Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Movies with a great "Music" sountrack.

SouthPark is pretty good, hey its a musical after all.

Thanks, guys. Some great suggestions here.

One that I haven't seen in a while (about 16 years!), is La Bamba. Although there was some controversy about how it ended compared to the Buddy Holly Story, I still remember enjoying it.

How about Dead Man Walking? The soundtrack has Eddie Vedder, Nusrah Fateh Ali Khan, Johnny Cash, Ry Cooder, and Bruce Springsteen.

What, no one's pulled out O Brother, Where art Thou?

Best soundtrack I've ever heard...

I liked the Commitments, too.

How about The Fabulous Baker Boys? Michelle Pfeiffer looks great, the Dave Grusin compositions are fairly spunky, and the standards are lovingly interpreted. I regret that the version of "More than you know" in the movie is NOT on the soundtrack.

I am Sam - total bummer - great soundtrack full of really competent Beatles covers.

20th Anniversary Edition of Purple Rain

Craig, since we are going back in time a bit........

But first I have to preface my post with the fact that I'm on my fourth delicious Sleeman Cream Ale, and in no way am I lumping these movies in with Purple Rain. It's just that it jogged my memory.

So, from my youth:
Footloose
Flashdance
Grease
Dirty Dancing
and Saturday Night Fever

At the time I remember enjoying them, but I imagine the cheese factor would be quite high if I watched them now.

fyi...

The new anniversary edition of Purple Rain was handled really well. Both picture and sound are outstanding. Not just great quality music, but they did a really good job remastering and remixing it for 5.1.

Shawn, we only recently started getting distribution of Sleeman products in Washington State. I understand Sleeman bought not only the underappreciated Okanogan Spring but also my much beloved Unibroue. But, this is clearly a topic for the beer thread. I love the Cream Ale, though. It obviously contains a delicate balance of high quality ingredients and is extremely clean.

I kind of liked "Grease", but I was in about 6th grade at the time.