There’s a British horror film called “My Little Eye” that I saw a bit of a ways back. It’s not a particularly memorable film except that it used a lot of night vision effects and was one of Bradley Cooper’s first film roles. The premise is that five people inhabit a house, Big Brother style, with the prospect of collection a share of prize money if they serve out their term despite various offputting hijinks unleashed on them by the show’s creators. As the contestants eventually learn, to their horror, the “reality show” is actually just a setup for a snuff film, with gamblers placing bets on the order in which the contestants will die. At the end, the last virgin standing escapes the house and falls into the arms of a police officer, only for him to handcuff her and later shoot her in the back as she tries to run off into the woods. The film ends with a shot of a TV monitor showing her lying on the floor of a locked room, bleeding and moaning and whimpering in fear, before the camera is switched off and the final credits roll. That’s kind of how the end of this football season felt to me. Here’s the song that plays.
This week’s theme: exit music for a film. Throw down some of your favorite songs that were used to close out films. They don’t have to be anywhere near as dark as this one; I just figured I’d strike while the iron was hot.
Full Metal Jacket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InRDF_0lfHk
The Matrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg
Been waiting for this to show up.
It showed up last night. Let’s scroll down people.
Did not!
I feel like this one, from the end of Trainspotting, should be dedicated to the Atlanta Falcons team medical staff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTFrCbQGyvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_-qaqQQc8
This would be fantastic as “Exit Music (For a Dolphins Season)”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4
I should have mentioned that TV shows are okay too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnE1xRRamw
Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven’s Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGi8LvE9Afk
Donnie Darko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
“I’m a star. I’m a star. I am a big, bright, shining star.”
– Brett Favre, gazing at himself in the mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2d45tOgBl0
Did last night’s game kill Hippo?
No Patriot Schadenfraude day? Fuck thats the worst part about this
The Patriots have made it to at least the AFC Championship Game 11 times in 16 seasons under Belichick. Holy balls.
The only streak that compares is the 1981-94 49ers, who had 5 SB in 14 seasons.
Ugh.
Very drunk. Any Smiths fans? Morrissey is a fuckhead but young Jonny Marr is fantastic.
Put your middle fingers in the air like you just don’t care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=520L6QMLdi8
Are we all well? Home drunk listening to tunes. feed me!
Am listening to Thursday. not bad
Do Dope. Fuck Hope by Run the Jewels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUfrXglib7s
After this P*triots victory, I’d say fuck dope, pass me the Fentanyl
If we’re talking Lost In Translation, I prefer the song that ran over the credits. I never get tired of these chord changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-JQe3f6tc0
Also current mood:
Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUYjpKg9KY
Current mood:
Fuck it all by Frozen
https://youtu.be/yJ-jvEd0pDw
I was already listening to this before your comment showed up. I might share the same sentiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikpc1BN4nN8
Try that again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-jvEd0pDw
Sticking with Life Aquatic music. One of the few Bowie covers I love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKyvk5w4Ujs
All the musical fun of a funeral dirge, and the lyrical component of surviving a nuclear war. Yeah, an apt ode to this NFL season. And seemingly life in the USA in general right now.
More of an actual last scene in the movie than credits, if you haven’t seen Life Aquatic and plan to watch it at some point skip this one
::spoilers::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMf8G8Pi5o
Point Break
https://youtu.be/Qn8EEEpWcvw
Rushmore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xwnb3cymc
My favorite war movie, Kelly’s Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIjE_gDw94
Airheads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lR8e0f-Bx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGJeXShopk
Ferris Bueller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roxxhOxnupM
They sound like a way, way more professional version of Birdcloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uHHebLL37c
Deadpool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJBcZHzgD7s
Lost in Translation. Just Like Honey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE
This is the Townes Van Zandt cover of “Dead Flowers” that played over the end of Lebowski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwC7Qzljso
outstanding.
I fucking love Townes and Lebowski, so it’s a pretty natural pick for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK7Wd1RWSL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXi3mCfv15k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzzjFVF25IQ
Again not 100% on theme,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwpt092O7U
Stay on point man!
We’re only a handful of comments in.
You can do it!
It was the climax of 3 seasons of plot, they just showed everything being ruined after if I remember how they framed it correctly
It’s cool.
Here, have a twinkie. I’ve got two of them. I’ll share.
Buddy?
Don’t even get me started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHy9jZ8tDk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW4MJlZsGZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfkDHfnje84
Lost in Translation if I am supposed to name it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE
I might have cheated before and used TV shows, but fuck you, they are normally better than movies now. See the ads for movies from earlier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCMHmDnfD6I
Godfather III may have been lousy, but the music at the end is beautiful. (Not credits music, but it is the end of the movie.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQ2D6AIys8
And maybe I’m just being a dick, but here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHwqtUxs20
This feels obligatory, Pixies at the end of Fight Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iC0YXspJRM
Beat new to it ya bastard.
I still love you though.
And maybe something a little more uplifting: Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVsmq9mNtA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8y3kneqrs
Pretty sure this is at the beginning and the end of Orgazmo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXaT_1I-vw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVHnWyDmdw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8
From Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rlHVe6g9Q