# movies knownmore for their soundtrack than anything else **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521 "2019-05-25T23:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/81 "2019-05-29T02:30:41Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I can’t believe I didn’t think of _Lost Highway_ until now. It was exceptionally memorable for at least one reason not related to music. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/82 "2019-05-29T07:45:02Z")
The movies were successful, so I don’t know if they count, but I would suggest _Jesuschrist Superstar_ and _The Blues Brothers_. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/83 "2019-05-29T09:16:19Z")
[This theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKSUlMbp9A)from \*Dragonheart \* (“To the Stars”), is probably better remembered than the movie itself, partially due to its use in many, many trailers. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/84 "2019-05-29T09:44:17Z")
_Children of Men_ does this for me, for both the original score (by John Tavener — the modern composer, not his Renaissance doppelgänger), and for the songs (including unusual Beatles and Stones covers). I’m not sure it does for others, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/85 "2019-05-29T12:43:37Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > _Pump Up the Volume_ was a forgettable movie but a very good soundtrack. While I can understand why the soundtrack was a success, and the movie may have dated to the usage of radio stations, I still love it, and regard it as one of the great cult classics of 80s, along with Real Genius and Heathers. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/86 "2019-05-29T12:45:16Z")
Judgement night, for a bit of rap/funk metal soundtrack from a pretty bad movie, with the Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul being a great highlight. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/87 "2019-05-29T13:23:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Are you fucking kidding me? 42 posts before somebody mentions _Heavy Metal_? 😃 [Yaaaasssss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQdCrGp_8o) ---
**Author:** ![TimfromNapa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@TimfromNapa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimfromNapa)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/88 "2019-05-29T19:36:18Z")
Tank Girl. The movie is lousy but the sound track offers a good helping of mid nineties alt-rock. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/89 "2019-05-29T19:53:00Z")
_Last Action Hero_ was released in 1993 and the soundtrack album was certified platinum in August of 1993. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/90 "2019-05-30T00:55:29Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > _Last Action Hero_ was released in 1993 and the soundtrack album was certified platinum in August of 1993. New tracks by AC\DC and Megadeth? _headbang emoticon_ we should really have a headbang emoticon. and when did they go from being emoticons to “emojees” anyway? but I digress. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/91 "2019-05-30T02:48:25Z")
I’ve never seen this film – but then, not a lot of people outside Russia have, either. The music from it was supposedly incredibly popular, and is still requested on the radio today, although the movie came out in 1936. It’s the Russian adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel _The Children of Captain Grant_\*, and the music was written by Isaak Dunayevsky, and is now probably better known in Russia than the movie, from all accounts. > **[The Children of Captain Grant (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Captain_Grant_(film))** > > The Children of Captain Grant (Russian: Дети капитана Гранта, romanized: Deti kapitana Granta) is a 1936 Soviet adventure film directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok and David Gutman and starring Nikolai Cherkasov, Ivan Chuvelyov and Yuri Yuryev. It is an adaptation of the 1868 novel In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne. The film was popular on its release, and was followed in 1941 by another Verne adaptation Mysterious Island. In the 1860s, two Scottish children go on a global search for their m Th... > **[Isaak Dunayevsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Dunayevsky)** > > Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (Russian: Исаак Осипович Дунаевский listen (help·info); also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevskiy; 30 January \[O.S. 18 January\] 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov. > Dunayevsky was born to a Jewish family in Lokhvytsia in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, U... - In the US there was a version of this released in 1962 by Disney under the title _In Search of the Castaways_. It starred Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills. It was the second and last Verne adaptation by Disney. It had music by the Sherman brothers (who did a lot of still-famous music for Disney, including _Mary Poppins_ and the theme vfor the Disney TV show, but nobody remembers their music for this film. You’d think that there would be more Disney/Verne collaborations. The two seemed to be made for each other. But, despite this film being a hit, they decided not to do any others for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/92 "2019-05-30T05:11:02Z")
_Westside Story_. The flick was great, but I wore out the vinyl record soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/93 "2019-05-30T12:00:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [This theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKSUlMbp9A)from \*Dragonheart \* (“To the Stars”), is probably better remembered than the movie itself, partially due to its use in many, many trailers. [Last of the Mohicans suffers from that as well.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoLvrH9Kdmk) Although the film is still awesome. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/94 "2019-05-30T12:04:14Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 2001 > Flash Gordon [Highlander! There can be only one!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoLvrH9Kdmk) ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/95 "2019-05-30T17:05:17Z")
Hatari! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/96 "2019-05-30T18:20:38Z")
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers has lasted long after Benny & Joon. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/97 "2019-05-30T18:26:48Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers has lasted long after Benny & Joon. [Sunshine on Leith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_on_Leith_(album)) was released in 1988, five years before [Benny & Joon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). That was an example of a movie using an existing popular song. Not that that would make it wrong or off-topic for the thread or anything. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/98 "2019-05-30T22:10:21Z")
Bing Crosby’s White Christmas is actually from a film “Holiday Inn”, which most people have probably never heard of, much less seen. The soundtrack for the George Clooney film “O Brother Where are Thou?” is probably better known than the film, especially “I am a man of constant sorrow”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/99 "2019-05-30T22:30:27Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > The soundtrack for the George Clooney film “O Brother Where are Thou?” is probably better known than the film, especially “I am a man of constant sorrow”. At the time, I read that the soundtrack was the best-selling bluegrass/country album in… years? Maybe in history? My kids, who only liked hard rock (Sabbath, AC/DC, “Zep’lin”) _loved_ O Brother Where Art Thou! ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/100 "2019-05-30T22:51:12Z")
ACDC’s album **Who Made Who** is the soundtrack for the Stephen King Film **Maximum Overdrive**. While it was a compilation, a few new tracks (including the Top 40 hit title song) were recorded, and older forgotten tracks were rediscovered/rescued from previous forgotten albums. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521.md?page=6)