Best ironic use of music in a movie?

[thedog]

Imagine Goodfellas without Joe Pesci.

That's why it's sad when he dies.

but anyway...

There's so many examples but off the top of my head, Fight The Power (Public Enemy) in Do The Right Thing.

[kotte]

"What a Wonderful World" - Bowling for Columbine

I'm suprised Moore did what he did with that song...I expected more of him. It's too ironic...the plane crashing -> what a wonderful world.

We get it!

[rustinglass]

Actually I wasn't expecting for that final "ooooh, -crash- yeah..."

[pookiethecat]

fucking amal- "i wanna know what love is" by foreigner during the make-out scene.
vanilla sky- good vibrations. (hated the movie but i love that part).

[molly]

Best ironic use of music in a movie - maybe "There's something about Mary" and anything by the the Coens. These come first in my mind.

[aclockworkjj]

(hated the movie but i love that part).

me too, but I did like the original.

I dunno if it's been said, but I always got a kick out of in Clockwork Orange.

I always imagined a horse race up until this seeing this movie for the first time.

[chinaski40]

"Happiness", especially, the part where the dad walks into the park with the machine gun and it's playing that sweet, corny music and then he shoots everyone.

[freakerdude]

I'll second Blue Velvet's use of In Dreams by Roy Orbison and Love Letters. I also liked Wild At Heart's inclusion of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.

In Blue Velvet, Frank whispers something to "So Fucking Suave" Ben about the Candy Covered Clown. I think he makes a request for Ben to sing it, which is In Dreams.

I am obviously a Lynch-ian and his pairing with composer Angelo Badalamenti is a match made in cinematic heaven.

Of course, The End by the Doors in Apocolypse Now has to be the most fitting. And most anything in Spinal Tap was ironically hilarious.

[ElPandaRoyal]

(hated the movie but i love that part).

me too, but I did like the original.

Am I the only one who thinks Vanilla Sky is an improvement to an already great movie?

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I don't know what it's called, but that one old song played in House of 1,000 Corpses when it goes slow motion.

[ProgWRX]

(hated the movie but i love that part).

me too, but I did like the original.

Am I the only one who thinks Vanilla Sky is an improvement to an already great movie?

I think that way too, but im pretty biased, im a huge Cameron Crowe fan. (as evidenced by my signature, etc) *




* although my Crowe fandom came to be AFTER Vanilla Sky