Of the 13 songs on the soundtrack CD there are 3 by M.I.A. (and one is just a remix of paper planes). I think you just key in on her songs because she is an artist that you recognize. The rest of it is done by artists you aren't generally exposed to so I think you just don't key in on it.

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I wish I had a better way to describe the utter feeling of revulsion the thought of seeing this movie brings up.

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I've even watched something (I think it was the Beach) only to afterwords think to myself "that had to be a Boyle movie".

Comparatively speaking I thought there wasn't much of that here. I thought this was more in his Millions style then his Trainspotting style. Still even with Millions you get done with it and know its one of his.

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That being said, I liked this movie. The story was strong. And I loved loved loved LOVED Trainspotting. All the shit worked in that film. I just felt the main character in this film's life was too horrific to shoot like a music video.

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I think its important for a director to have a style. It can get to a point where they beat you over the head with it (see McG for a really good (bad?) example) but I've always thought Boyle did a great job at tempering his style to the movie at hand. Millions, A Life Less Ordinary, Sunshine, 28 Days Later are all shot appropriately IMO and they're all vastly different movies yet they all have the little bits and pieces that let you know its a Boyle movie but he's very good about tempering it for the story at hand.

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@Killjoy: Did you mean to respond to woods54?

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Then again I felt that way about The Royal Tanenbaums (and still do...) which everyone felt was so clever and great.

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But, obviously my desire to not see a movie simply because I find myself unable to be engrossed by it while I quite likely own far more obscure and unknown artistic films than you've ever heard of, has something to do with my general trivia knowledge. Then again, it's nice to know that your very first Gizmodo post is an insult rather than anything contributory.

Or, as someone else pointed out, MIA's music is featured in the previews and as I cannot stand her music, it couldn't possibly be that every damn advertisement for the movie I see is playing "Paper Airplanes" in the background.

@tande04: That might also be part of my desire to not see it. I'm just not big on "fate" movies. I have issues with fate vs personal choice. There's just this perfect storm of things that makes me not want to see the movie, including the hype surrounding it.

I'll likely eventually watch it, but every once in a while something hits me as so obscenely over marketed that I just cannot bring myself to pay to watch it.

I cannot really quite put my finger on it, but something, or many things, about this film really makes me want to NOT see it ever.

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