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Re: Who needs lyrics???
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.51
Date: Monday, May 28, 2001, at 01:51:30
In Reply To: Who needs lyrics??? posted by Gatsby's Girl on Sunday, May 27, 2001, at 18:32:41:

> Two of the best movies I've seen lately, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Shrek"
> (and one good one I saw a long time ago: "Titanic"), have shared the same flaw.
> Each film had a great theme melody that occured throughout the film, and I really enjoyed it.
> Then (and this literally happened when I saw "Shrek" yesterday) right as the movie ended,
> I was about to say, "I really liked that melody", when the credits started and there was
> the melody, with a woman's voice singing these incredibly sappy, inane lyrics. It just ruined
> the song for me!

The love theme from _The Princess Bride_ is another one (although it's a man's voice singing at the end instead of a woman's). The *music* is nice, but the words... *yeuch*.

Paul