Favourite film score?

[dignan]

Gattaca
Brick
In Bruges
The Fountain
Babel

[JBE]

I'll try not to make this too long, but it's hard to pick just 1 so here's a list.

Psycho (Bernard Herrman)
Dragonheart (Randy Edelman)
Hook (John Williams)
Blade Runner (Vangelis)
Braveheart (James Horner)
Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)
Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Hellraiser 2 (Christopher Young)
Terminator 2 (Brad Fiedel)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Wojciech Kilar)
Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Silence of the Lambs (Howard Shore)

I think I should stop now. I personally love film scores. I think it's the ultimate form of musical artistry. The ones I listed here are just the main ones that I can think of without looking over my collection, and as you can see, I really love horror film scores. I'm not sure if I got all the composers correct, mainly Dracula. I think it's right but I would have to look it up and I hate searching the net on my phone.

[steeze]

It's already been said a bunch of times, but Requeim For A Dream's soundtrack is so good. The trippy audio/visual bits work really well also

[trike12]

Män som hatar kvinnor
Flickan som lekte med elden
Luftslottet som sprängdes

Its a swedish series of thrillers, the movies are alright.
The music and sound design is just overwhelming.

English titles would be something like

Men who hates women
The girl that played with fire
the castle in the air that got blown

Lol ^

[paradigm_x]

Clint mansell also gets bonus points for being in PWEI (old bugger alert)

Pi, YES that movie is the shit I highly recommend it!

Anyone ever seen Koyaanisqatsi? Phillip Glass did the score. An incredible film.

watched that about 830 in the morning after a heavy techno nigh once lol, bit mad, cant remember much.

[danoldboy]

Eraserhead, not strictly a score but the sound design is alot.

[triggy]

ahhh theres so many to name!

I'd pick quite a few that have already been named so I'll avoid them


one of my favs would have to be this:


Anything Hans Zimmer does is pretty damn good

[Shekul]

I just wanna let everyone know that the new Tron Legacy soundtrack, produced by Daft Punk is absolutley epic.

[Grumblex]

28 DAYS LATER!!!!!

[kaiori breathe]

Road To Perdition.

Shits over everything in this thread.

[JemGrover]

Road To Perdition.

Shits over everything in this thread.

Thomas Newman, in fact

[kaiori breathe]

Road To Perdition.

Shits over everything in this thread.

Thomas Newman, in fact

Also did music for American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Meet Joe Black which all have great scores. Newman is the man.

[samkablaam]

not all original, but 2001:space odyssee has the sickest score.

[dddemain]

Eraserhead, not strictly a score but the sound design is alot.

Yeah man, the noise and atmospherics in this film are crazy. I kinda get the idea that it is just down to shitty recording as opposed to intended effect (was a student project after all.)

[mks]

Cabaret Voltaire - Johnny Yesno soundtrack



I think my picks are a bit biased, as they are all soundtracks that I own on vinyl.

[65L]

Eric Serra's compositions are incredible, surprised no one has mentioned him.

heres a good one from the professional:


samping heaven

[Ldizzy]

blade runner is somwhere in my top 5

[cyberneticghost]

I think it goes without saying that ennio morricone writes the best soundtracks.

Kikujiro (look up Joe Hisaishi, just do it.)

I was just about to post Joe Hisaishi, but figured I should read through to see if someone else had mentioned him. I love the scores for Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Howl's Moving Castle.
Agree about Ennio Morricone.

[wub]

The Thing

[Shekul]

I hope the film is as good as the soundtrack