Movies With Good Music

[Amadeus]

You know what to do.:)

[PixyJunket]

Leon, Requiem for a Dream, Amelie..

[LBPound]

If we're talking about song selections...

Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
Forrest Gump

If we're talking scores, then I'd have a huge list.

[Saxofonix]

Three Colours: Blue

[Jay G.]

The Man with One Red Shoe

[Fok]

Dragon - The Bruce Lee story

[evenflow]

Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown

See a trend? ;)

[Matthew Chmiel]

100 Girls
Almost Famous
About a Boy
Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers 2000 (awful movie, good music)
Chasing Amy
Clerks
The Fast and the Furious
Jackie Brown
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Mallrats
Metropolis (anime)
The Princess and the Warrior
Pulp Fiction
Run Lola Run
Sixteen Candles
Undercover Brother
xXx

[audrey]

<b>32 Short Films about Glenn Gould</b> has a wonderful (mostly Bach) sound track. Great movie too.

In the rock/song category, I listen to the soundtrack to <b>Life Less Ordinary</b> quite a bit; lot's of great tunes.

[RevLiver]

Morvern Callar - Great avant-garde soundtrack featuring Can, Velvet Underground, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Stereolab, Broadcast, Holger Czukay, Nancy Sinatra with Lee Hazlewood, Ween and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Outstanding film as well.

[tanman]

Songs:
When Harry meet sally
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Amadeus
Moulin Rouge



Soundtracks:
ET
Star Wars
Star Trek
Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Dragonheart
Bicentennial Man
Forrest Gump
The Piano
Batman
Superman
2001
AI

Both:
Chicago
Sound of Music
Music Man
Almost any Disney movie
Tarzan
Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Mulan
Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Lilo and Stitch
Hunchback of Notre Dame

[adumbc]

The Big Lebowski
Vanilla Sky
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Bottle Rocket
High Fidelity
Snatch
Wonder Boys

[Amadeus]

Rushmore :up: Can't beat that one.

[gmal2003]

The Transporter was one of the best for 2002.

[BlackBeauty92]

SPEED, The Rock or Michael Bay's action movies (Bad Boys, Pearl Harbour, Armagedon)

basicly, any movies with Marc Marciana (spelling?) music/theme song

[Rizor]

I only glanced at the title and thought it said "Movies With Bad Music". I began to seriously question my taste in music when I realized what the title really said.

[Amadeus]

Originally posted by BlackBeauty92
The Rock or Michael Bay's action movies (Bad Boys, Pearl Harbour, Armagedon)


Michael Bay movies really do have good music.:up:

[BlackBeauty92]

oh, also Bond's movies :up:

[BlackBeauty92]

David Lean & Tarantino's movies also got (mostly) great music

[costanza187]

Pink Floyd The Wall!!!

[jaymart]

Boogie Nights and Magnolia

[DVD Smurf]

In the Mood for Love has one of the best scores ever...

[theneobez]

Originally posted by BlackBeauty92
SPEED. . .
basicly, any movies with Marc Marciana (spelling?) music/theme song


I want to thank you for saying Speed, such a catchy and lively score throughout. Underrated score, I believe the composer's name is Marc Mancina.

[theneobez]

Gattaca is also one of my favorites, by composer Michael Lyman.

[soxrule]

Dazed and Confused

[Mondo Kane]

Jackie Brown(Great use of classic R&B)
American Graffiti (Great use of oldies)
The Harder They Come (Timless Reggae)
8 Mile (Rap's glory years)
Repo Man (ST,Circle Jerks,Iggy..Don't get much better!)
Natural Born Killers (Still the best use of music diversity I've heard yet)

[lesterlong]

To shed some newer blood, DareDevil had a great soundtrack.

[Pillowhead]

Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Big Lebowski
Requiem for a Dream
Vanilla Sky
Almost Famous
Taxi Driver
Godfather
Blade Runner
State of Grace
Good Bad and the Ugly
John Williams stuff is always good.
Psycho
Halloween
Braveheart
Thin Red Line
The Way of the Gun
Heat
Last of the Mohicans

tons more

[outcastja]

Cowboy BeBop and Escaflowne movies both by Yoko Kanno.

[bdrules]

chicago...great movie too

[movielib]

Miller's Crossing - Original music and arrangements by Carter Burwell with much beautiful Irish traditional music such as Danny Boy and, while not named in the credits, the haunting Lament for Limerick which served as the main theme.

[Grimfarrow]

No one mentioned "Singles"?

Others:

The Graduate
In the Mood for Love
The Straight Story
Trouble Every Day
The Vertical Ray of the Sun

and tons others I'm forgetting

[Numanoid]

The best soundtrack no one here is going to mention (except me, of course):

The Final Conflict - aka Omen III, by Jerry Goldsmith.

Other top original STs:
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - Jerry Goldsmith
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Cliff Eidelman
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Wojciech Kilar

Best use of classical music as a score:
Excalibur
2001: A Space Odyssey

[Ignite]

Black Hawk Down.

two words, Hans Zimmer.

Also, Leon (nothin beats that piano solo in the end), Requiem for a dream... And a few more.

[Giantrobo]

THE FIFTH ELEMENT :up: Slammin'!
BLADERUNNER

[Amadeus]

Originally posted by Ignite
Black Hawk Down.

two words, Hans Zimmer.


:up:

Don't forget about Hannibal.

[Zinger]

Guy Ritchie uses great music....

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch

[RevLiver]

Mulholland Drive for Rebekah Del Rio's "Llorando", a Spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying". That and the Angelo Badalamenti score.

[tsohg]

The Five Heartbeats
Great Balls of Fire

[ryuryu2949]

Havent seen my two favorite films mentioned here for music, so here goes:

Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption

Also, just watched Vertigo this morning, and I think the score really adds to the atmosphere there.

[pagos77]

Amadeus and 2001 blow my mind everytime I watch them due to their great scores.

[tanman]

Originally posted by lesterlong
To shed some newer blood, DareDevil had a great soundtrack.

That's funny. because it is listed a couple of times in the Movies with Bad Music thread.

[cwwallace]

Favorite scores and soundtracks from my collection:
<b>Amadeus
Apocalypse Now
The Beach
The Big Blue (Original and American)
Braveheart
Feeling Minnesota
Forrest Gump
Great Expectations (1998)
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
</b>

[cultshock]

Originally posted by DVD Smurf
In the Mood for Love has one of the best scores ever...

Great music but a little repetitive (but it was really cool hearing old Chinese pop songs from the 60s that I otherwise would have had no exposure to). Wong Kar-Wai films always have good music, especially Ashes of Time.

Tarantino, PT Anderson and Danny Boyle really know how to use source music to excellent effect. They always manage to use just the right song at just the right point (esp. Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Trainspotting, Boogie Nights).

[Amadeus]

How could i forget about the score in The Last Emperor. :) One of the best ever.

[whaaat]

Vertigo, North by Northwest, Magnificent Ambersons, Taxi Driver, pretty much any Bernard Hermann score.
Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Fireworks, Spirited Away, pretty much any Jo Hisaishi score.
Casablanca
M. Hulot's Holiday
Brazil
etc.
etc.
etc.

[DonnachaOne]

It seems to me that the above choices suit the film best, and are always the product of good communication between the director and music supervisor.

But these, my friends, are the best ones.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Bear in mind... I loathe all forms of country "music". But that film... sweetly melds everything together right.

Trainspotting. Familiar tunes to those that grew up with them, yet distinctive and distinguished enough as to not date the film. Poignant usage of Lou Reed's Perfect Day... the London motage set to Think About The Way... and that is one class, CLASS opening. If there's one flaw... it's the odd Closet Romantic by Damon Albarn, which closes out the film. You know, organs n' such with the Sean Connery Bond titles being spoken over it. It's ill-suited, and too odd for my taste. Bear in mind, Blur are my favourite band, too.

Human Traffic. Never before in the history of mankind, let alone film, has a soundtrack been so intrinsic in the setting and characters of a film (excepting musicals). Jip's in-his-mind confrontation to Brainbug's Nightmare. His self-empowerment by rapping along to Public Enemy (bear in mind - he's a skinny welsh bloke, rapping word for word). The opening credits' BLAST of sound from Fatboy Slim's Build It Up, Tear It Down. It's one of the few films that handles a nearly-completely-techno soundtrack well - not as a marketing tool to the kids - and never falters. You listen to that soundtrack, you'll feel like you're rolling in a Welsh club in the late 90's... even if you've never even been in one.

[BlackBeauty92]

oh mah God.... how could i forgot TOP GUN


:)

[Matt925]

Every movie by David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, and Wong Kar Wai.

Any of Philip Glass's scores (Koyaanisqatsi, Kundun, Mishima, etc.).

[hgar78]

i love the music that Tarantino and Lynch pick for their films. i also love the music from wonder boys and the cheesy french kiss movie.

[Giles]

Off the top of my head:

Human Traffic
Trainspotting
My Life As A Dog (original score)
Standing in the Shadow of Motown
Suspiria (original score)

most every film by Miyazaki (Nausicaa/Spirited Away) has a great score

Peter Greenaway composer Michael Nyman

Mark Knopfler's score to "The Princess Bride"

[midnightmetro]

Married to the Mob.
The end credits with New Orders, Bizarre Love Triangle, is worth the watch alone.

Cool World.
Terrible film but the soundtrack is AWESOME.

[tsohg]

Oh yeah Karate Kid part 2 I swear I could kick anyones ass to the "Glory of Love" song.

[kenny79]

Originally posted by theneobez
Gattaca is also one of my favorites, by composer Michael Lyman.
Psst ... that's "Nyman."

Nyman also did Ravenous, a collaboration with Blur's Damon Albarn. And continuing the cannibalism theme (as I often do), Elliot Goldenthal's Titus is outstanding. "Finale" (when the kid is walking out of the coliseum) is probably my favorite piece of music of all time, and I'm not in the least bit a classical music person.

[Jack Straw]

Chaplin
Truman Show
The Man Who Wasn't There
Eyes Wide Shut

I have others but they've already been mentioned above.

[JazzTimes10]

Gladiator, even if Hans Zimmer is derivative of Gustav Holst