Are we talking in a strict budget sense here, or do you sincerely believe that you can judge the story and the cinematography of a movie by listening to a song?

Otherwise, the answer seems obvious. You think good movies equals big budget, and those movies can afford better soundtracks.

If you want to watch a great but sad short film with nice sound watch this film. If your idea of good movies is the Hollywood action films you probably will not enjoy this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh7sQ4hPnyk

If you think of "a movie" as the grand sum of all its parts, then if the music is bad, the movie will be perceived as bad. I have seen plenty of movies with good stories and cinematography, but bad music (star trek). I have also seen plenty of bad stories with good music (avatar).

I disagree; while some movies are bad all the way through, often enough the start of the film is decent, and it teeters off into craps-ville about half way through when it becomes clear the writer and director didn't have a good enough grasp on the tone of the film, it's characters or emotional flow of the film to engage an audience for the duration.

Dare Devil, for example, had a decent enough opening and then became fucking horrible about thirty or so minutes in.  The Director's Cut is actually amazingly better - in case anyone wants to watch it - however the music in Dare Devil is pretty damn good, even in the theatrical release.

I can tell a film is going to be utter garbage crap after the first 10 minutes; they have that long to engage me, and make me want to watch the rest of the film.  Quantom of Solace, for example, failed to make me interested in it's high speed car chase opening scene though it's terrible cinematography and camera work; it only go worse from there, and I knew it sucked before the first ten minutes.

After that 10 minute opening, they have to maintain that level of interest throughout.  Some films don't, like the aforementioned Dare Devil, can't and instead of being garbage like Quantom of Solace, they're just disappointing.  Some films maintain it all the way through, like Avatar, where even though the story isn't amazing, you want to see what's coming next.  Other films maintain it so well, that you wish the film didn't end - these are the great ones.  The ones that end, and the moment it's over you want to watch it again are the classics; Terminator 2, Fight Club, etc.

My memory on specific movies is terrible but I think what i am talking about here is the really crappy movies, such as Superman4, the kind of movies that when they are new release in the video store, only 1 copy is put on the shelf!! Whereas movies such as star trek, Avatar or Quantum of Solace are still generally entertaining to a vast number of people.

Opening music scores don't do much for me...the content of the movie does! I like old b & w classics when they were required to ACTUALLY act and foreign films. Nope, reading subtitles isn't a problem as long as it's a good story either. Some of the best movies I've seen had an "okay" opening score but If I'd left the theater or turned it off due to the intro...I'd have missed out on something good.

Basing subjective opinions on subjective opinions? Hmmmm...

A rather disconnected remark, but however here is an interesting article for you;

by Madeline Goldstein

Blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception.  Most people believe that we see with our eyes.  The fact is, however, that it is our brain that “perceives” what we think we see.  These famous blind people have changed and shaped the world in many areas such as music, politics, science, art and sport because they refused to allow their lack of external light perception to quench or stifle their inner light. The world has been illuminated by their courage and talent.  

• Helen Keller - (June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968) Helen Keller was an American author, activist and lecturer who was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college. She was a tireless advocate for people with disabilities and numerous other causes.
• Stevie Wonder – (Born May 13, 1950)  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter-record producer and multi-instrumentalist. A list of famous blind people wouldn't be complete without this composer's name. Wonder penned such hits as "Ebony and Ivory" that aided the civil rights cause in a non-violent way.
• Ray Charles - (September 23, 1930-June 10, 2004) Ray Charles was an American pianist and musician whose gritty and soulful voice shaped the sound of rhythm and blues.
• Claude Monet - (November 14, 1840-December 5, 1926) Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting. By 1907, he had become quite famous, but began having serious problems with his eyesight and started to go blind.  Even though his eyes continued to get worse, he never stopped painting.  At the end of his life, when he was almost completely blind, he painted one of his most famous murals of water lilies.
• Andrea Bocelli - (Born 22 September 1958) Andrea Bocelli became blind at the age of 12 years old following a football accident. He was a multi-instrumentalist and has sung with other great operatic singers such as Pavarotti.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (January 30, 1882 -April 12, 1945) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States of America. Roosevelt had several disabilities including vision impairment.  He was one of the most popular presidents in history.
• Thomas Gore - (December 10, 1870-March 16, 1949) Thomas Gore was a Democratic politician. He became blind as a child, but never gave up his dream of becoming a senator. In 1907, he was one of the first two senators from the new state of Oklahoma. He was re-elected twice more. He was famous as a member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.
• Harriet Tubman - (1820/21-March 1913) Harriet Tubman was a slave throughout her youth who escaped to Canada but returned to the U.S. where she helped bring hundreds of black slaves to safety in what was called the Underground Railroad.  She received a cruel head wound which led to severe vision impairment and seizures.  This did not stop her from fighting for the freedom of her people.
• Louis Braille - (January 4, 1809-January 6, 1852) Louis Braille accidentally stabbed himself in the eye, becoming blind from this injury.  He was the inventor and designer of Braille writing which enables blind people to read from a series of organized bumps.
• Marla Runyan - (Born January 4, 1969) Marla Runyan is a marathon runner who is legally blind. She is the three-time national champion in the women's 5.000 meter run. Runyan was the first legally blind athlete to compete in the Olympics Games.  She placed eighth in the 1,500-meter in the 2000 Sydney Olympics making it the highest finish by an American woman in that event. In 2002 she finished as the top American at the 2002 New York City Marathon to post the second-fastest debut time ever by an American woman.

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Your not actually 'disagreeing' with me by the way, what your talking about is an issue on a different end of the spectrum for which i have no specific disagreement.

Jafo is Deaf, hence the preoccupation with not being able to tell a good movie by the intro music

Am i the only one to realize?.....

Edit: Apologies Jafo....  but at least this post gave me a good laugh!! Thanks.

I think i understand now what i have not made clear about my point....  I do not sit and know if each and every movie i watch is good or bad just by hearing the intro music - most movies it is inconclusive. But of the few brilliant movies and crap movies that i see, it is always so easy to identify them just by the intro music. There is something 'instinctive' or 'intuitive' about how i am able to tell a movie is crap from the intro music. And as i said earlier, it is curious to me that if i can tell it is crap just from the intro music, then how come the producers of that crap movie could not see this for themselves? As discussed earlier, possibly a combination of budget pressure and lack of talent?

What you mention about zipping around on the TV reminded me of something i used to do when i was younger.... I used to get a long play video tape (before computers/Internet popularity) and record Rage or Video Hits. Then i would zip through the tape later on and listen to the first second or so of each song before fast forwarding to the next song. I only need to hear about 2 seconds of each song to know it is crap 99% of the time, but not 'crap' actually, yes plenty were crap, but also i was skipping all the ok songs as well.... because what i was looking for were 'good' songs! Once i have found good songs on the tape i will put them on cassette for identification and then buy the album/single. I do similar thing on computer - i just download tons of music then zip through it, and see if anything is good. Typically, if i download 100 songs, i will be lucky to keep 3 of them!

My friends have told me i am quite fussy with music, infact If Earth was about to be destroyed and i was escaping on a spaceship and i was asked to choose all the best music from our planets entire history and fit on just one disk (mp3, not wave) as the only record of music to survive... i would say, "no problem at all, i will be back in five seconds, here you go, and look, there is space left over to fit some games!!

I am always so amused to instantly know a movie is either good or bad

I do not sit and know if each and every movie i watch is good or bad just by hearing the intro music

most movies it is inconclusive

 it is always so easy to identify them just by the intro music