I remember back in collage, a friend of mine accused me of liking music more then movies. At the time I was offended. I have always considered myself to be up on the times and with it, when it comes to pop culture. In collage, I always had the radio on, or was listening to cd’s, But nothing heightened my spirits more then a film. In most cases I would even say the more out there the movie was, the better. I have never been one to subscribe to “main stream” movies, or music. At UK, there is a little theater just off campus called the Kentucky, which played foreign films, independent films, cult classics, and the occasional 3D porn. I was a frequenter of this establishment, and have many fond memories of it. But I digress, Even though I though I liked movies more then music, I have come to realize that one of the things that makes a great movie great, is the music.
Blockbuster films have never been my forte. I personally think all of the Spiderman movies are crap, and even though I own one or two (Braveheart for instance) big budget hits, they have never been on my top 100 to see list. And realistically it is because they don’t move me quite like a bad film with good music. In high school, I had some rough times, but one of the best memories I have is watching the movie Empire records. Now I will be the first to admit, that this movie did not have a great plot, the acting was sub par, and all in all it probably deserved the very limited release it had, But I still LOVE this movie because of the music. It is nostalgic to me; I hear a song like “video killed the radio star” or "romeo and juliet" and instantly I am flooded with good memories with good friends.
Today, even though I listen to the modern stuff, I still like the old stuff, and the stuff in between. At work they laugh at me because I know many of the words to many of the songs that are on the radio, be it the golden oldies, modern alternative, or even country and western. The funny part of this is that I go in musical mood swings. Nothing beats Sarah McLachlan in the fall, Or some Guster in the spring when it is just getting warm enough to wear a t-shirt in the day, but a nice flannel blanket is required at night. Then again, I also go on band swings. Right now I am into The Beatles, a few months ago it was Queen, and before that it was a guy named Ben Kweller. SO that leads into the Beatles. I have never been a big follower, I like some of there stuff, and I do believe that the best thing that they did was drugs. However, even though I admit now that I am not a big fan of there singing, I am a huge fan of there writing. The best way to experience this is the use of there music in movies. In movies, songs have more context. In movies I get lost, emotions are displayed to the extreme. In my opinion, to the average person love is never that intense, or hard. People never have that much fun or misery, ones nightmares do not come to life and kill them as they sleep. But to me they make me feel that it could be real, when watching movies, I detach and feel that love, hate, fear, joy, and if on screen, that feeling is overlain with a song, I am happy to know that I will feel that way again, when I hear that song again.
SO I guess the reason for this rant is to make it clear to myself that I like movies, more the music, because of music. As silly as that seams.
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