Discuss: When Movie Music Becomes Distracting

Hmmm, it didn't really distract me. Seemed to fit in right, especially considering the other music in the movie. While watching, I did think some of the music was overdone a bit, but afterwards I began looking around at people talking about Watchmen from the perspective of fans of the graphic novel, and now it seems like the music fits perfectly - apparently the novel referenced a lot of pop music lyrics. I need to see it again to see if it's "integrated" itself.

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Watchmen's music was quite complimentary in my opinion, in one way or another. Maybe not the tone or mood of the music, but at least lyrically.

If uou want to depreciate film music, just go watch Xanadu.

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U2 in any movie soundtrack is enough to make me rip the movie out of the player.

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Pretty much every use of music in the Rob Zombie version of Halloween. I was all set to give that movie a wide berth, but every time I would begin to get invested in it the movie would hit me over the head with some awful music cue.

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It was hardly a cinematic classic, but the music in The One with Jet Li was pretty horrendous.

Every single music cue was something like Disturbed, Papa Roach, or Drowning Pool, so just watching it in any year other than 2001 or 2002 is pretty jarring since the rap-metal fad got very stale very quickly. It was as though they just told the director's 14 year old son to put his favourite songs over the fight scenes.

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I thought the music in The Dark Knight was quite terrible. Great movie, lousy music.

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I didn't have an issue with Hallejuah and it didn't seem like anyone in the packed theater with me did either... but yeah, a lot of people online say it was distracting and a horrible choice. I dunno, worked for me... I'd only say that I'd have preferred Jeff Buckley's version... it's a little more sweet than bitter as opposed to the Cohen original, but it wasn't out in the 80's.
99 Luft Balloons got a big chuckle, but that had to have been intentional during that scene. I really dug the song choices throughout the flick, and the way a lot of them tied back into the lyrics referenced throughout the book.

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I generally like Hallelujah, but I could take or leave it in Shrek. However, "Live and Let Die" as a funeral dirge in Shrek the Third was distracting to the point that I almost had to turn the movie off and go, I dunno, read a book or something.

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My number one reason for not liking Daredevil was their abuse of music. It was almost entirely rock songs that didn't fit most of the scenes. If they had just scored it like most other superhero films I would have found it a lot more tolerable.

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Am I the only one who found the over-the-top melancholy piano in Twilight distracting to the point of ridiculousness? I mean, you're hanging out in the school caf and then all the sudden, in stride a bunch of vampires to Chopin or something?

...but I guess that's to be expected since the movie kind of sucked anyway.

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To me, the most distracting piece of music in Watchmen was Mozart's Requiem. Not only is it stereotypical (oh, we're supposed to be SAD now!), they chopped it up to make it shorter. Snarl.

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The Gangs of New York intro fight sequence. My GOD this was awful :/ Made it looks like an horrible ad ...

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I loved the music in Watchmen. I was beginning to think I was the only one but reading the comments has reassured me. I thought it all fit well with the film

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In the movie "Love Liza," when Phillip Seymour Hoffman is walking around high on gas fumes and starts wading up to his nose in a nearby lake, the accompanying song is Jeff Buckley's "Corpus Christi Carol." Normally it'd be pretty fitting, but considering they're using music from a man who died in a drowning accident to accentuate a scene in which a man nearly drowns himself in a lake, it's a little hard not to stop and say, "What the f**K????" Which definitely interrupts the narrative.

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