I nominate The Graduate.
I take it Brian May played “Here Comes the Bride” in his guitar. Must be one of his best pieces.
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…
You think The Graduate was a bad movie?
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Bad, bad movie, great soundtrack
what song is the main theme?
It was both a great film *and *a bad film.
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.
Frosty the Snowman, which coincidentally started up on my iTunes when I hit reply.
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.”
Not sound track but theme song: The Woman in Red.
Maximum Overdrive
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Nahhh ESB is great. But the excellent score does a lot to boost it. That and Solo being an utter dick.