I have to wonder how many here are masochistic enough to have watched the entire thing without muting it. Painfully bad music on a really short loop. Blegh.

His point about trapping yourself in genres is excellent. It's really easy to label yourself and dismiss other genres as crap (god knows, I was guilty of it myself when I was a teenager).

But there are no bad genres, there is only bad music. Yeah, I still have very little time for most of the fluff in the charts, but that doesn't mean there isn't occasionally a great pop tune that catches my ear.

The real problem is college dorms. What music other people like never bothered me before, and doesn't now, no matter how terrible I personally considered it to be. The two years of my life I spent living in a college dorm was a different story though. I can take bad music for a few minutes here and there in public, or at a party where the music isn't really important, but when it's in your home, on repeat, 16 hours a day--that's different. I started to hate the people playing it too. Since "they have bad taste in music" isn't really a good reason to self-justify actually *hating* someone (who I knew, really, were okay folk), I naturally had to invent some complex, sociological explanation for it.

Of course, I grew up, left the dorms, and this isn't a problem anymore, but there are still many millions of 18-21 year-olds, living in dorms, with only three hours of classes a day, spending the rest of their ample free time sitting at their computers with Nickelback blasting through the walls on repeat. Maybe it builds character or something.

To be really fair, though, I haven't had to hear Trey Anastasio playing a guitar since then, and I can't be sure what I'd do if I did.

Regardless of whether the actual film sucks or not, this trailer has unforgivably bad music mixing going on. Zero punch whatsoever. The E.S. Posthumus mix from the original Sam Raimi film's first big trailer makes this sound like a kindergarten kazoopalooza.

Actually, the kindergarten kazoopalooza would have sounded better. It would at least have scored points for bravery.

And exactly who is supposed to fill the enormous galoshes left by J K Simmons as J Jonah Jameson? Probably a very hard-working, well-intentioned actor with no shortage of talent, but I feel for him, whoever he may be, without even having seen his face or heard his voice. Clearly the studio saw fit not to include him in this trailer.

I want to believe this won't be a bad film. It will be a very long time before a real-life President lives up to the fictional model created by Martin Sheen. I have zero beef with Denis Leary as Captain Stacey, nor with Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors, even as badly as I wanted to see Dylan Baker do it under Raimi's skilled hand. I want to give people a fair shot at doing good work. But the leadup to this film ain't making it easy.

[EDIT] -- Just to prove the point, it's a poor quality link, but THIS is how you mix a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFtYmWb9FQA

I miss Sam Raimi mixing with Marvel, but I have reasonably high hopes for Joss Whedon.

That. Is. Awesome.

(And by 'That' I mean the incredibly well done mimic and not the song. That song is the perfect example of why dubstep is considered bad music by many. A continually repeated hip-hop beat with some semi-rhythmic screeches and drones overlayed (and nothing else) is the formula and makes for a very boring progression. On the other hand, the above Rusko remix is a perfect example of well-made, and very rare, dubstep. You can hear the melodic continuity from one section to the other even between sections with vastly different aesthetic feels. Please, all you dubstep producers out there, try. (: )

>> ^westy:

This is pretty retarded "we have nothing more to talk about "
cheesy editing bad music comes across as one of them retarded Conservative political infomercials , If this is intended for Christians to watch they will turn it off right away and i'm not really sure how its constructive for atheists , i'm sure its not that hard to highlight idiotic parts of religion and people that follow religion without coming across as non communicative and confrontational.


I agree, mostly. It's a bit heavy-handed and over-produced; it probably would have been more impactful without the music and without all the footage of the actress typing her letter.

As a lifelong atheist of secular-minded, deist parents I cannot fully empathize with this video's perspective but I know that for many others, it hits home. I can't imagine how ridiculous it would be to really have to argue about the merits and historical accuracy of the bible with my own parents.

However, my father, a retired high school science teacher, recently had a weird bout of moon-landing hoax conspiracy fever after watching a video of that jackass who confronted Neil Armstrong with a camera crew and a bible, demanding he swear that he really walked on the moon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znzoVcjS2IA&NR=1 Apparently, he found it rather damning in favor of the hoax.

I humored him for a while. In fact, for his birthday, I got him a bunch of books about the moon landing, just as a joke. His being a science teacher with a masters degree made it especially weird. But it got to the point that that's all he wanted to talk about so I said, "look, during the two times a year we see each other, I'd prefer that those times go smoothly. If you feel the same, you'll not raise this topic again." And that seemed to do the trick.

I can almost understand someone believing the moon landing was a hoax. But that the stories in the bible are true? That's just puerile silliness.

This is pretty retarded "we have nothing more to talk about "

cheesy editing bad music comes across as one of them retarded Conservative political infomercials , If this is intended for Christians to watch they will turn it off right away and i'm not really sure how its constructive for atheists , i'm sure its not that hard to highlight idiotic parts of religion and people that follow religion without coming across as non communicative and confrontational.

very nice. very very.

*electronica

Friday, Friday, Can't wait till friday, now I have the bad music back

>> ^Sagemind:

??? - his voice is dubbed over with bad music - this doesn't make any sense...
EDIT: are we to assume, this is because she wouldn't listen to it anyway...??



"bad music"

uhhh sorry, but Jay-Z is sweet.

What video are you watching?>> ^Sagemind:
??? - his voice is dubbed over with bad music - this doesn't make any sense...
EDIT: are we to assume, this is because she wouldn't listen to it anyway...??

??? - his voice is dubbed over with bad music - this doesn't make any sense...

EDIT: are we to assume, this is because she wouldn't listen to it anyway...??

Ugh, bad music remix.

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*religion is the root to all bad music.

>> ^DerHasisttot:

meh... they switched from (imo) bad music to better bad music (imo).
They should have used some good old punk song (imo).


the piont is not in the "quality" of the music , the point is its having a go against the shit flash mob adverts.

I agree though some classic punk might have been better and would have convoyed things more than the DNB track they used.