# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/101 "2015-12-11T04:47:04Z")
I nominate _The Graduate_. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/102 "2015-12-11T06:02:40Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > _Flash Gordon_ I take it Brian May played “Here Comes the Bride” in his guitar. Must be one of his best pieces. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/103 "2015-12-11T06:18:13Z")
I see that _Heavy Metal, Last Action Hero, The Lost Boys_ and _Singles_ have been mentioned already. Therefore I’ll add: _Vision Quest._ Completely dull, forgettable movie about God knows what. Soundtrack contains Journey, Foreigner, Sammy Hagar, Dio, Don Henley, John Waite, Red Rider, and two Madonna songs that I can actually stomach. _Against All Odds._ Completely dull, forgettable movie about God knows what. Title song was a huge hit for Phil Collins, and it came early in his solo career so I can actually stomach it. Also has songs by Stevie Nicks, Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford (best song he ever wrote, too!) Big Country and Kid Creole & the Coconuts. _To Live and Die in L.A._ is actually a great film, but I gotta mention it just to give props to the amazing Wang Chung soundtrack. Hey, somebody mentioned Highlander & Queen… ---
**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:** [December 14, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/104 "2015-12-14T19:28:02Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I nominate _The Graduate_. You think _The Graduate_ was a bad movie? ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/105 "2015-12-14T19:33:27Z")
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Bad, bad movie, great soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/106 "2015-12-14T20:40:29Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Jack Frost](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141109/combined). > > The main theme is so good that it’s on my iPod. what song is the main theme? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/107 "2015-12-14T20:41:40Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > The original “Casino Royale”. Too many writers and directors, but the score/soundtrack by Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert is the essence of groovy. It was both a great film \*and \*a bad film. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/108 "2015-12-14T20:45:18Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Well, that’s just wrong twice. The original Casino Royale was marked by the very absence of Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert music. The second Casino Royale, which did contain BB and HA music, was a fun parody. The one-hour television adventure, an epi of the Climax! show, wasn’t a movie, however. It was a episode of TV, where Bond was American. it did have Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre, however, an inspired choice. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/109 "2015-12-14T21:59:56Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > what song is the main theme? [Frosty the Snowman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2_jUDQHVc&t=0m28s), which coincidentally started up on my iTunes when I hit reply. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/110 "2015-12-15T05:49:03Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > You think _The Graduate_ was a bad movie? Yes. To quote Roger Ebert: “Is ‘The Graduate’ a bad movie? Not at all. It is a good topical movie whose time has passed, leaving it stranded in an earlier age.” Since the movie was before my time it looks like a bad movie to me. Great songs, though. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/111 "2015-12-15T07:25:42Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Yes. To quote Roger Ebert: “Is ‘The Graduate’ a bad movie? Not at all. It is a good topical movie whose time has passed, leaving it stranded in an earlier age.” Since the movie was before my time it looks like a bad movie to me. Great songs, though. They **would** be great songs - if the so-called soundtrack were more than the same few songs being played over and over and over and over… By the end, I was ready to support the death penalty for playing “Scarborough Fair.” ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/112 "2015-12-15T23:49:49Z")
Not sound track but theme song: The Woman in Red. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/113 "2015-12-16T04:50:43Z")
Maximum Overdrive ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/114 "2015-12-16T05:16:12Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Yes. To quote Roger Ebert: “Is ‘The Graduate’ a bad movie? Not at all. It is a good topical movie whose time has passed, leaving it stranded in an earlier age.” Since the movie was before my time it looks like a bad movie to me. Great songs, though. !!! Are you nuts??? _ **“The Graduate”** _ was a bit before my time too, but the feel and essence of the story is timeless. Sure, you can like it or not like, but **no way** is it a bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/115 "2015-12-16T05:34:46Z")
I think it’s a bad movie. It’s a dumb and uninteresting story which has, outside of Bancroft, mediocre acting. What is timeless about the movie? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/116 "2015-12-16T05:57:17Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I think it’s a bad movie. It’s a dumb and uninteresting story which has, outside of Bancroft, mediocre acting. What is timeless about the movie? Agreed. The film was interminable and unfunny. I saw it in the theater at a revival, giving it every chance, and I came out of it loathing every character, hating Simon and Garfunkel’s mediocre excuse for a soundtrack and not having laughed once. “Timeless” is a film like _Some Like It Hot_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/117 "2015-12-16T10:19:31Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Barry Lyndon comes to mind. This movie is one of only two films ever that I have openly cried at. Not just leaked a tear or two, but _ **sobbed** _. And it was the music that did it. Remember the scene as the little boy lays dying, asking his parents not to fight any more? Then the scene switches to his funeral procession, as the music swells majestically? I started bawling like a baby. It was so pitiful, his little coffin borne along on the goat cart he used to like to drive. That time in the theater was the only time I saw the movie, and the scene, and the musical accompaniement, is still burned into my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/118 "2015-12-16T10:42:25Z")
The space wizard movies, of which there’s a new one out this week… That’s a bunch of movies which have becoming massively overrated, when it reality it had decent effects and an excellent score. But crap story, acting, and big teddy bears. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/119 "2015-12-16T12:07:11Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > The space wizard movies, of which there’s a new one out this week… > > That’s a bunch of movies which have becoming massively overrated, when it reality it had decent effects and an excellent score. But crap story, acting, and big teddy bears. Ha. You sound like reporters who refuse to utter the name of a mass murderer, lest they give them undeserved personal fame. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885/120 "2015-12-16T14:03:28Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > The space wizard movies, of which there’s a new one out this week… > > That’s a bunch of movies which have becoming massively overrated, when it reality it had decent effects and an excellent score. But crap story, acting, and big teddy bears. Nahhh ESB is great. But the excellent score does a lot to boost it. That and Solo being an utter dick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movie-great-soundtrack/679885.md?page=7)