Song better than the movie

LPManic

Randomly watched a video of Goo Goo Dolls doing Iris today and got me thinking that the song is clearly better than the City of Angels movie.

Any other examples?

thecolourbox

Any of the Moore or Brosnan Bond Films

Winny_Pooh

Time of my life. I mean, for a regular guy who's not sexually fancying Swayze, Dirty Dancing is a decent movie, but that song is more memorable.

RocknRollDave

LPManic said:

Randomly watched a video of Goo Goo Dolls doing Iris today and got me thinking that the song is clearly better than the City of Angels movie.

Any other examples? 

Blaze of Glory?

Jesus, the movie must be very poor, then.

Shrews

I liked the films below but not as good as the songs

St.Elmo's Fire 
White Christmas (or Holiday Inn too)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Yesterday
Blinded By The Light

tekbow

Maybe not the general genre discussed so far, song wise, but Daft Punk did the soundtrack for the Tron sequel and it deserved a way better film.

Although I liked the film.

Jeff Beck did some cracking work on the Young Guns 2 soundtrack.

EricTheWeary

Convoy. 

Philly_Q

I love Django (the Franco Nero one, not the Tarantino codswallop with Jamie Foxx), but although the film is great the theme tune is even better.

ICBM

You’re The One That I Want
Against All Odds
Call Me

prowla

The Bodyguard

digitalkettle

Phantom of the Opera is more betterer than the Lucozade advert.

stickyfiddle

thecolourbox said:

Any of the Moore or Brosnan Bond Films

Goldeneye is better than its theme song.

I won't argue on the others though. Even the best Moores had the best songs too (Live & Let Die, Spy Who Loved Me). And the worst are probably Octopussy, Mooonraker and Die Another Day, which all had dreadful movies to go with. 

Majorscale

Magnolia- hated the film, loved Aimee Mann’s soundtrack 

DrCornelius

Show Me Heaven from that godawful Tom Cruise car racing shitefest

BillDL

Footloose

Armageddon

Flashdance

Titanic

strumjoughlamps

Judgment Night

thecolourbox

stickyfiddle said:

thecolourbox said:

Any of the Moore or Brosnan Bond Films

Goldeneye is better than its theme song.

I won't argue on the others though. Even the best Moores had the best songs too (Live & Let Die, Spy Who Loved Me). And the worst are probably Octopussy, Mooonraker and Die Another Day, which all had dreadful movies to go with. 

Goldeneye is probably the closest to a level between decent film and decent song for me, and I did enjoy the video game to be fair. I quite liked the Die Another Day song to be honest, i liked the string sample especially. It did feel a bit like a song reused from something else though I suppose

west

Majorscale said:

Magnolia- hated the film, loved Aimee Mann’s soundtrack 

Love p.t.a.s film prefer nilsons version of one 

stickyfiddle

Batman Forever is a good one. I don’t dislike the movie but both Hold Me Thirll Me Kiss Me Kill Me, AND Kiss From a Rose are exceptional

Also Armageddon - while hardcore 70s-era Aerosmith fans will moan at I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing, they’re wrong because it’s a banger 

DannyP

This Woman's Work by Kate Bush - written for She's Having a Baby

CaseOfAce

The Long Good Friday.