# Bad movie: great soundtrack **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885 "2014-01-27T21:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/41 "2014-01-29T02:02:31Z")
I’m not going to say it’s a bad movie because I honestly can’t remember a single thing about the movie, the soundtrack though was awesome. _The Big Chill_ First soundtrack I ever bought. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/42 "2014-01-29T02:29:50Z")
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. A travesty of movie and a waste of good source material. But the soundtrack is sublime. It’s one of my favorites out of all the Disney animated features. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/43 "2014-01-29T02:45:35Z")
No.1 has to be _Judgment Night_ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/44 "2014-01-29T02:50:42Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > I’m not going to say it’s a bad movie because I honestly can’t remember a single thing about the movie, the soundtrack though was awesome. > > _The Big Chill_ > > First soundtrack I ever bought. It’s a movie that has not held up well. But I don’t think it was awful. The soundtrack wasn’t just good, it was used about as effectively in the movie as any soundtrack ever. ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/45 "2014-01-29T21:48:32Z")
XANADU- the soundtrack was the only good thing about it! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/46 "2014-01-29T21:52:08Z")
Last Action Hero had a nice [soundtrack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero#Soundtrack) ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/47 "2014-01-29T22:12:56Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Daft Punk’s soundtrack was hands-down the best thing about **Tron: Legacy**. This is incorrect, sir. That would be Olivia Wilde. In spandex. ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/48 "2014-01-29T22:26:37Z")
The Crow sequels, [City of Angels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow:_City_of_Angels_(soundtrack)) and [Salvation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow:_Salvation_(soundtrack)) both had pretty good soundtracks. The original [Crow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_soundtrack) soundtrack is excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/49 "2014-01-29T22:59:13Z")
The soundtracks for all the Twilight movies had several songs I liked, though I never saw the movies. For scores, I like the music for Mad City and finally watched the movie one day. I’m sticking with the music. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/50 "2014-01-30T03:06:20Z")
> [@conway](#): > > The Crow sequels, [City of Angels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow:_City_of_Angels_(soundtrack)) and [Salvation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow:_Salvation_(soundtrack)) both had pretty good soundtracks. > The original [Crow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_soundtrack) soundtrack is excellent. I was absolutely obsessed with _The Crow_ when it came out. I thought it was such an amazing movie. I lived on that soundtrack, man! I bought the Blu Ray a year or so ago and watched it. Holy cow what an awful movie! DAMN! Soundtrack still kicks my ass, though. I’ll have to check out the others now, too. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/51 "2014-01-30T03:35:18Z")
[Steal This Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161216/soundtrack) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/52 "2014-01-31T04:30:35Z")
The musical score from the terrible movie Dragonheart was used in soooooo many trailers. Personally I have ‘soundtrack’ movies. There are plenty of movies that seem like it’s only function is to advertise a soundtrack collection of top forty hits. Some are decent movies like High Fidelity. But most of John Huges films, if you haven’t figured it out by now The Breakfast Club is a terrible movie, fall into this category. Cameron Crow movies are soundtrack movies so Elizabethtown is a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/53 "2014-01-31T04:44:05Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Jack Frost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141109/combined). > > The main theme is so good that it’s on my iPod. Yes, if only just for Lisa Loeb’s “How”, beautifully haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/54 "2014-01-31T06:01:09Z")
_Toys_ had a great soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/55 "2014-01-31T17:00:29Z")
Rocky was an okay movie, but I’m not going to watch it again any time soon. The Bill Conti soundtrack, on the other hand, is something I listen to at least a few times a year. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/56 "2014-01-31T19:11:31Z")
What, no conflicted love/hate for **Absolute Beginners** or **Ford Fairlane**? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/57 "2014-01-31T19:12:29Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Last Action Hero had a nice [soundtrack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero#Soundtrack) I know I have a minority opinion, but I actually liked that movie. I echo the choice of Flash Gordon. Note that whenever it is mentioned on the Dope the Queen soundtrack is mentioned, nothing else. Hell, the writer thought the movie was crap, given that the production designer didn’t read English and so had no idea of what was going on in the script. But good music. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/58 "2014-01-31T20:16:13Z")
The soundtrack from 1999’s [Ravenous](http://www.amazon.com/Ravenous-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/product-reviews/B00000I7JC/ref=cm_cr_pr_btm_link_next_2?ie=UTF8&pageNumber=2&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending). [Boyd’s Journey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-KLn_PgQg) (Don’t give up before 30 seconds…) It was composed by Damen Albarn of Blur/The Gorillaz and classical/minimalist composer Michael Nyman. It’s very weird - in a good way, IMO. It works with the strange subject matter of the movie (a dark comedy about cannibalism and immortality in the American West in the 1840s). I personally like the movie, but the box office numbers think it’s pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/59 "2014-01-31T20:30:54Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > _FlashDance_ and _Flash Gordon_ Yeah, both were cheesy fun (not bad) however the soundtracks were fabulous. I second the original “Casino Royale”, but again- cheesy fun, not actually a bad film. My nomination for difference between soundtrack and score is Men In Black- the Soundtrack had the theme song by Will Smith, the great Danny Elfman title music, and a bunch of hip-hop popular music that had little or nothing to do with the film at all. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/60 "2014-02-01T00:34:53Z")
Buffalo '66. Not a very good movie, but a very cool soundtrack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885.md?page=4)