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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I usually hate soundtracks because I hate that filmmakers have co-opted pop music to use as a convenient and cheap emotional ploy in their bullshit boring movies. Period movies with great soundgtracks help set the time and place (Big Chill, Apocalypse Now, etc.) but movies set in modern times? fuck their soundtracks.
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Soundtracks are from a by-gone era where similar to the radio, access to exposure to new music was limited. The digital/streaming era has decimated the significance of movies as "mass cultural experiences" just as streaming and downloads have reduced the radio to something people begrudgingly listen to in their cars (if then even)..
Soundtracks then are an artifact of history, reflect unique circumstances, and served a distinct purpose. Movies in general have lost their appeal, so its not surprise that soundtracks have declined.
Can we say the Spawn soundtrack was the last pea of the soundtrack era?