10 Awesome Musical Scores That Deserved Better Movies

Back in 2003, instead of making separate music videos for the singles from their post-disco tech-funk masterpiece Discovery - including One More Time, Digital Love, and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - robot-masked French duo Daft Punk delivered an entire anime feature: Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (directed by Leiji Matsumoto, the man behind a number of iconic 1970s space opera animes).

As a movie, Interstella 5555, which is essentially dialogue and sound-free except for the backing of Daft Punk's music, is lightweight and disposable. But as a set of stylish visuals to enhance the already powerful music of Discovery then it's something of an audiovisual treat.

And that is perhaps the best way of viewing Tron: Legacy, the much belated sequel to a weird cult film that nobody particularly asked for. Don't think of it as a kind of flat, forgettable sci-fi movie with a wooden central performance from Garrett Hedlund. Think of it instead as an audiovisual experience, a stylish neon-drenched feature length music video for the only Daft Punk album to be released between the mid-2000s and the mid-2010s.

As an album it's less full of obvious bangers than its follow up Random Access Memories, but it is intriguing to hear Daft Punk's synths and drum machines paired with an 85-piece orchestra.

Director Joseph Kosinski even cut sequences of the movie to the rhythms of the music, rather than the other way around, proving that at least in this synergistic audiovisual arena Tron: Legacy pushed boundaries in a way that its predecessor had with its animation.