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Dueling Banjos in Deliverance
Somewhere Out There from An American Tail (1986).
I wouldn’t say bigger, but Shrek brought Hallelujah to life
“Go Speed Racer Go”, the only salvageable part from the live action Speed Racer movie.
Nah homie that’s one of my favorite childhood movies
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That movie is perfect and is a genuine art piece. Nothing before or since has been able to capture that same vibe.
Mib by will Smith
The whistling from Bridge over river kwai
Kiss From a Rose by Seal. I couldn’t even tell you what the plot of Batman Forever was.
Joel Schumacher of all people. To follow Tim Burton. That’s like hiring Dean Koontz to finish George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones), or to pick up an unfinished Neil Gaiman series.
Hey at least Dean Koontz would have finished the fucking thing.
Ironically it’s Tim Burtons fault it went to Schumacher after his self indulgence with Returns. If he’d matched the tone of the 1989 movie (wildly successful) it could easily have been another hit.
That whole situation leads me to the unpopular opinion that the 1989 Batman was as good as it was because of Burton, yes, but importantly the other creatives and producers.
I think the penguin one has stood the test of time the best
Yeah, I’m surprised to learn it still has a strong following. It was too pantomimish for me, but I made my own fan edit that’s about 45 minutes shorter and I find that more watchable. Different strokes, etc.
I haven’t watched it recently but i really related to Catwoman 's arc, how it was kind of like an insanity and compulsion
Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely amazing. The range she has as an actor is unreal and I genuinely believe I am watching someone lose their mind when I watch that movie.
He was a good director though. It’s just that he wanted to do Batman with nipple armour.
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!
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.
That song is such a banger it ain’t even right
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.
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.
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!
I think this song was also featured at the end of the movie Rat Race.
I remember it from the Inspector Gadget movie
Twice, in fact.
Bohemian Rhapsody, Wayne’s World.
The movie used the song, but the song was not made for that movie
The song that was released 17 years before the 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.
Wild Wild West was bigger than Wild Wild West
Sisqo 🫶
That was will Smith though
WE’RE GOING STRAIGHT - TO - THE WILD WILD WEST 🎶
WHERE WE RIDE ON THEM THANGS LIKE ERRERYDAY
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.
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.
well nowadays it’s called White Christmas
