Favourite Film Score

[kreutzbube]

What is your favourite film score? Who is your favourite composer?

[lloydy]

Easy for me,Clint Mansell and the film is the fountain.Rarely a piece of music will move me emotionally but that come close.Stunning music.
Hanns Zimmer is up there for me too,i'm a massive fan of the batman films and think the music was exceptional.

[lloydy]

I know they are pretty much the same but i just like the two different ideas and instrumentation used on both.Honestly when i first heard this i must have listened to it over and over again for about a month.

[kreutzbube]

i agree with you on the fountain. my favourite is "together we will live forever", most accessible but still beste imo. i liked the social network ost too. what about older stuff form 40'-80'. i have no idea i'm looking for a starting point to listen to. stuff like this:

[5415]

In case you missed it, for classical:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=118973

Theres also a good soundtrack thread somewhere in the snh
Some good soundtracks:

Master and commander
Moon <-another great clint mansell ost
Beasts of the southern wild
Blade runner

[wolf89]

Ennio Moricone has a lot of good ones
A lot of old horror, especially old Italian stuff
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Akira
Blade Runner
Moon
Antichrist
Alien

If anyone says anything from Hans Zimmer I will find you and slap you hard

[Shum]

Doctor Zhivago is probably my fave. Fave composer of scores... Eduard Artmyev just edges out Wendy Carlos and Ennio Morricone. Kubrick's films have really good scoring on the whole.

[joeki]

Some spot on ones have been mentioned!

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (OST Akira - 1988)
Vangelis (OST Blade Runner - 1994)
Jerry Goldsmith (great on both Alien as well as Rambo!)
Trevor Jones (Last Of The Mohicans)
Kevin Shields (Lost In Translation)
Atticus Ross (The Book of Eli)
Hans Zimmer (Thin Red Line)
Edward Artemiyev (Stalker, Solyaris....)

are some of the favourites I can think of on the spot. My favourite movie song ever:

[wolf89]

Oh no you didn't just list Hans Zimmer....

[joeki]

I posted Thin Red Line, I don't care about his other work, I like that OST.

[wolf89]

Oh another one I forgot that is really effective is the soundtrack to David Lynch's Rabbits. That's only a short film/some episodes though.

[wolf89]

Oh another one I forgot that is really effective is the soundtrack to David Lynch's Rabbits. That's only a short film/some episodes though.

[mIrReN]

[wolf89]

I posted Thin Red Line, I don't care about his other work, I like that OST.

Meh not a massive fan.

Hans Zimmer overall treats composition like a production line in a factory. It's the most soul less uncreative take on film music composition really. He does fuck all of the work involved these days now too.

[joeki]

You are probably right. But looking at his discogs page, his late Nineties stuff wasn't too bad. There's Thin Red Line and Broken Arrow (which had that great Morricone styled main theme). After that it goes downhill fast culminating in Pirates of the Carribean and Inception amongst others. Yeah I agree that's soulless kack.

I can honestly say I skipped the Disney phase of childhood altogether btw.

[joeki]

Also, fans of Yamashirogumi might also appreciate Yoko Kanno, who did countless sound tracks for big anime projects (Macross comes to mind). I personally liked her best in Magnetic Rose, also by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). It's the first of the three short movies.

[mIrReN]

I can honestly say I skipped the Disney phase of childhood altogether btw.

poor you
no childhood :'(

[joeki]

I was busy watching GI Joe, Dino Riders, He-Man, Legend of The Galactic Heroes, The Zodiac Knights, Dragon Ball Z.... then all of a sudden I was in theatres watching Edward Scissor-hands, Terminator 2, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Gremlings II, some of which traumatised me a little.

[noam]

If anyone says anything from Hans Zimmer I will find you and slap you hard

errrrrr



clearly one of the finest pieces ever committed from head to paper and from paper to sound

[south3rn]

UGH such a good movie and such good original music.