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Max
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List 'em here!
I say;
The Lord of the Rings (Both)
Star Wars Episode I and II
Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Once upon a time in the west |
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Breakfast Club
Weird Science
What Dreams May Come
Friday
Sunset Park
Mallrats
Up in Smoke Tour
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Aliens deluxe edition - James Horner
My alltime favorite...............of all time.
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Ahh Cool thread. 
Best Movie Soundtrack according to me:
*Awakenings
That movies is the coolest and the music rocks and yea Robert De Niro�s best one.
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I like Trevor Jones. He's very under-rated and heavily "borrowed" from. Sadly, most of his soundtracks are out of print. Some fine examples of his work:
The Last of the Mohicans
The Dark Crystal
Merlin
I also enjoyed Peter Gabriel's Passion, from the Last Temptation of Christ. I suspect this is one of the most emulated soundtracks ever. Graeme Revell was clearly influenced by it for the Crow Soundtrack. Hans Zimmer had his hands in the cookie jar too for a track or three on Gladiator.
Basil Poledouris is good too. The soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian comes to mind. The Hunt for Red October is solid too.
James Horner is on and off in my book. Braveheart was decent, but not too memorable. Yet the soundtrack to Glory was utterly brilliant. Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan is superb.
More obscure, but worth picking up:
Joe Hisaishi, especially his early material. Nausicaa in particular, but Laputa is quite good as well.
Symphonic Suite AKIRA by Geinoh Yamasirogumi. The original Japanese white editon has a cool little book with a track by track annotation.
Planet of the Apes by Jerry Goldsmith. Kinda funky by today's standards, but eerie and moving none-the-less. The same can be said of Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet soundtrack. That one was really far out in the 50's and it still is.
Guilty Pleasures:
Disney's Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack
Transformers the Movie Soundtrack
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Damn you for forgetting one of the absolutely best soundtracks ever!
Indiana Jones!!!! |
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Max considering Episode I & II best sound track ever over Episodes IV, V and VI must be a crime in every country!
No, really, how can you consider Episodes I and II better than the other, when they have a much more conventional and unisnpired soundtrack?
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Last of the Mohicans - God damn epic
Requiem for a dream - There is a reason why the Two towers trailer borrowed the main theme here.
Bram Stoker's Dracula - My favourite score while rpging with my friends.
Dune - My true guilty pleasure
The Prince of Egypt - Something about this...
Running Man - The best eighties soundtrack there is.
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Dune - My true guilty pleasure
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No guilt required. This is an awesome soundtrack. Especially the tracks "The Trip to Arrakis" and "Prophecy theme" by Brian Eno. |
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I notice myself going back to only a few soundtracks...
John Barry's James Bond Scores,
Danny Elfman's Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow...
and ummm...
the rest are video games, strangely... =|
Rocket Jockey by Dick Dale
Silent Hill 1 and 2
Vagrant Story by uhhh...akira yamoto?
The Neverhood and Skullmonkeys by Terry S. Taylor...
and, The Hamster Alliance - Soundtrack to a movie that never was. =) |
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Oh yes, The Last of the Mohicans is great.
Ah, and all films with Ennio Morricone's soundtrack. All the westernmovies.
I forgot to mention Disney's Robin Hood - that one was great also
Ragnarok: hey, maybe you are right, I really don't knwo the soundtrack of the old movies.
I watched them a thousand times but didn't note the soundtrack.
I watch them again, let's see, this time I'll listen to the music more exactly.
Okay, soundtrack of games is also cool Hamster.
Then I'd say all Buldur's Gate games are the winners. |
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Clockers
La Haine
8 Mile (opens with Shook Ones Pt.II )
Magnolia
All the Beat Takeshi movies, composed by Joe Hisaishi
I Am Sam
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Ali G In Da House  |
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Ghost in the Shell.
Apocalypse Now
Metropolis (2000)
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Fight Club
The Matrix
... countless others.
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| Pulp Fiction. |
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Ghost in the Shell.
Metropolis (2000) |
Yep I'm with you on these two. The female vocal in GiTS is nuts, I've actually got a really wicked drum & bass remix of that.
And Metropolis... when 'I Can't Stop Loving You' by Ray Charles comes on was a real lump-in-the-throat moment
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ok its not a movie soundtrack, but it is a sountrack of a game. 'promise' from FF VIII
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requiem for a dream - or any other soundtrack by clint mansell
lost highway
terminator 2
and every soundtrack michael nyman has written(gattaca, the piano...)
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Can't believe my two fave soundtracks haven't been mentioned yet:
#1 "The Fifth Element" by Eric Senna
#2 "Blade Runner" by Vangelis
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| hey, "lion king" is also cool |
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"blade runner" by Vangelis is one my favorites for now to sumaleth, add ridley scotts visual sense to that and it's unmatched.
"Conan the Barbarian" and especially the song "Anvil Of Crom" get's my cave man adrenalin pumping and makes me ready for broadsword battle anytime anywhere....you better be careful playing that song when I'm around.
Some powerful star trek songs while "the enterprise" lies in some spacedock or is just about to "engage" also has a similar effect to me. Had forgotten that nice trekkie feeling until I saw Star Trek:Nemesis last week, bad movie yes but star trek nonetheless!
The very dark Throne room song from Return of the Jedi when Luke is facing the emperor is also quite absorbing for me.
Also anything from Sergio Leone's (the good the bad and the ugly) movies will do. |
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The best "Trek" score is undoubtedly First Contact in my mind.
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Ghostbusters
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I thought that The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was by Ennio Morricone, the same that did The Mission soundtrack.
I myself love Vangelis' Blade Runner, Dune, most of the soundtracks by John Williams (specially old Star Wars), Gladiator (The Battle is a great track), Conan, and more...
I just love soundtracks in general =)
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As a soundtrack junkie, I can say these are on my repeated listening list so it's hard to choose a fave:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - John Williams
Mishimi, Kundun, Powaqattsi - Philip Glass
The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, Pearl Harbor, Prince of Egypt, True Romance - Hans Zimmer
13th Warrior - Jerry Goldsmith
Dragon and Dragonheart - Randy Edelman
Blade Runner - Vangelis
The Fifth Element - Eric Serra
Heat - Michael Brook, Moby, Kronos Quartet
Jurrasic Park, SW, Empire, and Jedi, Superman - John Williams
Legend - Tangerine Dream and Jerry Goldsmith
The Matrix - Don Davis
Traffic - Cliff Martines
Toy Story - Randy Newman
Music from The X-Files - Mark Snow
Aliens and Braveheart - James Horner
Music from the Alien Trilogy Video Game
But the most played in my systems is Danny Elfman's Edward Scissorhands. I've not gotten tired of this one yet.
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| Have you seen steven sodenberg's new Solaris? It has an astonishing soundtrack. The movie itself is definitely worth seeng too. |
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| Have you seen steven sodenberg's new Solaris? It has an astonishing soundtrack. The movie itself is definitely worth seeng too. |
you're kidding, right?
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Faust: I didn't expect much of it either. I thought it just would be a holywood version of tarkovsky's Solaris, but luckily it turned out to be nothing of what I expected. Even George Cloonie didn't bother me in this movie!  |
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The best soundtrack ever:
LEOLO
It is so eclectic: you can find budist chants, mixed with Tom Waits, with Loreen Mckermitt, with... just listen to it.
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