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I love listening to the music during the movie as well as on the soundtracks XD It's really amazing what music will do for the feel of a scene. I also love those scenes where something is going on and suddenly you realize that there /is/ no music; if the silence is done well, it can also really set the mood.

Also, some of my favorite things to listen to while I'm driving are soundtracks. Keeps it from getting too quiet, but if I'm with someone else, the music doesn't detract from the conversation.

yes, i do!specially action movies, their music suits me >w< they make my heartbeat flows with them XD

other else would be disney movies i guess...their soundtracks are quite good actually =) and i too usually end up downloading those soundtracks and getting addicted to the music sometimes, hehe

I've only bought a few soundtracks, for some reason a lot of the times the music doesn't grab me as much as it does for some people. The most recent movies that go me to buy the soundtracks were Pirates of the Caribbean 3 and the Harry Potter movies (3 and 5 were the ones that stuck out the most).

False alarm. Read the one below. X-P

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Originally Posted by Clair Voyant

Sometimes that's the reason I love the movie!Because the music rocks! The music in the movie
"The Secret Of Roan Inish" had great music! I loved listening to it! I wish I had it!

ZOMG, I thought I was the only one! I used to watch that movie a lot when I was a kid, and I've looked for the soundtrack for ages!

To answer the original question, YES YES YES I listen to the music when I watch a movie, and yes, to a degree, the music affects whether or not I like the movie. Example: If the music to The Nitemare Before Christmas wasn't as fabulous as it is, I probably wouldn't like it quite so much. The music plays a crucial role in that movie, and Danny Elfman pulled it off marvelously.

Now, that particular movie has songs and catchy tunes that you can sing along with and really attach yourself to. But it's the same story with instrumental music. Example: I absolutely LOVE the music in the movie Apollo 13. I don't have the soundtrack, but I've got the movie, and I never get tired of hearing that music. Sometimes I'll watch the movie just so I can hear it again. It's the same story for the movie Field of Dreams. The music makes those movies. I bet they wouldn't be as popular as they are today if their soundtracks had been bad. Now, granted, those movies also have non-musical merits, like good acting, good plot writing, etc. However, the music not only sets the feel of the movie at any given moment, but it can also help propel the theme of the movie by giving it an audible identity.

Now, there's another side to that coin. The only time in my life that I ever considered walking out on a movie (and the only reason I didn't was because I stubbornly refused to get less than my money's worth) was when I went to see The New World. The whole movie was really awful, but I think that if the music hadn't been so objectionable, I might have given it more of a chance. As it was, the music was stagnant, repetitive, and dull. It had a very Wagnerian feel to it (in fact, when my friends and I were in the theater, we noticed that one particular theme sounded exactly like a theme we'd heard in Wagner's Ring Cycle), but whereas Wagner only repeats a theme over the course of a piece that lasts perhaps fifteen minutes (with the exception of his Ring Cycle, which has several themes to mix and match, so you don't get too bored), this music repeated itself, without variation, over the course of a couple of hours. Needless to say, we were about ready to bust down a wall with our heads.

So you see, the music does matter. I'm glad to see that, as is evident by this thread, it matters to more people than just the music geeks like me. ^_^;

I think music is one of the most powerful subtleties in a movie. Movies tend to move 100x faster for the audience if there's music in the background. If the music is really good it can totally transform the viewing experience.

One of the first things we're taught in audiology is the difference between a clip with music and a clip without music. You can watch a clip without music and it feels like it's dragging on forever. There's just such a difference. It really does have an effect on the way we perceive things. And, I think a lot of people would agree, John Williams is the man. xD