Word: soundtrack
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...detail, the payoff is only in the pain. If democracy does come to China, I hope the revolution isn’t so gruesome a spectacle. Played with the volume down, though, this album would make great elevator music. The undifferentiated wash of recycled rock tropes is the perfect soundtrack to awkward encounters in enclosed spaces. The music sounds like it should back The Weather Channel’s 4:08 weather update from Hell. The song-writing has none of the same vigor that made the band’s pre-millennial work so bracing. The ballad-esque...
Political junkies already have the Obama soundtrack, the Obama commemorative plate and Obama condoms. Now, for those of you who want to relive the excitement of the whirlwind 2008 presidential election campaign, there's Super Obama World...
...beautiful movies that were both crowd-pleasing and artistically valuable. “Slumdog Millionaire” is one of these movies. With its exuberant love story, brilliant young cast, and the constant refrain of the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” soundtrack, “Slumdog Millionaire” is the most fun you will have at the movies until neuroscientists genetically alter our brains so we’re capable of more enjoyment than is currently humanly possible.“Slumdog” tells the story of a young man named...
...from Yonkers who's so grating that the severe physical punishment she takes (before rising to heroine status at the end) is almost welcome. But even here the filmmakers locate some saving wit. When she and her lethal purse are in a showdown with a jungle beast, on the soundtrack we hear Ennio Morricone's theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but played by a Klezmer band. That's the peril and pleasure of vaudeville movies: You've got to stay alert for the next deranged, privileged moment...
...Producers of other games, however, have been much less successful at choosing an enticing soundtrack, both in advertisements and in the games themselves. Commercials for Electronic Arts’ “Mercenaries 2: World in Flames” featured the Wojahn Brothers’ “Oh No You Didn’t!,” an original piano-driven song about the game. Its slightly amusing but ultimately embarrassing lyrics—like “Sucka tried to play me / But he never paid me / Never”—compound the obnoxious drinking-song...