![]() It’s one of the many situations in several Scorsese movies where he takes an extremely well-known classic rock tune and gives us a new way to imagine it (he’s still doing it today-they are all over the place in “The Departed”). I’ve never been a fan of Eric Clapton, but I will say that director Martin Scorsese’s classic mob epic actually helped me to appreciate him a little. “Layla” by Derek and the Dominoes, as used in Goodfellas Appropriately, the reaction of the bearded audience member in the biker jacket who obviously doesn’t have a daughter in the competition (if you know what I mean) is priceless.ĩ. Not only do we finally get to see Olive (Abigail Breslin) perform the routine that she and her “open-minded” grandfather (Alan Arkin, in an Oscar-winning role) spend much of the movie preparing for the Little Miss Sunshine youth beauty pageant, but it ends up being a striptease to this song, which Rick James wrote as an ode to sadomasochism. So maybe this movie was a little cutesy for some people … that is, until the scene in which this song is used. “Super Freak” by Rick James, as used in Little Miss Sunshine In short, films that make the most of their music-films that use their music well.ġ0. I wanted to focus on non-musical motion pictures that have the ability to make us take more from a song than we originally would. I had only had one rule in making this list-NO MUSICALS. I took 10 movie moments that stick out in my mind specifically because of the songs used in those moments. This is not what I’m doing here, however. both did their Top 10 favorite soundtracks, and both of those lists were stellar. We’ve already done overlooked scary movies, movie monsters, and movie-inspired Halloween costumes, but anything else is up for grabs! meanwhile, here’s Cameron’s fantastic list: Now it’s your turn to weigh in. If you have a Halloween-themed list, I’d be especially interested. ![]() I know the sitegoers here are movie-obsessed freaks because I’ve seen the comments we get on these Top 10s and we’ve had lots of great user-submitted Top 10s recently. If you have a Top 10 idea you’d like to submit, email me at. It’s only appropriate then that he rings in on the ongoing debate in our Top 10s about music in movies. Cameron Hawk, from Lawrence, KS, is a singer/guitarist in The Dead Girls. ![]() The embed comes courtesy of Empireĭidn't she do well, ladies and gentlemen.This week’s user-submitted Top 10 comes from a guy I know very well. There's likely going to be an annoying ad play before this trailer but stick with it. I know it's not his responsibility as a comics creator, but it'd be disingenuous to pretend he hasn't got at least one eye on the movie adaptations all the way along. Either that or they somehow displace the chronology in the narrative appropriately to allow for her aging. Seeing as she's now about to turn 13 I think she's going to be growing up so rapidly over the coming year or two that I hope Mark Millar's promise of a Kick-Ass follow-up can be put into action quickly. Hit Girl aka Mindy Macready is being played by Chloe Moretz. Watch it after the break, but be warned that it is most definitely NSFW. It's of immediate interest that this is a Red Band trailer, complete with extreme profanity and explicit acts of violence, both of which are being doled out by a little girl. After the character posters for Kick-Ass come the character trailers, and it's a case of Last In, First Out as Hit Girl becomes the star of the opening effort. ![]()
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