Cinematic soundtrack juxtapositions which defy belief

Barnes And Noble: "Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (not heard in the film, where it was sung by John Cale, but Wainwright is part of the DreamWorks family and he has an album coming out a few weeks after the release of Shrek)"

I WIN! I WIN!

Sorry ;)

The more I think about Shrek the more awful it seems.

That version of Hallelujah is awful, whoever did it. Jeff Buckley's version will rule forever, so says I.

ps "shrek" beats out "ampie2" for worst film of the year because of its feel-goodist 'everyone is beautiful on the inside but we're still going to have cameron diaz voice the woman who's ugly at the end' posturing. that said i also did have to sit through "enemy at the gates" this year which was just drawn. out. too. very. much.

OK, best title.

Except, of course, that's not really a true or fair thing to say about the movie. A more accurate representation is, "People should be judged by their character. If a person's character is found wanting, then any imperfections about that person are fair game for ridicule because you shouldn't be that horrid to people without being willing to take it."

This has been my personal motto since being spat upon by assholes in junior high. Despite this, people have this notion that I am nice.

He of course is played by the very tall John lithgow - to over emphasis Maura's point. Indeed the only proper casting in that film is Eddie Murphy as Donkey - for he truly is a jackass.

This is absolutely true. However, as the movie goes on, both Shrek and Fiona show themselves to be nice people underneath their public fronts. Donkey's huge crime is aggressive optimism. Farquaad is a mean-spirited selfish tool throughout.

I'm not arguing that the movie is deep and meaningful because it just isn't. It's shallow family entertainment with some amazing animation and a hilarious scene involving the torture of the Gingerbread Man. This is what I was expecting from the movie and I was emminently satisfied with what I got.

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.

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

"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.

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.