Pirates of the Caribbean. The plot, characters, actors, and effects are fine enough. Specifically the plot is bland; it’s deliberately a hodgepodge of everything piratey tossed into a blender. Johnny Depp’s performance is excellent, but more because it feels the script was shaped around his eccentric dude persona rather than them stretching their skills. None of this makes the film bad just mediocre.
… but the score is a masterpiece. Instantly iconic, filled with layered motifs, carries the sense of adventure and perfectly shapes the mood of each scene. Both catchy enough to become an earworm, but orchestral and textured enough that it’s not unwelcome as one.
Yeah I have to agree, although I personally love the films as well.
I enjoyed this movie at the time. Was I wrong?
No. I enjoyed it immensely. That’s just how good the soundtrack is; to be even better than that.
It’s not a terrible movie. I think the main complaint about it is the use of the manic pixie girl trope.
Came here to say this as well. Movie is kinda meh but the soundtrack is so solid I even like the Coldplay song on there! (and imo Coldplay is WACK)
1492: Conquest of Paradise. Very few people remember the movie (I still do and rewatch it regularly), but the soundtrack by Vangelis is an absolute banger.
In general, his soundtracks tend to be better than the movies. Alexander is another great example. Chariots of Fire and Bounty are fine movies, but still greatly enhanced by his soundtracks. Perhaps the only movie that stood on its own against a soundtrack by Vangelis was Blade Runner.
Chariots isn’t that great of a movie but I still love it, primarily bc they respected Vangelis enough to let the soundtrack talk. Tremendous, sensitive, emotional work from a truly great one
Interstellar
Disgusting lack of Space Jam in this thread. For a kids movie, the artists on the soundtrack were not fucking around
Interesting the divide here between who think soundtrack is orchestral music composed for the movie and others who think its a bunch of pop songs the director liked.
Suckerpunch
Super Mario Bros.
Open the door…
Batman Forever and the X-Files Movie Soundtrack.
Love me some scores, but these were both rock solid soundtracks.
- Braveheart
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- The Book of Eli
- Lost Highway
And probably Purple Rain, but I’ve never seen the movie.
Did you make the mistake of watching Crouching Tiger in english?
Mistake? That dub is gold
Guy: “Master Li! Master Li is here!”
Me: “What the fuck? English? Fuck no!”
That’s as far as I got into that dub.
The Crow
Forrest Gump. The movie is exceptional. The soundtrack tho…
Star wars
Was Last Action Hero good? I never saw it, but the soundtrack is loaded with 90s music.
Last Action Hero is alright. It’s an on-the-nose send-up of the action genre. AC-DC wrote a song for it, Big Guns.
It’s a very…literal send-up of the action movie genre. if you’re not familiar with it, a young boy ends up magically teleported into an action movie he’s watching, and spends half of the run time of both films trying to convince the over the top action hero that it’s a movie.
It’s fun for what it is; I personally think True Lies does the “lol action movies, amirite?” thing better.
I enjoy Last Action Hero. I probably won’t go so far as to call it “good”, but it’s fun, especially if you grew up watching 80s action movies.
A great movie with an even greater soundtrack:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. All of the TOS movies have great soundtracks, but The Voyage Home’s score stands out among them. Just that title track, that plays over a flat shot of the fore credits over a starry sky, is this high energy, multi-movement overture that’s more exciting than all Star Trek media made after 2008. We used to have potential as a species.
A shit movie with a legitimately good soundtrack:
Flashdance, of 1983. To quote Todd In The Shadows, “What most people remember about that movie is water, then Maniac right after that, and then about six hours of boring, and then What A Feeling.”
