The Wing Commander movie by Chris Roberts (yeah, of Star Citizen scam artist fame).
It’s loosely based on his older Wing Commander games, and I think he funded it with some of the money Microsoft gave him to develop Freelancer.
It’s a deeply mediocre movie, but the soundtrack, in particular the main theme, was pretty darn good.
All Disney star wars movies
Cloud Atlas
Oblivion
The movie itself is a boring holywood scifi (not actually bad, tho).
The soundtrack is a masterpiece by M83.
Somebody else noticed! Yeah that’s like the only Cruise film I ever paid attention to and it’s for that music.
Though I do like movies where characters have to sort out artificial memories
Was Last Action Hero good? I never saw it, but the soundtrack is loaded with 90s music.
Cool World
The Da Vinci Code
Sleepless in Seattle
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.
Is that the current state of film sequels? The sequel from ten to twenty years ago that we all thought was bad is not nearly as bad as the latest sequel, what has happened to films?!
Tron: Ares was not that bad either. The visuals were a clear upgrade from Tron: Legacy and a handful of clips I’ve seen from the original Tron movie. You can notice that that they put a lot of details in places like Ares’ HUD, consoles, the proprietary 3D printer and the virtual red-coloured world whose name I can’t remember right now.
The soundtrack does complement the movie, although I noticed that they repeated certain “melodies” across the movie more than I would’ve liked. It’s obviously not at par with Daft Punk but it resembles the spirit of the Tron franchise.
The plot is a real rollercoaster in terms of quality and believability. The backstory and plot of the main protagonists feel solid and so is the interaction between each other. Somehow Jared Leto decently fits the role of Ares and his dialogues don’t feel out of place or cringey. On the other hand, the story gives too much power to the antagonist to the point that it clearly feels unfair. Also some action scenes feel like they’re happening just because they have to, and probably give material for the trailers to give the viewers something to look forward to while watching the movie.
If you have no qualms with the involvement of Jared Leto, I would recommend that you give this movie a try. It’s certainly not a masterpiece, but it’s surprisingly well made for a movie that that considered a flop by the users at Lemmy.
Those “repeated certain melodies across the movie” have a name. It’s called a theme and is something that’s pretty common in movies, opera, musicals, symphonies, etc. An entire work can have a theme that is modified, built upon, expanded or changed as the narrative progresses. Individual characters or places can have their own unique themes. Daft Punk’s entire style is built on repetition, so it should be no surprise that their musical score work would highlight that.
I haven’t seen that one either, but I’ll assume it’s worse purely on the basis of not having Daft Punk.
I just see it as a big ass music video
have you seen Interstella? Amazing and also a big ass music video 😎
Thanks for the notice :) Yeah thats also a nice music video!
Im kind of a big daft punk fan :)
I like the Reconfigured version better with Glitch Mob and others.
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.
Yeah, I definitely like Vangelis stuff myself.
1492: Conquest of Paradise
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHx0_z3bD8&list=OLAK5uy_kOfOjm87WdODYRYnphcPF3A3XI64jK5J4
Chariots of Fire
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo&list=OLAK5uy_lkHoq84JxhDV9-7EHWX48-f0zUxdyFizY
Bounty
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kKI3ZoWiYBk&list=PLy5kryT0xrJMuOJ-hun3UHGDls50vvei0
Blade Runner
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=smpTDkLCYb0&list=OLAK5uy_neLURwHRNsWnZouMq5K_vGitaXhlKEr4g
Perhaps the only movie that stood on its own against a soundtrack by Vangelis was Blade Runner.
Yeah. Though…man, I really like Blade Runner’s music, too.
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.
Flash! Aah ahh!
King of the Impossible!
A Kind of Magic! I mean it’s not really the soundtrack to Highlander, but it kinda is and it rocks
hot mess
Oi! Take that back!
Tarzan
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
Interstellar
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.
Considering the other super hero movies we had at the time I thought it was ok. The HBO animated series is much better.
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.
I haven’t even seen the movie, but the soundtrack is awesome (Judgement Night).
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.
Dee Snider’s Strangeland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AA8eEULzcY&list=PLN3IXyARrKqPDmud2Cc2AXOwh_4DLT-nW
Note that this is not some sort of official soundtrack; rather, it’s apparently just a playlist of songs that appeared in the movie, uploaded by different users, which might mean that volume and encodings or maybe that versions are not consistent with those in the movie. I don’t see an official soundtrack on YouTube Music; one might never have been released.
