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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.
It's not. It's a subpar plot and some questionable acting carried by gorgeous visuals and a stellar soundtrack.
It's still my favourite movie of all time, but the soundtrack is stil better.
Where else can you see Jeff bridges fighting Jeff bridges on a bridge?
Good point on the Bridges Bridges bridge fight, MajorMajormajormajor.
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Honestly, Tron: Legacy is not that bad compared to Tron: Ares, which I was going to write down before I saw your comment.
I haven't seen that one either, but I'll assume it's worse purely on the basis of not having Daft Punk.
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I just see it as a big ass music video
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The Phantom Menace
Cannot echo this enough
Kor-ah, Mah-tah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.
Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Yood-hah, Kor-ah.
Kor-ah, Syahd-ho. Rah-tah-mah, Daan-yah. Kor-ah, Kee-lah, Daan-yah. Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah.
Kor-ah, Daa-nyah. Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Nyo-hah, Kee-lah, Kor-ah, Rah-tah-mah. Syahd-ho, Kee-la, Daan-yah, Rah-tah-mah.
Kor-ah!
Fragment of an old Welsh poem translated into Sanskrit--how could you miss? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_of_the_Fates
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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.
hell yeah, seconded, Spawn soundtrack is full of bangers!
really a lot of 90's movies had top-notch soundtracks, i will even go out on a heretical limb and say i liked the soundtrack for The Crow more than the movie.
Well the soundtrack is awesome. I love the movie very much as well though.
Another good 90s movie soundtrack is the one for Judgment Night. Same concept as the Spawn soundtrack, but with callaborations between hiphop and metal. I have not seen the movie though.
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Came here hoping to see this! That's the only soundtrack I keep on my phone. Dee Snider's Strangeland also had a banger soundtrack for such a bad movie.
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Tron: Legacy
The movie is basically just a ~90 minute Daft Punk video.
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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.
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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.
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Scott Pilgrim vs the World each track is shear awesomeness (...and the movie is not bad either).
Have to disagree. The movie is awesome, lots of lines to quote, lots of visual gags. It (and the comic) were formative for me and it's one of the few movies that I feel really understands the millennial gamer nerd culture. And of course the music is great, but I couldn't agree with better.
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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.
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Tron: Ares. The movie would be vastly improved if the dialogue track went missing.
You mean, as a feature-length music video for Nine Inch Nails? I concur.
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Disgusting lack of Space Jam in this thread. For a kids movie, the artists on the soundtrack were not fucking around
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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.
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The Curtis Mayfield album for the movie 'Super Fly' made more money than the actual movie.
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To copy felsiq's comment, Sinners. The movie is phenomenal but the soundtrack? Holy moly.
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The Mission and just about any other movie foolish enough to hire Ennio Morricone.
Also: The Phantom Menace.
Most star wars tbh. It seems like no franchise catches more criticism than star wars, about plot, dialogue, acting, etc. But I've never heard a complaint about the soundtrack (for the main saga anyway). John Williams just doesn't miss.
Yes, Williams is the guy that brought leitmotifs to movies (or at least the one everyone's heard of).
There was a YouTube criticism of Marvel Super Hero movies that was basically going around asking people to hum themes from favorite movies, almost always John Williams: Star Wars, Jurassaic Park, Indiana Jones... then he´d ask people to sing people from a Marvel movie, ANY Marvel movie, and people who just mumble incoherently that they couldn't think of anything. All those characters, all those movies, and not a single damn theme identifiable with any of character or movie, just a bunch of music generically recycled for Action or Sad or Bemused. Biggest missed opportunity in music history.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs)
There's also some good commentary about how themes that had definite meanings in the original trilogy got recycled and reused until they meant nothing specific. I think Luke's theme in the swamp became Generic Music for Using the Force.
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Tron Legacy
Oblivion
The movie itself is a boring holywood scifi (not actually bad, tho).
The soundtrack is a masterpiece by M83.
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All Disney star wars movies
I’d argue that all Star Wars soundtracks are better than their associated movies. This is not necessarily to say that the movies are bad, though that can be debated, but the soundtracks are phenomenal.
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Lord of the Rings, imo. Nothing wrong with the movies but the soundtrack is just that good
Gonna have to say there's no way I can separate the visuals from the music in LoTR. I would never answer with this.
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Suckerpunch
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