The movie Garden State was a snooze but the sound track was good.
Young Einstein - crap one joke movie, but a lot of great Aussie 80s bands on the soundtrack - Mental As Anything, Paul Kelly, The Models.
(I’m ashamed to say that I’ve watched this movie) Daddy Day Care
It is exactly as bad as you’d think it would be. But they gathered a nice collection of songs to play in the background.
The Fountain was a mess of a movie, but I still listen to the score sometimes.
Pretty much the perfect example of this is Purple Rain. To quote the esteemed Fox Mulder:
Debatable quality of movies, but two of my favorites because of the soundtracks:
Summer of Sam and
Boogie Nights
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.
You mean Tangerine Dream. Very different band!
Bio Dome is awful, but its soundtrack is full of 80s goodness.
Dream a Little Dream is a total mess, but it has a good mashup of stuff on the soundtrack, including Mel Torme!
I Am Sam (in which Sean Penn goes full retard) has a great soundtrack of Beatles covers.
Judgement Night
Was a landmark soundtrack for my uber-white suburban friends when we were in high school.
Empire Records
Is another disk with lots of eighties goodness
You’re right, it was Tangerine Dream. Got a brain blip there.
I wouldn’t say “Practical Magic” is exactly a crummy movie; it’s a charming enough piece of fluff with mostly good performances of a weak script. But the soundtrack is outstanding, with music by Nick Drake, Nilsson, Joni Mitchell, and others, and capped of with “If You Ever Did Believe” by Stevie Nicks, which I think is the best closing credit song since George Harrison’s “Dream Away.”
1942, the early Stephen Spielberg movie, is usually considered pretty bad, but I like the John Williams soundtrack.
Good call. Eric Burdon growling out “Sixteen Tons” is the best version I’ve ever heard.
I prefer the Stan Ridgway version, much grittier. But not available on Youtube due to RIAA shit. It is available on Itunes though.
Jack Frost starring Michael Keaton.
Speaking of Tangerine Dream, they made the pretty awful self-indulgent Michael Mann dudefest Thief very watchable.
Another good one is Blow, a really average movie with a great soundtrack.
And I can’t imagine anyone thinking Boogie Nights was anything other than a great movie.
Saw the movie The Piano, and hated, hated, hated it. Michael Nyman’s score, though, was gorgeous.
“Dances With Wolves”-terrible movie, excellent score.
Sliver, Girl 6, Natual Born Killers, Batman Returns,The Crow…awesome soundtracks, questionable movies.