Science fiction movies that did not do well but had really great soundtracks.

[DarrenTR1970]

I know it's no sci-fi, but Popeye has a good cast soundtrack.

 

[Steve Roby]

Blade Runner was a flop in 1982 but had great music by Vangelis. Shame there's still never been a complete soundtrack. There are good bootlegs on the internet, at least, after you buy the official products and wonder what they were thinking.

Crash was science fiction-adjacent, being directed by David Cronenberg from a novel by J.G. Ballard. A minute into the opening titles at the theatre I knew I'd be buying the soundtrack.

Stephen Soderbergh's version of Solaris has a darn good score by Cliff Martinez.

 

[Sketcher]

Battle Beyond the Stars.

 

[Set Harth]

There are good bootlegs on the internet, at least, after you buy the official products and wonder what they were thinking.

I only discovered this in the last few months or so, maybe less.

 

[MarcKle1964]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (ducks)

*I know, the studio tacked on a bunch of extraneous Roddenberry related non-TMP expenses to TMP's actually boffo box o using studio bookkeeping trickery.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Not at all.

I saw it at least twice in the theater.

People smash it but it's campy fun and that Khan was delightfully over the top and it was fun

 

[Steve Roby]

People smash it but it's campy fun and that Khan was delightfully over the top and it was fun

Well, that's the thing. Campy fun was not what The Shadow as a long-running fictional character was about.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Well, that's the thing. Campy fun was not what The Shadow as a long-running fictional character was about.

I know but its a movie and that's why I kind of give it a pass and enjoy it

 

[DonIago]

It's not exactly sci-fi, but it's perhaps a bit adjacent: another John Barry score, Raise the Titanic.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It's not exactly sci-fi, but it's perhaps a bit adjacent: another John Barry score, Raise the Titanic.

I saw that on the big screen with my parents when in was first released. Watching the Titanic rise up from the ocean floor, bursting through the surface accompanied by John Barry's is something I've never forgotten.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

It's not exactly sci-fi, but it's perhaps a bit adjacent: another John Barry score, Raise the Titanic.

It's still a really good film... I like it

 

[Paradave911]

Heavy Metal (1981)

Awesome movie AND soundtrack! Heavy metal 2000 was awesome as well (JULIE STRAIN,) need I say more?

 

[theenglish]

The film doesn't get much right about the source material (either the pulp novels or the radio shows), not least the Shadow's origin, but it looks good and it's reasonably entertaining in its own way.

I remember watching The Shadow when it came out. Alec Baldwin was still relatively new on the scene. I really liked the movie. Throughout I was thinking that it was the Batman movie that I wished we got instead of Burton's films.

 

[DonIago]

Alec Baldwin was still relatively new on the scene.

I'm not sure that really holds up? Beetlejuice came out in 1988, and The Shadow in 1994. In between he headlined The Hunt for Red October, among other things.

 

[Steve Roby]

Well, the very first Batman comic story was ripped off from a Shadow pulp novel...

I'd still love to hear the music Johann Johannsson composed for Blade Runner 2049 before Villeneuve gave the job to Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch. Some of it was made available through NFTs, annoyingly enough. Johannsson's score for Arrival is among my favorite SF movie soundtracks. Johannsson also made an interesting film inspired by Olaf Stapledon's SF novel Last and First Men.

 

[MarcKle1964]

Awesome movie AND soundtrack! Heavy metal 2000 was awesome as well (JULIE STRAIN,) need I say more?

I saw that at Sunset Drive-In in Hot Springs, AR. Sure didn't sound good on that drive-in speaker you hang on the window. I bought the soundtrack the next day.