Movie Score Music Nuts!

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:07am

If your like me you like Movie Scores as well as Showtunes.
My favorites:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
King Arthur (the movie was so-so but the music is AWSOME!)
Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban
Snow Falling on Cedars
Moulin Rouge
Gladiator
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Nightmare Before Christmas

What are your favorites?
Any Disney movie Updated On: 1/25/05 at 02:07 AM

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:29am

i love john williams... so pretty much all the harry potter and star wars and et. umm... pearl harbor has a good soundtrack. a knight's tale. dirty dancing: havana nights is amazing.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:15am

i love georges delareuse (sp)...he's composed some beautiful scores. john barry , john williams, henry mancini, bacharach (in the '60s), andre previn. . .there are some more. i'll make a list soon.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 6:07am

Dimitri Tiomkin
Fall Of The Roman Empire
55 Days @ Peking
The Alamo
Gunfight @ The OK Corral

Miklos Rosza
Ben Hur
King of Kings
El Cid

Alfred Newman
The Robe
Demtrius & The Gladiators
The Egyptian

More to follow.....


The Egyptian
Spartcus

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 7:29am

Favorite Scores:

HAWAII - Elmer Bernstein
DRESSED TO KILL - Pino Donaggio
THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS - Jerry Goldsmith
THE MUMMY - Jerry Goldsmith
NORTH BY NORTHWEST - Bernard Herrmann
AIRPORT - Alfred Newman
HOW THE WEST WAS WON - Alfred Newman
THE FURY - John Williams
THE TAMARIND SEED - John Barry
THE VILLAGE - James Newton Howard
POLTERGEIST - Jerry Goldsmith
THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT - Elmer Bernstein
BEN-HUR - Miklos Rozsa
CARRIE - Pino Donaggio
THE OMEN - Jerry Goldsmith

Updated On: 1/25/05 at 07:29 AM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:06am

The Village is one of the best scores I've ever heard. I also love Out of Africa, among others...

[AbsolutKnight]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:13am

How about the theme from St. Elmos Fire?

hehe it is so cheesy but it is like the best song to drive to.

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:55am

SOPHIE'S CHOICE - Marvin Hamlisch.

So hauntingly beautiful, listening to it makes me cry every time.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:59am

Some of my faves:

Star Wars (all)
The Color Purple
Harry Potter (all)
Starhip Troopers
Jurassic Park
Young Sherlock Holmes
Dead Again
Empire of the Sun
Poltergeist
A River Runs Through It
The Cider House Rules
The Shipping News
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
American Beauty
North By Northwest
Psycho
Airport
The Poseidon Adventure
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
A Passage to India
Jason and the Argonauts
The Thomas Crown Affair (remake)
Amelie

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 10:25am

The Hours is my favorite movie score thus far, with REQUIEM FOR A DREAM second. As much as I thought THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST was a terrible movie, I loved the score.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 10:31am

I also love Requiem for a Dream and The Hours (the only Glass score I find listenable). I could listen to those on repeat all day. But I'm not a big fan of Michael Nyman. Maybe The Piano, but that's about it.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 1:04pm

HOOK

[kangaroo]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:54pm

LORD OF THE RINGS

Pirates of the Caribbean
Aviator
Star Wars
Gladiator

These are my favs.

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:55pm

Last of the Mohicans and Pirates... both rule

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 4:10pm

Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Pee Wee's Big Adventure from Danny Elfman

Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws from John Williams

The Mask of Zorro and The Rocketeer from James Horner

Halloween from John Carpenter

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 4:15pm

Any Disney movie that's a musical.
Moulin Rouge!!!
Chicago

[zepka102]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 4:18pm

The Hours
Pirates of the Caribbean
Passion of the Christ
Moulin Rouge
Mulholland Drive

love the song played over the ending credits in Collateral

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 4:27pm

I forgot Pirates of the Caribbean, good call Zep.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 7:31pm

Alex North

Cleopatra
Spartacus
2001 A Space Odyssey - never used

Bernard Hermann
North By Northwest
Psycho

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:16pm

I'm a big movie score buff. My favourite scores:

THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, by Howard Shore (all three scores are phenomenal for different reasons)

THE PIANO by Michael Nyman (people should check his stuff out, he's fantastic)

TITUS by Elliot Goldenthal

I find John Williams to be hideously overrated.

Updated On: 1/25/05 at 09:16 PM

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 1/25/05 at 9:18pm

My favorite at the moment is Edward Scissorhands, but I love pretty much anything Elfman does.
From current movies, I must say I adore Sideways' score.

[magiceightball]

Posted: 1/26/05 at 12:41am

No SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION fans?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 1/26/05 at 7:38am

Blue, I agree with you about Williams being overrated. He does write some really good main title themes (Superman: The Movie, being my favorite), but his scores are never that good. The only Williams scores that I think are really good, are: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND; and my favorite of his, THE FURY.