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A great end credits song can be a fantastic capper to a film: think of Zodiac's "Hurdy-Gurdy Man" and Premium Rush's "Baba O'Reilly," to name just two. That's not what this game is about, though. This game is about utterly RUINING a good movie with a hilariously misjudged end credits song. Just imagine: you gather your friends together for a home screening of Jurassic Park, but, unbeknownst to them, you've made one teeensy change. At the end, as the helicopter flies into the sunset, instead of John Williams' classic score, one hears... "Jurassic Park" by Weird Al Yankovic. Hilarity!
Of course, merely pairing a movie with a randomly inappropriate song is too easy. Most movies, from Casablanca to Spotlight, could utterly defaced by Smash Mouth's "All Star" playing over the end credits. (Well, Casablanca doesn't actually have end credits, but one gets the idea.) The trick, and the humor, lies in picking a song that's germane enough to the movie to not baffle potential viewers as to why it's there, but also schlocky/ironic/altogether misjudged enough to be hilariously, horribly misjudged. The point is to make the audience groan, and possibly even hurl, not to scratch their heads.
So, let the games begin! (It may help to quote a lyric or two along with one's movie/song selections, for clarity's sake.) Of course, I have a few to get us started...
- Mad Max: Fury Road: "The Way" by Fastball ("Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold/And it's always summer, they'll never get cold...")
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: "Father Figure" by George Michael ("I'll be your daddy...")
- Seven: "Out of My Head" by Fastball
- The Social Network: "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba (the humor here lies in the sheer incongruity of the pick: the movie isn't about Zuckerberg being knocked down and getting up again; he just keeps rising and rising)
- Ex Machina: "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby ("Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!")
- Psycho: "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
- Skyfall, Spectre, or any of the last three Mission: Impossible films, or MacGruber: "Extreme Ways" by Moby. (Wouldn't work as well with No Time to Die, though.)
- 1984, or The Lives of Others: "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
- Downfall: "War" by Edwin Starr
- The Matrix: "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes (bonus, this song was used prominently and repeatedly in the Wachowskis' Sense8!)
- Unforgiven: "Cowboy" by Kid Rock
- Avengers: Infinity War: "Missing You" by John Waite
... This thread may or may not have been inspired by the hilarious YouTube channel "Walk of Life Project", in which the opening bars of the jaunty Dire Straits song is applied to all kinds of films:
Your turn, all!
Of course, merely pairing a movie with a randomly inappropriate song is too easy. Most movies, from Casablanca to Spotlight, could utterly defaced by Smash Mouth's "All Star" playing over the end credits. (Well, Casablanca doesn't actually have end credits, but one gets the idea.) The trick, and the humor, lies in picking a song that's germane enough to the movie to not baffle potential viewers as to why it's there, but also schlocky/ironic/altogether misjudged enough to be hilariously, horribly misjudged. The point is to make the audience groan, and possibly even hurl, not to scratch their heads.
So, let the games begin! (It may help to quote a lyric or two along with one's movie/song selections, for clarity's sake.) Of course, I have a few to get us started...
- Mad Max: Fury Road: "The Way" by Fastball ("Anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold/And it's always summer, they'll never get cold...")
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: "Father Figure" by George Michael ("I'll be your daddy...")
- Seven: "Out of My Head" by Fastball
- The Social Network: "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba (the humor here lies in the sheer incongruity of the pick: the movie isn't about Zuckerberg being knocked down and getting up again; he just keeps rising and rising)
- Ex Machina: "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby ("Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!")
- Psycho: "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
- Skyfall, Spectre, or any of the last three Mission: Impossible films, or MacGruber: "Extreme Ways" by Moby. (Wouldn't work as well with No Time to Die, though.)
- 1984, or The Lives of Others: "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
- Downfall: "War" by Edwin Starr
- The Matrix: "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes (bonus, this song was used prominently and repeatedly in the Wachowskis' Sense8!)
- Unforgiven: "Cowboy" by Kid Rock
- Avengers: Infinity War: "Missing You" by John Waite
... This thread may or may not have been inspired by the hilarious YouTube channel "Walk of Life Project", in which the opening bars of the jaunty Dire Straits song is applied to all kinds of films:
Your turn, all!
