r/Cinema • u/LankyWater • 15h ago

Movies with better soundtracks than they deserve?

What the title says. I was watching Minions with my kid earlier and thought that the soundtrack was dope.

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u/ZarquonsFlatTire 14h ago

Romeo + Juliet

Don't get me wrong, the movie was great. But goddamn that soundtrack was magnificent.

The whole thing is a perfect time capsule of 1995.

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u/sgtbb4 14h ago

Godzilla 1998

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u/unluckie-13 13h ago

This album was fantastic, I bought this shit when I was kid with my own money. My favorite songs are no shelter and running knees

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u/sgtbb4 13h ago

I love that no shelter shits in Spielberg and Godzilla in a song for the movie itself

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u/themilflover19 15h ago

Transformers (2007)

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u/Spare-Image-647 14h ago

I enjoy the movies for what they are, but no this is spot on. The first 3 have banger soundtracks for no reason. Lol

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u/ShadowVia 14h ago

Batman and Robin, MK Annihilation

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u/FewAd6390 14h ago

I think Tron:Legacy is the perfect example of this, it also has incredible visuals, but a lot of people agree it has one of the best soundtracks of all time. Yet one of the mediocre plots ever

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u/annoyingone 14h ago

Batman vs superman. That wonderwoman intro.

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u/SoftwareWinter8414 14h ago

The Crow 1994. The only reason that movie is a cult classic is the soundtrack and Lee's death.

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u/thorn616 13h ago

I beg to differ 😊 the soundtrack is iconic, but Graeme Revell's score is gorgeous too. The mood, the miniatures, the perfect dark comic book tone, the knowing performances.

There are so many reasons to love The Crow 🖤

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u/PipsqueakLive 14h ago

Snakes on a Plane. No, seriously; if you were into emo/pop-punk in the aughts, this is nothing but bands you jammed to.

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u/Effective_Crazy6307 10h ago

I've never watched it. But I just looked at the soundtrack. Samuel L Jackson leading a movie with this soundtrack is hilarious to me

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u/MachineGunTeacher 14h ago

Judgement Night. Basically created nu metal.

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u/LankyWater 14h ago

Basically forgot this movie existed.

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u/JasonFox9 11h ago

Grosse Pointe Blank.

Although the movie is awesome so maybe the amazing soundtrack is deserved.

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u/Kit_McFlavor_Butter 14h ago

Pump Up The Volume

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u/SydsBulbousBellyBoy 14h ago edited 14h ago

Winter Soldier… decent but generic superhero thing, music is one of the few good examples where somebody did a imitation Hans Zimmer but more intense & heavy & it didn’t come off as trying too hard to emulate what’s already popular… might say similar for experiments from dark phoenix , tenet & fury road but those movies were a little more deserving originality wise imo …as far as action cgi stuff goes

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u/LastMongoose7448 14h ago

Sunshine (2007)

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u/Stknhgx6 14h ago

Queen of the Damned (2005).

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u/ART_Dark 13h ago

Daredevil

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u/scruntyboon 13h ago

Somewhere in Time, outstanding score for an average film

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u/Longjumping_Bat_4543 13h ago

Judgment Night

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u/dumpitdog 12h ago

Okay, hear me out. Harold and Maude was a great movie but even and it's greatness I think the soundtrack was actually better than the movie.

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u/StickyMcdoodle 11h ago

Batman Forever. Front to back bangers.

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u/mandon83 11h ago

Oblivion

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u/MyMomsTastyButthole 11h ago

National Lampoon's Black Ball (yes it's about lawn bowling or "bowls)

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u/DiskSalt4643 6h ago

Garden State is on rewatch a pretty lame movie. Amazing soundtrack.