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Kiss From a Rose by Seal. I couldn’t even tell you what the plot of Batman Forever was.
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!
That song is such a banger it ain’t even right
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.
Smash Mouth - All Star. It’s so popular from Shrek that most people forget (or never knew) that it started in Mystery Men.
It’s so popular from Shrek […]
[…] 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.
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!
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.
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
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_(soundtrack)
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.
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.
Wild Wild West was bigger than Wild Wild West
Sisqo 🫶
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.
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.
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
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.
Don’t you mean “fletcher”?
Norman Stanley Fletcher
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.
“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.
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.
Kiss from a rose. Still going.
