Thoughts on the recent trend to forego orchestral themes for superhero movies in favor of 80s/90s pop-rock tracks?
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Thoughts on the recent trend to forego orchestral themes for superhero movies in favor of 80s/90s pop-rock tracks?
I don’t think anyone but Gunn has pulled it off. I don’t count Immigrant Song when Love and Thunder was so bad
Gunn pulled it off because he centred it on Quill's identity and nostalgia for his childhood memories of Earth, and its proliferation in the sequels highlighted the Guardians coming together as a found family.
Waititi was just "okay what old songs can we shove in randomly?"
>Gunn pulled it off because he centred it on Quill's identity and nostalgia for his childhood memories of Earth, and its proliferation in the sequels highlighted the Guardians coming together as a found family.
so what was the justification for it in the Suicide Squad?
He was aware that he was hired to make a proper GotG rip off rather than the ramshackle one they mutilated the first Suicide Squad into.
Also he has excellent taste in music.
I dig it.
It's fine because of all characters Thor fits 80's pop rock the best
>90's
Outside of captain marvel where the frick have ANY of these movies used anything from the 90's other than Creep by Radiohead in gotg 3? It's almost nothing but 80's homosexualry.
I can dig Thor using all these rock songs when they’re inspired by the Norse myths in the first place. I like the aesthetic and the Thor they want to build as a jolly reveler fits well enough. It’s not an intimate part of him though, not to the extent of Star-Lord, so it’s only important in differentiating him from everyone with a sound identity, which could ultimately still be achieved in lots of ways that doesn’t look like they’re just ripping off Quill.
>tldr
is ok
I'm just happy guitar music other than simplified post-90s alternative rock is actually getting any amount of attention and appreciation at all. I wish kids knew you could actually do more than strum the same chord or chug and growl to make rock music.
lol they gonna create pop rock and dance to it in tiktok instead
I guess 15 years is kinda recent
man i don't know. i miss orchestras but i miss the ones from the 90s. composers don't know how to write for the orchestra anymore, so it's almost worse when they do now.
the training has been totally skewed, mostly by producers. they get temp love, tell the composer to just give them the same shit with the serial numbers sanded off. the temp already sounded like generic sludge because it was by hans zimmer, and now the composer delivers something even more derivative and homogenized.
plus, producers don't know how to note demos if they don't already sound "final". so composers end up writing music that sounds good when played by a virtual orchestra. this discourages expressive or agile legato lines, and encourages long chords and repeated staccatos. so even a real orchestra recording it sounds stale and robotic.
PLUS this encourages the sort of hack composers from eurotrash countries that already write this sludge to move to LA and overrun the market with their shitty homegrown kontakt skills. they can produce their own demos, so they get the jobs, and legitimate composers with teams of orchestrators don't.
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tl;dr frick zimmer
the zimzam can be pretty alright sometimes
Hate it, it's cheap nostalgia bait. I'd rather see them commission some original music like they used to in the 80s and 90s.
Considering how badly they fricked up when they replaced the Iron Man theme with some really generic orchestral music, it's just common sense. Surprising that they do it, really.
love and thunder is unwatchable.
I'm still fricking mad that none of the Doctor Strange movies have had Hocus Pocus by Focus.
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i like how bruce was diegetically listening to nirvana in the batman it fits with him being a recluse rockstar
too bad the next one is gonna be elfman again
>Elfman
Speaking of that guy Dr strange 2 had a great opportunity for Dead Man's Party and blew it.
The MCU has been notorious for having extremely generic sounding orchestral music. Not sure why but it's not memorable like it is in other movies. Even the Avengers theme is utterly bland and forgettable. No one can name a single worth while tune or sountrack in any of those movies that aren't some pop hit they licensed.
The worst offender them using a popular rock song was in Captain Marvel. That scene where the old b***h commenting on Nirvana's Come as You Are was cringe and didn't even served any real purpose other than "DUDE 90'S". They wasted all that money for it on such a moronic scene in a bad movie. Also that awful cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit in Ant Man also sucked ass and dragged on for way too long. Stop using generic contemporary white b***h voices for classic songs. They are garbage.
the first Iron Man's soundtrack was pretty good but that's really the only one that ever stood out to me
You could fix this movie by giving it a Dio soundtrack and also making it the type of movie that has a Dio soundtrack.
Have the big finale set to Rainbow in the Dark.
I'd be fine with it, even love it, if it was done right. You could make a pretty kick ass Thor movie with stuff like Dokken or maybe some thrash metal like Testament, but 9/10 times directors who aren't Gunn will choose the safest nostalgia hit for mass appeal.
No it's lazy. Bring back the real hero kino enhancement
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I think its pretty cool