ONTD Original: Terrible movies with great soundtracks

[sitakhet]

Sometimes, as the title implies, an awful movie ends up with a confusingly good soundtrack. Maybe the director/producer had connections. Perhaps it was a big-budget movie that had the ca$h to blow on the rights to use the music, but the movie itself was butchered in post. Or they used black magic. Who knows

Comments

[notoriousreign]

You're right about all these, don't let anyone bring you down! (And I say this as someone who likes Watchmen lol.)

I guess it doesn't count, because it's the score, not actual songs. But the King Arthur Charlie Hunnam movie. Also when I was a kid and obsessed with the first Narnia movie, it didn't click for me that all the Inspired By songs were by Christian singers until I got older. Which... pans out lmao.

[sitakhet]

I love the score to the Russell Crowe version of Robin Hood, which was also objectively a total piece of garbage.

Historical movies usually have really good scores.

[anagramofbrat]

Whew, y'all are young. I can think of some meh to awful movies from the 90s with absolutely banging soundtracks (which I still have some CDs of)

The Crow (dont come for me I love this movie but it is real bad in spots)

Reality Bites

Batman Forever

Toys

The Fifth Element ( I also love this one but it is so cheesy... as if a horny 14 year old wrote it as a homage to another French comic. Ohg wait)

Empire Records

... I could really keep going but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

[__onthebound]

Empire records the soundtrack wasn't as good as all the songs in the movie iirc? Didn't it have Coyote Shivers' version of Sugar High and not Renee's? It is a dim memory of an opinion from 20yr ago

[breathe_me]

Yes, the official soundtrack was the Coyote version. It was also the more sexually explicit version which 13 year me was not expecting.

I was going to say the soundtrack sucked as a whole, but when I Googled it did had some great songs but I feel like it missed the mark though. The songs that made the movie where missing and I spent a very long time trying to track them down in the days of Napster.

[sitakhet]

I considered Batman Forever but decided against it mostly because I'm a basic bitch who only really liked Kiss From A Rose 😂

[la_petite_singe]

I fully admit that I was OBSESSED with the Daredevil (2003) soundtrack. Releasing that movie when I was 15 and therefore extremely prone to fart-rock edgelordery was a personal attack!!

[mors_amor]

You just reminded me all about Evanescence

[sitakhet]

Respectfully, how could you ever forget such deep and soulful lyrics such as

WAKE ME UP

I CAN'T WAKE UP

[er1s]

Hey, that song still speaks to me!
As far as I'm concerned it's about coffee (I'm an insomniac)

[iamjohnbeans]

I thought there was a couple of good songs on the Godzilla 1998 soundtrack, but it might have just been Rage Against the Machine that I was thinking of lol.

[champagnexdream]

Nooo the Wallflower's cover of Heroes is amazing!

[iamjohnbeans]

Agreed!
plus I like the Green Day & Silverchair songs

Edit to add videos since I'm back on my laptop now:

[srslyy]

Ugh Jakob was such a babe

[colorsblend]

Oh man, I used to be obsessed with Underworld and the soundtrack lol.

My pick would have to be the Wicker Park soundtrack. I used to watch that movie just for the music (especially the last scene where The Scientist plays).