10 Movie Soundtracks Better Than The Film

The legacy of the Tron franchise has been a bit of a mixed bag. Though the sci-fi epic of 1982 did fairly well in its day, it only ended up gaining a reputation after the fact, with it becoming one of the most in-demand cult movies in existence. People had been clamoring for a sequel for ages, but how would you get the masses excited about an old storyline about virtual reality? Simple: you get some robots to score the thing.

By the time Tron: Legacy was in production, people were already aware of Daft Punk, but their work on this one soundtrack may be able to stand beside their proper studio albums. A well-known musician scoring a movie could have been considered a vanity project at best, but Daft Punk were clearly the right men for the job here.

Rather than go the typical route of writing songs that are half-heartedly connected to the story, this is just a solid hour of ambient synthwave that gels perfectly with the neon-flavored images onscreen.

The idea of synthwave replacing traditional score may have been an odd choice at first, but the more outlandish experiments in recent superhero movies like Aquaman and Thor Ragnarok are still trying to hop on the trend that Daft Punk started. Revisiting Tron may have done OK financially, but it would have been a crime if we were deprived of these electronic soundscapes.