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| 3 JUN 2003 at 4:54pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | One of my favourite composers is Michael Nyman. Especially his score for the film Gattaca is absolutely gorgeous! Another composer I really like, one I've more recently discovered, is Yann Tiersen. The soundtrack he wrote for Amélie is so heartwarming, a perfect match with the film.
I don't own a lot of soundtracks, but I feel like listing them anyway ::
-Almost Famous
-Amélie
-The Beach
-Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
-Classic Movie Themes 3
-Classic Movie Themes 4
-Empire Elite: The Best of the Best Modern Soundtracks series (Empire magazine has occasionally^put a cd with their magazine with the best of current soundtracks. they are amazing collections! )
-Gattaca
-Kids
-A Life Less Ordinary
-Lost Highway
-Magnolia
-Mission: Impossible
-Moulin Rouge
-Moulin Rouge 2
-The Other Sister
-Strange Days
-Titan A.E.
-Wild Things (Sex Crimes)
Next to film scores, I also love some of the soundtracks that consist of a collection of songs used in a film. Cameron Crowe for example always selects a great collections of songs for his films. Another great soundtrack collection is that of A Life less Ordinary, with music going from Elvis Presley to The Prodigy and it really fits together!!!
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| 3 JUN 2003 at 6:12pm |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I just have a couple soundtracks that I can think of right now.
Howard's End
Where Angels Fear To Tread
Beloved Infidel
2001
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| 3 JUN 2003 at 9:37pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I like James Newton Howard's music, especially his score for Unbreakable - very emotional, very powerful. I can't remember the name of the composer who made the music for K-PAX, but that's another great soundtrack. And then there's Klaus Badelt, who did the score for The Time Machine. Damn it, that soundtrack has some excellent pieces.
However, I still think the most powerful soundtrack ever made was the one for Requiem for a Dream, although the CD is not that great, the music in the film is amazing.
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| 4 JUN 2003 at 1:47am |
Z-GirlPrivate Detective
Posts : 503
Joined: 12 MAR 2003
Status : Online | I have many soundtracks, but some of them suck (ie., "Shocker", "Freddy's Dead", "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", etc.), but my favourites are:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Omen
A few choice songs from The Bodyguard
I also like the title track to "Goldeneye" and am planning to get the LOTR soundtrack soon. There's also one song on the upcoming "Freddy vs. Jason" soundtrack that I love.
Z-Girl
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| 4 JUN 2003 at 3:00am |
szcaxJourneyman
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Yeah, I have to agree with Jonas about Requiem For a Dream. Wow... near the end of the movie.... just... wow...
Black holes are where God divided by zero
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| 4 JUN 2003 at 8:52am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Z-Girl (4 JUN 2003 1:47am)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
My favorite!
The Crow (the score by Graeme Revell)
Leon/The Professional (by Eric Serra)
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| 4 JUN 2003 at 11:53am |
StammerGuild Master
Posts : 3894
Joined: 5 JAN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (4 JUN 2003 8:52am)
Leon/The Professional (by Eric Serra)
May i add....Bourne Identity? Really good soundtrack...
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 5 JUN 2003 at 4:03pm |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | remember "harold and maude" ?
gotta be one of my all time favorite movies...
...and soundtrack... music all by cat stevens
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| 6 JUN 2003 at 8:07pm |
JerrySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 363
Joined: 2 MAR 2003
Status : Online | The Lord of the Rings soundtracks are great!
I also really like the Medal of Honor soundtracks (I know, they're not movie soundtracks, but they might as well be)
[url=http://www.intervocative.com/DVDCollection.aspx/Jerry2000]My dvd's[/url]
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| 6 JUN 2003 at 8:37pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I really should spent more money on soundtracks. Just realized I haven't got a single Danny Elfman soundtrack! Especially his scores for Tim Burton's films are very impressive. My favourite probably is Slepy Hollow. Man, that score was soooooo beautiful, scary, mysterious and eery (sp?) at all the appropriate times! Oh, and another that I should get: the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. An enchanting film, score and great songs (especially 'What's This'.).
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| 7 JUN 2003 at 4:49am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Do you guys have the soundtrack of "Forever Young"? Ok, the movie isn't a masterpiece but the soundtrack is just awesome....
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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| 7 JUN 2003 at 3:32pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Joined: 19 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | With a few exceptions (Bram Stoker's Dracula being one) I tend to follow composers rather than individual scores - I think of soundtracks as being the classical music of our age, so in the same way I might buy all of Beethoven's symphonies or Tchiakovsky's overtures, I get stuff by John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith etc.
Hands down best film composer for me is Bernard Herrmann - I've got loads of his work - his Hitchcock scores (Vertigo and Psycho in particular) are genius.
I like a lot of Gabriel Yared as well - very emotive and melodic - English Patient, City of Angels, Betty Blue - are some of his.
Obviously Williams, although he can get a bit samey, it's impossible to deny him his place at the top of the heap in terms of modern soundtrack scoring.
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| 7 JUN 2003 at 10:24pm |
sennebecGuild Master
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Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (7 JUN 2003 3:31pm)
Hands down best film composer for me is Bernard Herrmann - I've got loads of his work - his Hitchcock scores (Vertigo and Psycho in particular) are genius.
isn't the soundtrack to psycho all stringed instruments ?
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| 7 JUN 2003 at 11:36pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Yep, that's right. A complete innovation by Herrmann- and it makes perfect sense. I've got a fairly new recording by the LA Philharmonic which is superb, the infamous minute and a half of the shower sequence turns your stomach it's so brilliantly orchestrated. More often than not I skip it!
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| 7 JUN 2003 at 11:58pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Chalk up another vote for The Lord of the Rings soundtrack. "Concerning Hobbits" and "The Ring Goes South" are my favorite sections -- I love that horn theme.
"O, Brother Where Art Thou?" -- average movie, excellent sound track. Perfect fit for the movie, and just as good considered separately from the movie. In fact, I bought the soundtrack long before I ever saw the movie because of all the great artists on the album.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Braveheart were also favorites for years but have fallen by the wayside in recent times. Writing this reminds me that I should blow the dust off of them and give them a listen again.
And of course, music from the Star Wars trilogy.
And thanks for reminding about The Time Machine and The Bourne Identity! Those would be worthwhile checking out as well.
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| 8 JUN 2003 at 12:02am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jerry (6 JUN 2003 8:07pm)
I also really like the Medal of Honor soundtracks (I know, they're not movie soundtracks, but they might as well be)
And I need to burn parts of the Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango to CD -- they're my favorite game soundtracks ever, not counting portions of the Myst series.
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| 8 JUN 2003 at 4:40am |
StammerGuild Master
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Andromus (7 JUN 2003 11:58pm)
"O, Brother Where Art Thou?" -- average movie, excellent sound track. Perfect fit for the movie, and just as good considered separately from the movie. In fact, I bought the soundtrack long before I ever saw the movie because of all the great artists on the album.
And thanks for reminding about The Time Machine and The Bourne Identity! Those would be worthwhile checking out as well.
You are talking about some of my favorite soundtracks there!!
Bourne Identity is just AWESOME. I still listen to it...
Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.
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