How does the score effect the film...Suicide Squad vs Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
- Josh
- Nov 7, 2017
- 2 min read

Its no secret, one of my favourite films from the last couple of years is the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (creative titles i know). Now one of the main reasons for this is the score, not only did the score give nostalgia to the older audiences, but an awesome beat for action scenes to fight to...many younger generations think that older music is boring but songs like; the chain - Fleetwood Mac, Fox on the Run - Sweet, and Mr Blue Sky
- ELO.
Not only do these older songs bring new life to old 'dead' songs but it also opens the world of music before electronic, at time where music meant something, i mean have you listened to Martin Garrix, that stuff is interesting, you know he 'wrote a song' called animals, that consists of 6 words...I'm off topic, thats just and example of how music has gone downhill.

I feel like the trend of using well known songs to go behind a film is now over used, after Marvel released Guardians of the Galaxy, their rivals DC released their villain protagonist film Suicide Squad, this film gained mixed reviews as the film was carried by its cast and its characters, the plot was loose and the plot holes in it were equal to a sponge... but what made the film bearable was the score, they used songs like Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) and Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum), not to mention Super Freak (Rick James). This to me felt like a complete rip off of the Guardians of the Galaxy's attempt to make an attractive film and score.

The director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 James Gunn talked about why the music was selected for the second film and how it was integrated into the movie' "There are two songs that are the most deeply embedded into the fibers of the film," says Gunn. "'The Chain' is one because it is about the Guardians, at least in the way we use it, and we use it a couple of times in the movie. And the other one is 'Brandy,' which is an incredibly important song in the movie. Both happen to be two of my favorite songs from the Seventies." He also in an interview with SourceNews talks about how the songs are only heard when a device that could be playing the sounds are in frame, unlike Suicide squad where the music come out of nowhere and holds no meaning to the film whatsoever.
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