The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis. Futuristicly epic.

The Bodyguard

Yeah Hans won awards for that score.

That particular song always sticks in my mind, whenever I listen to it I can always picture their last stand, the last throw at the dice to fight a fight they couldn't win, laying down their lives for their beliefs and their honour.

Never ceases to move me, their sacrifice that is (even for a movie).

-PB

The Last Samurai.
By all accounts a terrible concept for a film, but amazingly well executed, and a great score, probably one of Zimmer's best. The Pirates of the Carribean soundtrack is brilliant, although somewhat re-used from Gladiator.
Star Wars is the other pretty obvious one.
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Tank Girl
Natural Born Killers
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Blow

just off the top of my head.

Two Hands

When I was a teenager I used to love the crow soundtrack for its bands and Poledouris' Conan the Barbarian. The film didnt have a lot of dialogue so the heavy Orff/Holst like music suited it well. Music usually works well in Kubrick films. The simple trumpet playing worked well in Chinatown.

Would be interested in a soundtrack by Johnny Greenwood with one or two haunting Thom Yorke songs thrown in. Not Eraser style, more like 'True Love Waits'

Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Donnie Darko
Trainspotting

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These guys are great - always top quality videos

Star Wars theme voted UK's favourite film soundtrack

John Williams' score took almost a quarter of all votes
DAISY WYATT FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2013
   
John Williams’ Star Wars theme has been named the nation’s favourite film soundtrack by BBC Radio 3 listeners.

The Star Wars theme took almost a quarter of the votes, beating the musical accompaniment to films such as Grease, West Side Story and The Sound of Music.

Ennio Morricone’s score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly came second, with Leonard Bernstein’s soundtrack to West Side Story named third.

Viewers and listeners from across the BBC's services chose the original Star Wars movie soundtrack, Episode IV: A New Hope.

Williams won an Oscar for his work on the film, which also included the well-known jazz-style “Cantina Band” scene.

He announced he will return to compose the score to the forthcoming Star Wars: Episode VII film, which is due for release in 2015.

Excerpts from the top 20 film scores will be played live in a countdown on Radio 3 later at 2pm today in a programme presented by Robert Zeigler from the London's famous Air Studios.

The station will also feature Williams talking about his writing next week in Composer Of The Week each weekday at noon and 6.30pm.

The shortlist of soundtracks was put together by broadcasters and movie music experts.

Top ten film themes as voted for by BBC Radio 3 listeners:

1. Star Wars (Williams)

2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Morricone)

3. West Side Story (Bernstein)

4. Lawrence of Arabia (Jarre)

5. Vertigo (Herrmann)

6. The Third Man (Karas)

7. Dark Knight Rises (Zimmer)

8. Grease (various)

9. The Sound of Music (Rogers & Hammerstein)

10. Apocalypse Now (Wagner)


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-theme-voted-uks-favourite-film-soundtrack-8843741.html

I really enjoyed it. So did the mrs.

I can see how the cinematography would turn people off. If you can stick through it & watch it again, I highly advise doing so though.

I thought it was pretty sick!

Very refreshing movie.

Drive has an amazing soundtrack.

I tried to watch Gatsby the other day, IIRC that was the film where the first thing that stood out to me was the rap music in the opening sequence of a film set in the roaring 20's. Bad move.

I barely made it through the opening dinner party sequence before the gaudy cinematography made me turn it off.

The mission

Inception

The social network

Lord of the rings.

I forgot to add:

Schindler's List and Forrest Gump

The Lion King
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The Beverley Hills Cop
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But seriously...
Almost Famous
Singles (was a favourite when I was a bit younger still pretty good)


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Otto I mezzo soundtrack was fucking amazing. Look it up and download if you haven't heard it.

Loved the Moon and Requiem for a Dream soundtracks by Cint Mansell.

Always love the OSTs of Wes Anderson movies like Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore etc.

Amelie soundtrack is probably my favourite of all time though

This.

Juno, twilight and LOTR are all personal favourites as well.

The Lord of the Rings
How to Train Your Dragon
Master and Commander (I really wish they did the whole series of those books)
King Arthur
Pirates of the Caribbean

The Lost Highway
The Crow
Spawn
O Brother Where Art Thou?

lion king
friday
moonwalker

I just like the way he does things so differently.

Eg for the Sherlock Holmes soundtrack he deliberately went out and bought a cheap off-tune piano to get that authentic "gypsy" like notes.

Or his single note piece used to characterise the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Same goes with his nice use of Taiko drums from The Last Samurai.

-PB

The Boat That Rocked soundtrack is pretty cool in terms of a compilation of various artists.

I agree with PB though, Zimmer's soundtracks are immense in terms of how they influence the actual film.

Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fight club, Trainspotting, Dazed and confused, Empire records, Elizabeth Town, Almost famous, Idle hands, School of Rock and Singles.

i don't much care for scores.

Pulp Fiction and Top Gun

Anything by Hans for me, guy is a genius that is on another plane when it comes to making compositions with character, the likes of which you can identify an actual person by the sound or tone of the music.

Out of all his works The Last Samurai is always my favourite (and rightyfully award winning piece) with The Dark Knight very shortly behind.

-PB

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The Great Gatsby

Most of these aren't classics, but definitely my favourites:

Man on Fire (Harry Gregson-Williams)
Deja Vu (Gregson-Williams)
Bourne Identity/Supremacy (John Powell)
The Da Vinci Code (Hans Zimmer)
Gladiator (Zimmer)
Senna (Antonio Pinto)
The Island (Steve Jablonsky)

From an Aussie perspective, I also thought the original Underbelly soundtrack was amazing. Well in Burkhard Dallwitz!