The best movie soundtracks/themes

Halloween for fourth.

Garden State hands down.

There's a huge difference between a soundtrack and a "theme" or original score.

Best original scores in no order:

Star Wars; Superman, Jaws, the Indiana Jones series by John Williams

The Lion King by Elton John et al

Dirty Harry actually has an amazing jazz score. Sideways has a great original jazz score that fits the mood very well.

Gone with the Wind

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Best soundtracks:

Wayne's World 1 and 2

SLC Punk

Songs - Rushmore

Soundtrack - American History X, Last of the Mohicans

Off the top of my head, two favorites come to mind immediately:

Last of the Mohicans: 1993, directed by Michael Mann

Days of Heaven: 1978, directed by Terrence Malick

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Original:

1. On the waterfront, Leonard Bernstein score (end of thread)

2. 8 1/2, Giovanni Rota score (not much to listen to, but crucial to the film)

3. Altered States, John Corigliano score

Borrowed:

1. The Shinning, haunting use of Dies Irae from Berlioz as well as Bartok, Penderecki, and Ligetti.

2. Platoon, Barber Adagio

3. Death in Venice, Mahler adagietto

The answer, hands way the F down is Shawshank Redemption:the theme is stoic

Road to perdition is also very good

American Beauty

All of the aforementioned were composed by the master himself Thomas Newman

Brokeback mountain has a beautiful theme song as does Forest Gump.

Platoon is good and so is Requiem for a Dream

Director Danny Boyle uses Underworld often and they are good. Listen to the tracks "Born Slippery" and "8 ball" they are fantastic. And orbital "beached" from the movie the beach. I almost forgot the PF Project "choose life".

The rest of the posts pale in comparison to mine TRUST ME I know way too much about film for the rest of this board.

'filmaster,'

Judging by his post, I think it's likely that John Smallberries knows at least as much as you think you know. He just didn't need to tell us.

Having said that, good calls on Road to Perdition and American Beauty. Also, two of the greats in film scoring:

- Bernard Herrmann: Plenty of Hitchcock collaborations, and also one of my favorites, 1962's original Cape Fear.

- Ennio Morricone: I have a disc somewhere of his stuff. Although I can't name any of it right off, some great music. I think he did a lot of the Sergio Lenone movies.

uh...make that 'Sergio Leone.'

INTO THE WILD soundtrack

Eddie Vedder proved why he is the real talent that came out of the grunge era, not that loser Cobain

I'd go with O, Brother Where Art Thou? and Apocalypse Now, if just for Ride of the Valkyries.

filmaster wrote:

The rest of the posts pale in comparison to mine TRUST ME I know way too much about film for the rest of this board.

I guess everything made before 1990 was just crap.

More categories:

Really old original:

Captain Blood (or Robin Hood), Erich Korngold

Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Prokofiev

Sunset Blvd, Franz Waxman

Best song not in a movie musical:

Moon River, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Henri Mancini

Rainbow Connection, Muppet Movie

Gratitude, Drawing Restraint No. 9, Gratitude (Will Oldham sings a song which derives its lyrics from a letter written by a Japanese man to General McArthur thanking him for allowing a whale hunt to feed starving post-WWII Japanese. Written by Bjork and Matthew Barney. Just amazing.)

Lifetime acheivement:

Schifrin, Goldsmith, Williams (grudginly for excessive borowing)

The terminator.

End of thread.

How can this be a running site and no one suggests "Chariots of Fire?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7Vu7cqB20

Also - "Rocky." If this doesn't get your heart racing, then you don't have one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWR0k_R6XDE

How could you leave out Miklos Rozsa, composer of Double Indemnity, Spellbound, Ben-Hur, El Cid, The Green Berets, The Asphalt Jungle (among many others), and his last masterpiece, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?

Mishima

Last of the Mohicans

Braveheart

Rocky

"the harder they come" - basically only famous for it's soundtrack anymore. some awesome reggae classics plus original songs by jimmy cliff.

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