When Rolling Stones Songs are Used Well in Movies

After all of that career introspection, I figure it's about time to post a blog entry that's mostly YouTube clips from popular culture.  

Beware, the clips include some creative foul language and a TINY bit of gore, so they're not for kids or for people who dislike that sort of thing.

There are also some spoilers because I'm showing scenes taken from around the end of two of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen The Royal Tenenbaums or Full Metal Jacket and you loathe spoilers, please skip to something else.

OK. With that business out of the way, it's time for some YouTube videos.

For some reason, the way the end credits kick in at the end of Full Metal Jacket is one of my favorite things, ever:



Along similar lines, I like how the Rolling Stones' She Smiled Sweetly helps bouy this tragicomic love scene between adopted siblings:




If I'm ever on trial for a terrible crime that I am actually guilty of, I would like to have a good, older Rolling Stones song played subliminally during the closing statement. I think it might do the trick. Nothing says "please forgive these horrible people, for they are no less human than you" quite like a Rolling Stones song playing in the background.

These two scenes legitimately popped into my head on the commute home and I decided to blog the thought before I forgot about it. Although Goodfellas is my favorite mafia movie, I forgot that the song Gimme Shelter was in it. I had to look that up on Google. When I think about the music in that movie, all I remember is the end of Clapton's Layla wrapping the story up. That long sequence is to chilling for me to link to, even though I love it, because I am a sentimental person who gets easily attached to movie characters.

But you should watch that whole movie if you are so inclined.