at Shootin' Buddy's. It was fun, funny, occasionally oddly poignant, and such a generally over-the-top good time that last night I watched it again with Bobbi on pay-per-view. I think I'll be getting the DVD of this one.Anyhow, there's a section toward the climax of the movie that is scored with this positively haunting piece of music that was triggering serious deja vu...
And it turns out that the reason for that is because it was also on the soundtrack of Sunshine
, a science fiction psychological-thriller-cum-horror piece that is sort of like 2001 meets Das Boot with seriously compelling eye candy and an ending that will really stick with you. And that music...I can't get John Murphy's "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" out of my head today.
Oddly enough, I rented "Kick-Ass" that same night, and had exactly the same reaction. Chloe Grace Moretz really stole the whole movie with her Hit Girl character. I have found out since that she began training with serious intensity about 4 1/2 months before they started filming and did so continuously during the entire filming schedule, thus doing all of her own stunts and weapons handling. Hit Girl was certainly one bad-ass little girl, and I really got a kick out of her.
ReplyDeleteApparently the film got a lot of criticism over her character's use of profanity (most especially the "C" word). Let alone the fact that she slaughtered dozens of bad guys.
I guess it's OK if a grown man or woman kills off bad guys by the dozens while cussing like a sailor but not a little girl according to the critics.
Personally I loved it and I hope she makes a sequel as Hit Girl before she gets too big (physically)for the part.
Oh, and by the way, thanks for reminding me about the song. Its been stuck in my head as an earworm (alternating with the "banana" song from her fight in the drug house) since Saturday night. This was the first morning it wasn't running like a continuous sound track from the time I woke up, but now...it's back!
ReplyDeleteI liked Kick-Ass, but it bothered me that they had a young actress swearing. Playing that role couldn't have been good for her moral and social development.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, it was an awesome movie.
I still don't like that he got the girl in the end. I know it was probably due to a lot of test audiences not liking how it supposed to be, but the way it worked out in the book fit in so much better with the theme of the story.
ReplyDeleteThis feels like some of the climax sound scape stuff in Heat as well.
ReplyDeletePsychological thriller/horror? Sign us up. Both movies you speak of are bound to be a large improvement on the pile of seventies drek we watched last night.
ReplyDeleteWow, I just realized that "Sunshine" was one of the movies I thought about renting, along with "Kick-Ass" Saturday night. I had a free "non-new movie rental" but didn't use it because I didn't want to invest the time to watch more than one movie over the weekend. After I read over the box for "Sunshine" I kind of put it in the back of my mind for my next movie rental (especially since it would be free). Glad I didn't get it, the same song on both movie soundtracks would have creeped me out.
ReplyDeleteaczarnowski,
ReplyDelete"This feels like some of the climax sound scape stuff in Heat as well."
The piece of music to which you refer is "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters", by Moby. It is incredible, especially on a beautiful sunny day in the Smokies with the top down. It's on the soundtrack, as well as the Moby albums Everything Is Wrong and I Like To Score.
Isn't it interesting that when classical music composers basically walked away from the lush melodies of the Romantic period and turned to 12-tone, atonal, dissonant and minimalist music, film composers were there to pick up what the classical composers discarded (and the audiences yearned for)? The entire 20th century history of classical music is a story of how composers forsook the popular and embraced the unpopular, and how the audience failed to follow. This happened in visual art too, of course.
ReplyDeleteI've definitely bought more soundtracks than I have works by 20th century classical composers.
Oh, I've got those tunes in the collection already Tam. No worries.
ReplyDeleteMoby's ambient stuff is a pretty common spin at the day job wrangling bits. And like Bob, I found soundtracks to be a really good thing early in my shiny disc collecting.
aczarnowski,
ReplyDelete"Oh, I've got those tunes in the collection already Tam. No worries."
Heh. I can't help evangelizing on that one. :)
Kick Ass? Really? What a turd. I kicked the Redbox machine over, dropped that pile of dung among the rubble and took my dollar back.
ReplyDeleteWell, damn, Tam. My take was pretty different. As you can see, I found myself liking Zombieland considerably more, so it's not just the grim subject matter.
ReplyDeleteIronically, I was just commenting to Bobbi that Kick-Ass and Zombieland were pretty much in the same genre, and that I loved them both... :o
ReplyDeleteI have never heard Sunshine before.
ReplyDeleteKnocked me right the hell out. BOught mp3 before your youtube linky finished.
God, that is a beautiful song.
Thank you, ma'am.
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