Great Movie Scores

Kingp35

I know its been done a few times before but I would like to start a new thread anyway.

Basically I have really gotten into movie scores lately. I love them. My favourite is the Gladiator score by Hans Zimmer. I also have all three LOTR scores, Pirates of the Carribean, Batman Begins and Braveheart. I tend to prefer scores from epic and adventure movies for some reason as I think the music in them has everything, the slow tracks and the fast upbeat tracks.

Anyway I was wondering does anyone have any suggestions as to scores I should try get my hands on?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

requiem for a dream and Pi are both pretty cool .. not exactly epic, but good music

Necronomicon

Yeah, Clint Mansell's score for Requiem For A Dream was cool. If you haven't heard it, try to get hold of it. I also like the LOTR and Gladiator scores. Can't really think of anything else.

TerrorFirmer

Nothing beats Star Wars.

But LoTR Is pretty good.

I love Basil Poledouris' Robocop and Starship Troopers themes also.

Kingp35

Does John Williams do Star Wars? I tend to like his stuff

monkeyfudge

The James Horner score for Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan has always been a favourite of mine.

TerrorFirmer

Kingp35 wrote:

Does John Williams do Star Wars? I tend to like his stuff

Sure does.

Goodshape

monkeyfudge wrote:

The James Horner score for Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan has always been a favourite of mine.

ah yes! that's a good alright. still like hearing the old wrath of khan tunes in the more recent films aswell.. wouldn't have thought of it.

Kingp35 wrote:

Does John Williams do Star Wars? I tend to like his stuff

yea, that and plenty of others (superman for example). all his stuff tends to sound pretty much the same, but good and powerful none-the-less.


not sure what I'd pick as my own favorite. needs more thought.

monkeyfudge

John Williams used to be great... but I think I got a bit sick of him after a while... in same way I'm pretty sick of Danny Elfman at this stage.

Oh.. don't forget Williams also did Indiana Jones and Jaws.

Another great composer to mention is Bernard Herrmann who did a lot of Hitchcocks stuff. Vertigo in particular is amazing... and lets not forget Psycho.

Rozie

It's not a Movie Score, but it's a movie style score; the Ultimate Spider-man video game. Apart from the annoying Techno-rock, it was some amazing "quirky orchestral" stuff and had some amazing incidental music. The Green Goblin chase scene was probably my favourite.

Batman Begins was pretty food too.

masteroftherealm

Not quite a score but rather a musical score would be magnolia based around aimee mann's tracks. amazing.

Richelieu

Jaws people!!
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunanaaaa! :P

garred

LOTR, Braveheart and of course Platoon.

Hagar

Dances with Wolves. Breathtaking, sweeping music.

Basq

LOTR and more recently 'King Kong' are both excellent!

madrab

lotr, platoon, omen, serenity, 2001, and of course donny darko

djkeogh

Braveheart's got some great music in it. I loved the soundtrack for Unbreakable as well.

Basq

madrab wrote:

serenity

Didn't think the music was good in it as it was in 'Firefly' but they did lose Greg Edmondson.

loz

last of the mohicans

madrab

yeah firefly had the better score but i still loved serenitys soundtrack

last of the mohicans is a really good score

best score in a tv series has to go to babylon 5

Mr E

I'm a big fan of Danny Elfmans Batman (1989) score (Its used in the animated series too).

I also really like Braveheart, Gladiator, and American Beauty.

Auvers

How about Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Musical scores from Ennio Morricone, movies like The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More.

monkeyfudge

Oh... oh... another good one.

Basil Poledouris' score for the Conan films... wonderful stuff. His work on Robocop was good too.

TerrorFirmer

monkeyfudge wrote:

His work on Robocop was good too.

It's so disappointing that the best of the lot, Robocop II, is missing his score. Whats even more insulting is that it's back for the diabolical Robocop III

fade2black

The Rock, Thin Red Line - Hans Zimmer
Unbreakable & 6th Sense - James Newton Howard
Titanic - James Horner
K-PAX - Edward Shearmur
The Mission, Once upon a time in America, Untouchables, all the westerns - Ennio Morricone
Superman, AI, Jaws, Empire of the Sun, SAving Private Ryan - John Willliams
American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption - Thomas Newman

and more I can't think of now. Do a search and you'll find a thread where I probably suggested more.

monkeyfudge

MobileInfantry wrote:

It's so disappointing that the best of the lot, Robocop II, is missing his score. Whats even more insulting is that it's back for the diabolical Robocop III

Leonard Rosenman did Robocop 2 didn't he? I think him and Basil must be mates or something as their stuff is very similiar.

Rosenman did a good job with the Lord of the Rings (Animated) soundtrack.

Shirley Walker and Danny Elfman seem to have a similiar relationship. Although I think I prefer Shirley Walker these days... some of the places she took Elfman's Batman score in the cartoon series are amazing.

TerrorFirmer

monkeyfudge wrote:

Leonard Rosenman did Robocop 2 didn't he? I think him and Basil must be mates or something as their stuff is very similiar.

I'm not really sure to be honest, not too familar with Rosenman. I'm listening to the Robocop Theme by Basil this very moment, I find that even more so then John Williams, his stuff can sound so similar to his other work whilst still being....different.

It's remarkable how almost identical sections of the Robocop Theme are like the Starhip Troopers theme though.

dazmoriarty

CLASSIC MOVIE SCORES: Dark City, Aliens, The Village, 25th Hour, Amèlie, Blade Runner, Leon ('The Professional' to Americans who can't pronounce Leon), Michael Collins, One Hour Photo, Anything by Howard Shore (LOTR 1-2-3, The Cell, Panic Room, Ed Wood, The Game), Anything by John Williams Star Wars 1-6, Superman), Anything by Elliott Goldenthal (Alien3, Final Fantasy, Interview With A Vampire) anything by James Newton Howard (all M.Night Shayamlan's movies, Batman Begins)

CLASSIC TV SCORES: Battlestar Galactica (new show that is), Children Of Dune.

The Bollox

Casablanca that's a great score

monkeyfudge

dazmoriarty wrote:

CLASSIC TV SCORES: Battlestar Galactica (new show that is)

The old one was great too!

But I do enjoy the new one with the singing cylons.

dazmoriarty

The sexy female Cylons singing in Sumerian (or whatever)?!

You in Townsville?! Wow, was there last year - loved Magnetic Island! Aren't you up late?!