal my poor childhood memory.

          And what is it? It would be “Thief in the Night”, made in the 70s. Basically a Christian rapture themed movie. I have almost no specific memory of any of the scenes (I saw it when I was a single digit age), but I feel like there was someone who thought they were “saved” and didn’t make it or something. That idea and the song on the end credits I forget the exact title now but I assume it’s “I wish we’d all been ready” as that line is prominent in the chorus. The idea that someone could think they were saved but not really be (and the fact that all the adults around me didn’t seem to have any concern about it) made me feel very, VERY insecure about it, and was probably the first of many, many cracks that finally led to me figuring it out way later.

          I spent the next 20ish years “praying the prayer” several times every time I thought about that song, just to make sure. It is definitely the source of a lot of anxiety for me, and probably the scariest scary movie I’ve ever seen.

          Coming back to it now, over 3 decades later, taking a victory lap on it, while using extremely non Christian friendly language and being high af, will be a real healing moment for me I think.

          But I’ll keep a spot open later this year to watch the whorehouse movie (😂).

          • jpreston2005@lemmy.worldBanned
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            20 days ago

            weekly “get high and watch a movie and then watch a few episodes of whatever tv show we’re working on” day

            It’s my favorite day of the week! I also eat like a death-row inmate on his way to the chair the next morning. Talkin’ MAD chocolate covered pretzels

    • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      I mean, when you are getting Freddie Mercury to write your soundtrack, you are just asking to have your movie get out shined. Hell, the sound track is 50% of what’s carrying that film. (the TV series was better, IMHO.)

      • HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
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        22 days ago

        The other track from the album, “One Vision” is from Iron Eagle???

        Gimme, gimme…fried chicken!

  • FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I Will Always Love You from The Bodyguard. I’ve never even seen it.

    Also, Wicked Game was way bigger than Wild At Heart.

      • Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        I’ve has it on CD since the 90s. It’s one if those CDs I don’t think to play as often, and I normally give those away. But every time I give it one last listen I decide to keep it. Some excellent tracks on it.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I discovered fairly recently that Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) was originally recorded as the soundtrack to a movie called Against All Odds.

    Until then, I had no idea that movie existed.

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      Ok but it was a Dolly song way before then. But Dolly said that the song “became Whitney’s” because of her performance.

      • theherk@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        For sure. And I love Dolly as much as seemingly every other human on earth. I’m just saying the Bodyguard version was an absolute smash hit that many amateur singers have struggled to recreate since.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I’m not sure I’d say Eye of the Tiger more famous than Rocky. Any more than Glory of Love was bigger than Karate Kid or We Don’t Need Another Hero was bigger than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

      But I do feel like we still listen to the songs and never watch the movies, so they are enduring in a way the movies aren’t. Though now I want to watch a bunch of 80’s flicks. Weird Science. Flash Gordon. Highlander.

      You know what’s a weird outlier, though, now that I’m thinking about it? Batdance. Must be the movie quotes in it pin the song too closely to the movie. Ghostbusters didn’t have that problem, though. Hmm.

  • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 days ago

    Would? by Alice in Chains was from the Singles soundtrack. The song was great, it was included as the last song on the album Dirt that came out shortly after the movie.