I waited over ten years for Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar on Me to be used in a film. It was, ahem, Coyote Ugly.
Oh the humanity…
Celine Dions "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. No wait, i didnt see that movie. That`s strange…
Definitely Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne’s World, not that it was a bad scene (in fact I thought it was great), it’s just that the song became so overplayed after that that it began to seem like just another pop song instead of the truly brilliant piece of music that it was.
Phil Collins’ “Susudio”[sp.?] was a supremely irritating hit, but I seem to remember an interview with “American Psycho” director Mary Harron [probably from NPR’s “Fresh Air” program, although it might’ve been a director’s commentary feature from the DVD] to the effect that using that song the way they did, with the raving murderer lecturing about how great the song is, was completely ironic. You know, the utter commercialization and degradation of the sick yuppie’s soul, as exemplified in his patently awful taste in pop music and his obsession with impressive business cards.
“Pretty Woman” ruined the title track by Roy Orbison for me.
I didn’t recall that one, but Singin’ In The Rain will always evoke the “controlled” rampage scene where they rape a woman and smash her husband’s head in with an art-object giant penis.
Correction:
Her husband was gagged and forced to watch.
The art-object (“Leave that alone! Don’t touch it! It’s a very important work of art.”) giant penis was a different victim: the woman with all the cats.
[Sidenote - when MAD magazine did a parody of “A Clockwork Orange”, the ‘art-object’ was an elephant’s head with large ears and very long trunk.]
The “William Tell Overture” was done on synthesizer and speeded up, accompanying the menage à trois of Alex and the two girls from the record shop. According to this site:…The scene was shot at twelve times normal film speed (at 2 frames per second). It took an actual 28 minutes to film, but lasts only 40 seconds on screen."
One of my favorite movies, but anytime I hear Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie", I see the rumble-ballet between the two gangs.
Richard Strauss’ tone poem “Thus Spake Zarathustra” - which is now simply the 2001 theme tune. (Kubrick again)
The classic 1966 (65?) Troggs hit “Love is All Around” - mercilessly turned into a piece of aural puke for 4 Weedings & a Funeral
…Now think of what the demons who make TV commercials have done with great music!!