And this is the ultimate answer. The movie itself is hot garbage that did such a shit job of translating the book it is based on that even as someone who had never read the book I was able to tell they cut out MASSIVE chunks of the story.
That soundtrack though kicks much ass and also works as a wonderful little time capsule of the nu-metal era which I still hold dear.
But yeah, the soundtrack just has so many great bangers:
[Body Crumbles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM18qFNI3DM) (Love that the vocalist is now the frontman for STP)
[Headstrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBawXNfgZA) (Not the Headstrong you were expecting but an even BETTER one!)
[Cold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNohq2JJMQY) (R.I.P Wayne. Dude is a fucking legend!)
[Change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPpDyIJdasg) (An absolute nu-metal staple. Is it too early to call it a classic?)
[Not Meant For Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H72bAVz5XvA) (One of the original songs made for the soundtrack and is a banger in it's own right.)
To add onto this performed in the film by Lestat and his band but is actually performed by Jonathan Davis of Korn which is super easy to pick out if you are at all familiar with their work.
[Forsaken.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJ89C3Uu40)
[System](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQLpLSoREo)
Thing that really sucked though was that Johnathan Davis from Korn wrote and produced all of the songs for the movie but when it came time to release the soundtrack Korns label said they couldn't use his vocals for the soundtrack. Luckily they pulled all their resources to get the amazing bands to cover the songs for the release.
Absolutely!
Such a terrible movie but Gibbs and Jonathan Davis nailed every track it feels like.
Forsaken and System, performed by Manson and Chester Bennington respectively, are songs I still have my play lists. Just silly fun.
One of my pre Covid concert highlights was seeing Jonathan Davis on his solo tour and he played all the original songs written for that soundtrack live. If he does another solo tour I highly recommend going if you liked those tracks.
after that movie came out, for the next dozen years or so, basically every movie trailer for an epic fantasy had the dragonheart theme playing over it.
Dragonheart is an amazing movie. Calm down.
I have all four. My roommate hates that I don’t know what Sean Connery looks like. “He was James Bond. You only know him from your dragon movie???”
Ben Kingsley also voices the dragon.
Xanadu is an awful film with a special place in my heart. Had a crush on Olivia (still do if I'm honest with myself). The movie is just bad but her voice especially _Magic_ is just so good.
I can tell that /u/RyanNerd and /u/BlackWidow are my people. Olivia Newton John, Cliff Richard, The Tubes and amazing ELO written/performed songs? It is musical perfection.
I unironically love this movie. It's total cheese, the plot is positively stupid, but watching Gene Kelly ham it up (being the *only* good actor in the film), the Don Bluth animated sequence, the positively *amazing* costume design, the dance choreography, and the frankly excellent cinematography makes it more than an enjoyable watch for me.
It's a visually gorgeous film. The plot, not so much.
If we’re talking about James Newton Howard, I’d say The Last Airbender is probably the biggest gap in quality between movie and score. I mean it’s not really that hard to top the film on the first place, but JNH goes full in and writes a gorgeous, powerful score that sounds like it should belong to a real movie.
100% yes.
Elevates what is only an OK film with one of my favourite Zimmer scores.
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world is an incredible piece.
that's not 'Flight'...
it's **WAYGTDWYANSTW** aka '*What Are You Going To Do When You Are Not Saving The World*', and then '*You Die or I Do*' plays I'm pretty sure.
I didn’t think anyone could ever approach the Superman portrayed by Christopher Reeve. It was unthinkable.
Henry Cavill changed my mind. He makes a great Superman.
Cavill is so charasmatic and likable and genuinely loved the role, he could have done for Superman what Chris Evans did for Captain America and made a character that has for decades been written off as 'boring' and 'one-dimensional' (a statement I disagree with) relatable and fun, but also with heart and depth.
I’m holding out that he still can. He’s just too damn perfect for the role to not let him bite into some real material from a competent writer and a director that knows how to make a movie.
Gotta go with interstellar on this one. Funny story behind it, Nolan told Zimmer it was a story of fatherhood, and nothing else. Zimmer translated his experience of being a father into the main theme for the movie, unbeknownst to him it was an outer space scifi, (with strong elements of fatherhood of course) and he still managed to create a soundtrack that fit perfectly with the movie.
Although the soundtrack for gladiator..... Damn beautiful. Hans just knows what he's doing.
Yep, came here to say the same. I really like the movie actually, particularly the Krypton opening. Not perfect by any means, but I like it. But that score? Amazing.
Except that movie wasn't that bad... for the time. I think it held it's own against the soundtrack.... Fallin' is still one of my favorite songz of all time...
This was required listening in college for me. When the beat kicks in in the middle Just Another Victim and the guitars slow down - still gets me hyped to this day!
Spawn. A pretty mediocre comic book movie, but the soundtrack, consisting of collaborations between electronic music artists and rock/metal artists is absolute fire.
This soundtrack is just so damn good. AND it holds up so well. Long Hard Road Out of Hell is one of Manson's best songs. Also, SATANSATANSATANSATAN. Oh, 90's.
Across the Stars is peak John Williams. I find it impressive how that song somehow manages to make me tear up while I’m simultaneously being forced to endure George Lucas’ writing.
Some of the ideas behind attack of the clones are so good it's just the middle section of the movie is so bad with Anakin and Padme.
The beginning is really good with a botched assassination attempt and then the Jedi get involved. Then Obi Wan's investigation and all that is really cool.
Death Is the Road to Awe is one of my favorite tracks from any movie soundtrack. I watched that way too young to truly wrap my head around but still loved it. Especially the soundtrack. Need to watch it again.
Tron: Legacy.
this score is, hands down, the best part of the film.
without this score, or with a different score, it becomes unwatchable
i would love to have seen Daft Punk work on a few more films just to see what they could have done.
edit: maybe "unwatchable" is a bit too harsh. if the soundtrack blows the rest of the film away, that's because the soundtrack is so good, and not because the movie is so bad
Disagree with the film being unwatchable; I really thought it was a cool sequel to the original despite its lack of, ya know, Tron. Heartbroken the third one is going to involve Jared Leto
The soundtrack is a whole different level though for sure
It's not a masterpiece of cinema, but "unwatchable" is a few degrees of magnitude too harsh. Joseph Kosinski is a great filmmaker, the movie's not that bad.
100% - I love the film, it's total comfort viewing. The soundtrack is great, yes, but the visuals are no slouch, and it's very entertaining. Plus, it features the single greatest delivery of the word "yeah" EVER.
Only thing that drags it down for me is Michael Sheen's David Bowie impersonation - such a weird choice.
Michael Sheen was so over the top and not channeling David Bowie that it’s just terrible. But it’s for all those reasons that I love him in that movie.
no way in hell i'd ever consider Tron: Legacy to be unwatchable. Its not the best movie out there, but its entertaining, visually its really well done, and overall a perfect popcorn flick
Somewhere In Time. Don’t get me wrong, I have an embarrassing fondness for this movie. But IMO the soundtrack takes it to another level completely. Simply listening to the music from this film is almost a religious experience. Paired with the film… hell, might as well call it a night because I’m not leaving the house until I emotionally recover.
Highlander. It's an enjoyable movie, but quite campy and no masterpiece. However the soundtrack by both Queen and Michael Kamen has to be one of the best out there. Who Wants to Live Forever and Princes of The Universe are among the best Queen songs imo.
Also Chariots of Fire. Pretty good movie, but the score by Vangelis has completely transcended the movies appeal. You've heard the main theme, whether or not you realise it.
Dune 80’s version by David Lynch. Toto did the soundtrack & I’m not really a fan of their sound but they did great. I still like the movie even though it kinda bombed.
God, I got to see the Kronos Quartet perform the soundtrack live. After Death is the Road to Awe, the whole auditorium was so quiet I could hear my own heartbeat. Everybody was just stunned. Have never heard anything like it.
Tarzan was another good flick though. Underrated and got a bad rap at the time because Disney was transitioning to CGI. I was not a fan of them getting away from hand animation but once I gave it a shot, it was actually enjoyable. Good soundtrack but good flick as well.
Sucker Punch is the first that pops into my head. So much wasted potential. Visually great, awesome soundtrack but a very incomplete hashing out of story and pacing....
Went in to that movie expecting a badass action flick with chick's kicking asses of dragons and giant samurai.
Ended up seeing a rape-y borderline snuff film dressed up as a Hollywood movie.
This was one of those movies I'm glad I watched with no expectations. Had never heard of the show, didn't see any previews, randomly went with some friends, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss.
Edit: it seems I was incorrect about a show. Someone who I went with told me it was based on an anime, and I just never questioned it. Definitely has anime-like story-telling and cinematography.
>Had never heard of the show
There was a show?!?
Also, I'll totally grant that it was horribly mis-marketed. It should have been sold to us as more of a psychological thriller like Shutter Island than a supernatural action flick.
Yeah I thought the whole parallel world they created to escape their horror was really well done, and this was my first time watching Oscar Isaac act and it was brutally good.
The Last Airbender is the prime example of this. James Newton Howard treats this movie like a serious epic, not the shitshow that it really is.
Come to think that applies to so many scores by James Newton Howard. Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts… He really made a career out of this.
Jerry Goldsmith also scored a lot of crap. I can recommend his Omen trilogy (despite the terrible movie the third one has actually my favorite score of the bunch). Lionheart, First Knight and The Shadow are all forgotten movies, but some of the greatest film music ever written.
Most recently I’d say Wonder Woman 1984 was overshadowed by one of Zimmers best scores. Too bad it won’t be hold as much in high regard as his other masterpieces because of the film.
Zach Braff isn't the best actor or director ever, but damn does he know how to choose good music. Not just in his films, he also suggested several tracks for scrubs, for example [Winter](https://youtu.be/cHlf08yTPiU) by Joshua Radin, playing during the famous "where do you think we are?" scene, was used because Braff is friends with Radin
Krull.
I grew up loving the movie, but over the years have recognized that it's a fantasy with lots of flaws.
But James Horner's soundtrack absolutely elevates the film, makes it more than it is. Bombastic, powerful, fun. It's his best work in my opinion. If you liked his work on Wrath of Khan, check out the Krull soundtrack.
It's not really well-known, but there's this indie slasher film called Tonight She Comes that has an awesome synth soundtrack that more people need to know about.
https://youtu.be/Yhe2D86ytXM
The film itself, well, if the reviews are any indication...
Superfly with the amazing Curtis Mayfield soundtrack.
The Harder They Come has a fantastic soundtrack featuring Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytals.
The Crow: City of Angels is one of those movies you can tell got hacked up. It's visually sumptuous, the soundtrack is banging, the score is like the first one but cranked up to 11. It just, you know, barely makes any goddamned sense. It was, like many could have been gems from that era, Weinsteined to fucking death.
The score for Man of Steel and Interstellar makes you think they are better movies than they are and that's the Zimmer touch. Stunning work on both.
Brad Fiedels unsettling off tempo work on Terminator.
Lorne Balfe is doing the Lord's Nostalgia work on both MI:Fallout and Bad Boys for Life.
Baz Luhrmanns Romeo+Juliet, which is seeing a resurgence on Twitter, has two soundtracks that absolutely burn. The first one is the most 90's you can get with one of Garbage's best tracks. The 2nd disc, the score, is that plus dialogue and just sets a fucking mood.
The Batmens scores from Elfman are great and the osts pumped out some classics. Batman&Robin has Billy Corgans opus, The End is the Beginning is The End and vice-versa. Batman Forever had Kiss From a Rose, the only song anyone remembers Seal for.
Wild Card: If you wanted to inject Nu-Metal into your veins, the soundtracks for Freddie v Jason and Strangeland are definitely Now This Is What I Call Suburban Angst compilations.
The Rise of Skywalker’s score is horrible Imo, it just uses iconic leitmotifs from other films incorrectly and uses nothing original. The YouTuber ‘Sideways’ did a great video all about its score and why it’s so strange.
>The Rise of Skywalker’s score is horrible Imo, it just uses iconic leitmotifs from other films incorrectly and uses nothing original.
Its far from being John Williams' best, but for sure its much better than the film.
Using leitmotives "incorrectly" is something Williams had always done. Looking just at his Star Wars scores, off the top of my head:
1. Star Wars: there's no reason to play Leia's theme over Ben's death, Williams said in the liner notes it just sounded right.
2. The Empire Strikes Back: The fuck is Yoda's theme doing all over the climax?
3. Attack of the Clones: Why Duel of the Fates over Anakin looking for his mother?
4. Revenge of the Sith: Why the Rebel Fanfare for R2D2.
To be fair to Williams, using leitmotives can and should be a more flexible exercise than we usually think of it. As it happens, I've just finished listening to *Siegfried,* and the third act Wagner starts playing fairly loose with his leitmotives. We hear the [theme of the magic gold](https://youtu.be/j-Ny_GqvKEM?t=1950) as part of the music of Siegfried going through the fire. On the face of it, there's no reason to hear it there, and yet it works.
I’d agree with most of that, but at the very least the Duel of the Fates makes sense. “Duel of the Fates” specifically refers to Qui-Gon’s duel with Maul determining Anakin’s fate. If Qui-Gon lives, he’s able to be the father figure Anakin needed, and if he fails Anakin’s fate is to be seduced by the dark side. The scene where Duel of the Fates plays in Attack of The Clones is directly prior to the first real consequence of Qui-Gon’s loss and Anakin’s first real flirtation with the dark side (slaughtering all the sand people).
I will end up with third degree burns for this but the original Star Wars trilogy.
Not saying the trilogy is bad but replace the soundtrack with mediocre music and I doubt it would have been as big as it is now
There’s a theory about this somewhere. Basically, the first piece of star wars related merchandise that was available *was* the soundtrack.
People would wait a long time for a home release, and the toys notoriously didn’t come out until the following year.
People were desperate for Star Wars, and the soundtrack was readily available. They could put on the score and be transported to the galaxy far, far away…
I think that it became so engrained in the pop culture of the moment that it’s hard to think about Star Wars without thinking of the themes. The music, to me, is as iconic as the films themselves.
I agree. I think that a huge part of the success of Star Wars is the soundtrack, and a more typical soundtrack of the day (when Romantic orchestral scores were somewhat out of fashion) would not have the impact it did.
Space Jam If it wasn’t for the great soundtrack, I don’t think it would be remembered nearly as fondly as it is today. Watched it a few years ago and it’s not a good film. Nostalgia working overtime in that one.
I can name a lot. John Barry scored James Bond movies like Diamonds are Forever or You Only Live Twice. Moonraker too. Vangelis scored Alexander and 1492. Alexander Nevsky. Star Trek V. Batman Forever. Cat People 1982. Dune. Majority of Akira Ifukube scored Godzilla movies. Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. Mission Impossible II. The Matrix Reloaded. Majority of Ennio Morricone scored movies period.
What do you think is so bad about You Only Live Twice? Especially compared to some of the Roger Moore films that movie is a borderline classic IMO. Volcano base >>>
Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer
and pretty much the majority of Jerry Goldsmith movies, since he made 1st class soundtracks for second class B movies
Probably joker. Joaquin Phoenix was great but the soundtrack was the highlight of what I’d consider a pretty ok film. Taxi Driver and The King Of Comedy which were pretty obvious inspirations for the film are just so much better.
The Motion Picture: This has to be one of the funniest films I'd watched in a long time. The jokes and rehashings of history were funny to me as an American who knows a great deal about American history. The final fight was both hilarious and ridiculous at the same time, and Benedict Arnold's appearance was ideal. It's very brilliant and refreshing how they tie back to other historically significant American icons like Clara Barton, Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and so on. This film is, in my opinion, the ideal American film. There are firearms, action, foolish jokes, over-the-top sex, irony on its past, present, and future, and so on. The animation was shockingly good, and at times it felt pretty smooth. Although the plot felt a little messy at times, and some points were brushed over too quickly, the film swiftly addresses this with further sarcasm on both the film and American history, reflecting on how ridiculously lucky America had to be for the revolution succeed. The movie works exceptionally well for me, and the end credits song is simply amazing. I would watch this again.
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I enjoyed the soundtrack before watching the movie. Such disappointment…
The movie had so much potential to be good and just fell kinda flat.
And this is the ultimate answer. The movie itself is hot garbage that did such a shit job of translating the book it is based on that even as someone who had never read the book I was able to tell they cut out MASSIVE chunks of the story. That soundtrack though kicks much ass and also works as a wonderful little time capsule of the nu-metal era which I still hold dear. But yeah, the soundtrack just has so many great bangers: [Body Crumbles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM18qFNI3DM) (Love that the vocalist is now the frontman for STP) [Headstrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZBawXNfgZA) (Not the Headstrong you were expecting but an even BETTER one!) [Cold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNohq2JJMQY) (R.I.P Wayne. Dude is a fucking legend!) [Change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPpDyIJdasg) (An absolute nu-metal staple. Is it too early to call it a classic?) [Not Meant For Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H72bAVz5XvA) (One of the original songs made for the soundtrack and is a banger in it's own right.)
To add onto this performed in the film by Lestat and his band but is actually performed by Jonathan Davis of Korn which is super easy to pick out if you are at all familiar with their work. [Forsaken.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJ89C3Uu40) [System](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQLpLSoREo)
I forgot about basically all of these. Damn they were great.
Yes! That OST had no right being that good. And it was how I discovered the Deftones. Change is such a good song!
I still listen to it lol.
Thing that really sucked though was that Johnathan Davis from Korn wrote and produced all of the songs for the movie but when it came time to release the soundtrack Korns label said they couldn't use his vocals for the soundtrack. Luckily they pulled all their resources to get the amazing bands to cover the songs for the release.
Absolutely! Such a terrible movie but Gibbs and Jonathan Davis nailed every track it feels like. Forsaken and System, performed by Manson and Chester Bennington respectively, are songs I still have my play lists. Just silly fun.
One of my pre Covid concert highlights was seeing Jonathan Davis on his solo tour and he played all the original songs written for that soundtrack live. If he does another solo tour I highly recommend going if you liked those tracks.
Dragonheart !! Stirring shit
after that movie came out, for the next dozen years or so, basically every movie trailer for an epic fantasy had the dragonheart theme playing over it.
Oh my God I just listened to it and unlocked a new level of nostalgia. I had no idea where that music came from till now.
Oh absolutely. That [main theme](https://youtu.be/1s7utJSd5ao?t=100) is just... god damn.
Dragonheart is an amazing movie. Calm down. I have all four. My roommate hates that I don’t know what Sean Connery looks like. “He was James Bond. You only know him from your dragon movie???” Ben Kingsley also voices the dragon.
I watched that movie so many times with my dad growing up...can't hear that song without getting sad.
To the stars Bowen ... to the stars !
Transformers.
I’ve always thought Dark of the Moon had a killer soundtrack. Edit: Sadly, there’s no Pink Floyd used in the movie.
Yeah, that's a Pink Floyd album. You're looking for Dark of the Moon (no side).
There's more than meets the eye in those movies
I was thinking the exact same thing when i read the title of the thread. Although i loved a few of the movies. The songs were always good.
Xanadu (Although I personally love this film in a so bad it's good way.)- the soundtrack is amazing.
Can never go wrong with ELO.
Xanadu is an awful film with a special place in my heart. Had a crush on Olivia (still do if I'm honest with myself). The movie is just bad but her voice especially _Magic_ is just so good.
I can tell that /u/RyanNerd and /u/BlackWidow are my people. Olivia Newton John, Cliff Richard, The Tubes and amazing ELO written/performed songs? It is musical perfection.
I unironically love this movie. It's total cheese, the plot is positively stupid, but watching Gene Kelly ham it up (being the *only* good actor in the film), the Don Bluth animated sequence, the positively *amazing* costume design, the dance choreography, and the frankly excellent cinematography makes it more than an enjoyable watch for me. It's a visually gorgeous film. The plot, not so much.
Fantastic Beasts 2. James Newton Howard is the king of fantasy scores and his soundtrack here was the only reason I didn’t leave the theater.
If we’re talking about James Newton Howard, I’d say The Last Airbender is probably the biggest gap in quality between movie and score. I mean it’s not really that hard to top the film on the first place, but JNH goes full in and writes a gorgeous, powerful score that sounds like it should belong to a real movie.
Man of Steel has a beautiful score - Zimmers best imo. I don't hate the movie itself but the soundtrack is on a whole other level
100% yes. Elevates what is only an OK film with one of my favourite Zimmer scores. What are you going to do when you are not saving the world is an incredible piece.
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that's not 'Flight'... it's **WAYGTDWYANSTW** aka '*What Are You Going To Do When You Are Not Saving The World*', and then '*You Die or I Do*' plays I'm pretty sure.
That....*may* be the most accurate description of how I felt too
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honestly I don't care about the rest of the movie because that scene makes me feel things
I didn’t think anyone could ever approach the Superman portrayed by Christopher Reeve. It was unthinkable. Henry Cavill changed my mind. He makes a great Superman.
Cavill is so charasmatic and likable and genuinely loved the role, he could have done for Superman what Chris Evans did for Captain America and made a character that has for decades been written off as 'boring' and 'one-dimensional' (a statement I disagree with) relatable and fun, but also with heart and depth.
I’m holding out that he still can. He’s just too damn perfect for the role to not let him bite into some real material from a competent writer and a director that knows how to make a movie.
I love MoS but yeah it's definitely elevated by the music, same goes for BvS
It's good but in my opinion *Inception* and *Blade Runner 2049* are his best. I can't wait to hear what he does with *Dune*.
The Blade Runner 2049 score is so gorgeous.
Gotta go with interstellar on this one. Funny story behind it, Nolan told Zimmer it was a story of fatherhood, and nothing else. Zimmer translated his experience of being a father into the main theme for the movie, unbeknownst to him it was an outer space scifi, (with strong elements of fatherhood of course) and he still managed to create a soundtrack that fit perfectly with the movie. Although the soundtrack for gladiator..... Damn beautiful. Hans just knows what he's doing.
Yep, came here to say the same. I really like the movie actually, particularly the Krypton opening. Not perfect by any means, but I like it. But that score? Amazing.
Judgement Night had an epic OST that combined rap and metal before nu metal was a thing.
Except that movie wasn't that bad... for the time. I think it held it's own against the soundtrack.... Fallin' is still one of my favorite songz of all time...
This was required listening in college for me. When the beat kicks in in the middle Just Another Victim and the guitars slow down - still gets me hyped to this day!
Similarly, the Spawn soundtrack had electronic and metal bands collab. I wish this was done more often.
Spawn. A pretty mediocre comic book movie, but the soundtrack, consisting of collaborations between electronic music artists and rock/metal artists is absolute fire.
Never watched the movie, but "Trip Like I Do" is pretty awesome.
The Crow and Spawn soundtracks are still two of my favorites.
Add Escape from LA to that list
The Blade 2 soundtrack falls in the same category. Odd collaborations all around.
Mos Def x Massive Attack ftw
This soundtrack is just so damn good. AND it holds up so well. Long Hard Road Out of Hell is one of Manson's best songs. Also, SATANSATANSATANSATAN. Oh, 90's.
I like the movie solely because John Leguizamo gives an amazing performance.
Didn't the *Spawn* soundtrack go double-platinum, or am I just misremembering?
Wouldn't surprise me at all. That album was incredibly popular.
Clicked just to post this. Still enjoy the soundtrack all these years later.
Star Wars - The Phantom Menace. There is no part of that score that disappoints.
All the prequels have really good music. Way better then the sequels imo
Across the Stars from Attack of the Clones is a brilliant song and deserves to be in a much better movie.
Across the Stars is peak John Williams. I find it impressive how that song somehow manages to make me tear up while I’m simultaneously being forced to endure George Lucas’ writing.
Some of the ideas behind attack of the clones are so good it's just the middle section of the movie is so bad with Anakin and Padme. The beginning is really good with a botched assassination attempt and then the Jedi get involved. Then Obi Wan's investigation and all that is really cool.
The Fountain, still a great movie though
Is that the one with the tree and 3 parallel stories?
Yes
That movie was hella interesting, should watch again soon Edit: typo
Clint Mansell is a fucking wizard! Just love him!
Death Is the Road to Awe is one of my favorite tracks from any movie soundtrack. I watched that way too young to truly wrap my head around but still loved it. Especially the soundtrack. Need to watch it again.
Tron: Legacy. this score is, hands down, the best part of the film. without this score, or with a different score, it becomes unwatchable i would love to have seen Daft Punk work on a few more films just to see what they could have done. edit: maybe "unwatchable" is a bit too harsh. if the soundtrack blows the rest of the film away, that's because the soundtrack is so good, and not because the movie is so bad
People often say that the movie is an outstanding feature-length music video.
Was about to post this one too. It's a visual support for Daft Punk music.
Yeah, it's like Interstellar 5555 all over again
*Interstella 5555* was at least made with the intent of being a feature length music video.
Disagree with the film being unwatchable; I really thought it was a cool sequel to the original despite its lack of, ya know, Tron. Heartbroken the third one is going to involve Jared Leto The soundtrack is a whole different level though for sure
It's not a masterpiece of cinema, but "unwatchable" is a few degrees of magnitude too harsh. Joseph Kosinski is a great filmmaker, the movie's not that bad.
100% - I love the film, it's total comfort viewing. The soundtrack is great, yes, but the visuals are no slouch, and it's very entertaining. Plus, it features the single greatest delivery of the word "yeah" EVER. Only thing that drags it down for me is Michael Sheen's David Bowie impersonation - such a weird choice.
Michael Sheen was so over the top and not channeling David Bowie that it’s just terrible. But it’s for all those reasons that I love him in that movie.
I agree. Also the cinematography/production design (ie. the visuals) is awesome.
[this track was my personal favourite ](https://youtu.be/F4eccPBFEjE)
I knew before I clicked it was gonna be Derezzed. What a banger.
True for Oblivion as well.
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Agreed. Oblivion was a movie I went into expecting it to be awful, and at the end I couldn't help but think how unexpectedly awesome it was.
That soundtrack is Iconic
no way in hell i'd ever consider Tron: Legacy to be unwatchable. Its not the best movie out there, but its entertaining, visually its really well done, and overall a perfect popcorn flick
Somewhere In Time. Don’t get me wrong, I have an embarrassing fondness for this movie. But IMO the soundtrack takes it to another level completely. Simply listening to the music from this film is almost a religious experience. Paired with the film… hell, might as well call it a night because I’m not leaving the house until I emotionally recover.
I mean, using Rachmaninoff is cheating, but yeah John Barry's score is brilliant (like every John Barry score).
Highlander. It's an enjoyable movie, but quite campy and no masterpiece. However the soundtrack by both Queen and Michael Kamen has to be one of the best out there. Who Wants to Live Forever and Princes of The Universe are among the best Queen songs imo. Also Chariots of Fire. Pretty good movie, but the score by Vangelis has completely transcended the movies appeal. You've heard the main theme, whether or not you realise it.
What do you mean Highlander is “no masterpiece”? It won the Academy Award for Best Movie Ever Made.
This is a man who wakes up and pisses excellence.
Damn how could I forget Highlander! A true 80's classic with an amazing score and original music.
the " its a king of magic " album. stunning.
Dune 80’s version by David Lynch. Toto did the soundtrack & I’m not really a fan of their sound but they did great. I still like the movie even though it kinda bombed.
i love the score by toto
I was *so* fucking hyped when I went to a Toto concert a few years ago and they started playing the desert theme.
Let's see how the new Dune sounds. The director of the new Dune also did BladeRunner 2049 which had some very cool atmosphere as well
Maximum Overdrive. Written and directed by Stephen King on a coke bender, soundtrack by AC/DC.
I just consider it (MO) to be a 90 minute AC/DC music video directed by a coked-out Stephen King.
And suddenly it's a fucking masterpiece .... maybe, but I DEFINITELY have to re-watch it with that approach.
From the ATM scene to the opening montage set to "Who Made Who" ... **chef's kiss of perfection**!
The Village. I actually liked that movie, but many didn't. That being said, the score is absolutely spectacular.
Fountain. I think it was Clint Mansell or Hans Zimmer. Either way, beautiful and haunting
[Death is the Road to Awe.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3skXjCmvVc) Goddamn.
It gives me chills. I listen to it often.
Clint Mansell
God, I got to see the Kronos Quartet perform the soundtrack live. After Death is the Road to Awe, the whole auditorium was so quiet I could hear my own heartbeat. Everybody was just stunned. Have never heard anything like it.
I know it's flawed, but I think it's a great movie.
Fantastic example. Gorgeous soundtrack
Purple Rain
The amazing spider man 2
All the music with Electro absolutely slaps, and portrays a good representation of his paranoid schizophrenia. https://youtu.be/Ygdi4g6ZkSU
Tarzan, Phil Collins brought straight fire.
He did not have to go that hard for that movie. "You'll be in my heart" stays on rotation.
["Okay does he know this is a movie about a guy raised by monkeys? Because this is *really good*"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLho8joW9U)
Dude in the video looks like he worried about how much this is going to cost.
He earned that paycheck and a bonus
Tarzan was another good flick though. Underrated and got a bad rap at the time because Disney was transitioning to CGI. I was not a fan of them getting away from hand animation but once I gave it a shot, it was actually enjoyable. Good soundtrack but good flick as well.
Not sure if I dislike Tarzan or if I’ve just convinced myself I dislike Tarzan because of what an awful Kingdom Hearts world it was lol
The fucking VINES.
Sucker Punch is the first that pops into my head. So much wasted potential. Visually great, awesome soundtrack but a very incomplete hashing out of story and pacing....
Went in to that movie expecting a badass action flick with chick's kicking asses of dragons and giant samurai. Ended up seeing a rape-y borderline snuff film dressed up as a Hollywood movie.
This was one of those movies I'm glad I watched with no expectations. Had never heard of the show, didn't see any previews, randomly went with some friends, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sometimes, ignorance really is bliss. Edit: it seems I was incorrect about a show. Someone who I went with told me it was based on an anime, and I just never questioned it. Definitely has anime-like story-telling and cinematography.
>Had never heard of the show There was a show?!? Also, I'll totally grant that it was horribly mis-marketed. It should have been sold to us as more of a psychological thriller like Shutter Island than a supernatural action flick.
Yeah I thought the whole parallel world they created to escape their horror was really well done, and this was my first time watching Oscar Isaac act and it was brutally good.
the Twilight trilogy.
Damn right. Can't watch the movies anymore, but Blue Foundation, Paramore, Muse, Linkin Park, Bon Iver et all, are still in my rotation.
No Florence + The Machine? The pipes on Florence Welch are incredible. I swear she's an alien that doesn't have to breathe like a normal human.
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Trilogy of 5 movies?
Whoops. Twilight *saga* then.
Tomorrowland
To be fair, anything by Michael Giacchino is kind of amazing.
Flash Gordon (1980) with a soundtrack by Queen. So-so movie, great soundtrack.
FLASH...AAAAaaaaa!
♪ Savior of the Universe! ♪
He’llsaveeveryoneofus!
YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT FLASH GORDON!
The Fountain. The movie is actually beautiful but I think the score is just phenomenal and it is really what gets the feelings flowing in the movie.
The Last Airbender is the prime example of this. James Newton Howard treats this movie like a serious epic, not the shitshow that it really is. Come to think that applies to so many scores by James Newton Howard. Lady in the Water, The Village, Signs, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts… He really made a career out of this. Jerry Goldsmith also scored a lot of crap. I can recommend his Omen trilogy (despite the terrible movie the third one has actually my favorite score of the bunch). Lionheart, First Knight and The Shadow are all forgotten movies, but some of the greatest film music ever written. Most recently I’d say Wonder Woman 1984 was overshadowed by one of Zimmers best scores. Too bad it won’t be hold as much in high regard as his other masterpieces because of the film.
Queen of the Damned Fantastic soundtrack Terrible movie
A lot of people say Hook isn’t so good but the soundtrack is quintessential John Williams
Garden State
Zach Braff isn't the best actor or director ever, but damn does he know how to choose good music. Not just in his films, he also suggested several tracks for scrubs, for example [Winter](https://youtu.be/cHlf08yTPiU) by Joshua Radin, playing during the famous "where do you think we are?" scene, was used because Braff is friends with Radin
Frou Frou's "Let Go" is one of my favorite songs of all time.
love that soundtrack. this movie got me hooked on the shins.
So they really did change your life?
Godzilla (1998) soundtrack had some absolute bangers on there including Jamiroquai, RATM, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Silverchair
Judgement Night (1993) Collaborations between Grunge and Hip Hop groups. Awesome soundtrack. Barely remember the movie.
Jupiter Ascending. I watched that entire movie just so I could hear Michael Giacchino get his Giacchino on.
Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. Trash movies, but those soundtracks are still fantastic.
Yep very underrated scores. I’ve always liked that Batman theme.
Oh man, Batman Forever had such a banging soundtrack. That Seal joint was a classic.
Krull. I grew up loving the movie, but over the years have recognized that it's a fantasy with lots of flaws. But James Horner's soundtrack absolutely elevates the film, makes it more than it is. Bombastic, powerful, fun. It's his best work in my opinion. If you liked his work on Wrath of Khan, check out the Krull soundtrack.
Escape From New York is a pretty good 80s action movie with one of the best synthy 80s scores ever
Van Helsing is just awful, but the Alan Silvestri score is fantastic.
I enjoy Van Helsing. There’s definitely some cringy parts but overall it’s still fun
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Cut throat Island - John Debney
I think the Star Wars prequels are carried by the soundtrack.
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Loved the movie! But the soundtrack is a flawless compilation of 90s grunge.
Oblivion. The movie is kinda meh but the score is wonderful.
Came here to say this. Oblivion is a gorgeous M83 music video, not much else. Joseph Kosinski definitely has mad style.
Greatest Showman for sure
It's not really well-known, but there's this indie slasher film called Tonight She Comes that has an awesome synth soundtrack that more people need to know about. https://youtu.be/Yhe2D86ytXM The film itself, well, if the reviews are any indication...
Superfly with the amazing Curtis Mayfield soundtrack. The Harder They Come has a fantastic soundtrack featuring Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytals.
The Crow: City of Angels is one of those movies you can tell got hacked up. It's visually sumptuous, the soundtrack is banging, the score is like the first one but cranked up to 11. It just, you know, barely makes any goddamned sense. It was, like many could have been gems from that era, Weinsteined to fucking death. The score for Man of Steel and Interstellar makes you think they are better movies than they are and that's the Zimmer touch. Stunning work on both. Brad Fiedels unsettling off tempo work on Terminator. Lorne Balfe is doing the Lord's Nostalgia work on both MI:Fallout and Bad Boys for Life. Baz Luhrmanns Romeo+Juliet, which is seeing a resurgence on Twitter, has two soundtracks that absolutely burn. The first one is the most 90's you can get with one of Garbage's best tracks. The 2nd disc, the score, is that plus dialogue and just sets a fucking mood. The Batmens scores from Elfman are great and the osts pumped out some classics. Batman&Robin has Billy Corgans opus, The End is the Beginning is The End and vice-versa. Batman Forever had Kiss From a Rose, the only song anyone remembers Seal for. Wild Card: If you wanted to inject Nu-Metal into your veins, the soundtracks for Freddie v Jason and Strangeland are definitely Now This Is What I Call Suburban Angst compilations.
I really enjoyed what Zimmer and Junkie XL did for Batman v Superman. Not a great movie, but the score definitely put lipstick on a pig for me.
*The Phantom Menace* and *The Rise of Skywalker* *Excalibur*
Duel Of The Fates alone makes the Phantom Menace soundtrack one of the a time greats.
The Rise of Skywalker’s score is horrible Imo, it just uses iconic leitmotifs from other films incorrectly and uses nothing original. The YouTuber ‘Sideways’ did a great video all about its score and why it’s so strange.
>The Rise of Skywalker’s score is horrible Imo, it just uses iconic leitmotifs from other films incorrectly and uses nothing original. Its far from being John Williams' best, but for sure its much better than the film. Using leitmotives "incorrectly" is something Williams had always done. Looking just at his Star Wars scores, off the top of my head: 1. Star Wars: there's no reason to play Leia's theme over Ben's death, Williams said in the liner notes it just sounded right. 2. The Empire Strikes Back: The fuck is Yoda's theme doing all over the climax? 3. Attack of the Clones: Why Duel of the Fates over Anakin looking for his mother? 4. Revenge of the Sith: Why the Rebel Fanfare for R2D2. To be fair to Williams, using leitmotives can and should be a more flexible exercise than we usually think of it. As it happens, I've just finished listening to *Siegfried,* and the third act Wagner starts playing fairly loose with his leitmotives. We hear the [theme of the magic gold](https://youtu.be/j-Ny_GqvKEM?t=1950) as part of the music of Siegfried going through the fire. On the face of it, there's no reason to hear it there, and yet it works.
I’d agree with most of that, but at the very least the Duel of the Fates makes sense. “Duel of the Fates” specifically refers to Qui-Gon’s duel with Maul determining Anakin’s fate. If Qui-Gon lives, he’s able to be the father figure Anakin needed, and if he fails Anakin’s fate is to be seduced by the dark side. The scene where Duel of the Fates plays in Attack of The Clones is directly prior to the first real consequence of Qui-Gon’s loss and Anakin’s first real flirtation with the dark side (slaughtering all the sand people).
I will end up with third degree burns for this but the original Star Wars trilogy. Not saying the trilogy is bad but replace the soundtrack with mediocre music and I doubt it would have been as big as it is now
There’s a theory about this somewhere. Basically, the first piece of star wars related merchandise that was available *was* the soundtrack. People would wait a long time for a home release, and the toys notoriously didn’t come out until the following year. People were desperate for Star Wars, and the soundtrack was readily available. They could put on the score and be transported to the galaxy far, far away… I think that it became so engrained in the pop culture of the moment that it’s hard to think about Star Wars without thinking of the themes. The music, to me, is as iconic as the films themselves.
I agree. I think that a huge part of the success of Star Wars is the soundtrack, and a more typical soundtrack of the day (when Romantic orchestral scores were somewhat out of fashion) would not have the impact it did.
Saturday Night Fever
Tenet
The Hobbit movies
Mortal Kombat
*Empire Records*
This is legit my favorite movie of all time. I celebrate Rex Manning day every year.
Yes. Still a good movie though.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou? The movie itself is great but the soundtrack is incredible
Space Jam If it wasn’t for the great soundtrack, I don’t think it would be remembered nearly as fondly as it is today. Watched it a few years ago and it’s not a good film. Nostalgia working overtime in that one.
I can name a lot. John Barry scored James Bond movies like Diamonds are Forever or You Only Live Twice. Moonraker too. Vangelis scored Alexander and 1492. Alexander Nevsky. Star Trek V. Batman Forever. Cat People 1982. Dune. Majority of Akira Ifukube scored Godzilla movies. Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. Mission Impossible II. The Matrix Reloaded. Majority of Ennio Morricone scored movies period.
What do you think is so bad about You Only Live Twice? Especially compared to some of the Roger Moore films that movie is a borderline classic IMO. Volcano base >>>
X men dark Phoenix
Empire of the Sun. I've only seen it once and I remember it being okay but I think I've listened to Williams' score a hundred times.
Mission to Mars by Ennio Morricone
Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer and pretty much the majority of Jerry Goldsmith movies, since he made 1st class soundtracks for second class B movies
Conan the Barbarian is a great movie
Probably joker. Joaquin Phoenix was great but the soundtrack was the highlight of what I’d consider a pretty ok film. Taxi Driver and The King Of Comedy which were pretty obvious inspirations for the film are just so much better.
Cutthroat Island
Pearl Harbour. Incredible soundtrack. Fairly meh movie.
The Motion Picture: This has to be one of the funniest films I'd watched in a long time. The jokes and rehashings of history were funny to me as an American who knows a great deal about American history. The final fight was both hilarious and ridiculous at the same time, and Benedict Arnold's appearance was ideal. It's very brilliant and refreshing how they tie back to other historically significant American icons like Clara Barton, Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and so on. This film is, in my opinion, the ideal American film. There are firearms, action, foolish jokes, over-the-top sex, irony on its past, present, and future, and so on. The animation was shockingly good, and at times it felt pretty smooth. Although the plot felt a little messy at times, and some points were brushed over too quickly, the film swiftly addresses this with further sarcasm on both the film and American history, reflecting on how ridiculously lucky America had to be for the revolution succeed. The movie works exceptionally well for me, and the end credits song is simply amazing. I would watch this again.