Adventureland

May 02, 2010 18:01

If there's one thing which has come to irk me in indie movies, it's the reliance on the Received Wisdom Soundtrack. The lovable losers always have a soundtrack of their lives composed by bands acknowledged now as influential, but not too popular. There's no reason, save pandering to modern sensibilities, that the alternatives types in a film set in 1987 would have been really into the Replacements and Hüsker Dü, instead of Guadalcanal Diary and The Mission UK (in one direction), or R.E.M. and Erasure (in the other).
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