Cinematic soundtrack juxtapositions which defy belief

I'm sort of hoping this link is as dead as the dates suggest, because I'm sure the reaction to my post will be fairly negative. First of all, Shrek isn't a horrible, gut-wrenchingly awful film...it's a beautifully crafted (but somewhat cold) children's movie that has some smarts for the adults. I'm curious to know why everyone hates this film so much.

Secondly, I'm both a Rufus Wainwright and a Leonard Cohen fan, and I truly find Wainwright's version of Cohen's Hallelujah to be an excellent adaptation of the original. Wainwright's tendency toward operatic swooning somehow works...in a completely opposite way from Cohen's croakingly effective gruffness. Please tell me why you disagree.

Jana, you're my GURL!

Please tell me why you disagree.

Because Rufus Wainwright deserves to be beaten with sticks for existing. Good deal Jeff Buckley's dead, imagine a duet between those two bastards.

"Partners In Prosperity" (British Transport Films, 1980, dir. Nick Nicholls)

"Lochlaggan" by Muir Mathieson and the New Concert Orchestra, a few minutes away from the sort of corporate music c.1979 whose sound Air pastiched so exactly on "10,000 Hz Legend". Amazing, and even more so because Butskellism presides over the film with such self- assurance that you'd never believe it was speaking from its deathbed.

Carlin and / or Inglesfield might just understand this.

"Does any one know where I can get a copy of John Cale's version of Hallelujah? The record company "Valley Records Distribution" have gone out of business. Thanks."

I'd say the definitive version is on his live album, "Fragments of a Rainy Season".

For me, the most incongruous soundtrack is the one in "Cannibal Holocaust". An absolutely sublime, transcendental classical score totally undermined by the fact that the film itself is cinematic dogshit. My ex loved it, but she was a total sicko.

Cale's "Hallelujah" (found on the Cohen cover album "I'm Your Fan") is gorgeous. I got Buckley's version yesterday after a long wait and was sorely disappointed. I think the song deserves to be rendered in a world-weary croak, and Buckley just sounded too blithe and young and pretty. It didn't dig into my bones like the Cale version did when I first heard it -- I just didn't feel much emotion behind the song. Ah well. How is Wainwright, compared to these two? Come to that, how's the original?