“Reign Over Me”

This is the view from where I’m staying for the next week, and as a result, my posts will be short and sandy…I mean sweet.

I finally saw “Reign Over Me” last night with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle. The movie as well as the music was great! I’ve been searching for the “soundtrack” (not the score/background music version) and unfortunately I don’t think the group of classic rock songs as presented in the movie will be released as a collection.

I hate it when they do this. At least release two different versions, the score, and the rest of the songs that played such a key role in many important scenes in the movie. People would be willing to hand over the cash for this collection of songs. With songwriters such as Graham Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Pete Townshend, how could you go wrong? The movie had both The Who’s version and Pearl Jam’s cover of “Love, Reign O’er Me.”

Not only is it annoying that you can’t buy all of the songs together, but even if they were all available on itunes, it takes too long to go and gather all of them and download the songs individually. If people have to hunt the music down and assemble it themselves, I see people stealing the music from a P2P service rather than jumping around twenty different itunes pages to find these songs. This seems like a missed opportunity.

On a bit of a side note: If you do happen to watch this film, doesn’t Adam Sandler look A LOT like Bob Dylan throughout much of the movie?