Movie Tag

[misura]

Rewatching The Man from UNCLE movie made me want to see more of Hugh Grant, so I dusted off Music and Lyrics which made me spend a whole week looking for an opportunity to use the quote 'my face is in the butter, I give up'. (Alas. Still waiting.)

Music and Lyrics is, I should add here, a movie I find rather fun and delightful about a has-been artist who discovers the lady who temporarily does his plants is really good at writing song lyrics. By an amazing coincidence, he's also just been asked to write a song (consisting of, you guessed it, music and lyrics) by the biggest female artist of the century, whose latest hits carry such titles as 'Welcome to Booty Town' and 'Buddha's Delight'.

Naturally, after that I wanted to watch another movie with music in it, so I also rewatched Josie and the Pussycats, which sadly got 'Backdoor Lover' stuck in my head. (If the title sends your mind straight to the gutter: your mind's not wrong.)

Josie and the Pussycats, to continue the theme, is also a movie I find rather fun and delightful, about a band called (you possibly didn't guess this) The Pussycats. They get 'discovered' when a tragic 'accident' befalls boyband sensation Dujour (their latest hit: Backdoor Lover) which leaves their manager in a bit of a bind because his boss really needs a band to complete her evil plan for world domination. Luckily, he runs into Josie, Val and Melody, who have just wrapped up a concert at the local bowling alley in Riverdale.

Currently halfway through rewatching King Arthur: Legend of the Sword which is also a movie with music in it* and directed by the same guy who directed The Man from UNCLE, so this feels appropriate.

* Which is to say: it has a score. The only thing that's gotten stuck in my head thus far is Uther's Run, son!, which feels like something I've heard about six times already via dream/flashback.

Comments

[anoyo]

ALL GOOD CHOICES. Guy Ritchie movies tend to have excellent soundtracks (at least: excellent as appropriate for their content soundtracks). I haven't rewatched Music and Lyrics or Josie and the Pussycats in years Oh, man.

[misura]

Given the number of TV shows you watch and/or follow, I'm almost surprised that you have time for movies at all. ;)

(I only got Josie and the Pussycats last year, because someone requested it in an exchange and it sounded like a fun movie. Naturally, no fic happened, but eh. I got the movie, so it feels like a win to me.)

[anoyo]

See, the trick is: don't have a life. If you don't have a life, you have plenty of time for TV, movies, and all sorts of other random crap. (And by "don't have a life" I mean "have crippling anxiety and depression that makes you avoid life with a ten-foot pole.")

[iberiandoctor]

As a person with some first hand knowledge of the 80s and the phenomenon that was Wham!, Music & Lyrics is my Kryptonite. I can't listen to "Careless Whisper" any more without hearing the accompanying "Meaningless Kiss" version, complete with Hugh's patented hip thrust move ;)

[misura]

... how did I never link those two songs before? It feels so obvious now!

(I think I still own a couple of Wham! records, but I got them second-hand in the 90s, at the local church's jumble sale.)

[iberiandoctor]

...and “Pop! Goes my heart” has the same basic melodic structure as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”? And the music video borrows every single coordinated dance move from the Wham videos? That movie was 80s music parody in a bottle, I loved every moment and I’m thrilled you did too <3

[cafemassolit]

an emphatic SAME at the meaningless kiss comment XDD

[iberiandoctor]

Yay, a fellow Wham! aficionado ;)

[cafemassolit]

I am incredibly fond of UNCLE movie (don't even want to count how many times I've rewatched, such a happy stylish thing) and also I am now trying to stop singing Pop Goes My Heart to myself so THANKS :< for reminding me this movie exists and I like it too :D

[iberiandoctor]

The one I sing to myself is “Way Back Into Love”, which is actually a really goof karaoke song XD

[misura]

I confess, I'm super-squeamish when it comes to torture, so I tend to skip the chair scene, but apart from that bit, 'happy stylish thing' is it exactly. Or, if you wish, it is 'gold and silver (oh, oh, oh)'. ;)