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Favorite Scores/Themes/Music In Films?

posted 6 years ago by billbrown7071 (3195)
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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!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

The old IMDb boards had a remarkable thread on this topic that went on for over 11yrs. It was the longest thread I remember on there and quite informative. I remember commenting in it after a few years that no one had mentioned Bernard Herrmanns iconic PSYCHO soundtrack. Someone told me that Psycho was like the elephant in the room that everyone just assumes is already noticed.

[–] somesunnyday (2078) 6 years ago

Halloween. And Carpenter's modernized version is great too

[–] Ghaleon (606) 6 years ago

Some of my favourite film scores are:

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's scores for the films The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and Patriot's Day.

John Carpenter's scores, particularly for The Thing and Escape From New York.

Tangerine Dream's scores, especially Risky Business and Legend.

Angelo Badalamenti's scores, particularly for Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and Lost Highway.

Jack Nitzsche's score for Cutter's Way.

Disasterpiece's score for It Follows.

Le Matos's score for Summer of '84.

Yann Tiersen's score for Amelie.

Abel Korzeniowski's score for A Single Man.

[–] billbrown7071 (3195) 6 years ago

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's scores for the films The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl

^^^

Love the scores in Fincher's films!

[–] sslssg (34578) 6 years ago

I second the LOTR. One of my all times favourites and so many of the others that have been mentioned in this thread.

Others I like that I don't see mentioned;

John Williams' - Jurassic Park & Indiana Jones(although insert almost any Williams' score)
Ennio Morricone's - The Mission
Hans Zimmer - The Power of One, Pirates of The Caribbean, & Broken Arrow
David Lean and Maurice Jarre - Dr Zhivago (Lara's Theme has always been a favourite)
Danny Elfman - Beetlejuice
Michael Kamen - Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Howard Shore - Hugo & Eastern Promises
Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther

For soundtracks
Stand by Me
American Graffiti
Grosse Point Blank
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Lost Boys
Donnie Darko

[–] billbrown7071 (3195) 6 years ago

Pirates of The Caribbean

^^^Amazing Score/theme

The Lost Boys

^^^Amazing Original song I think....was "cry little sister" written for the movie? or just added for the soundtrack....either was it was perfect...

[–] sslssg (34578) 6 years ago

I believe that it was written for the movie.

[–] johnnm58 (545) 6 years ago

The score for "Forrest Gump" was great.

[–] kspkap (13570) 6 years ago

“Black Hawk Down” (2001) - Hans Zimmer
Especially Zimmer’s version of “Minstrel Boy” (Film Version)" (Performed by Joe Strummer and
the Mescaleros)
Without a doubt I quite literally sob when this starts playing (ending scenes).

“We Were Soldiers” (2002) - Nick Glennie-Smith
“Sgt. MacKenzie/The Mansions of the Lord”

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Jaws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9QTSyLwd4w