Now it's always something heartbreaking for me. I enjoy soundtracks a lot (it's, like, 94% of all I listen), but I enjoy them partly for the evocation of their support story, memories of films, games, etc.

Alas alas.

I find the soundtrack of the few last Brosnan Bond movies excellent (David Arnold toying with the Bond theme), despite of the movies themselves being barely watchable.

I used to really like the theme of Broken Arrow, one of the most embarrasingly idiotic action movies I've ever inflicted myself.

I just re-listened to the nice Duel of the Fates, but it's from the Phantom Menace.

I find the Torchwood music totally epic, especially the bit about the dumbest (fight) scene of the whole series. Lots of musical emotion for who-cares-about-these-characters plot moments.

I used to boot Netherworld just for its title music.

There's been several other spectaculat discrepancies between musics I've adored and products that I've completely disliked, and I find this amusing, in an argh way (I want to re-hear this, I don't want to be reminded that).

Any similar crisis on your side ?

GREAT THREAD!

I'm glad you mentioned movies because I can't really think of any games and I usually turn the music off anyway.

There are tons of movies and I'll no doubt be in here several times today but the 1st one that comes to mind is "Last Action Hero".

I like the music to AD&D: Heroes of the Lance even though it is one of the worst games on the NES.

its not a bad game but i like the music from halo and bought the ost

room 217 is a "documentary" about the meaning of things in the shining
the movie is ridicilous and gets more and more ridicilous as its grasps for the most tenuous of connections such as a skiing poster on a wall representing the minotaur and the labyrinth
because there is a labyritnh in the movie

the longer i watched it the more incredulous and angry i got
but it has a great electronic version of dies irae

The main theme of the Wild Wild West movie has some nice parts in it, i.e. 0:49 to 1:32 and 2:00 to the end. The movie itself is pretty bad in my opinion.

I liked the music in Archangel though the game itself is mostly meh. A real shame I didn't save the soundtrack back then.

Tetris.

Also, almost off topic, because I don't think they are ba stuff, but I really never managet to get into Mission Impossible. Despite of Lalo Schifrin's wonders.

I must say that most of the cheesy tv series of that era had impressive soundtracks, often by huge composers (Schifrin, Barry, Quincy Jones...), sometimes by very talented but more minor composers (like Stu Philips - stuff like Battlestar Galactica aren't really top notch tv, but heck, they can sound cool at times, definitely in the listen-more-than-watch category). It's a mine for orphan soundtrack quality...

The Delta Force
The movie is what it is. Even in the 80s I remember it being a basic gung-ho battle flick. Pop culture has since spun it into an anti-terrorist, army recruitment film. Stupid action cheese-fest, but the soundtrack by Alan Silvestri crafts it into some kind of Wagnerian epic with Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin running around karate chopping planets in half with the power of their America Force Powers.

The Delta Force - The Rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VwPZjb9S8Q

^ looks like the kind of movie hot shots 1 and 2 spoofed

BEST soundtrack for the BEST game:

https://youtu.be/JNq6SVPY4AM

y'all ready for this?

This, from the movie: The Last Airbender.
If you ask me, the movie was OK (but I understand why many fans got pissed), and the music was fantastic.

I didn't like Gothic 3...
But the soundtrack....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrgPqGoKk4

WOW O.O

Well...not really a movie exactly, but the anime Record of Lodoss War : Chronicles of the Heroic Knight is one of the worst shows EVER! But oddly enough has a really epic great opening song.

The irony is the original OVA episodes were perfectly fine...but people are stupid and remake something that was good....well what can I say, we had a perfect version of Red Dawn already >_>

Yeah, this is what I do. Most of the time I just play Drowning Pool's 'Bodies' on a loop, usually I'd let it roll for 9 out of every 10 hours of gameplay, so it won't get old.