![]() ![]() ![]() “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard, from the AMC post-credits radio ![]() “Sweet Home Alabama” by Jewel, from Sweet Home Alabama (2002) “Entertainment” by Phoenix, from The Bling Ring (2013) This song played in a “record store” (okay, an FYE) that I worked at ad nauseam, except it was the Cirque du Soleil Beatles version. “Because” by Elliott Smith, from American Beauty (1999) “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri, from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (2011) “Suddenly I See” by KT Tunstall, from The Devil Wears Prada (2006) “If You Want My Love” by Cheap Trick, from Joe Dirt (2001) I know all of the words from this, but more from my romantic exploits. “Bailamos” by Enrique Iglesias, from Wild Wild West (1999) “Generique Assault” by KRS-One, from Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) Mine is "Extreme Ways" by Moby from The Manchurian Candidate- Brett Davis August 21, 2019įirst, I know, I mistakenly referenced the song “Extreme Ways” by Moby as a song from The Manchurian Candidate and not from the Bourne films. People who worked in movie theaters: what's an end credits song that reminds you of sweeping up popcorn? I took to Twitter to see if other people had similar memories. Regardless, this is their WMD.Īn honorable mention: “Listen to the Music” by the Doobie Brothers, which played after EVERY MOVIE ended, over ads for local dentists and the movie word jumble “HVSIALNNEG.” (*The answer will follow at the end of the article!) The artist is the Blacksmoke Organisation, which sounds like a weapons-manufacturing company. Perhaps the worst earworm of the bunch was “Herbie (Fully Loaded Remix),” a cocaine-speed Disney Channel dance-pop jam with gratuitous car horns and burp sound effects. There’s nothing worse than picking up the “store snacks” snuck in by the post-church crowd on Sunday afternoon cleanups, soundtracked to John Debney’s Academy Award-nominated and overwrought score to The Passion of the Christ. “I Melt With You” and “Save It For Later,” two songs I really like, were delivered in a format I really didn’t like: over a bright-white screen, covered by Bowling for Soup, and ending the family film Sky High, ensuring a child-level mess on the floor. Other tracks from unseen movies that I weirdly remember cleaning up your filthy garbage to: I realized this while quietly singing to myself “The Pick of Destiny” by Tenacious D, the titular song from a movie that I (for sure) did not see, though I’m sure it’s very fun.Īnother song that came to mind was “Vindicated” from Spider-Man 2’s end credits, which I just now learned - despite knowing the entire chorus from memory- is by Dashboard Confessional. It’s a mild trauma, but can be made worse by the song playing through the credits, which digs into your brain after repeated listens. ![]() You see, as you gluttonous pigs exit a movie theater, the staff then enters to scrape popcorn kernels off sticky floors with the bristles of the world’s filthiest brooms. I still hear their voices crying out in the night: “I paid for this movie and I’m staying!”īut most of all, I am constantly recalling end-credits songs from movies I did not see. I was forever transformed by the injury I received when the pipes froze and flooded the projection booth, dropping a wet ceiling tile from the fluorescent light fixture onto my head as I struggled to evacuate the 5:20 showing of Christmas with the Kranks. I can recall the feel of the unwashable layer of indiscernible “sticky” on my hand after an eight-hour shift. I can still smell the odor of burnt popcorn that lingered even after a shower. We made jokes we pulled pranks I had a poof of shaggy hair - I was operating at peak Halpert, and loving it.īut it wasn’t all smirks to the metaphorical camera. In some ways, it was the best job I ever had. Photo: New Line Cinemaīefore my glamorous days of performing in dingy-basement alt-comedy shows, I was a meager employee at Clearview Cinema 10 in Roxbury, New Jersey, from the years 2004 to 2006, before the theater closed for repairs. ![]()
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