Movie Soundtracks

[chrisfffan]

whats your favourite movie soundtrack?

heres mine

Star Wars
Rocky
The Godfather
Once Upon A Time In America
Dances With Wolves
Ledgeds Of The Fall

[Rocket Edge]

- Shawshank Redemption
- Man On Fire
- Ocean's Eleven (1999)
- Above The Rim

[Shiny]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2
Pulp Fiction
Save the Last Dance
Silent Hill

[chrisfffan]

i think most of the best films have great soundtracks you can tell by a start of a film most of the time if its any good by its sound track.

[Mythra]

Not sure if you would consider The Wall a soundtrack, but I would have to say that and most definitely The Fountain OST.

[Madame Adequate]

Well, Rent is the obvious answer, but that's cheating. Of normal movies? Escape From New York.

[Shiny]

Well, Rent is the obvious answer, but that's cheating. Of normal movies? Escape From New York.
Oh, yes RENT. The movie version definitely sounded better than the original cast version.

[kikimm]

The Fountain for me too. I fell asleep to it last night!

[Dreddz]

Donnie Darko
The Lost Boys
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
A Clockwork Orange

Not in any order, Donnie Darko is definately first though.

[Germ Hamee]

The Fountain, without a doubt. Death is the Road to Awe is such an incredibly intense song to listen to, especially after seeing it used in the film.

[Yamaneko]

Blade Runner! Vangelis did an amazing job. I especially enjoy the Main Title and Rachel's Song.

[Yew-Yevon]

Nausicaa Of the valley of the wind;
Princess Mononoke;
Howels moving Castle;
Street Fighter 2 the animated movie;
Inuyasha;
Naruto;
Star Wars;
Star Trek;
Fullmetal Panic;
Fullmetal Alchamist;
Karas;
Ghost in the Shell SOC & Second Gig;
Neon Genisis Evangelion;
....The list goes on ;)

[Araciel]

vanilla sky

[GooeyToast]

The Fountain, without a doubt. Death is the Road to Awe is such an incredibly intense song to listen to, especially after seeing it used in the film.

Agreed. Together We Will Live Forever is so beautiful and haunting. The entire soundtrack is, actually.

[Dr Aum]

The soundtrack to Blade Runner is not only the best movie soundtrack ever produced, but also the best recording ever. Period.


And Yamaneko, you have just become my favorite forum member. But keep it quiet; it's a secret!

[krissy]

Blade Runner! Vangelis did an amazing job. I especially enjoy the Main Title and Rachel's Song.

f yeah vangelis
great ost

star wars's (original 3, i mean come on, binary sunset gives you chills, dont lie) and indiana jones's

yeah ocean's movies usually have good music.

[Ramza Beoulve]

Blade Runner
Pan's Labyrinth
Lord of the Rings
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand The Lost Boys
EDIT:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND Howl's Moving Castle

[Skyblade]

Lord of the Rings

Thank you, Ramza. I was wondering why this hadn't shown up in the thread earlier.

[Ramza Beoulve]

Lord of the Rings

Thank you, Ramza. I was wondering why this hadn't shown up in the thread earlier.
Hehe, that's just the way I'm :)

[fire_of_avalon]

Blade Runner! Vangelis did an amazing job. I especially enjoy the Main Title and Rachel's Song.
We used the Main Title in a church play once. Don't tell anyone.

Blade Runner = the win.

[Enjolras]

Forrest Gump has a pretty cool collection of songs from the generation in which it's set.

[chrisfffan]

when it comes to normale music i like the soundtrack off goodfellas and casino.

[Burtsplurt]

The Fountain (again!). It's the perfect accompaniement to the film (which, incidentally, was also amazing).

I'm playing it at the moment.

[Markus. D]

my favourite is Blade Trinity n_n

[Little Blue]

Star Trek and Gladiator. I'm probably fond of a few more movie tracks, but they're the ones I can remember since I'm listening to them now :p

[Mikztsu]

Lord of the Rings soundtrack. All three of them are easily my favourite.

Kill Bill soundtracks comes second.

[The Real Dark Messenger]

Kill Bill, Volume 1 + 2
Brokeback Mountain

[Jowy]

Garden State.

[Breine]

All of Tarantino's films have brilliant soundtracks.

[Bunny]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

[Roto13]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

Undeniably.

[Nominus Experse]

Requiem for a Dream

[Renmiri]

I love the Christmas Carols in "Home Alone 1". It is always on during Christmas time on my house :D

[Larahl]

Gremlins.

[Timster]

Pirates of the Caribbean
The Departed
Lord of the Rings
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather
Pink Panther

No particular order except for PotC which, in my opinion, is by far the best.Maybe I'll think of more later...

[chrisfffan]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

Undeniably.



what is garden state? is it worth seeing?

[Roto13]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

Undeniably.

what is garden state? is it worth seeing?

It's about a guy who's on so many medications he's dead inside and his interactions with a free-spirited girl he meets while he's visiting home for his mother's (or father's? I don't remember) funeral. It's very good.

[chrisfffan]

i will have to check it out

[ThundagAuron]

Schindler's List.

[Madame Adequate]

Blade Runner! Vangelis did an amazing job. I especially enjoy the Main Title and Rachel's Song.

Well crap, don't I look like a numbnuts for not mentioning that now?

The error was entirely mine. :(

[GooeyToast]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

Undeniably.

what is garden state? is it worth seeing?

It's about a guy who's on so many medications he's dead inside and his interactions with a free-spirited girl he meets while he's visiting home for his mother's (or father's? I don't remember) funeral. It's very good.

On first viewing I thought it was a pretty good movie. Then I watched it again and realized it was just a typical "indie" film, trying hard to be unique when it wasn't. The ending was just so typical and cliche, as was pretty much the whole movie. It's decent enough, but nothing special in my opinion.

[Mitch]

Flash Gordon
Dead Man
Cowboy Bebop

[chrisfffan]

Schindler's List.

i love that film! that soundtrack must be very depressing though.

[ThundagAuron]

Schindler's List.

i love that film! that soundtrack must be very depressing though.

One of the reasons I love it so much is the fact that it's so emotionally powerful, so yeah, John Williams' best work IMO.

To offset it, though, I also love the LoTR score. Perfect Vocal harmonies and chord progression with the trumpets/french horns.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

I think I said American Graffitti in the last one of these threads and I haven't changed my mind

[chrisfffan]

Schindler's List.

i love that film! that soundtrack must be very depressing though.

One of the reasons I love it so much is the fact that it's so emotionally powerful, so yeah, John Williams' best work IMO.

To offset it, though, I also love the LoTR score. Perfect Vocal harmonies and chord progression with the trumpets/french horns.

is that the same John Williams who done Star Wars?

[ThundagAuron]

is that the same John Williams who done Star Wars?

The very same. He is a musical genius.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Lost in Translation.

[Kossage]

I enjoy quite a few soundtracks (Star Wars Original Trilogy soundtracks, Cutthroat Island, Ben-Hur, Bambi etc), but so far I've noticed two which really stand out: The Land Before Time and The Lord of the Rings (I consider the LotR soundtracks as a single enormous soundtrack).

<i>The Land Before Time</i> has surprisingly emotional themes, each of which fit the accompanying characters, events and locations in a perfect way. The way Horner (the composer) utilizes the massive children's choir and various instruments is just spectacular, and all the tunes are memorable. He manages to make Mickey-Mousing interesting, he knows how to get really gripping emotional stuff going on in the instruments, and there's also the sense of despair and danger which can be heard in various ominous passages and brutal action pieces. The soundtrack has a great sense of continuity to it (as the tracks are played in a chronological order), and the theme song itself is really beautiful as well. It's a true gem of a soundtrack. :)


Although the single-disc Lord of the Rings soundtracks were surprisingly good, much more praise should be given to the Complete Recordings. The CRs for Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers are already available, both having 3 CDs worth of music (so that makes 6 CDs so far). The catch isn't just that they offer the entire movie soundtracks and tracks composed for the Extended Editions, but that they include the tracks in the way Shore (the composer) would've wanted them to be played in the films. The music in the films is often edited or tracked from other parts of the LotR films, so there's a surprisingly large amount of music which we haven't heard until the CRs were released. There are quite a few themes, choral passages and the like that never made it into the final cuts (not even the EEs), so I'm glad they're included in the CRs.

So far I've listened to the Complete Recordings of FotR and TTT, and both give a much more impressing view of the score and the thematic material than the stuff we heard in the films and the single-disc soundtracks. From what I've heard so far it doesn't seem impossible to think that Shore has composed more than 60 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif">leitmotifs</a> for the LotR trilogy, because there are plenty of themes and motifs presented in the CRs already. I'm sure that the coming Return of the King CR will have just as many surprises in store as the two previous CRs.

Shore utilizes a lot of instruments, many of which are quite interesting and foreign to our ears. The orchestra, the choir and the solo bits get to shine in different parts of the Complete Recordings score and there's thematic continuity all the way through. It's amazing how he managed to pull all the themes together and developed all of them and yet offered unique material in between and not just thematic reprises all the time. There are a lot of variations of existing themes, and some themes actually get developed as the scores progress (two good examples of this are The Heroics of Aragorn theme and the Fellowship theme, although there are quite a few others which get a lot of development).

The variety in the styles of music in the LotR Trilogy is quite impressive too: there are rural tunes, grand heroic bits, choral action pieces, romantic interludes, contemplative and ethereal cues, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprechstimme">Sprechstimme</a> bits (e.g. that spooky music in the Dead Marshes sequence in TTT), and even some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonality">atonal</a> stuff (e.g. the aggressive music in the Watcher in the Water sequence in FotR) to mention a few. Shore pretty much pulls all the stops as he tries to build and represent the cultures of Middle-earth through his music, and the result is quite an impressive and complex tapestry of different musical ideas. All the different cultures and creatures are represented through music, and yet all of the cultures sound different (you won't mistake the ethereal Elvish music for the aggressive stuff representing Mordor, for example) so that it's easy to distinguish them while you're listening to the score. The different musical ideas interact with each other, sometimes overpowering the others (particularly in battles) and other times working together, and they all follow the story on screen.

So yeah, Shore's work in the LotR trilogy has been quite impressive and one heck of a monumental task, and he pulled it off. As far as complexity and thematic ideas go, LotR does get quite high in my list of best soundtracks. :)

[Cruise Control]

Blade Runner
Star Wars (Episodes 4-6, 1-3 sucked)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Best of the three, musically speaking)
The Fountain

[Odaisé Gaelach]

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is excellent, especially Twisted Nerve and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

Though it probably doesn't qualify, the soundtrack to 24 has some amazing stuff in it too. :love:

[Owen Macwere]

Lord of the rings (especially the two towers).
Titanic
The last Mohicans (or however you spell that)
Gladulator
Mission impossible
Spirit (though this is a cartoon movie xD)

[KazexLisa]

King Kong(the newer one)
Star wars
FF7: Advent Children (Oh like you didn't expect that from me; if you didn't read all my other posts...)
Final Fantasy Unlimited....(see previous note)

[chrisfffan]

King Kong(the newer one)
Star wars
FF7: Advent Children (Oh like you didn't expect that from me; if you didn't read all my other posts...)
Final Fantasy Unlimited....(see previous note)

is the advent children cd better then the final fantasy 7 game cd?

[Yliette]

Mine would have to be the OST of Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Harry Gregson-Williams is da man! :love: He also composed the OST of the Metal Gear series.

[chrisfffan]

what do you think is the most rated and acclaimed movie soundtrack?

[LauraD]

Is the fountain really so fantastic? I'll have to look into acquiring it.

I find that I can listen to the following over and over again:

Batman Begins
Kingdom of Heaven
Doy, FFX and FFXII
I'm digging the Battlestar Galactica series' score right now, too.

Oh and anything by Thomas Newman.
And of course, the all holy revered John Williams. I saw him in concert a few years ago. SO AMAZING. *oozes* :love:

[oddler]

Pride and Prejudice.

[GooeyToast]

Is the fountain really so fantastic? I'll have to look into acquiring it.

Yes, it is a brilliant piece of work. Though I must say, having the film's visuals with you when you're listening makes it much more powerful.

[Remedy]

Gladiator

you've got served

Lord of the rings

Titanic

[Roto13]

I saw Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs over the weekend and I have to say, they both have great soundtracks. Especially Pulp Fiction.

[Mirage]

Almost anything by Hans Zimmer for me. He's awesome.

[I Don't Need A Name]

Star Wars And Lord Of The Rings...oh and anything that Vangelis do

[krissy]

i forgot figth club

[Sefie1999AD]

Garden State.

yesyesyesyesyesyes

Garden State is an excellent movie, though I don't think its musical score is anything too great, even though it has some pretty good pop songs (especially Frou Frou's "Let Go"). My favorite movie soundtracks are probably "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children", Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and "Return of the King" (the score used in the movie; the soundtrack is missing loads of great music from the movie).

[Nifleheim7]

If i was to choose only one soundtrack,that would be:
Himalaya:Caravan by Bruno Coulais
It's so epic that makes LotR looks like the smurfs!

[Yew-Yevon]

Desert Punk has a ....punky sound track. :P

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Pan Labyrinth, and The Vision of Escaflowne: Girl in Gaia.

[Rostum]

Do you enjoy listening to a movie's soundtrack? What's your favourite?

I absolutely love them. At the moment I'm listening to Babel's soundtrack that I had bought, it's pretty good. My favourite tracks are "Bibo no Aozora - Endless Flight" and "Para Que Regreses."

I also love the soundtrack to Pan's Labyrinth, Unbreakable and Last of the Mohicans.

[Riana]

Last of the Mohicans.

I loved Last Of The Mohicans! I have quite a few tracks from that film.

I'm a huge fan of scores and classical music in general. So I like to collect music from films.

My favourites are;

Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean
Kill Bill vol 1 & 2
Gladiator
Kingdom Of Heaven

That's all I can think of for now. :)

[Bunny]

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showpost.php?p=2088559&postcount=30

[Jowy]

Bunny took the words right out of my mouth!

[Loony BoB]

Various, depends on my mood, too, and what kind of music I'm looking for.

Cold Mountain has a beautiful soundtrack by Gabriel Yared, very underrated stuff.

I like a lot of the music from movies such as Cruel Intentions, too.

[Dreddz]

Donnie Darko's soundtracks is the only soundtrack I'd ever consider buying, something about the music in that film that really stuck with me. No other soundtrack competes with it.

Blade Runners comes close though. And Akiras, maybe.

[Roto13]

Indeed, Bunny. :P

Also Pulp Fiction.

[GooeyToast]

The Fountain OST, without question.

Also:

Donnie Darko
Lost In Translation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
The Life Aquatic
Requiem For A Dream
Lord of the Rings
2001: A Space Odyssey

[Yamaneko]

Merged the threads.

[MJN SEIFER]

I've been watching this old film "Somewhere Out There" I'm really enjoying the songs particular the title song.

Infact there's only one song I don't like there!

[Rostum]

I also like the Garden State soundtrack, simply because it has The Shins and a acoustic cover of a Postal Service song. <3

[kikimm]

It also has Frou Frou and Frou Frou is great! "Let Go" fit very nicely at the end there.