Joel Schumacher of all people. To follow Tim Burton. That's like hiring Dean Koontz to finish George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones), or to pick up an unfinished Neil Gaiman series.
Ironically it’s Tim Burtons fault it went to Schumacher after his self indulgence with Returns. If he’d matched the tone of the 1989 movie (wildly successful) it could easily have been another hit.
That whole situation leads me to the unpopular opinion that the 1989 Batman was as good as it was because of Burton, yes, but importantly the other creatives and producers.
Yeah, I’m surprised to learn it still has a strong following. It was too pantomimish for me, but I made my own fan edit that’s about 45 minutes shorter and I find that more watchable. Different strokes, etc.
Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely amazing. The range she has as an actor is unreal and I genuinely believe I am watching someone lose their mind when I watch that movie.
I was 15 years old in 1999 when Smash Mouth dropped their second album, "Astro Lounge." All Star was the hit song released on that album and it was all over the radio for the next couple years.
It was an extremely popular single at the time. Everyone in my school would drop everything to sing along if it came on the radio. Most of my friends (myself included) owned the album on CD. And to think the song was written as an afterthought, when they were finished with the album but needed more songs to fill it out a bit.
And yes, Mystery Men (1999) was the first film to prominently feature the song. But that film was technically a flop at the time of release, so most people didn't even see it. Which is why no one knows that All Star was in that movie.
Right as the song's popularity was finally starting to die down, Shrek (2001) released and brought All Star back to life. And it's become the anthem for Shrek movies ever since.
It was an incredibly popular song on its own back in the day. Shrek just ensured it lasted for several generations instead of dying out in the early 2000s.
My kids saw Shrek! not too long ago and got into that song. So I put the video from YouTube up for them and did a double take because I had completely forgotten that the video itself is a tie-in to Mystery Men (which is severely underrated imo)
I love Mystery Men. It was just the perfect mix of camp and heart. It's criminally underrated. I kinda get it — it's hammy and ridiculous, but there was just an earnestness to it. It was full of tropes, but never boring or formulaic. Familiar, while being totally unexpected. It felt like watching people play a tabletop superhero RPG.
I'm not saying Flash Gordon is a bad movie, just that it would be the height of blasphemy to even suggest that any mere movie could approach the greatness of Her Majesty, Queen.
The graduate soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel. Mrs. Robinson was a work in progress and adapted to fit the movie, and sound of silence, and Scarborough fair are classics of the period and folk rock pillars of the century.
Interestingly, this was one of if not really the first time popular, contemporary artists had their music featured in a film. Prior, scoring a film was the purview of someone with a music phd. Talk about the beginning of sea change for the industry.
And it wasn't even really in City of Angels. There was a part of an acoustic version over one brief scene, and that was it.
I know this, because I rewatched it a few months ago and was genuinely surprised at how tangential the song was the movie, but how inextricably linked the two are.
I watched that for the first time earlier this month. I was NOT expecting what it actually was.
I thought it was just at most like a concept album film, but way more likely to just have her as the soundtrack to a bad movie with a silly and relatable "fuck up your boss" theme.
Now I know she was respected for her vocalized beliefs and inclusion, but I really didn't think it would go that hard. I was blown away.
Plus I was pretty high when I watched it, and some of those scenes were trippy af. It was a good day.
Imho, the pacing of that movie was pretty rough. I know my attention span is fucked these days, but when I watch other movies from the late 70’s / early 80’s, 9 to 5 drags hard by comparison.
It did well at the box office, but I get why modern audiences don’t go back to it often.The direction feels really dated.
Was it only 15 minutes? High me remembers it as bring in one big dose, then just lil sporadic bursts the rest of the time.
I have a weekly "get high and watch a movie (a mix of "whatever strikes our fancy at the moment", or "missed out on when it came out because we were raised super Christian", with a healthy dose of "pride-related movies") and then watch a few episodes of whatever tv show we're working on" day, so I can confidently say that being stupid high is the best way to watch stuff. Even if we do miss a lot of context and plot from talking about tangentially-related stuff the whole time.
Good times.
This coming month will probably be horror movies (obvz), and I've already picked a movie that actually did scare the absolute shit out of me as a kid, and the memory still has some trauma attached to it for me, but I'm hate-watching it to maybe help heal my poor childhood memory.
And what is it? It would be "Thief in the Night", made in the 70s. Basically a Christian rapture themed movie. I have almost no specific memory of any of the scenes (I saw it when I was a single digit age), but I feel like there was someone who thought they were "saved" and didn't make it or something. That idea and the song on the end credits I forget the exact title now but I assume it's "I wish we'd all been ready" as that line is prominent in the chorus. The idea that someone could think they were saved but not really be (and the fact that all the adults around me didn't seem to have any concern about it) made me feel very, VERY insecure about it, and was probably the first of many, many cracks that finally led to me figuring it out way later.
I spent the next 20ish years "praying the prayer" several times every time I thought about that song, just to make sure. It is definitely the source of a lot of anxiety for me, and probably the scariest scary movie I've ever seen.
Coming back to it now, over 3 decades later, taking a victory lap on it, while using extremely non Christian friendly language and being high af, will be a real healing moment for me I think.
But I'll keep a spot open later this year to watch the whorehouse movie (😂).
I’ve has it on CD since the 90s. It’s one if those CDs I don’t think to play as often, and I normally give those away. But every time I give it one last listen I decide to keep it. Some excellent tracks on it.
It's been almost 30 years, and I don't think anyone younger than 40 had ever seen it. Its not popular enough for people to show to their kids or anything.
Yeah, I appreciate what it was trying to do - it had some good scenes in it; the gas station confrontation in the beginning was well done, and did a good job of setting the stage for how they were adapting the original text into a modern movie, but I thought the movie itself just drug on, and the more I think about it now, I think the scenes I did enjoy, I enjoyed largely because of the banger soundtrack. I did buy that CD, though, back in the day, and listened to it a lot.
Id say Lose Yourself by Eminem. Maybe because I was too young to watch the movie when it came out, but that song was everywhere, and is still popular today
The OP didn’t ask for an original song. Just a song that was bigger than the movie it was in. I love Dolly, but Whitney’s version did things that The Bodyguard couldn’t begin to touch. So much bigger that I’d bet more people know she sang the song than know she starred in the movie.
It was originally written for a movie called Dangerous Minds. I'm not an expert on Hip Hop, but I'd say it has definitely made it's place among the best in the genre.
Also, it's heavily by Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise.
I discovered fairly recently that Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) was originally recorded as the soundtrack to a movie called Against All Odds.
St. Elmos Fire. It's a one hit wonder, but the movie it was written for was typical 1980s "friends with issues" pablum. The kind that was better written and acted in a dozen other movies.
I'm not sure I'd say Eye of the Tiger more famous than Rocky. Any more than Glory of Love was bigger than Karate Kid or We Don't Need Another Hero was bigger than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
But I do feel like we still listen to the songs and never watch the movies, so they are enduring in a way the movies aren't. Though now I want to watch a bunch of 80's flicks. Weird Science. Flash Gordon. Highlander.
You know what's a weird outlier, though, now that I'm thinking about it? Batdance. Must be the movie quotes in it pin the song too closely to the movie. Ghostbusters didn't have that problem, though. Hmm.
I mean, when you are getting Freddie Mercury to write your soundtrack, you are just asking to have your movie get out shined. Hell, the sound track is 50% of what's carrying that film. (the TV series was better, IMHO.)
It seems like David Mitchell knew the show wasn’t going to continue past the third season, and his heart really wasn’t in it. Or maybe he just ran out of ideas?
Definitely not better, although still a great show.
Upstart Crow reminded me very much of Blackadder— but would definitely have benefited from more Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, lol (and, yes, Rowan Atkinson, too)
For sure. And I love Dolly as much as seemingly every other human on earth. I’m just saying the Bodyguard version was an absolute smash hit that many amateur singers have struggled to recreate since.
can't help falling in love, elvis. from blue hawaii (1961).
heard at weddings around the world for decades. in the present day it is the most-streamed elvis song. soundtrack and single both charted for weeks (the soundtrack for a year-and-a-half, 20 weeks at number one).
Would? by Alice in Chains was from the Singles soundtrack. The song was great, it was included as the last song on the album Dirt that came out shortly after the movie.
John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band – Eddie And The Cruisers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"On the Dark Side", in particual.
When initially released in September 1983, the song peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard, while the film itself was pulled after three weeks in the theaters.
Nine months after the film was released in theaters, the main song in the film, "On the Dark Side", was the number one song in the country on Billboard's Mainstream, Rock, and Heatseeker charts and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Another single from the film, "Tender Years," peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Kiss From a Rose by Seal. I couldn’t even tell you what the plot of Batman Forever was.
Joel Schumacher of all people. To follow Tim Burton. That's like hiring Dean Koontz to finish George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones), or to pick up an unfinished Neil Gaiman series.
Hey at least Dean Koontz would have finished the fucking thing.
Ironically it’s Tim Burtons fault it went to Schumacher after his self indulgence with Returns. If he’d matched the tone of the 1989 movie (wildly successful) it could easily have been another hit.
That whole situation leads me to the unpopular opinion that the 1989 Batman was as good as it was because of Burton, yes, but importantly the other creatives and producers.
I think the penguin one has stood the test of time the best
Yeah, I’m surprised to learn it still has a strong following. It was too pantomimish for me, but I made my own fan edit that’s about 45 minutes shorter and I find that more watchable. Different strokes, etc.
I haven't watched it recently but i really related to Catwoman 's arc, how it was kind of like an insanity and compulsion
Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely amazing. The range she has as an actor is unreal and I genuinely believe I am watching someone lose their mind when I watch that movie.
He was a good director though. It’s just that he wanted to do Batman with nipple armour.
Ace Ventura teams up with the cop from The Fugitive, so Iceman has to team up with that guy from NCIS:LA to defeat them
This is a great answer!
Batman Forever is tied with The Dark Knight as the Best Batman Movie Ever. It’s perfect. They might be in my book as The Best Superhero Movies Ever.
I’m not a superhero movie fan.
Batman Forever fucks, tho.
That song is such a banger it ain't even right
Smash Mouth - All Star. It’s so popular from Shrek that most people forget (or never knew) that it started in Mystery Men.
I was 15 years old in 1999 when Smash Mouth dropped their second album, "Astro Lounge." All Star was the hit song released on that album and it was all over the radio for the next couple years.
It was an extremely popular single at the time. Everyone in my school would drop everything to sing along if it came on the radio. Most of my friends (myself included) owned the album on CD. And to think the song was written as an afterthought, when they were finished with the album but needed more songs to fill it out a bit.
And yes, Mystery Men (1999) was the first film to prominently feature the song. But that film was technically a flop at the time of release, so most people didn't even see it. Which is why no one knows that All Star was in that movie.
Right as the song's popularity was finally starting to die down, Shrek (2001) released and brought All Star back to life. And it's become the anthem for Shrek movies ever since.
It was an incredibly popular song on its own back in the day. Shrek just ensured it lasted for several generations instead of dying out in the early 2000s.
Mystery Men flopped on release but is such a fun movie in retrospect.
It's a cult classic.
They also performed it live in Rat Race which was a wild movie.
Ooo I gotta watch Rat Race.
Let me know how it holds up
And which movie's characters are in the music video for All Star?
My kids saw Shrek! not too long ago and got into that song. So I put the video from YouTube up for them and did a double take because I had completely forgotten that the video itself is a tie-in to Mystery Men (which is severely underrated imo)
I love Mystery Men. It was just the perfect mix of camp and heart. It's criminally underrated. I kinda get it — it's hammy and ridiculous, but there was just an earnestness to it. It was full of tropes, but never boring or formulaic. Familiar, while being totally unexpected. It felt like watching people play a tabletop superhero RPG.
In what?
Mystery Men. It’s an ensemble cast supe comedy from the 90s.
And the movie was both surprisingly good and ahead of its time as a superhero critique.
Had to scroll way to far down to find this. Both because how big the song got, and how literally dozens of us watched Mystery Men.
I am one of those dozens!
I had it on VHS!
I think this song was also featured at the end of the movie Rat Race.
Twice, in fact.
I remember it from the Inspector Gadget movie
Bohemian Rhapsody, Wayne's World.
The song that was released 17 years before the movie?
The movie used the song, but the song was not made for that movie
Flash by Queen
From the movie Flash Gordon
Im going to assume you are just being comparative, and saying that the song is just so good that no movie could be better.
Because otherwise you would be insinuating that flash Gordon is a bad movie. And we dont tolerate that kind of heresy
Yeah, if only because Flash—Ahhhaaahhaaa—is the savior of the universe. You know, that Flash—Ahhhaaahhaaa—he'll save every one of us.
I'm not saying Flash Gordon is a bad movie, just that it would be the height of blasphemy to even suggest that any mere movie could approach the greatness of Her Majesty, Queen.
The graduate soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel. Mrs. Robinson was a work in progress and adapted to fit the movie, and sound of silence, and Scarborough fair are classics of the period and folk rock pillars of the century.
Interestingly, this was one of if not really the first time popular, contemporary artists had their music featured in a film. Prior, scoring a film was the purview of someone with a music phd. Talk about the beginning of sea change for the industry.
I was going to say Pink Floyd did it earlier with More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_%28soundtrack%29
But it turns out The Graduate came out a couple years earlier
Flashdance had two songs ("what a feeling" and "maniac") that everyone knows even if they haven't seen the movie.
Wild Wild West was bigger than Wild Wild West
Sisqo 🫶
That was will Smith though
WE'RE GOING STRAIGHT - TO - THE WILD WILD WEST 🎶
WHERE WE RIDE ON THEM THANGS LIKE ERRERYDAY
Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" comes to mind.
And it wasn't even really in City of Angels. There was a part of an acoustic version over one brief scene, and that was it.
I know this, because I rewatched it a few months ago and was genuinely surprised at how tangential the song was the movie, but how inextricably linked the two are.
This post is 4h old and no-one’s got it rightest yet…
White Christmas.
Of course it is.
Few remember that it won the Oscar for 1942. Fewer still remember the film was called Holiday Inn
I love that Bing Crosby just refilmwd the same movie a decade in and called it a day.
well nowadays it's called White Christmas
I'm surprised no one said Dolly Parton's 9-to-5.
I watched that for the first time earlier this month. I was NOT expecting what it actually was.
I thought it was just at most like a concept album film, but way more likely to just have her as the soundtrack to a bad movie with a silly and relatable "fuck up your boss" theme.
Now I know she was respected for her vocalized beliefs and inclusion, but I really didn't think it would go that hard. I was blown away.
Plus I was pretty high when I watched it, and some of those scenes were trippy af. It was a good day.
Now to watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Never even heard of that one til now.
Despite the title, it's a comedy.
I also really liked Straight Talk. We watched all her movies after she passed and even though it had poor reviews I actually liked it a lot
Yeah it's a trip! Not many movies would spend 15 minutes on a weed-infused dream sequence
Imho, the pacing of that movie was pretty rough. I know my attention span is fucked these days, but when I watch other movies from the late 70’s / early 80’s, 9 to 5 drags hard by comparison.
It did well at the box office, but I get why modern audiences don’t go back to it often.The direction feels really dated.
Was it only 15 minutes? High me remembers it as bring in one big dose, then just lil sporadic bursts the rest of the time.
I have a weekly "get high and watch a movie (a mix of "whatever strikes our fancy at the moment", or "missed out on when it came out because we were raised super Christian", with a healthy dose of "pride-related movies") and then watch a few episodes of whatever tv show we're working on" day, so I can confidently say that being stupid high is the best way to watch stuff. Even if we do miss a lot of context and plot from talking about tangentially-related stuff the whole time.
Good times.
This coming month will probably be horror movies (obvz), and I've already picked a movie that actually did scare the absolute shit out of me as a kid, and the memory still has some trauma attached to it for me, but I'm hate-watching it to maybe help heal my poor childhood memory.
And what is it? It would be "Thief in the Night", made in the 70s. Basically a Christian rapture themed movie. I have almost no specific memory of any of the scenes (I saw it when I was a single digit age), but I feel like there was someone who thought they were "saved" and didn't make it or something. That idea and the song on the end credits I forget the exact title now but I assume it's "I wish we'd all been ready" as that line is prominent in the chorus. The idea that someone could think they were saved but not really be (and the fact that all the adults around me didn't seem to have any concern about it) made me feel very, VERY insecure about it, and was probably the first of many, many cracks that finally led to me figuring it out way later.
I spent the next 20ish years "praying the prayer" several times every time I thought about that song, just to make sure. It is definitely the source of a lot of anxiety for me, and probably the scariest scary movie I've ever seen.
Coming back to it now, over 3 decades later, taking a victory lap on it, while using extremely non Christian friendly language and being high af, will be a real healing moment for me I think.
But I'll keep a spot open later this year to watch the whorehouse movie (😂).
It's my favorite day of the week! I also eat like a death-row inmate on his way to the chair the next morning. Talkin' MAD chocolate covered pretzels
Haha we always have taco bell and sometimes we make "special" 😜 cookies for dessert. Iykyk
Right, yeah. That song from The Orville.
Purple rain by Prince, from the movie with the same name
Wait, there was a movie called Purple Rain!?
Please purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka before you add another other comments to this thread.
Axel F - Harold Faltmeyer ("Beverly Hills Cop" title)
The movies were super popular, but the title music became chart topping, and basically turned into the archetypical sound of the 80's
And then got frogged.
Crazy
I Will Always Love You from The Bodyguard. I’ve never even seen it.
Also, Wicked Game was way bigger than Wild At Heart.
The Bodyguard soundtrack is a top tier album on its own merit; the movie is okay.
I’ve has it on CD since the 90s. It’s one if those CDs I don’t think to play as often, and I normally give those away. But every time I give it one last listen I decide to keep it. Some excellent tracks on it.
Aerosmith - don't want to miss a thing
I bet most people don't even know it was the lead track written for a movie when it came out.
Armageddon was a pretty popular movie tho. 🤨
It was extremely popular, it had several big stars and was the second highest grossing movie of 1998 after Titanic.
It's been almost 30 years, and I don't think anyone younger than 40 had ever seen it. Its not popular enough for people to show to their kids or anything.
Aerosmith
I think my phone autocorrected that for some reason... It shouldn't have for a name but you're right
Don’t you mean “fletcher”?
Norman Stanley Fletcher
“Lovefool” - Cardigans
From the film Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Honestly that movie's soundtrack was absolute fire, had a lot of great tracks on it.
Exit Music (For a Film)
Too bad the movie was crap
Yeah, I appreciate what it was trying to do - it had some good scenes in it; the gas station confrontation in the beginning was well done, and did a good job of setting the stage for how they were adapting the original text into a modern movie, but I thought the movie itself just drug on, and the more I think about it now, I think the scenes I did enjoy, I enjoyed largely because of the banger soundtrack. I did buy that CD, though, back in the day, and listened to it a lot.
If it was just a movie about Mercutio and Tybalt, it would have been pretty good.
Kiss from a rose. Still going.
Chariots of fire theme by Vangelis from a movie "Chariots of fire".
Id say Lose Yourself by Eminem. Maybe because I was too young to watch the movie when it came out, but that song was everywhere, and is still popular today
Yes but that's only because em is bigger then 8 mile.
I will always love you
More popular than both the movies it featured in!
I'll always love you too @[email protected]
Welcome to Costco!
Wasn’t made for a move. Dolly wrote it for porter wagner when she left the show in 1973. Outright slanderous…
The OP didn’t ask for an original song. Just a song that was bigger than the movie it was in. I love Dolly, but Whitney’s version did things that The Bodyguard couldn’t begin to touch. So much bigger that I’d bet more people know she sang the song than know she starred in the movie.
Came here to say this.
(recently I learned that the song is much older)
As good as the 1995 movie was, and it was good, the Techno Syndrome Mortal Kombat song was a certified banger.
Honorable mention to Blood Rave from the Blade Soundtrack
You mean Tracy Lord's Control, right?
Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio (feat. L.V.)
It was originally written for a movie called Dangerous Minds. I'm not an expert on Hip Hop, but I'd say it has definitely made it's place among the best in the genre.
Also, it's heavily by Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise.
I discovered fairly recently that Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) was originally recorded as the soundtrack to a movie called Against All Odds.
Until then, I had no idea that movie existed.
I've yet to meet anyone who's heard Scotty Doesn't Know by Lustra, who has also seen Eurotrip.
This one is hard, because its such a great movie... but the song is great too.
Is the song that popular? In my circle, people only know it from the movie (but a lot of people know the movie).
I don’t know the song or the movie!
The movie is a classic. Here's the scene with the song.
i first heard the song in the movie. i have the dvd. it's the one i use to test players at the office.
This isn't where I parked my car.
St. Elmos Fire. It's a one hit wonder, but the movie it was written for was typical 1980s "friends with issues" pablum. The kind that was better written and acted in a dozen other movies.
Honestly I do think Eye of the Tiger… if not, Chariots of Fire?
But maybe that’s just time
I'm not sure I'd say Eye of the Tiger more famous than Rocky. Any more than Glory of Love was bigger than Karate Kid or We Don't Need Another Hero was bigger than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
But I do feel like we still listen to the songs and never watch the movies, so they are enduring in a way the movies aren't. Though now I want to watch a bunch of 80's flicks. Weird Science. Flash Gordon. Highlander.
You know what's a weird outlier, though, now that I'm thinking about it? Batdance. Must be the movie quotes in it pin the song too closely to the movie. Ghostbusters didn't have that problem, though. Hmm.
Who wants to live forever from Highlander.
I mean, when you are getting Freddie Mercury to write your soundtrack, you are just asking to have your movie get out shined. Hell, the sound track is 50% of what's carrying that film. (the TV series was better, IMHO.)
The other track from the album, "One Vision" is from Iron Eagle???
Gimme, gimme....fried chicken!
On that note, Flash from Flash Gordon
"Raindrops keep falling on my head" - Hal David & Burt Bacharach (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
"Young Guns" - Bon Jovi (Young Guns 2)
"Wind beneath my Wings" - Bette Midler (Beaches)
"Cry Little Sister" - Gerard McMahon (Lost Boys)
Just a few I can think of off the top of my head.
Raindrops will always remind me of my uncle singing it while acting like a total lunatic 🤣🤣. RIP you crazy wonderful human.
Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from the trailers for the movie Disturbing Behavior.
Also obligatory shout out about how they are a criminally underrated band and their albums are fucking great if you like clever, sarcastic indie rock.
I was literally just talking about Peep Show at the bar tonight and I completely forgot it was the theme song! Great fucking show.
Great fucking show
Upstart Crow is better (show not theme song)
I like Upstart Crow but feel its level drops somewhat in the later episodes. Nevertheless great show!
It seems like David Mitchell knew the show wasn’t going to continue past the third season, and his heart really wasn’t in it. Or maybe he just ran out of ideas?
Not sure if David did much of the writing, both TMDB as IMDB only credit Ben Elton for the writing.
Hey hey hey!
Definitely not better, although still a great show.
Upstart Crow reminded me very much of Blackadder— but would definitely have benefited from more Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, lol (and, yes, Rowan Atkinson, too)
Shaft
I can dig it.
Shut yo mouth
Every song in k-pop demon hunters
The way I look at it, K-Pop Demon Hunters is a musical.
Which means the songs aren't bigger than the movie.
Because the songs ARE the movie :)
I will Always Love You from The Bodyguard.
Ok but it was a Dolly song way before then. But Dolly said that the song “became Whitney’s” because of her performance.
For sure. And I love Dolly as much as seemingly every other human on earth. I’m just saying the Bodyguard version was an absolute smash hit that many amateur singers have struggled to recreate since.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
TMNT2 Go ninja Go ninja Go!
You can pause the video and see the exact moment Vanilla Ice realized he ruined his career.
The movie was pretty good too though
Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone.
The entire 'Spawn' soundtrack.
Heathens by 21 pilots for the Suicide Squad. It’s not even great 21 Pilots, but it’s way better than the movie.
"Come with me" - Puff Daddy (P Diddy) from Godzilla (1998)
The song peaked at No 2 on the UK charts.
The movie was a colossal failure and got 20% on rotten tomatoes.
Ironically both feature monsters.
Smashmouth's "All Star" got a lot bigger than 1999's Mystery Men
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Which movie?
Not Barbie Girl but Aqua's "Turn Back Time" was the song in Sliding Doors
I Believe I Can Fly by....wait maybe not
Time of my life?
What movie was it
Dirty Dancing
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. Written for the forgotten "Radioactive Man" Simpsons spin-off movie.
The Rose by Bette Midler- as a lot of people probably don’t even know it was a movie also.
I Am The Walrus was much more popular than The Magical Mystery Tour but that can be said for all of that movie's songs really
Jailhouse Rock from the movie Jailhouse Rock.
can't help falling in love, elvis. from blue hawaii (1961).
heard at weddings around the world for decades. in the present day it is the most-streamed elvis song. soundtrack and single both charted for weeks (the soundtrack for a year-and-a-half, 20 weeks at number one).
Rock 'N' Roll High School
By the Ramones? Didn't know that was a movie
PJ Soles was in it. And of course, the Ramones.
Would? by Alice in Chains was from the Singles soundtrack. The song was great, it was included as the last song on the album Dirt that came out shortly after the movie.
Dueling Banjos in Deliverance
Somewhere Out There from An American Tail (1986).
John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band – Eddie And The Cruisers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
"On the Dark Side", in particual.
I saw the movie when it came out on VHS.
https://www.discogs.com/master/27926-John-Cafferty-And-The-Beaver-Brown-Band-Eddie-And-The-Cruisers-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
Ben. Good movie, good song, good rat.
Armageddon was a pretty big summer flick at the time but Aerosmith and John Denver were still more famous I think
Literally the entire soundtrack to Interstellar. It’s an ok Hans Zimmer music video.
When The Rain Begins To Fall from Voyage of the Rock Aliens
I wouldn't say bigger, but Shrek brought Hallelujah to life
Gabriel's Oboe from The Mission.
The movie was incredible but I feel like that tune has really stood the test of time.
I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman - Streets of Fire
"Go Speed Racer Go", the only salvageable part from the live action Speed Racer movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kGRNKevA_M
Nah homie that's one of my favorite childhood movies
incredibly loud incorrect buzzer
That movie is perfect and is a genuine art piece. Nothing before or since has been able to capture that same vibe.
Somebody...
SomeBODY
(Ftfy)
Circle of Life,, which is impressive considering that The Lion King did quite well.
No way. Lion King is a giant in pop culture, it didn't do "quite well," it absolutely dominated for years and is still widely seen & known.
A bit off from the question, but "the queen of the damned" soundtrack is the most fire soundtrack from any movie, ever.
How the fuck has no one said breakfast at Tiffany's ?!??? That song is/was everywhere
It wasnt in the movie though, right?
The film pre-dates the song by about 34 years, so no.
No, but I must have misunderstood the question here loll
🪸 Under the Sea 🐬
Mark Knoffler's Local Hero from the eponymous movie.
Romeo and Juliet https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmUWNUzaqo
The song has become a standard, for good reason. There's my favorite cover:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SSK_VQLWCZg
The entire Romeo Must Die soundtrack
Ghost Busters. After liking the song, I found the movie kinda meh
Mib by will Smith
The whistling from Bridge over river kwai
Absence of Paradox by Lovett - in fact that whole album - is just simply magnificent on par with Vangelis.
The movie it's from, is also beautiful, but utterly confusing. I'm not sure it's very well known at all.