The best and worst movie music.

[darren]

As we know music is important in films.
what do members consider the best and worst movie music they have heard.

[victorbrunswick]

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I have two major pet peeves about movie music...

1) Instead of a beautifully done score the soundtrack is nothing more than an off-the-shelf compilation of various pop artists.
2) Modern contemporary music in a period film instead of music either from the period or a score that's evocative of that era. Two notable examples that come to mind are Moulin Rouge (set in the early 1900s) and Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights (Hip Hop in 1950s Havana???)

One of my favorite bits of film music:
Richard III (1995)

[Jacqueline]

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I loved Moulin Rouge - I thought the modern music worked really well.

I do love the music used in The English Patient. It was sublime. *sigh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfkPn...eature=related

(Can't believe that was 1996!)

[victorbrunswick]

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Incidentally the lyrics to the opening song from Richard III are from a sonnet written by Christopher Marlowe in 1592.

[DemonEyeX]

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I'm a big fan of John Carpenter soundtracks, 'Assault on Precinct 13' in particular.
Also the band known as Goblin, best known for their Italian horror movie soundtracks.

[Richard1978]

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American Graffiti was one of the first films to use mostly existing songs for the soundtrack, which fitted in with the Rock & Roll era setting & the plotline involving Wolfman Jack.

[darren]

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I'm a big fan of John Carpenter soundtracks, 'Assault on Precinct 13' in particular.
Also the band known as Goblin, best known for their Italian horror movie soundtracks.

goblins music scores are amazing on films such as suspiria,phenomena,deep red etc.

the soundtracks for the superman films are amazing as well as for supergirl.
inferno by dario aregento music done by keith emerson of emerson lake and palmer.

check these.
http://youtu.be/3nHV6MAA1K8

http://youtu.be/MxPig78E844

http://youtu.be/_JpuislFVzU

http://youtu.be/FQAI3aMXVSs

[Powdered toast man]

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Vangelis's scores on Blade Runner, Alexander and Conquest of Paradise are just amazing. Also the ending to Runaway Train where a slightly re-worked Vivaldi piece(Gloria in et terra pax) is absolutely chilling and incredibly moving. I also love anything that uses 50's-70's stock music by composers such as Werner Tautz, Heinz Kliessing, Laurie Johnson, Syd Dale etc.
Barry Gray's 'Zero-X theme' from Thunderbirds are go is probably my all time favourite tune from any movie.

[Sly]

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The Titanic OST by Celine Dion is horrid.

[sf1378]

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No offence to fans but cannot stand Vangellis, nor John Carpenters own music in his films...I did like the music in The Thing - the main theme is haunting...ET is nice too...

[DemonEyeX]

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suspiria

Quite possibly the scariest soundtrack of all time.

I did like the music in The Thing

Gotta agree with that, by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

[victorbrunswick]

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I'm a big fan of John Carpenter soundtracks, 'Assault on Precinct 13' in particular.
Also the band known as Goblin, best known for their Italian horror movie soundtracks.

Dark Star (1974)
John Carpenter's very first movie.

[CitizenKeyne]

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Well in my opinion one of the best films ever made also had the best sountrack ever made, not many sountracks can ber listend to in a stand alone ... so ladeis and gentlemen I give you the Movie Quarophenia and the stunning soundtrack by The Who ... how often can oyu listewn to a soundtrack and know exaclty what would be going on on the screen ? Got ot be the proper soundtrack no some of the later cheapo releases

The BEST one byt a country mile !

[darren]

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[QUOTE=DemonEyeX;167892]Quite possibly the scariest soundtrack of all time.


NICE TO KNOW SOMEONE HAS HEARD OF IT.
a lot of people have not heard of it.

Other are to some of the clint eastwood westerns.
films a fistful of dollars and a few dollars more.

here is some beautiful supergirl music.
http://youtu.be/r56yFhT_lxY
http://youtu.be/TlI9I-FhVME

[stud1al]

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I have two major pet peeves about movie music...1) Instead of a beautifully done score the soundtrack is nothing more than an off-the-shelf compilation of various pop artists.2) Modern contemporary music in a period film instead of music either from the period or a score that's evocative of that era. Two notable examples that come to mind are Moulin Rouge (set in the early 1900s) and Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights (Hip Hop in 1950s Havana???)

I totally agree with you.Another example was the Kirsten Dunst version of Marie Antoinette. The modern pop music in that completely put me off.Wasn't a great film to begin with but that made it worse.