Favorite Movie scores/music

[GePap]

Most moevies (except a few experimental ones) employ music to set the scene, play with our emotions, highten excitment, so forth and so on. So, the question is, whic movies and their score are your favorites? Any tunes that are just unforgetable?

For me: best score: The Mission
Last of the Mohicans (1990's version)

Most memorable songs: Jaws theme
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Imperial March.

[Asher]

Requiem for a Dream's score

[Zopperoni]

Gladiator and The Rock had pretty good soundtracks IMO.

[JohnT]

Titanic.
Amadeus. (Not really a score, but who cares)
Immortal Beloved (See: Amadeus)

[Lord Merciless]

Imperial March is absolutely the best.

[Japher]

Last of the Mohicans (1990's version)

oh yeah baby


I have a crap load of movie soundtracks my favs?

Hans Zimmer: Power of One
John Williams: Far and Away
Danny Elfman: Edward Scissor Hands (hard choice for him)
James Horner: Glory
John Barry: Dances with Wolves (hated the movie though)

Many others of course

[Japher]

Imperial March is absolutely the best.

from star wars???

[GePap]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless
Imperial March is absolutely the best.

I like it, but jaws is just so memorable...

John Williams must have made a pact with the devil.

[Kassiopeia]

One mustn't forget to mention scores by Vangelis. Particularly Chariots of Fire (ok film, good soundtrack), Blade Runner (great film, excellent soundtrack), and 1492: Conquest of Paradise (sucky film, great soundtrack).

Hans Zimmer's music tends to sound alike at places... the Crimson Tide theme is superb, as is Injection from the MI2 soundtrack (rest of the score sucks big though). The Rock's score is pretty good too.

Oh and the Imperial March is of course absolutely brilliant.

I won't ramble about anime soundtracks here, though I should mention Kenji Kawai's score for the film Avalon (which is a live action film). Great orchestral pieces and ambient music.

[Japher]

Oh and the Imperial March is of course absolutely brilliant

Come on! While it is a good piece I could not place in my top 5! It especially not brilliant... Holst: The Planets

He totally ripped it off, though a lot of score writers do that... LEonard Bernstein was the exception.

Vangelis

[Darsnan]

Opening song from "Shrek": so mis-directional...

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Darsnan
Opening song from "Shrek": so mis-directional...

Wasn't that Smash Mouth - All Star?

Shrek soundtrack was great IMHO, both on it's own (rare for a film) and for effect during the film. Hallelujah and I'm a Believer being highlights for me

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Drogue

Wasn't that Smash Mouth - All Star?

Shrek soundtrack was great IMHO

Actually I was refering to the relatively sappy sounding song that plays while Shrek is on the can reading the Fairy Tale, which is then interupted by his ripping out the page and performing various body functions: how incongrouous!
Regardless, I agree that the soundtrack is superior, and that the musical pieces really enhanced the scenes they were placed in!

D

[molly bloom]

The Wicker Man

North By Northwest

L'Ascenseur au L'Echaffaud

The Man With The Golden Arm

Anatomy of a Murder

A Walk on the Wild Side

Paris Texas

Get Carter (the original)

Alfie

Performance

Assault on Precinct 13

Wattstax

The Belly of an Architect

Koyaanisqaatsi

The Last Temptation of Christ

Eraserhead

Across 110th Street

To Sir, With Love

Shaft

[Pekka]

Boogie Nights.