In the words of Fox Mulder: **Purple Rain **- great album; deeply flawed movie.
Velvet Goldmine sucked lumps as a movie, but the glam soundtrack was completely wonderful. Todd Haynes could simply have licensed a whole bunch of T.Rex and called it a day, but he took the far riskier approach of mixing original versions with modern covers and genre homages by the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke, and pulled it off magnificently.
Lost Boys - One of the best soundtracks ever.
I second Streets of Fire - Even just for “I Can Dream About You” and “Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young”.
Rush - forgettable movie, but had Clapton’s “Tears In Heaven”.
It’s not a favorite or anything, but I thought it was pretty good.
I gotta stop reading this thread.
Something we agree on!
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Daft Punk’s soundtrack was hands-down the best thing about Tron: Legacy.
With Honors, the poor man’s Dead Poet Society where over-privileged rich kids struggle with the soul-crushing burden of submitting a term paper on time.
The soundtrack is an eclectic mix of 90s alternative rock and old standards.
I specifically said soundtrack not score. This article describes the difference the way I understood it to be. Although I do understand there is overlap in the definitions.
The original “Casino Royale”. Too many writers and directors, but the score/soundtrack by Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert is the essence of groovy.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Bad movie, but the songs are classics.
Add to that it’s companion Shock Treatment. Better songs, worse movie.
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.
Until The End Of The World was a silly little Wim Wenders movie from 1991 that was eminently forgettable, if not actually bad. But the soundtrack album is a classic, full of current artists attempting to write music that would sound vaguely futuristic.
I liked the music in Oblivion, if slightly repetitive.
I love me some Vangelis soundtracks more than the movies they belong to. 1942 or Alexander didn’t deserve him.
But my main man as movie composers go is Hans Zimmer. Could Gore Verbinski stop ruining his wonderful music with crap movies, please?
Superfly
A dreadfully bad film, but Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack may have been the best album of 1972.
FlashDance and Flash Gordon
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Are you counting the Barry Nelson version as the first movie? That was a one hour episode of the TV show Climax! It wasn’t a movie.
It’s not a bad movie (IMDB has it at 6.9 with 91k votes), but while John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian was a fairly good movie, Basil Poledouris’s Conan the Barbarian score is an absolutely terrific piece of work.
True enough. On the other hand, it’s also the most disappointing thing about Tron: Legacy. I wasn’t expecting a whole lot from the movie itself (the original was hardly a cinematic masterpiece to begin with), but I was expecting a lot more Daft Punk, and a lot less Generic Movie Score from Daft Punk.