Put in my vote for _Flash Gordon _. Now, look, I love the movie, but the Queen album that goes with it is incredible.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
107 points (98.2% liked)
Ask Lemmy
42074 readers
1433 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Was Last Action Hero good? I never saw it, but the soundtrack is loaded with 90s music.
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.
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.
It was worth a solid 3 or 4 chuckles. There's worse ways to spend your time. The Rotten Tomatoes score is fair.
LotR
Don't get me wrong. The movies are great. But the soundtrack is even better.
You should listen to phil dragash read the books, you'd love it
Maximum Overdrive
It's all AC/DC [the album version is Who Made Who], but, they're pretty much all bangers with a couple originals for the movie.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, 1991, Kevin Costner
Wasn't a terrible movie, but the theme for it by Michael Kamen is fucking FIRE.
The Village. Certainly one of Shyamalan's better films, but the soundtrack is off the charts beautiful.
load more comments
(1 replies)
- Braveheart
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- The Book of Eli
- Lost Highway
And probably Purple Rain, but I've never seen the movie.
load more comments
(3 replies)
The Crow
Batman Forever and the X-Files Movie Soundtrack.
Love me some scores, but these were both rock solid soundtracks.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Gangsters paradise - Coolio
Movie: Beautiful Mind
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."
Cutthroat Island (1995). The movie bombed the box-office so bad that the entire swashbuckling genre died out for several years, until the first Pirates of the Caribbean film in 2003.
The soundtrack, however, is one of the best of the genre
load more comments
(1 replies)
Flashdance!
About a Boy
great album by Badly Drawn Boy, lots of variety
Forrest Gump. The movie is exceptional. The soundtrack tho...
This is not such an interesting question anymore because it's a trope to blow the budget on recognizable songs in a shit movie.
But if your looking for the biggest difference in quality, I'd say Singles (1992) Not that the movie is bad, just that the soundtrack is legendary.
EDIT: also because the best tracks are original recordings and not just a playlist of already popular songs.
Outside of the 1990's, I don't think there was an era when the movie industry relied that much on soundtrack albums as part of the revenue stream.