Inappropriate film soundtracks

[Johnny Textface]

Off the bat, the soundtrack to Witness by Maurice Jarre does not really suit the film at all in my opinion.

I'm sure there are others, probably by John Carpenter.

[Puce Moment]

The Mad Max soundtrack is a fucking abomination of time-specific, over-baked synthesiser that is WAY too high in the mix, and seems to come in at a most hysterical speed when it is not appropriate.

It ruins the film for me completely.

Also, just about any film released in the last 15-years that use music to make you feel an emotion when it is completely unnecessary. Two good examples are the over-rated films Gravity and 12 Years a Slave. Ok-ish films made unwatchable for me due to the patronising and shitty soundtrack.

You could include the completely incongruous use of Naked City in Funny Games as a an example of an inappropriate choice, but for me it makes the film. That opening shot with Yamatsuka Eye screaming over this wholesome family, with the kid looking at the parents' faces. Brilliant.

[Bored of Canada]

Gravity's soundtrack was fucking shit.

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I never reckoned much to the incidental music in 'Nil By Mouth' - thse clean, Eric Claptonesque guitar notes where a darker Aphex Twin feel would have worked a lot better.