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Favorite Scores/Themes/Music In Films?


I tried to make a list awhile back of My favorite scores,Theme and Music in Films....It was very hard because when I was looking through movies, I just didnt remember the music or scores very well...for me, I probably will never have a complete or definitive List because I'm always running across movies I forgot had Good scores, Example being 2 days ago I was watching Curse Of Chucky and realized Chucky's Theme in this film is pretty great....

When I tried making My list awhile back,I passed right over Curse of Chucky and forgot His Theme was very good until I rewatched it, the same thing has happened with Dozens of movies....

So basically, for me this isnt my definitive list because its always going to be incomplete because I'm always going to be seeing films that I forgot had good scores....but off the top of my head here are some of my favorites

A Beautiful Mind-Amazing Score/Theme

Man Of Steel-Han Zimmer is the man, IMO his Superman Theme is ALL TIME great

Thor-IMO The ONLY MCU film with a Great Score, The Score during the scene When Thor regains his Power and Mjolnir is Great

Inception-Just an Iconic Score-there at least 3 Scores on here that are amazing by Zimmer

The Da Vinci Code-The End of the movie where Tom Hanks follows the bloodline, With The Score Coming in heavier and Heavier...gives me goosebumbs

John Wick-I enjoy the choice of Music during this film, Every Action Sequence IMO has The Perfect Music to go along with it

Gladiator-Amazing Score,Theme and Music

Silver Bullet-The Score-(The Music/Theme whenever the Werewolf is attacking or Stalking is Haunting and truly adds fear to him)

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes-The Theme-(this movie has a great Theme, I think Its Caesars Themes or the main Theme for the Movie)

Guardians Of The Galaxy-(IMO one of the best soundtracks ever for a film, The soundtrack defines the movie,characters and story, The songs picked for this film were perfect)

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy-(almost perfect, Great Score, Great Soundtrack, Great Sound Effects, The LOTR Trilogy is a masterpiece.)

Saw-(The Theme -"Hello Zepp" is one of the best and most iconic themes ever!)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me-(Dr. Evil singing "What If God Was one of us/Just the Two of us" Is ALL TIME GREAT)

Halloween-*The Theme-(Michael Myers Theme music Is Simply Iconic and Will live Forever)

Wonder Woman/BvS-(I really Love Wonder Woman's Theme)

Unbreakable-(one of my favorite Scores ever)

Collateral-(IMO had a fantastic Soundtrack)

Con Air-(the song "How Do I live" was so perfect for this film)

Rocky-(Rocky's Theme may be the most Iconic theme of all time)

Rocky 3-(Eye Of The Tiger is an all time Great Original song written for a film)

Shutter Island-(The score for This film is amazing and Haunting-“On the Nature of Daylight,” is incredible)


thats off the top of my head!

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Love the imperial march👍

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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - John Carpenter's score
Carrie (1976) - Pino Donaggio's score
Bullitt (1968) - Lalo Schifrin's score
Midnight Express (1978) - Giorgio Moroder's score
Scarface (1983) - Giorgio Moroder's score

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They also did a great score for "Dawn of the Dead" (1978).

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I liked "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" and "Deep Red." I also saw "Suspiria" but I wasn't a huge fan of that one. I don't think I've seen anything else from him.

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John William's Superman theme. The best theme music ever.

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Several months ago, I burned a 78 minute compilation cd which contains 21 of my favorite cuts from movie soundtracks.

They are ...
..1) Trevor Jones - The Last of the Mohicans: https://youtu.be/4HkgPBEPCeg
..2) T.J. - Elk Hunt (TLotM): https://youtu.be/OQGHY5v5tac
..3) T.J. - The Kiss (TLotM): https://youtu.be/yB6S3c7f8XA
..4) Randy Edelman - Cora (TLotM): https://youtu.be/UdmOWAdiQ2k
..5) T.J. - Top of the World (TLotM): https://youtu.be/Papcv0A6vn0
..6) Maurice Jarre - Building the Barn (Witness): https://youtu.be/VdG3Uib15IE
..7) Hans Zimmer - Maestro (The Holiday): https://youtu.be/SvtaNQw4sGA
..8) H.Z. - Blowfish (Regarding Henry): https://youtu.be/G7AIvU5NtTQ
..9) Elmer Bernstein - End Title (To Kill a Mockingbird): https://youtu.be/rygqwCTdsLM
10) James Horner - Hymn to the Sea (Titanic): https://youtu.be/Z7TPKeJ23RM
11) Deborah Lurie - An Unfinished Life: https://youtu.be/rWLzRslXNGY
12) James Newton Howard - The Picnic (Dave): https://youtu.be/zDDgtghBego
13) Brian Tyler - The Greatest Game Ever Played: https://youtu.be/u4_Lb08V82k
14) Marc Shaiman - The Bucket List: https://youtu.be/q4ULH8DgGDc
15) Brad Fiedel - Love Scene (The Terminator): https://youtu.be/o-k1w_Rvglg
16) Mark Isham - October Sky: https://youtu.be/xHVk6t-q1aE
17) Hans Zimmer - Honor (The Pacific): https://youtu.be/0P47yvI7SWM
18) Christopher Young - The Truth Be Known (Murder In the First): https://youtu.be/-4dl9qAXrHg
19) Hans Zimmer - Black Rain Theme: https://youtu.be/Q6HOZE-JISk
20) H.Z. - The Way of the Sword (The Last Samurai): https://youtu.be/_qtmj8ZG6bQ
21) H.Z. - A Small Measure of Peace (TLS): https://youtu.be/GWm8-jlddaw

I really love this disc.

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Great post. Thanks for including links!

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the imperial march

Superman's Theme

^^^^

2 all timers I forgot about

thanks

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the imperial march

Superman's Theme

^^^^

2 all timers I forgot about

thanks

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Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
Back to the Future
Beverly Hills Cop
Indiana Jones
Jurassic Park
The Godfather
Basic Instinct
Speed
Star Wars
Halloween
The Exorcist
The Usual Suspects
The Mummy
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Om Shanti Om
Karakter
Das Boot

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Which Mummy, Strat? Brendan Fraser or Tom Cruise? I’m guessing the former.

For me, two films with Wagnerian operatic scores:

Excalibur

and

Conan the Barbarian. The real one.

Plus any film scored by Jerry Goldsmith.

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The Brendan Fraser one. I really like that score, it's so atmospheric.

Jerry Goldsmith is great.

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