Movies With Good Music
02-17-03, 10:33 PM
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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)
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)
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02-17-03, 10:40 PM
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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
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
02-17-03, 11:27 PM
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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.
02-17-03, 11:39 PM
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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
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
02-18-03, 12:32 AM
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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
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
02-18-03, 12:43 AM
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THE FIFTH ELEMENT 
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02-18-03, 01:28 PM
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Mulholland Drive for Rebekah Del Rio's "Llorando", a Spanish version of Roy Orbison's "Crying". That and the Angelo Badalamenti score.
02-18-03, 03:15 PM
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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.
Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Also, just watched Vertigo this morning, and I think the score really adds to the atmosphere there.
02-18-03, 03:54 PM
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Originally posted by lesterlong
To shed some newer blood, DareDevil had a great soundtrack.
To shed some newer blood, DareDevil had a great soundtrack.
02-18-03, 04:32 PM
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Favorite scores and soundtracks from my collection:
Amadeus
Apocalypse Now
The Beach
The Big Blue (Original and American)
Braveheart
Feeling Minnesota
Forrest Gump
Great Expectations (1998)
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
Amadeus
Apocalypse Now
The Beach
The Big Blue (Original and American)
Braveheart
Feeling Minnesota
Forrest Gump
Great Expectations (1998)
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting
02-18-03, 04:40 PM
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Originally posted by DVD Smurf
In the Mood for Love has one of the best scores ever...
In the Mood for Love has one of the best scores ever...
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).
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One of the best ever.
02-18-03, 06:40 PM
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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.
Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, Fireworks, Spirited Away, pretty much any Jo Hisaishi score.
Casablanca
M. Hulot's Holiday
Brazil
etc.
etc.
etc.
02-18-03, 07:10 PM
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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.
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.
