The best movie soundtracks/themes

Mostly good calls here. But am I the only one who likes the Hans Zimmer-composed theme for Thelma and Louise?

Bernard Herrman did some good stuff.

It's amazing how there have been so many extraordinarily successful film composers. Williams, Goldsmith, Elfman, Silvestri, and a few other guys have composed an astonishingly large percent of the noteworthy film music.

The Hours by Philip Glass

Rabbitproof Fence by Peter Gabriel

Goodfellas

orange crush wrote:

The terminator.

End of thread.

Get the "Definitive Edition" of the Terminator Soundtrack. Awesome atmospheric music.

Intergalactic wrote:

Bernard Herrman did some good stuff.

It's amazing how there have been so many extraordinarily successful film composers. Williams, Goldsmith, Elfman, Silvestri, and a few other guys have composed an astonishingly large percent of the noteworthy film music.

I work in Hollywood. It's so nepotistic and cronyistic you wouldn't believe it. That's why there's seemingly so few good composers. And why there's more and more remakes. The people running the studios started hiring their kids and kid's friends, hiring their nephews etc as writers, directors. Incredibly uncreative scheming thieves for the most part. Occasionally an honest talent gets in without connections, but it's usually just blind luck. Most of the stories you see of guys working their way in or up are just lies. Hell, I'm lucky to have my job, and that's because I was friends in college with a guy who ended up a producer.

Good Night, and Good Luck

The Lord of the Rings

Almost Famous

Having just seen Inglorious Basterds, I'll say that one was pretty sweet, also.

Lot of Ignored Talent wrote:

I work in Hollywood. It's so nepotistic and cronyistic you wouldn't believe it. That's why there's seemingly so few good composers. And why there's more and more remakes. The people running the studios started hiring their kids and kid's friends, hiring their nephews etc as writers, directors. Incredibly uncreative scheming thieves for the most part. Occasionally an honest talent gets in without connections, but it's usually just blind luck. Most of the stories you see of guys working their way in or up are just lies. Hell, I'm lucky to have my job, and that's because I was friends in college with a guy who ended up a producer.

The bigger names are often farming much of their work out to ghostwriters. Sometimes the ghostwriters have ghostwriters.

Last of the Mohicans

Indecent proposal

best theme songs of all time

The Big Country

Magnificent Seven

Jaws

Psycho

Lawrence of Arabia

No. Sorry try again. Last of the Mohicans is so overated. I would like to add Moby's soundtracks in Bourne and the Beach. Rudy had an inpirational theme and Donnie Darko had a moving theme song by Gary Jules called "Mad World". My contributions to this thread have easily trumped all. G night.

Last of the Mohicans is spectacularly good. Get therapy if you can't perceive that.

Shrek. End of thread.

Requiem for a Dream

Clint Mansell

It's friggin epic.

Without question, it is "The Sound of Music". Every time I hear "the hills are alive, with the sound of music...", I cry.

Except that Mad World wasn't written by Gary Jules.

they didn't make a soundtrack for this, but clearly the best music ever for a movie (Empire Records)

Intergalactic wrote:

The Lion King by Elton John et al

The score of Lion King is not Elton John. It's Hans Zimmer. There is no way Elton John could write that beautiful music. He wrote some of the songs but not the score.

"Repo Man." End of thread.