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What's your favorite movie soundtrack?
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Tron 2. Daft Punk without lyrics is perfect for me.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou is a good one.
Trainspotting
Hackers
Atomic Blonde
Go
Grease
The Big Lebowski
The Crow
Mary Poppins
A few of my favs, in no particular order:
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Tron: Legacy
- Oblivion
- Gladiator
- Star Wars (especially Episode I)
- Interestellar
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Footloose are probably my favorites of all time. It's really hard to find soundtracks with a better collection of absolutely amazing songs imo.
Koyaanisqatsi
Solaris (the remake)
Whiplash
Broken Flowers
The Fountain
Pirates ot Caribbean
I feel like whiplash is cheating but you right lol
Props for Koyaanisqatsi
I too like subjecting my neighbors to hours of Philip Glass albums.
Already lots of LOTR & Tron: Legacy here. Not seeing much love for animated film scores, so on that note & in no particular order:
- How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, 1 is personal favorite
- Kung Fu Panda trilogy, 2 is ~~so fucking good oh my god~~ personal favorite
- The Lion King (1994)
- Spirited Away
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- The Super Mario Movie
- Finding Nemo
- Up
A couple of these have great soundtracks, too, but I do love a good score.
Nausicaa!
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Not a movie but all 3 Beastars openings sound so good
The crow
A few that spring to mind...
Vertigo
Psycho
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
All 3 LOTR films
Star Wars OT
Indiana Jones (especially Raiders)
The Sweet Smell of Success
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Tron Legacy
The Crow
Shrek 2
Sucker Punch
Haven’t seen anyone mention Cinema Paradiso or The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Both are wildly different. Ennio Morricone is a genius.
There’s also The Incredibles - Michael Giacchino
The Greatest Showman - Various Artists
Saving Private Ryan - John Williams
The Prince of Egypt - Hans Zimmer
The Gospel of John - Jeff Dann (great middle eastern vibe)
- Conan The Barbarian by Basil Polidouris
- Aliens by James Horner
- The Good The Bad And The Ugly by Ennio Morricone
My favorite is the soundtrack to Princess Mononoke, composed by Joe Hisaishi.
Clerks
Gross Pointe Blank
The score for Star Trek II: the wrath of khan is absolutely amazing
James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers' works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.
Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.
And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.
Bad Company (Trevor Rabin)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
Star Trek 2009 (Michael Giacchino)
The Mask Of Zorro (James Horner)
Kill Bill Volume 2! And I like the Carol (2015) soundtrack (totally not a lesbian).
Escape from New York.
Oldboy.
Amélie
I was a hipster in high school and I used to have Amelie on my iPod classic. Was such a tiny screen. :)
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Lock stock and two smoking barrels, and o’ brother where art thou, and tron (daft punk)
Fight Club.
Dune (1984)
The Fifth Element
Scream 3
Django unchained
American pie
Spiderman into the spider verse
So many good ones, I don't know how to choose.
- Interstellar 55555 (slightly cheating)
- Perfect Blue
- The Green Knight
- The Girl With All the Gifts
- Dune (the original)
- Densha Otoko
- Spirited Away
- Dark Knight
- Interstellar
- The Last of Us (game and show)
- Innocent Venus
- Tron by Draft Punk
- Lord of the Ring
- Interstellar
- The Graduate
Buckaroo Banzai
Monsoon Wedding
- Cosmos
- Blade Runner
Vangelis, enough said.
2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I love it.
Pump Up The Volume
To Live and Die in LA by Wang Chung is another great one that hasn't been mentioned yet
Last Samurai is super chill
Mine is from the 1996 anime film X. It is based on a CLAMP manga and goes much harder than the poster would lead you to believe.
The soundtrack complements the tone perfectly with its experimental and unsettling atmosphere.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is my absolute fav.
X-files.
Memories of Matsuko and Sakuran.
Lost Highway with lots of tracks from Angelo Badalamenti.
Beauty and the Beast
But also I recently saw the comedy Bottoms, and thought Charlie XCX did a great job with that soundtrack
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