Hollywood Shenanigans

Raging Creed

Really?

There's no chance a guy with the name Chuck Russell has ever made a good anything.

Dracula PG Cooper

The Fast and the Furious is getting a theatrical re-release for its 15th anniversary.




Call me when they re-release 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Yeah... that would be like re-releasing the original X-Men, but I'm sure there would be someone who'd pay to see it. I'm sure studios do research before re-releasing any movie. I'm still mad I didn't have time to watch Purple Rain when it got re-release earlier this month.

TF&TF is the best in the series.

Hes not really making fair comparisons of music with main Themes from movies that have at least 7 installments compared to movies that are all about different characters any of which have only in recent times made as many as 3 of any given characters.

The theme songs they know are the same in every picture of the three they ask about, Harry Potter, James Bond, and Star Wars.

He is also comparing Theme music to incidental music.

I can see why they're saying about temp music though that sucks.

I agree that the theme music argument isn't the strongest. It's once it gets more into temp stuff that we get into interesting territory.



No, it gets into interesting stuff regarding how modern movies are scored and the recycling of the same musical cues. Granted, you could argue that this sort of reptition has existed for a long time and is in no way a new phenomenon, but I still think there's some interesting stuff. The focus is less Marvel-centric as it goes.

Of course composers don't like the idea of the music just being background noise, but it's a testament to better filmmaking that can stand as emotionally impacting and memorable, even without the music heavily fueling it.

Having said that, I do love memorable themes. How great a movie is and how often people watch it obviously can make a difference, of course. Like said, Harry Potter was immensely popular and had the same theme in 8 films over 10 years. James Bond even more so. The Star Wars movies, even if it were just the three original films alone, were a phenomenon in ticket sales and repeat viewings that the music became ingrained.

I can hum the Avengers theme without a second thought. That's the only one, admittedly, although a couple others if I think about it for a moment. As much as I love the MCU in general, I have not watched all of them repeatedly. At least no where near compared to the amount of Harry Potter films and James Bond films I've seen, or Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Some of the themes in the MCU have only been used in maybe a couple films, of which I've only probably watched a few times at most. Not to say any of the MCU films probably have anywhere near as memorable a soundtrack as those others listed, but I no doubt would be able to hum them off the top of my head if say, every MCU film had a single underlying theme song associated with all of them.

*I suppose if I was going to debate with myself after everything I just said, I would say that there are some movies that I have not seen multiple times, but I still remember the music quite well. The original Superman theme is one example, and of course that's from John Williams, who seems to make the most memorable scores of all time. While it's great to have, I guess I still wonder how important it really is. Ideally you would naturally want both, but if you could only have one or the other, I'm sure most would agree they would rather have a memorable movie in and of itself, than a memorable score.