(Inspired by my other thread.)
Here’s where you get to name the worst, most ill-conceived soundtracks of all.
My (initial) votes?
Score: GoldenEye
Soundtrack: Any of the unremarkable at best, frightfully annoying at worst Shrek monstrosities.
Ladyhawke
I would find it difficult to believe that whoever wrote the score actually saw the script.
We have a winner.
Hahah.
I vote for “Black Like Me.” The score was actually offensive.
Burn Notice. It’s like they decided to do typical 80s music and hired Ricky Martin to write it.
I just have to mention Grey’s Anatomy for being so tasteless and stupid with their “music” to the point of not being able to hear the dialog, but in some cases that’s a good thing.
I think someone will mention There will be blood.
Not me, though.
I think I remember reading somewhere that the director heard a lot of Alan Parsons music while he was location scouting with his producer, who he fell in love with and later married. So, sure, I can understand why he’d think the soundtrack was awesome, but—jeez, dude, I don’t put DiGiorno’s Spinich and Garlic pizza in my steampunk novel 'cause that was what I was eating when I wrote it.
Anyhoo…my own nomination? Dungeons and Dragons. Not that the movie really needs any more trouble, or that the score was even that bad…it’s just that the leitmotif they keep using is the same as the first few bars of Falling in Love Again. It’s more than a little distracting. I keep expecting Marlene Dietrich to pop out of the shadows.
Juno. Why did they have to ruin such a great movie with the, er, dulcet tones of the Moldy Peaches? Twee pop, or “indie pop” as the people who listen to it call it, seems to be a genre of music based entirely around the idea that not being able to play instruments or sing makes you authentic. The other, non-Kimya-Dawson-related songs on the soundtrack were quite good, too!
IIRC, they were featured on the soundtrack because Ellen Page was really into them. Figures.
(Yes, I do, in fact, hate Ellen Page with the passion of a thousand white hot suns.)
For the most part, a soundtrack would have to go beyond merely forgettable into severely annoying for me to remember it as a least favorite. The only one I can think of offhand as being memorably bad is The Big Blue. The original soundtrack was done by Eric Serra which was kind of passive and New Agey…but the version that reached USA was rescored by Bill Conti and was more exciting and triumphant. In one of the few examples of something that was made better by Americanization, the Bill Conti score was far superior. But only the Eric Serra soundtrack was released commercially on CD…
All I can think of is the “Bionic Woman” (parts 1 and 2) on The Six-Million Dollar Man, introducing Lindsey Wagner as Jaime Sommers and featuring the dulcet tones of Lee Majors.
Must have made quite an impression on me, as i t has been 35 years since I heard it.
Madonna’s opening theme for Die Another Day. Worst James Bond Theme Evar.
IIRC, the theme to Eyes’s Wide Shut sounded like some 12 year old just banging randomly on a piano.
Escape From New York.
Maximum Overdrive, a film with an all AC/DC soundtrack.
OMG, I can’t stand AC/DC!
Also, speaking of Stephen King, the score to The Stand sucks ass too.
The soundtrack to A Knight’s Tale with Heath Ledger. Set in days of old when knights were bold. Some of the songs: “Get Ready” by Rare Earth. “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy. " We Will Rock You" (and others) by Queen. “Crazy On You” by Heart.
:eek: I was appalled. Roger Ebert thought that it was FUNNY. NOT!!!
Heresy! I loved it —the whole movie was all about anachronisms! And it worked — “We Will Rock You” as a [del]football[/del]jousting chant was perfect, for example.
This was the first movie I thought about after reading the OP.