Film Scores - Which are your favourites?

Muban · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:00

Was just watching 'Around the World in 80 Treasures' and they played music from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. It just reminded me how amazing the music was. What films have scores that you think are truly amazing? I'm not talking about films that have lots of great songs in them, but more films that have original music. Off the top of my head I would have to say:

Radiers of the Lost Ark
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
The Omen
American Beauty
The Hunt for Red October
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Untouchables
The Right Stuff

Film scores are often underrated as a genre. I wonder which other ones I have missed purely becuase the film itself didn't appeal to me.

Zefan · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:00

Muban said:
Gladiator

STAR WARS. ALL OF IT.

Dave85 · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:01

Hanz zimmer - The rock score

amazing

Gilly · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:02

Godfather trilogy
Human Traffic
Apocalypse now

penski · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:03

Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream.

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ElRazur · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:06

Lord of the Ring
Live and lets die
Mission immpossible
The good the bad and the ugly.

atpbx · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:14

Zulu.
Gladiator.
Henry V
Aliens.
Highlander.
Gremlins.

marc_howarth · 1 Apr 2006 at 22:40

nearly all of john williams' film scores are amazing but one of my favourite has got pirates of the caribean - loved it even more when i got to play it in an orchestra

afraser2k · 1 Apr 2006 at 23:02

Conan the Barbarian is pretty good, especially for atmosphere in RPG games. Swordfish also has a decent soundtrack, if not that great a movie.

Vegetarian · 1 Apr 2006 at 23:11

I LOVE film music...

The all time best film score goes to...

The Empire Strikes Back by John Williams

Spunj99 · 2 Apr 2006 at 00:50

Lady Vengeance, actually.

That's one movie i saw at the cinema and actually thought to myself, "Awesome music."

Don't think i've ever done that on another film, scores rarely 'stand out' for me.

RandomTom · 2 Apr 2006 at 01:16

penski said:
Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream.

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Beat me to it, amazing soundtrack to this film.

daz · 2 Apr 2006 at 01:17

Schindler's List, The Truman Show, The Lord of the Rings.

melchy · 2 Apr 2006 at 01:36

penski said:
Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream.

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I always find it a little amusing that Clint could go from the Poppies to kick ass film score writer

Most of my personal favourites have already been mentioned.

One i think thats been missed is Blade Runner, Vangelis has done a few good scores.

chrisd · 2 Apr 2006 at 02:03

Last Of The Mohicans.

IceBus · 2 Apr 2006 at 02:53

Band of Brothers and Fight Club for OSTs. For best non-original it'd probably be Almost Famous for me.

Curio · 2 Apr 2006 at 04:54

Gladiator
Revenge of the Sith
Brokeback Mountain
Blade Runner
Jurassic Park
The Truman Show

Are a few that spring to mind...

Nix · 2 Apr 2006 at 05:01

Pretty much all of my suggestions have been suggested by others already:

Gladiator,
Band of Brothers,
Star Wars,
Apocolypse Now,
Godfather,
LoTR
Collatoral

ElvisFan · 2 Apr 2006 at 13:54

The Keep (Tangerine Dream)
Legend (Tangerine Dream)
Last Of The Mohicans (Trevor Jones / Clannad)
Robocop (Basil Poledouris)
Terminator (Brad Fiedel)
Blackhawk Down (Hans Zimmer)
Dune (Toto / Brian Eno)
Excalibur (Trevor Jones)
Jaws (John Williams)
Chariots Of Fire (Vangelis)
Blade Runner (Vangelis)

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BTW, does anyone know that James Horner's score of "Aliens" (or rather one part of it) has been used dozens of times on other movies. I can spot it instantly.

Guinny · 2 Apr 2006 at 20:49

The Mission -Ennio Morriconi

An amazing peice of music!