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I will Always Love You from The Bodyguard.
Ok but it was a Dolly song way before then. But Dolly said that the song “became Whitney’s” because of her performance.
For sure. And I love Dolly as much as seemingly every other human on earth. I’m just saying the Bodyguard version was an absolute smash hit that many amateur singers have struggled to recreate since.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
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?
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Not Barbie Girl but Aqua’s “Turn Back Time” was the song in Sliding Doors
Which movie?
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
That song is such a banger it ain’t even right
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.
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.
Hey at least Dean Koontz would have finished the fucking thing.
He was a good director though. It’s just that he wanted to do Batman with nipple armour.
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.
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.
Don’t you mean “fletcher”?
Aerosmith
Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. Written for the forgotten “Radioactive Man” Simpsons spin-off movie.
TMNT2 Go ninja Go ninja Go!
You can pause the video and see the exact moment Vanilla Ice realized he ruined his career.
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.
I wouldn’t say bigger, but Shrek brought Hallelujah to life
Smash Mouth - All Star. It’s so popular from Shrek that most people forget (or never knew) that it started in Mystery Men.
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.
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 think this song was also featured at the end of the movie Rat Race.
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.
They also performed it live in Rat Race which was a wild movie.
Ooo I gotta watch Rat Race.
Mystery Men flopped on release but is such a fun movie in retrospect.
It’s a cult classic.
Dueling Banjos in Deliverance
I Believe I Can Fly by…wait maybe not
Somewhere Out There from An American Tail (1986).
Armageddon was a pretty big summer flick at the time but Aerosmith and John Denver were still more famous I think
