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

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.

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.

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

I was going to say Pink Floyd did it earlier with More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_%28soundtrack%29

But it turns out The Graduate came out a couple years earlier

Sisqo 🫶

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.

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

Wait, there was a movie called Purple Rain!?

And then got frogged.

The Bodyguard soundtrack is a top tier album on its own merit; the movie is okay.

Honestly that movie's soundtrack was absolute fire, had a lot of great tracks on it.

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.

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)

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.

In what?

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.

Yes but that's only because em is bigger then 8 mile.

You mean Tracy Lord's Control, right?

I mean, when you are getting Freddie Mercury to write your soundtrack, you are just asking to have your movie get out shined. Hell, the sound track is 50% of what's carrying that film. (the TV series was better, IMHO.)

On that note, Flash from Flash Gordon

I'm not sure I'd say Eye of the Tiger more famous than Rocky. Any more than Glory of Love was bigger than Karate Kid or We Don't Need Another Hero was bigger than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

But I do feel like we still listen to the songs and never watch the movies, so they are enduring in a way the movies aren't. Though now I want to watch a bunch of 80's flicks. Weird Science. Flash Gordon. Highlander.

You know what's a weird outlier, though, now that I'm thinking about it? Batdance. Must be the movie quotes in it pin the song too closely to the movie. Ghostbusters didn't have that problem, though. Hmm.

This one is hard, because its such a great movie... but the song is great too.

Is the song that popular? In my circle, people only know it from the movie (but a lot of people know the movie).

i first heard the song in the movie. i have the dvd. it's the one i use to test players at the office.

This isn't where I parked my car.

I watched that for the first time earlier this month. I was NOT expecting what it actually was.

I thought it was just at most like a concept album film, but way more likely to just have her as the soundtrack to a bad movie with a silly and relatable "fuck up your boss" theme.

Now I know she was respected for her vocalized beliefs and inclusion, but I really didn't think it would go that hard. I was blown away.

Plus I was pretty high when I watched it, and some of those scenes were trippy af. It was a good day.

Right, yeah. That song from The Orville.