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

Yeah, I bought the Heavy Metal Soundtrack LP the moment I knew it was available.
(And it pissed me off that DEVO's "We're Trough Being Cool..." track they used for the animated band in the Tarna section Bar scene WASN'T on that LP.

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You could splice that into a custom mix playlist.
 
Children of Dune (Syfy network) didn't do very well, but I would hold its soundtack up to any of the movies, Lynch or the new ones. It's so good it's been recycled and people who never even heard of the miniseries have heard the music. Also has the only pop song ever written in Fremen.


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Dark City - budget $27 million. Box Office $27.7 million.
Great soundtrack - especially the Diector's Cut, which restores Jennifer Connolly singing, which was dubbed in the theatrical cut.
 
Children of Dune (Syfy network) didn't do very well, but I would hold its soundtack up to any of the movies, Lynch or the new ones. It's so good it's been recycled and people who never even heard of the miniseries have heard the music. Also has the only pop song ever written in Fremen.


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Totally agree on the soundtrack with this one.
 
Children of Dune (Syfy network) didn't do very well, but I would hold its soundtack up to any of the movies, Lynch or the new ones. It's so good it's been recycled and people who never even heard of the miniseries have heard the music. Also has the only pop song ever written in Fremen.


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Not sure if I would call Inama Nushif a pop song...
 
Dark Phoenix was a pretty bad X-Men movie, but I love Hans Zimmer’s score. It’s just Zimmer being Zimmer but it really comes together.
 
Dark Phoenix was a pretty bad X-Men movie, but I love Hans Zimmer’s score. It’s just Zimmer being Zimmer but it really comes together.
You might be a bit of an outlier on this one. :) From filmtracks.com...
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I love Outland.

Outland was a rare sci-fi gem with a brilliant Goldsmith score. His fantasy film scores were in a masterful class by themselves.

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

Strong score and underrated film.

Again, not Sci Fi, but OHMSS has a good soundtrack.​

OHMSS was successful, and yes, it had a good, arguably great score. Easily one of the best Bond scores to date.
 
Bicentennial Man was a box office bomb but had a lovely soundtrack by James Horner. One can forget about the Celine Dion thing, if one chooses to.

The downside is that Paula West's beautiful cover of The Very Thought of You didn't even get a credit and was left off the soundtrack. I'm not sure why, since it was part of one of the most pivotal scenes and she's even singing it live in the scene.
 
Crappy science fiction movie called Prisoners of the Lost Universe.

The original score was by Harry Robertson.

Normally you could say it was just a pay check, but, sadly, the original story and screenplay are credited to him, so he wrote this garbage.

Suite of scoring. Check out that opening cue!

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