Replies to "Soundtrack gone too far".

Just read the replies to "Soundtrack gone too far" and found that they kind of missed the point. The post was more about the type or style of the music, than its quality or timing. For example Danny Boyle's previous film "Trainspotting", particularly the scene in which Renton (Ewan McGregor) overdoses and slips through the carpet on the floor, backed by Lou Reed's performance of "Perfect Day" was an excellent example of using a pop song as part of a compilation score. The juxtaposition of meanings of the song and the visuals working to the films advantage. Throughout the entire film this kind of marriage of ideals between the soundtrack the films visuals and storyline really served to strengthen the film. In 28 days weeks later however it seems more of a paint by numbers, or cut an paste approach. "Ok, we're heightening suspense so no music track, alright now here's the action sequence, hit it with that catchy strange synthy rock, now everyone's really bugging out lets add those weird repetitive drums etc".... So the quality of the music was good, I really enjoyed the soundtrack, and the timing was good too, appropriate tempo, sound levels etc, but the music just didn't seem to have any other kind of secondary layer affect or deeper meaning to it. It went with the movie, but didn't compliment it or drive it forward as much as in the previous films.
In that respect I think this may have something more to do with Boyle's concentration on his film "Sunshine" and that perhaps 28 weeks later was just a quickly put together money spinner for him.

Cheers.