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Top 5 Favorite (Non Bond) Movie Scores!
Alright, simple thread. GO!
1. The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino.
A Nice James Bondesque score and sort of tribute to John Barry. It's pure fun to listen too.
2. Mission: Impossible by Danny Elfman.
Nice touch of subtle Spy music with the magic of Danny Elfman. His M:I theme rearrangement alone is an excellent piece of music.
3. Super Mario Bros. by Alan Silvestri.
Not Silvestri's best score, but it's very enjoyable and captures the feel of one of my favorite movies. :)
4. Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Jeff Danna and Elia Cmiral.
A Nice underated gem. "Two Wheels Hero" is an excellent Bondian piece of music.
5. Batman & Robin by Elliot Goldenthal.
Bad movie, but good score. Probably the best part of the movie besides Batgirl's suit up scene. ;)
So what's your top five favorite (non Bond) film scores?
1. The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino.
A Nice James Bondesque score and sort of tribute to John Barry. It's pure fun to listen too.
2. Mission: Impossible by Danny Elfman.
Nice touch of subtle Spy music with the magic of Danny Elfman. His M:I theme rearrangement alone is an excellent piece of music.
3. Super Mario Bros. by Alan Silvestri.
Not Silvestri's best score, but it's very enjoyable and captures the feel of one of my favorite movies. :)
4. Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Jeff Danna and Elia Cmiral.
A Nice underated gem. "Two Wheels Hero" is an excellent Bondian piece of music.
5. Batman & Robin by Elliot Goldenthal.
Bad movie, but good score. Probably the best part of the movie besides Batgirl's suit up scene. ;)
So what's your top five favorite (non Bond) film scores?
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1. The Empire Strikes Back: for my is not just the best soundtrack ever but one of the best musical creations in the 20th century.
2. The Godfather Part II: using the previous themes of The Godfather, it has everything: the waltz, traditional themes, a religious march, and the powerfully melancholic themes that push you to meditate on your life and your choices.
3. The Lord of the Rings: I've always consider TLOTR as 1 movie in three chapters (as is the book), so it applies also to the soundtrack. Using the Leitmotiv technique of Wagner (popular in film because of Williams) is both thematically and instrumentally complex, but all together reaches a great coherence.
4. Gladiator: an epic soundtrack of a true epic film!
5. Walk the Line: being a country fan, I couldn't miss this one. It has Johnny Cash, June Carter, Elvis, among others. Besides the instrumentals by T Bone Burnett and Bill Frisell are sublime.
Honorable mentions: Kingdom of Heaven, Layer Cake, Return of the Jedi and Patton.
Oh gosh yes! I love this score too. My favorite track is "The Asteroid Field." wonder journey. :D
* The Dark Knight Rises
* Battlestar Galactica (Seasons 1-4)
* Spartacus (Seasons 1-3)
* Gladiator
* Superman: The Movie
Two of those are not technically movies, I know, but they are fantastic soundtracks.
The Dark Knight Rises (Hans Zimmer)
Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)
Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
The Skin I Live In (Alberto Iglesias)
The Constant Gardener (Alberto Iglesias)
Empire strikes back
Raiders of the lost ark
Dark knight rises
Once upon a time in the west
That's it.
Another enjoyable one, I thought, was the soundtrack for Appaloosa.
One of my favourite movies, recently bought the special edition again, think the score is Morricone masterpiece. Though Good the bad and the ugly is not far behind.
The spaghetti westerns must be the series with the best ever soundtracks, after Bond.
WW2 RAF sixties had pretty good music - eg Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron etc.
Wonder why music scores were so good in the sixties, and generally forgettable in modern music. For me, Spielberg has the worst music (apart from Jaws) - most if his movies sound more like the orchestra is warming up rather than coherent music
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Dark Knight
Batman Returns
El Cid (1961) - Miklos Rozsa
Bullitt (1968) - Lalo Schifrin
Where Eagles Dare (1968) - Ron Goodwin
For a Few Dollars More (1962) - Ennio Morricone
Charade (1963) - Henry Mancini
The Lion In Winter (1968) - John Barry
Patton (1970) - Jerry Goldsmith
The Omega Man (1971) - Ron Grainer
The Eiger Sanction (1975) - John Williams
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Fistful of Dynamite
Once Upon a Time in America
and other Ennio Morricone scores, like the ones from Casualties of War and The Untouchables.
* Spirited Away (Joe Hisaishi)
* E.T. (John Williams)
* Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (John Williams)
* Ben-Hur (Miklós Rózsa)
* The Specialist (John Barry)
SOUNDTRACKS
* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* Cowboy Bebop (the TV series)
* The Saint (OST for the Phillip Noyce film)
* Batman (OST by Prince)
* Transformers: the animated movie
2. Tron: Legacy (Daft Punk)
3. The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer)
4. Dances With Wolves (John Barry)
5. The Fabulous Baker Boys (Dave Grusin)
Special mention to Bear McCreary for the amazing BSG and Caprica scores as well, and Two Steps From Hell for providing trailer music that is usually better than the actual movie scores! (See Heart Of Courage and Freedom Fighters on Youtube). Also to James Horner for the brilliant score to Glory and Avatar (which seemed to reuse a lot of Glory's cues) and to Steve Jablonsky for the first Transformers score, especially the brilliant Arrival On Earth
Diva
Bedazzled (not the remake. obviously.)
The Thomas Crown Affair (not the remake. although that one is all right too.)
Playing By Heart
Somewhere in times by John Barry
Across the sea of time by John Barry
Chaplin by...John Barry
Witness (can't remember who wrote the score)
The Lords of the Ring
The Wolfman by Danny Elfman. It was used in the advertising for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and a few other films it was so good! (Too bad the film was crap)
The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino. Truly Barry's great successor (Barry was originally set up to score this film)
Start Trek (2009) by Michael Giacchino. Excellent orchestration, which makes the opening sequence of the film that much more powerful with the pods racing back to Earth as the USS Kelvin crashes into Nero's ship.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone. The man has never produced a poor soundtrack, but I believe his best work was with this film.
Alien by Jerry Goldsmith. Eery and creepy, beat in the sci-fi sector only by 2001, but that's not in my top 5 favorites. :P
Honorable mention: The Dark Knight Rises
2.Tango & Cash-By Harold Faltermayer (1989)
3.Mission Impossible-Danny Elfman
4.Fantastic Four-By Jon Oatham
5.Fletch-Harold Fatlermayer
Maurice Jarre (Jean Michel's dad). Also did the classic scores for Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Dead Poet's Society and Ryan's Daughter.
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Stephen King's I.T
The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Rosemary's Baby
Predator
Avatar - James Horner
Jurassic Park - John Williams
Aliens - James Horner
Star Wars - John Williams
The Dark Night - Han Zimmers
Titanic - James Horner
Lethal Weapon - Michael Kaman, Eric Clapton, David Sanborn
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Midnight Express (1978)
Das Boot (1981)
The Third Man (1949)
The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
Gorky Park (1983)
The Long Good Friday (1979)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
BODY HEAT (John Barry)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Basil Poledouris)
BODY DOUBLE (Pino Donaggio)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (John Williams)
@thenoisydrum I highly recommend this: http://www.lalalandrecords.com/RosemarysBaby.html
The Knack (Barry)
The Untouchables (Morricone)
The Sand Pebbles (Goldsmith)
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The Dark Knight Rises.
Back to the Future Part II.
The Empire Strikes Back.
P.S. These are in no particular order.
After that there are a bunch of them in no order: jaws,raiders,star wars,the italian job (original)A Fistful of Dollars,For a Few Dollars More,the godfather and a lot more.
Still don't make my top 5 though :)
Would be a good one to ask for a top 5 soundtracks that don't include Morricone, Williams or Barry.
Office Space (Various)
Dredd 3D (Paul Leonard Morgan)
Lost Highway (Trent Reznor)
Pulp Fiction (Various)