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Bridget Jones, in addition to not being that great as a film, also has one of the most irritating soundtracks I can remember. They have chosen songs that lyrically tie in with whatever's going on in the scene but they've also chosen the single most obvious set of songs that'll appeal to the Cosmo reading female audience that are watching. It's so unadventurous it's scary and if I were to check I'm sure I would find that these songs were all already used in the first film and indeed every other rom-com from the Working Title stable. The only shock, in fact, was the lack of an M People song.

Spiderman 2 on the other hand had a good use of a popular song, using Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head to score a scene of joy at being free, briging to mind it's original use in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' in a similar scene of revelling in freedom. It's orchestral score, however, was somewhat disappointing. Normally I've enjoyed the scores of Danny Elfman and they've been well suited to the darkness of Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas for example. For the most part I didn't really notice his work in Spidey except at those moments when it was crying out for a recognisable theme. Some of the most important moments in the Superman films were made all the more dramatic by the repetition of the John Williams theme. I'm thinking specifically of when, say Superman regains his powers after giving them up for Lois or when he's been beaten into submission only to rise triumphant again. That repeating theme helped make the heart swell at those pivotal moments. Now Spiderman is a very different hero from Superman, much less triumphant and more human but still it would have been good for the Spiderman theme to swell out of the soundtrack as his powers returned and he headed off to face his enemy.

Still, a bloody great film. It's nice when workmates lend you things.

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