What Is Your Favorite Soundtrack?
rab2591:
Quote from: Aum Bop Diddit on July 20, 2011, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2011, 09:55:38 AM
Currently digging the Pirate Radio soundtrack.
Lotsa great mid-60s hits -- but I tried to watch this flick on DVD the other day. Made it about half way -- very disappointing. Also a few anachronisms such as "Jumping Jack Flash" in 1966! Nonetheless, when the BBs play ("Little saint Nick"), it's a good movie for a few minutes.
I still have to check that one out. I'm not much into movies or TV anymore, so when I do watch I make sure it's worth it - thus I've been putting off Pirate Radio because of the iffy reviews.
Alex:
I think I`m partial to that movie becausd I was a radio/mass communication major and frequently on-air in college. I`m bugged more by Phillip Seymour Hoffman holding the mic and putting it right on his mouth (he must be a fan of unessecary noise and distortion/overmodulation) than by the filmmakers` song choices.
Roger Ryan:
Quote from: rab2591 on July 20, 2011, 07:06:48 PM
Quote from: Aum Bop Diddit on July 20, 2011, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2011, 09:55:38 AM
Currently digging the Pirate Radio soundtrack.
Lotsa great mid-60s hits -- but I tried to watch this flick on DVD the other day. Made it about half way -- very disappointing. Also a few anachronisms such as "Jumping Jack Flash" in 1966! Nonetheless, when the BBs play ("Little saint Nick"), it's a good movie for a few minutes.
I still have to check that one out. I'm not much into movies or TV anymore, so when I do watch I make sure it's worth it - thus I've been putting off Pirate Radio because of the iffy reviews.
I found this film to be terrible. One of the biggest disappointments I've experienced in recent years only because I actually thought the film would be about the pirate radio station(s) that operated outside of London in the 60s. Instead, it is simply PORKY'S on a boat. If the storyline about trying to get a teenager laid sounds good to you (and you can stomach Kenneth Branagh calling out for "Mr. Twatt" repeatedly like a tiresome schoolboy), then maybe you'll have some laughs. I think the cast is great, but they're given very little here that's amusing.
The musical anachronisms go way beyond "Jumpin' Jack Flash"; one of the DJs actually plays a Cat Stevens' song from 1970 even though you're reminded at the film's end that the events shown all take place in 1966.
Aum Bop Diddit:
Quote from: Roger Ryan on July 21, 2011, 06:15:15 AM
Quote from: rab2591 on July 20, 2011, 07:06:48 PM
Quote from: Aum Bop Diddit on July 20, 2011, 06:57:51 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 20, 2011, 09:55:38 AM
Currently digging the Pirate Radio soundtrack.
Lotsa great mid-60s hits -- but I tried to watch this flick on DVD the other day. Made it about half way -- very disappointing. Also a few anachronisms such as "Jumping Jack Flash" in 1966! Nonetheless, when the BBs play ("Little saint Nick"), it's a good movie for a few minutes.
I still have to check that one out. I'm not much into movies or TV anymore, so when I do watch I make sure it's worth it - thus I've been putting off Pirate Radio because of the iffy reviews.
I found this film to be terrible. One of the biggest disappointments I've experienced in recent years only because I actually thought the film would be about the pirate radio station(s) that operated outside of London in the 60s. Instead, it is simply PORKY'S on a boat. If the storyline about trying to get a teenager laid sounds good to you (and you can stomach Kenneth Branagh calling out for "Mr. Twatt" repeatedly like a tiresome schoolboy), then maybe you'll have some laughs. I think the cast is great, but they're given very little here that's amusing.
The musical anachronisms go way beyond "Jumpin' Jack Flash"; one of the DJs actually plays a Cat Stevens' song from 1970 even though you're reminded at the film's end that the events shown all take place in 1966.
I didn't make it to the Cat Stevens song! Anyway, you nailed it "Porky's on a boat." I am a big radio fan, particularly concerning renegade voices and forbidden music, and this really had nothing to do with any of that. Rote, by the numbers, etc.
Alex:
At the very least, Pirate Radio hopefully introduced a new generation of kids to cool 60s music.
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