Movie Montage Hall of Fame:
Teen Wolf (Shooting for the Moon)
Filed Under (Movies) by admin on 29-01-2009
Tagged Under : Amy Holland, Lorie Griffin, Teen Wolf
Well, technically this end credits sequence may not meet all the formal criteria of a proper montage. Nonetheless, it is welcomed into the Hall of Fame on several peripheral grounds.
It combines several elements that have become key factors in great montages: Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox, a 1980s soundtrack queen (Amy Holland), high school and sports.
Perhaps second only to E.G. Daily (Summer School) and Robert Tepper (Rocky IV) as a pop music soundtrack specialist, Amy Holland also made a notable mark on the Scarface soundtrack, among others.
Here, Shooting for the Moon provides the backdrop for the end credits (and character resolutions) of Teen Wolf, and commences mere moments after the film’s other great montage (Win in the End).
With back-to-back double montage action, Teen Wolf brought us not only gnarly music, radical basketball action and montage supremacy, but also…ahem…Lorie Griffin (see right).
Sure, Boof was nicer and certainly not bad-looking, but there must have been some kind of shady double angle Michael J. Fox could have worked here.