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I'm sad that music is such a minimal part of movies now. Movie music gave the movies a way to bleed into the rest of life, and become permanent parts of culture. The movie could be present and important to you even while you weren't immediately watching it.

even pop music soundtracks - Better Off Dead, Streets of Fire, like, Shrek had really iconic soundtracks that were mixtapes of a dozen popular songs you don't really get that anymore

i had occasion to watch shrek recently for the first time and that was a weird kind of antiquated thing where they just constantly did musical numbers, sort of like watching the marx brothers and them interleaving dance sequences into the plot like that was normal somehow

@godoglyness.bsky.social

I've really come around on musicals from when I was younger I used to kinda think they were terrible & cringe & unimmersive But now I think, done right, musical numbers really do enhance the film

I can't remember ever appreciating one but maybe the epiphany will someday hit me

Man, I love them. Bollywood really got this right that music belongs in romances.