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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:53 am    Post subject: Favorite and/or "best" movie theme music

We're talking background and/or mood music created for the film itself. This could include lyrical songs also made for radio as long as they were created for the film as a theme(s). The songs in Grease 1, for example.

Your opinion of some of the best and/or your faves.

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Some of my faves:

American Beauty - Thomas Newman. This guy has done a load of music for films, including Shawshank and Scent of a Woman. None of his other works really stand out to me. The 3-4 different tunes he created made my heart cave in. Liked the separate tunes instead of going the route of making a single long track which is broken up into pieces for different parts of the film. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure, but don't worry. You will someday.

E.T. - John Williams. Movie score royalty. Jaws, Superman, Schindler, Home Alone. Composer in his own right.

Poltergeist - Jerry Goldsmith - Some people think this was also Williams. Interesting melodic start to the movie.

Shining - Wendy Carlos / Rachel Elkind. Opening operatic piece wasn't theirs, but it's very memorable. Maze scene probably the best example of their work.

Psycho - Bernard Herrmann - Hitchcock's favorite score. Practically a character in the film.

Predator 1/2 - Alan Silvestri - Recently saw a program about black holes that used a re-worked version of the theme. Another theme song that makes it hard to imagine the movie w/o it. Character in and of itself.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:44 am    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:27 am    Post subject:

Anything John Williams. End of thread.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:57 pm    Post subject:

Anything John Willaims of course, just for sheer body of work.

But Thomas Newman's work is amazing.

That said I think Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's work on Social Network was stellar and so different from what we are used to.

And, Henry Mancini's Pink Panther work really has a place in my personal favorites just because the chords became so iconic. There's really nothing outside of Jaws's "duh nuh duh nuh duh nuh" that is so immediately recognizable.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:54 pm    Post subject:

"Time" by Hans Zimmer (from Inception) is my favorite instrumental from a film.

"Hope" by Thomas Newman (from Shawshank Redemption) is also great.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:34 pm    Post subject:

My most favorite film music is the theme music of "3 Idiots".
The music and the film itself are great to me, it's worth watching such an awesome movie.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:42 pm    Post subject:

a2j1m wrote:
Requiem for a Dream
dope movie. Dope score.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:44 pm    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
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Top to bottom, Last of the Mohicans is 10/10.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 11:23 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 2:18 pm    Post subject:

That funky chase scene music in Terminator 1 is along the lines of The Predator score. It sounds dated and porny, but that's the appeal. It should've been used to some extent in every Terminator sequel. I saw T1 while channel surfing the other day and I found out it has reached a 98% rottentomatoes score. There's no way in hell it was that appreciated when it was new. For such a low-budget 1984ish flick, the storyline has reached an odd level of validation as good science fiction as the sequels piled up and as Cameron became more noteworthy.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:07 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:45 pm    Post subject:

Might not be the best ever but the score from KickAss always brings chills up my spine.
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