Comments on eclectic / eccentric: Hey! That Song is the Story of My Life!

Jenny - I'm a lyric queen, able to sing so man...

2010-02-28T10:33:56.127-06:00

Jenny - I'm a lyric queen, able to sing so many and such a variety of songs that it's a bit pitiful. It's too bad I can't actually sing or I'd be a karaoke queen!

Jenners - Exactly!

Sandy - Isn't it strange and wonderful how music affects interpretation of a film?

I am hyper-aware of music in movies. I could name...

2010-02-27T06:05:39.051-06:00

I am hyper-aware of music in movies. I could name a hundred movies that the music was at least 50% of the movie experience. Then there are the dopey, forced songs, like you said. I don't giggle though, I just give a few eye-rolls and automatically take the movie down a notch or two in my mental rating system!

I do think songs in movies have a to tread a very ...

2010-02-26T21:58:32.348-06:00

I do think songs in movies have a to tread a very fine line between enhancing the mood and feel of the movie and replacing the dialogue and saying what the movie can't seem to say so they play the song instead.

I'm really bad about not ever noticing songs. ...

2010-02-26T21:34:27.213-06:00

I'm really bad about not ever noticing songs. I also never "hear" the lyrics even when I'm listening to a song on the radio... I mean the main chorus I do, but not the rest. Weird! But I think I'm one of the only ones.

But on another note, I loved that movie!