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Bad Company

I know I'm putting forward a series but Blood of Zeus has one of the best soundtrack work I've heard. It feels epic, thematic and is actually tailored to each scene and the characters in it.

It's like Peter and the Wolf on steroids turned into a proper composed orchestra set in Greek mythology on every episode. Writing and voice acting is good enough but the show becomes one of my favorites because of the music.

I haven't actually seen Tron: Legacy, but I assume the film cannot possibly be as good as the Daft Punk album it came with.

The Phantom Menace

Spawn. The movie was laughably bad and I have banned it from my memory. However, the soundtrack is a collection of collaboration between metal bands and electronic artists and is really awesome.

Tron: Legacy

The movie is basically just a ~90 minute Daft Punk video.

Queen of the Damned was an abysmal movie with a surpassing solid soundtrack with some of the biggest names in music at the time collaborating.

Jonathan Davis of Korn wrote half the songs and sang in the movie, but his record contract stated that he couldn't appear on an album put out by another label, so the solution was to bring in guest artists to sing instead. Chester Bennington from Linkin Park, Wayne Static from Static-X, David Draiman from Disturbed, and Jay Gordon from Orgy. If you were a nuMetal fan back then, this was an all-star lineup.

Also, honorable mention to Batman & Robin for being absolute dogshit but having one of the Smashing Pumpkins' best songs on it.

Garden State

I am super proud to be late to the party and still have one useful submission: Flash Gordon, the 1980 hot mess that George Lucas passed on to make Star Wars.

The soundtrack is not the finest work by Queen, but is worth a tenth re-listen nonetheless.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World each track is shear awesomeness (...and the movie is not bad either).

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.

Tron: Ares. The movie would be vastly improved if the dialogue track went missing.

Hackers. The movie is great, the soundtrack is greater.

Batman forever soundtrack is way better than the movie

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The Curtis Mayfield album for the movie 'Super Fly' made more money than the actual movie.

Disgusting lack of Space Jam in this thread. For a kids movie, the artists on the soundtrack were not fucking around

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.

To copy felsiq's comment, Sinners. The movie is phenomenal but the soundtrack? Holy moly.

The Mission and just about any other movie foolish enough to hire Ennio Morricone.

Also: The Phantom Menace.

Tron Legacy

Interstellar

Oblivion

The movie itself is a boring holywood scifi (not actually bad, tho).

The soundtrack is a masterpiece by M83.

All Disney star wars movies

Lord of the Rings, imo. Nothing wrong with the movies but the soundtrack is just that good