On today's special movie-themed edition of Tunes for Tuesday:
If you're a comics geek -- and that's most of you, I think -- then you've already seen the trailers for the upcoming adaptations of Watchmen and The Spirit. The relative merits of these movies aside (Watchmen looks like it'll be excellent, if it makes it's way out of lawsuit hell and onto our screens, whereas The Spirit looks like the equivalent of Frank Miller tracking down every last fan of the original comic and slapping them slowly in the face with his dick for two hours), I have to admit that both trailers have some pretty striking music. (Even if the song in the Watchmen trailer is originally from a Batman movie.)
Anyway! With no further ado, here they both are:
If you're a comics geek -- and that's most of you, I think -- then you've already seen the trailers for the upcoming adaptations of Watchmen and The Spirit. The relative merits of these movies aside (Watchmen looks like it'll be excellent, if it makes it's way out of lawsuit hell and onto our screens, whereas The Spirit looks like the equivalent of Frank Miller tracking down every last fan of the original comic and slapping them slowly in the face with his dick for two hours), I have to admit that both trailers have some pretty striking music. (Even if the song in the Watchmen trailer is originally from a Batman movie.)
Anyway! With no further ado, here they both are:
- Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
(as featured in the Watchmen trailer) - Hybrid - Choke
(as featured in the Spirit trailer)