Movies which were not good, but had GREAT soundtracks?

[Deja Q]

"Star Trek Generations" - it had potential to be a GREAT Trek movie, but blew it (due to a sloppy/rushed plot.) The direction was pretty good as well (David Carson's directions of his TV episodes were brilliant and those were better scripts...) But the soundtrack is top notch.

What are your nominations?

[radwriter0555]

1. Streets of Fire.. Cotton Club.

Both WERE great movies, with AWESOME soundtracks.

[chefgirl]

2. ' A Knight's Tale'

Pretty silly movie, but the soundrtrack rocked!

-chef-

[Muddleoftheroad]

7. Excellent choice

Streets of Fire is a guilty pleasure movie for me, but I do love the soundtrack.

[PAMod]

3. "The Committments" decent movie, awsome soundtrack

[onecitizen]

4. "The Big Chill"..............

"Forrest Gump" to name 2 quickly. "Dr Zhivago" too.

[cherryperry]

9. YAY!

Everyone I know pretty much agrees on your "The Big Chill", as do I; however, I am so tired of people not 'getting' the reactionary theme of "Forrest Gump" but I so agree with you on its wonderful soundtrack!

:yourock:

[JohnKleeb]

19. cherry I keep on seeing people say that about gump

The reactionary theme
I dont see it maybe its because I last saw it when I was young. BTW I agree the music kicks ass.

[GumboYaYa]

5. The Hot Spot

directed by Don Johnson is an awful movie, but the sound track is amazing.

1. Coming To Town - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
2. Empty Bank - Taj Mahal/Miles Davis
3. Harry's Philosophy - John Lee Hooker
4. Dolly's Arrival - Taj Mahal
5. Harry And Dolly - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis/Taj Mahal
6. Sawmill - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
7. Bank Robbery - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
8. Moanin'- John Lee Hooker
9. Gloria's Story - Miles Davis/Bradford Ellis
10. Harry Sets Up Sutton - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
11. Murder - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
12. Blackmail - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis
13. End Credits - John Lee Hooker/Miles Davis/Taj Mahal

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. Not entirely awful

You did leave out the part about Jennifer Connelly topless. ;)

[FlashHarry]

17. Actually, it was directed by Dennis Hopper

But it starred Don Johnson. A pretty decent b-movie, actually. (But then I'm a Jennifer Connelly fan...)

[underpants]

6. M*A*S*H*

No it was a good movie but I just wanted to point out that for the first half of that movie there is NO music. Nothing. The director(Robert Altman?) didn't want to set the scene he just wanted it to be a stark dark look at war.

For it's time it showed the "injuries" of war in a way many had no seen them. Really there is only one song from that movie that I can remember "Suicide is painless" an odd title for a really successful theme song on network TV.

[mitchum]

10. "Siesta" and "Times Square"

[catpower2000]

11. Hackers, 10 Things I Hate About You, Practical Magic...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
200 Cigarettes
Under The Cherry Moon
Grease
Dick
Angus...

there's a lot of them.

Cat

[Breezy du Nord]

12. I Am Sam

The movie was good, not great, but the soundtrack's PHENOMENAL.

[billfromwny]

13. Eddie and the Cruisers

A muddled mess of a movie; but John Cafferty's music rocks!

[bbernardini]

22. Yes!

I just saw John Cafferty last month, and he still puts on a great show. I'm hoping to get 4 or 5 live shows in the mail soon.

[FlashHarry]

14. Conan the Barbarian

Basil Poledouris' score is brilliant. (Actuall, the movie's not half-bad. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when John Milius and Oliver Stone were writing that puppy. I'm sure the room was oozing alpha-male testosterone.)

[NightTrain]

15. The Blues Brothers

Loved the music, hated the film.

[Jonte_1979]

16. "Unbreakable"

I did not like it very much but it had an incredible soundtrack.

[CanuckAmok]

18. "Straight to Hell", "Lost Highway", 'The Crow" n/t

[Archae]

20. Xanadu

Asinine plot, GREAT tunes.

[tarkus]

21. The last Temptation of Christ. Haven't seen it, but I hear it is bad...

The soundtrack is great though!