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[skygiants]

Last night I saw that Watchmen movie with rushin_doll and chlorrel. Overall I thought it was pretty awesome, but I'm fairly sure the best part was how it was accompanied by the least subtle soundtrack in the history of cinema. It was like being hit multiple times with a sledgehammer! Sometimes it was a totally awesome sledgehammer, and sometimes it was just a completely hilarious sledgehammer (and you all know which scene I mean.)

So, now I totally want to know: what would you guys add to the ~*~least subtle soundtrack ever?~*~

For example, I am kind of shocked that they never used American Pie - possibly for the scene when Dr. Manhattan dumps Janey Slater? Or maybe when Janey Slater pulls off her cancer-wig. BYE BYE, MISS AMERICAN PIE. And chlorrel suggests Last Midnight for the scene with the Doomsday Clock!

Comments

[batyatoon]

"Last Midnight" isn't pop-culturey enough.

[skygiants]

You're right, though it would still be hilarious.

However, as an alternative: Two Minutes to Midnight!

[gramarye1971]

Just take anything off the Forrest Gump soundtrack, really. And add to it 'Born in the USA', Sting's 'Russians' (In Europe and America / There's a growing feeling of hysteria...), and maybe Europe's 'The Final Countdown'. Blend, stir, serve over Antarctic ice?

[skygiants]

I would drink that cocktail with hilarity pleasure, madam!

Someday, someone with a lot of time on their hands should switch out the Forrest Gump and the Watchmen soundtracks and see whether it actually does work just as well.

[gramarye1971]

...Watchman cocktails.

Doctor Manhattan
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1 dash Angostura® bitters
1 dash blue Curaçao
1 maraschino cherry
1 twist orange peel

(To make an anatomically correct Doctor Manhattan, add blue Curaçao to a Long Island Iced Tea.)

[skygiants]

asdfdskjaHAHAHA.

Rorschach
1.5 oz Kahlua
1.5 oz Scotch
dash Soda water
1.5 oz brandy
1 oz heavy cream

(Black Watch + Dirty White Mother!)

[batyatoon]

*sporfle*

Nite Owl
1 oz Kahlua
1 dash Nutmeg
6 oz Milk
1 tsp Powdered sugar
1/2 oz Wild Turkey
1/2 oz Rumple Minze

Heat milk. Add sugar. Add booze. Nutmeg on top.

(Nightcap + Frozen Bird - best I could do for "owl". It kinda suits him, too.)

[batyatoon]

Ozymandias

1.5 oz Amaretto
1.5 oz Mandarine Napoleon
Splash Beer
3 oz Sweet and sour
Splash Sprite

Mixing instructions:

Fill glass with ice. Add Amaretto and Mandarine Napoleon. Add splash beer. Add sweet & sour. Top with sprite. Stir lightly. Gaze on and despair.

(Ozone + Mandarine Napoleon!)

[skygiants]

I look upon your cocktails, o mighty, and despair!

Comedian

2 oz. Gin
.5 oz Dry Vermouth
.5 oz Campari
Tequila
13 drops Tabasco sauce
1 twist of Lemon Peel

(Riddler's Shot + Dirty Dick's Downfall)

To be drunk with a pitcher of cheap beer and a shotgun at hand, while nowhere near a window!

[gramarye1971]

I'm collecting all of these to post over in my LJ now.

[skygiants]

EXCELLENT.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

Personally I'm disappointed that "The Final Countdown" wasn't in there somewhere. It's even from the 80s!

[skygiants]

Now that you mention it, ME TOO.

(And the countdown starts now for how long it will take for three "The Final Countdown" Watchmen vids to make it onto youtube.)

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Takarazuka version of 'Final Countdown'.

[skygiants]

Just wait until the Takarazuka version of Watchmen!

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Don't even suggest it. They already do manga and video games.

[sdelmonte]

While I prefer a score to songs, I really liked the choice of songs. And it was really that much less obvious than the songs in Goodfellas, which is one of the best films I've ever seen.

It might have been more interesting if Snyder did choose a few things that were not so familiar, though. But he is all about the obvious, even if he did a respectable job with subtle source material.

[skygiants]

I have never seen Goodfellas, I will admit! But the use of Requiem over a Tragic Sequence pretty much nailed this for me as the least subtle I have yet seen, at any rate.

Which is not at all to say I didn't like it - in most places, I kind of think it was awesome how unsubtle it was! But I also think it would have been interesting done with less obvious musical choices. I actually loved the music in the trailer, for example, and I thought it was perfect for the mood (although I know a bunch of people disagreed with me there.)

[wakeupnew]

Totally agreed; I loved the music in the trailers despite mass fan loathing, and was a little flabbergasted by just how stupidly obvious all of the choices were in the actual movie.

Though "99 Red Balloons" was FUCKING HILARIOUS/MASTERFUL, and no one will convince me otherwise.

[skygiants]

SO VERY AGREED. *just about died*

I also loved the "The Times They Are A-Changing" montage; obvious it may have been, but it was exactly the right kind of obvious!

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

The other one that just didn't work for me was the funeral. Everything else, I was TERRIBLY amused by the whole thing. The 99 Red Balloons!!! HAAHAHAHAHAAA! I was waiting for it, and then just. Random nuclear holocaust as people go on a date! :O! I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD MEAN FOR TIME SQUARE LATER?

[skygiants]

You know, I'm actually blanking on the music at the funeral - remind me what was playing then?

Overall, while there were a few times when I was like "you know, I almost wish I wasn't finding this scene quite so hilarious," I WILL TAKE THE HILARITY AS GENIUS ANYWAYS.

(RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES, Feather. I know that one was actually in the book, but STILL.)

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

...I am now blanking as well besides my :O reaction. I just vaguely remember being thrown out of the movie because of it and going TEE HEE at the naked blue man in a suit.

I DID, TOO! Oh, I loved the thing. It was very entertaining and as good as we could hope for from the source. But it cracked me up so much when I shouldn't have been. There were so many times when they killed off historical figures that I had a TEE HEE moment, and everyone around me was going "wtf, Feather?". I couldn't explain because it was just too damn funny. I'm sorry, they just killed Pat Buchanan, I can't breath!

[skygiants]

*giggles* Fair! And HAHA yes. Oh Dr. Manhattan.

Oh man, Feather, I was so worried they were going to kick us out of the theater for cracking up at inappropriate moments. (Ana, afterwards: 'you know, you guys were, uh, laughing a lot . . .' Me and Jenny: 'HAHAHAHAHA um yeah maybe a little >.>') And the historical stuff was AMAZINGLY HILARIOUS. And in general I really liked it a lot also! I am probably going to end up buying it, which I don't do often with movies, just so I can watch that opening backstory montage over and over.