# Crummy movies with good soundtracks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2011, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871 "2011-11-14T05:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/41 "2011-11-15T01:13:20Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > “Dances With Wolves”-terrible movie, excellent score. I quite liked that film… There’s plenty of crappy Spaghetti Westerns with brilliant scores, often by Ennio Morricone. The best example would be _Death Rides A Horse_ - not the worst film I’ve ever seen, but a deeply average one, with possibly Morricone’s best score. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/42 "2011-11-15T01:36:13Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > 1942, the early Stephen Spielberg movie, is usually considered pretty bad, but I like the John Williams soundtrack. You’re off by a year… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/43 "2011-11-15T02:22:36Z")
_Velvet Goldmine_ stank like a dead walrus. The soundtrack, however, in which a bunch of 90s British and American musos collaborated to cover both cover 70s glam orginals and offer their own takes on the genre, was a thing of wonder and beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/44 "2011-11-15T02:23:44Z")
That’s what I get for trusting my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/45 "2011-11-15T03:15:45Z")
Since someone upthread mentioned TV shows: I was never a huge fan of _Friends_, but the soundtrack was great. Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie, Joni Mitchell, REM, Paul Westerberg, Lou Reed, Barenaked Ladies. A perfect example of this phenomenon in TV would be [The Heights](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103439/), from back in 1992. The soundtrack was vastly superior to the show, and I think played longer. “How Do You Talk to an Angel?” was a little cliche, but it worked. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/46 "2011-11-15T03:36:57Z")
The \*Toys \*soundtrack was great. The movie, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/47 "2011-11-15T04:30:07Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > The \*Toys \*soundtrack was great. The movie, not so much. What? Are you disrespectin’ my duplication investigation? ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/48 "2011-11-15T04:36:32Z")
_Joe Dirt_ had a pretty decent soundtrack for a dumb movie. Which I actually liked. But it was still pretty dumb. And kinda good. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/49 "2011-11-15T07:25:21Z")
_The Party Animal_ ---
**Author:** ![gatorslap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gatorslap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorslap)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/50 "2011-11-15T08:42:48Z")
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, but the soundtrack was pretty sweet. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/51 "2011-11-15T08:50:46Z")
_The Village_ by M. Night Shyamalan was fundamentally a pretty stupid movie, but it had a beautiful score by James Newton Howard. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/52 "2011-11-15T15:32:26Z")
[Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407263/) was just an OK movie, but the soundtrack was phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/53 "2011-11-15T17:46:27Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > Also, IMO, any Tarantino movie is redeemable because of the soundtracks. He is brilliant at that, even if you debate any of his other directing skills. I agree that the music usually rocks - I just wish he’d leave all the goddamned dialogue off the soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/54 "2011-11-16T23:18:03Z")
Thanks to all - good suggestions to look into. I am vaguely interested in finding the soundtrack to _Killer Klowns From Outer Space_ (the title song by The Dickies is one of the greatest rock theme songs ever recorded for a movie) but I don’t think I want to pay [$101.52](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=killer+klowns+soundtrack)for it. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/55 "2011-11-17T00:36:25Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > **Young Einstein** - crap one joke movie, but a lot of great Aussie 80s bands on the soundtrack - Mental As Anything, Paul Kelly, The Models. Aw, that’s what I came in to say. (I actually liked the movie, but I was about 16 at the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/56 "2011-11-17T01:10:28Z")
**Dead Silence** is a decidedly mediocre (at best) horror film, with an absolutely terrific soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/57 "2011-11-17T01:16:32Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Pretty much the perfect example of this is **Purple Rain**. To quote the esteemed Fox Mulder: I’d say _Under The Cherry Moon_ has it beat (as far as the horribleness of the film - whether the soundtrack is better than _Purple Rain_ is debatable). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871/58 "2011-11-17T01:24:09Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I’d say _Under The Cherry Moon_ has it beat (as far as the horribleness of the film - whether the soundtrack is better than _Purple Rain_ is debatable). I always looked at that movie as nothing more than a commercial for the album. Movie sucked, made no sense, was somewhat torturous, the album was one of my favorite Prince works ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crummy-movies-with-good-soundtracks/602871.md?page=2)