“Like a Rock” ruined by Chevy truck commercials.
“All you need is love” ruined by whatever goddamn commercials are using it now.
Not ruined exactly, but I can’t hear Tom Petty’s “American Girl” without thinking of Silence of the Lambs.
He’s probably talking about Duel of the Fates. The choral parts are in Sanskrit, not Latin, but it does sound similar enough to O Fortuna that I could understand the confusion.
Oh, that reminds me: Queen’s “I Want it All” ruined by…whatever the hell commercial they used it in a couple years ago. I think it was for a credit card.
OTOH, I’ve downloaded two of the songs featured in Lincoln commercials (Shiny Toy Guns’ covers of “Major Tom” and “Burning for You”). Mitsubishi commercials also sometimes have decent music.
Well, at least it saved you from sitting through the horrible Alien: Resurrection movie, so that’s not a total loss in my book.
I like Alien[sup]3[/sup], but I despise Alien Resurrection with such passion that I feel like I know what people who hate Alien[sup]3[/sup] feel.
I’ve downloaded those songs too. Lincoln has the best commercials right now because of the music.
I’m pretty much out of it regarding what, to me, is “new” music - if it wasn’t for the music in commercials, I’d be grooving to the oldies until I expire!
Whenever I hear Snow Patrol, I think “Grey’s Anatomy”. Not sure which media work is “ruined”, though.
I just saw a commercial, on Fox, for the Daytona 500, and it’s background song is… U2’s ‘Bad’.:smack: :dubious::rolleyes::smack:
I didn’t put it on Fox in the first place <Thanks, cats! They climb on top of the slim tv and push the buttons for fun, I swear> but I turned it off asap, and now hate the Daytona 500 for no other reason than they, or Fox <hate Fox too, neener> chose a song that has NOTHING to do with the material and just…ruined it. Well, ruined it for me. Ok not really, I love the song, it’s not like a few bars in the background of people looking at trophies is gonna change much but FFS!!! :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
Well, I can barely watch Star Wars Ep. IV anymore because of Family Guy’s Blue Harvest. I keep cracking up. Especially near the end when they’re on the Yavin moon and the guy is holding up the sensor thingy as the Falcon comes in to land. I always say the “pew, pew… gotcha.”
LOTR has ruined any movie I see Elijah Wood in. He’s Frodo. Whenever I see him on screen, I yell, “Fr-r-r-oooooooodoooo!” And yes, I have to roll the R.
You know how in some Robin Hood stories, Richard Cœur de Lion shows up at the end to reward Robin?
Try those after seeing The Lion in Winter. Good grief, that movie primed me to wish Richard & John had both lost the crown to the brother with brain.
For double suckitude, let’s say it’s Robin McKinley’s Robin of Sherwood, at the end of which our stupid Plantagenet king “rewards” the Merry Men by dragging them off to his stupid Crusade.
Robin Hood was ruined for me.
Oh, & Dark City ruined The Matrix for me in a different way. I kept waiting for Neo to learn to tune! Never bothered with the sequels.
Care to have it ruined a little more? Check out **Robin and Marian **which features Sean Connery as a disillusioned middle-aged Robin returning to England after years of witnessing pointless conflict and atrocities in the Crusades.