In a similar vein, the Star Wars prequels ruined the original for me. I loved Star Wars from the first time I saw it as a ten year-old boy. In fact I’ve boycotted the Academy Awards show for over 30 years because they failed to recognize Stars Wars as the best picture of 1977. After seeing Phantom Menace (and the re-release of Stars Wars), I’m forced to admit that the Academy might have had a point.
Now I no longer boycott the Oscars. I simply don’t watch because it’s over-produced, self-congratulatory drek.
To me it’s not quite the same, because the first three Star Wars movie are a complete story on their own; they make perfect sense–in fact, MORE sense–if you’ve never seen the prequels. So you can just pretend the prequels don’t exist.
But Fellowship and Two Towers are both wonderfull movies that tell incomplete stories. And I can’t stand the ending.
I don’t really begrudge the Warner Bros. folks for using that music because they were creating something special. There are other cases of people putting parody lyrics to classics that I wish I’d never heard because I can’t get the words out of my head when I hear that music again.
I’m looking forward to that golden interval when I’m senile enough to forget the lyrics to Stars and Stripes Forever, but still lucid enough to appreciate it.
Well, I can’t watch that scene in Hamlet where Polonius talks about “neither a borrower or a lender be” without hearing it sung by the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island. Then again I may have only watched Hamlet once or twice so it doesn’t come up that often.
By the way, did you realize that the opening music to the Sam and Ralph cartoons was also from “William Tell”? Warner Bros used it often for “generic calm, pastoral morning”.
I can’t listen to the Gospel reading of the Sermon on the Mount without thinking “Blessed are the Cheesemakers.”
That particular Gospel reading is one that Catholics getting married may select as part of the wedding Mass. My sister recently emphatically did not choose it, saying she didn’t want her “brothers and friends giggling and whispering Monty Python jokes throughout the service.”
Well, I didn’t say that RotK ruined the first two movies for EVERYONE.
I think you mean Alien 3. But I’m a jerk.
I have odd story on that one. It came out when I was in college, and I went to see it with a group of my slacker friends who all loved the first two; I, contrariwise, had never seen either. So it was my introduction to the franchise, and I heartily enjoyed it, whereas my friends all hated it. As we all had similar taste in movies, I have avoided seeing the first two ever since lest I ruin the third for myself.
I understand this has denied me the chance to see Sigourney Weaver in her scanties. The things one does for art!
What’s funny is that I associate that piece of music with Star Wars. It was never used in Star Wars, but there was some commercial for the episode with Darth Sith flailing around, and the music was SIMILAR to O Fortuna…to the point that years later I thought it WAS that. I’ve seen probably half a dozen movies and commercials that use O Fortuna, and none of them stick with me. But the Star Wars <non> one does! :smack:
