What Is Your Favourite Film Score

Colmustard

Watching the Olympics and I keep hearing this in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU

The brilliant Chariots of Fire score from Vangelis.

Then there is the classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHaH_aNTzDg

By John Williams I heard Spielberg in an interview, John Williams was new in Hollywood at that time and recommended to Spielberg by George Lucas. He said John entered my office to present the score. He sat down at the piano and start hammering out 2 keys. I thought the guy was nuts and wanted him to leave. But he kept saying can you not hear it. It was only when he left I got it and it became the shark we couldn't show.

And my favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXVzg2PiZw

By John Murphy from IMO the hugely underrated film Danny Boyle's Sunshine, you probably heard this score in Kickass as well.

Temptamperu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vrfEoc8_g

NegativeCreep

This I think.

Al Capwned

4-4 in Escape to Victory was one of the better ones.....

Colmustard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imamcajBEJs

From inception

Shryke

John Murphy, 28 Days Later and Clint Mansell, The Fountain are both fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0NBPRMe2E

Colmustard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0aVMrsodbc

How did I forget about this one

The Dambusters.

Al Capwned

Annie Lennox's Into the West from The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King.

El Guapo!

Anything by Hans Zimmer.
The mans a genius.

jimthemental

Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Black Swan.

LiamKK1982

James Horner is probably my favourite, he has done some wonderful scores such as Legends Of The Fall, Titanic & Avatar.

jimthemental

John William's work for Jurassic Park is class. Danny Elfman's score for Batman was very good too.

Yamanoto

Fairly standard choices, but popular for good reason:

John Barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU

John Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rQSJDLM8ZE

Does the Graduate count? I'm gonna say yes.

Paul Simon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V33qlrubQQk

Lumbo

Colmustard

Yamanoto wrote: »

Fairly standard choices, but popular for good reason:

John Barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU

John Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkW_gXw1yok

Does the Graduate count? I'm gonna say yes.

Paul Simon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V33qlrubQQk

Star Wars another classic and yeah the Graduate certainly counts it was a memorable acomplenment to that film.

Also by John Williams
The Duel of fates which was the best part of that disapointing film (The phantom menace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0aVMrsodbc

John Williams is a genius.

namloc1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHvKviaeulg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA

Aidric

The soundtrack to 'A Single Man' by Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski was hugely impressive.

I also love the soundtrack to Amélie by Yann Tiersen.

pappyodaniel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOSZFGC7yt8

EchoO

The Big Lebowski

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k

Reservoir of Dogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L1hD5OlPtw

Lollers

Some of my favs have been chosen already, but I always liked this tune by Carl Orff from Badlands

Real Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqKPWO5T4o

Gbear

John Williams did:
Star Wars
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Towering Inferno
Superman
Indiana Jones
Empire of the Sun
Home Alone
Jurassic Park
Schindlers List
ET
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
AI
Harry Potter
Catch Me if You Can
Minority Report
Munich
War of the Worlds

Colmustard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg

Conan the Barbarian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5FyRZbqfeM

Hans Zimmer again from the Divinci code,,,a beautiful piece of music.

BarnhallBull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRnHOhGiE

Where To

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jvqPvDUEW8

Chloris

I have many favourites; it's too hard to choose between them. I played violin for the Cork Youth Orchestra when I was a teenager so I really got to experience a few pieces in all their glory, for example:

As well as that, we played the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack. This was absolutely the most fun I've ever had playing in a group.

In Cork School of Music's Orchestra we also played the classics, like Mission Impossible, James Bond, Star Wars, but I'd imagine it was very expensive and tricky to buy in new sheet music so that was left to the orchestras like the CYO, where those with the most passion exert their own free time and energy so that young people can enjoy making amazing music together (as opposed to those in CSM, who are probably mostly there because they're being paid).

My personal favourite music scores to just listen to are Hans Zimmer's Batman soundtracks:

Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead's "There Will Be Blood" soundtrack:

(Definitely the best song on the album).

And basically all of the soundtrack to the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". Helena Bonham-Carter and Johnny Depp really did that play tremendous justice.

byhookorbycrook

Cal
The Mission

paddy kerins

The music from the Batman films is fantastic

Get goosebumps everytime I hear this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipH9GLuiiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yXWXGa2_4

And of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6frI0Xjufg

Chloris

EchoO wrote: »

The Big Lebowski

This completely slipped my mind; that film has completely shaped an entire facet of my music taste. I didn't bother downloading the soundtrack, I instead downloaded the discography of all of the best bands in it - Creedence, The Eagles, Kenny Rogers, Dean Martin... The Dude (and by association, Ethan and Joel Cohen) has some excellent grasp on stoner music!

Colmustard

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Cal
The Mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj5Xczethmw

All his film scores Ennio Morricone is a genius The good the bad the ugly, once upon a time in the west, a few dollars more to name a few.

EchoO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo

krudler

too many to mention, 95% of my music collection is film scores. nearly all of whats been posted already. one of my recent favourites is How To Train Your Dragon, epic stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IBlQj2U5kU

I love most of Michael Mann's films soundtracks, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Ali, and The Insider, in particular this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2TgojQouZE

one for guitar lovers^

kincsem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aip3836VtZ0

TwoShedsJackson

LiamKK1982 wrote: »

James Horner is probably my favourite, he has done some wonderful scores such as Legends Of The Fall, Titanic & Avatar.

I do like his stuff but he has a terrible tendancy to rip himself off all the time, there's not a lot between most of his soundtracks. 'Krull' is his best, and rarest.

Latchy

So many greats ,these would be My top 4 ...

^ John Barry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxQhaUpjkY

^ Marc Shaiman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2sN4DQgaE

^ john Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ejg-lPcFxU

^ john Williams

Colmustard

I realise were all the modern Mozart's and Beethoven's are, orchestral composition is alive and well and thriving.

Oranage2

Not to come across too ponsy but I do like a good tune on the piano in a foreign movie so I'll say

Also the Shrek sound track is pretty good.

krudler

Colmustard wrote: »

I realise were all the modern Mozart's and Beethoven's are, orchestral composition is alive and well and thriving.

And doesn't get anywhere near the recognition it deserves, considering how much guff is in the charts.

Colonel Panic

Anything by Clint Mansell, in particular the soundtrack for Moon which I have listened to regularly since the movie came out.

Im also a big fan of James Horner's stuff. Wrath of Khan and Aliens. I also liked the soundtrack in Meet Joe Black, Inside Man and the remake of The Thomas Crowne Affair.

Good to see someone else port Conan the Barbarian too. Great soundtrack!

mikemac1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69JmYt0UWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZuQ_r3ROY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAfMT5FIZE

abouttobebanned

Film Forum. Been done to death.

Colmustard

krudler wrote: »

And doesn't get anywhere near the recognition it deserves, considering how much guff is in the charts.

It kind of does, we all know the above "chunes" this thread is more or less reminding us of them.

The Moon theme was excellent.

vard

Not sure if already mentioned but Being John Malkovich had a brilliant sound track. Very erie.

Google it; have a listen.

Latchy

Colmustard wrote: »

I realise were all the modern Mozart's and Beethoven's are, orchestral composition is alive and well and thriving.

krudler wrote: »

And doesn't get anywhere near the recognition it deserves, considering how much guff is in the charts.

Musical Scores ,Themes and Instrumentals are so easy on the ears to ...

marshbaboon

The music for Amelie is amazing. It's so beautiful, but it makes me feel so sad and alone .

Colmustard

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Film Forum. Been done to death.

Really LOL I thought I came up with an original thread.

You do know After hours, 20 topics on a 1001 pages and Boards IE has about a hundred forums you really don't have to open this thread.

kowloon

The Film forum would yield a very different thread on this. I prefer seeing what everyone thinks here.

Topper Harley

All my favourites are Hans Zimmer scores: Gladiator, the Batman Trilogy and Inception. Inception is probably my favourite over all but the others have the best individual tracks.

Anyways, I know this is really a soundtrack as opposed to a score but I think it deserves a mention. Watchmen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFT-tC2Pg-8

Turtyturd

Sure it has been said loads of times already but Hans Zimmer's Batman stuff for me.

The scene in The Dark Knight Rises where Batman returns during the bike chase is a perfect marriage of image and sound, makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

tallus

Cinema Paradiso / Ennio Morricone.

His music always moves me.

Latchy

John Barry would be the Elvis of musical scores ,the list is endless.

Theme from '' Missing '' and ''Love Theme from Blade Runner '' by Vangelis would be two other favs of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7qOvF5ARNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9KAqhbIZ7o