Best Movie Scores?

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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.
    What did you get? Obviously I am not going to take advice from someone who did not get over a B.
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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Black Diamond wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.
    What did you get? Obviously I am not going to take advice from someone who did not get over a B.
    A BD! Of course I got an A. Who do you think you're talking to? I had a very useful major in college, but a very useless minor (film). The only rewards I reap to this day from being a film minor is that I can dominate intelligent movie discussions at parties and mixers.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.
    What did you get? Obviously I am not going to take advice from someone who did not get over a B.
    A BD! Of course I got an A. Who do you think you're talking to? I had a very useful major in college, but a very useless minor (film). The only rewards I reap to this day from being a film minor is that I can dominate intelligent movie discussions at parties and mixers.
    :mrgreen:
    Probably more worth it than your major :lol:
    Female at Party: So tell me again FF, what does that baby at the end of 2001 signify?
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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Probably more worth it than your major :lol:
    Female at Party: So tell me again FF, what does that baby at the end of 2001 signify?
    Funny you should ask that, my dear. The baby means what you want it to mean. Life, death, hope, renewal, pessimism about the future. Now, can I buy you another crantini?
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.

    Hitchcock for sure. Pyscho (Which nearly went without a score) has to be one of the most famous movie scores going.

    Jaws was really effective as well.
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.

    Hitchcock for sure. Pyscho (Which nearly went without a score) has to be one of the most famous movie scores going.

    Jaws was really effective as well.
    Very true. Digital Twilight, always the astute film critic. You have very refined taste in movies, my friend. Good call on Clockwork at the top of the page.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Probably more worth it than your major :lol:
    Female at Party: So tell me again FF, what does that baby at the end of 2001 signify?
    Funny you should ask that, my dear. The baby means what you want it to mean. Life, death, hope, renewal, pessimism about the future. Now, can I buy you another crantini?
    :swoon:
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  • Digital Twilight
    Digital Twilight Posts: 5,642
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Digital Twilight wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    Bernard Herrmann, the king of movie scores. He wrote the score for dozens of Hitchcock movies, but he won an Oscar for his work on Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver, that's my pick for greatest movie score. In college, I wrote a 10 page paper about how his score affects the overall impact of a film.

    Hitchcock for sure. Pyscho (Which nearly went without a score) has to be one of the most famous movie scores going.

    Jaws was really effective as well.
    Very true. Digital Twilight, always the astute film critic. You have very refined taste in movies, my friend. Good call on Clockwork at the top of the page.

    Why thank you sir!
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Peter Gabriels soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ is probably one of my favorites.

    I'm also partial to Danny Elfman soundtracks, although I'm probably biased since Oingo Boingo was one of my favorite bands in high school.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Halloween (John Carpenter's).

    Couldn't agree more. I love this soundtrack, especially in October. One of my top 5 favorite movies of all time as well!
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  • g under p
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    Opening Scene from Shaft

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    merkinball wrote:
    Peter Gabriels soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ is probably one of my favorites.

    I'm also partial to Danny Elfman soundtracks, although I'm probably biased since Oingo Boingo was one of my favorite bands in high school.


    im fast becoming very tired of danny elfman.. which is a problem cause im a huge tim burton fan.


    star wars

    a tear came to my eye when i heard the first note of the theme when i saw the phantom menace. of course i wept after the film too but for entirely different reasons. 8-)
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    catefrances wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    Peter Gabriels soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ is probably one of my favorites.

    I'm also partial to Danny Elfman soundtracks, although I'm probably biased since Oingo Boingo was one of my favorite bands in high school.


    im fast becoming very tired of danny elfman.. which is a problem cause im a huge tim burton fan.


    star wars

    a tear came to my eye when i heard the first note of the theme when i saw the phantom menace. of course i wept after the film too but for entirely different reasons. 8-)

    Shouldn't that be the dorky cool face? :) I kid, I kid.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    I'm a big fan of the score for Born on the Fourth of July. Just perfect for the film. Love the whole soundtrack.
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    catefrances wrote:
    im fast becoming very tired of danny elfman.. which is a problem cause im a huge tim burton fan.

    Yeah, I'd imagine that's a problem :)
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • RoadTripper
    RoadTripper Posts: 67
    Requiem for a Dream had a great score. Also, its such an intense movie and the music makes it even more.

    Weeee got a winner!
  • whgarrett
    whgarrett Posts: 574
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    Dances with Wolves
    Lost Highway
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    gabers wrote:
    catefrances wrote:

    im fast becoming very tired of danny elfman.. which is a problem cause im a huge tim burton fan.


    star wars

    a tear came to my eye when i heard the first note of the theme when i saw the phantom menace. of course i wept after the film too but for entirely different reasons. 8-)

    Shouldn't that be the dorky cool face? :) I kid, I kid.

    where is the dorky cool face emotie??? id totally use it. :thumbup:
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    merkinball wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    im fast becoming very tired of danny elfman.. which is a problem cause im a huge tim burton fan.

    Yeah, I'd imagine that's a problem :)

    imagine my delirium when i saw sweeney todd.
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    take a good look
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Dmitri Shostakovich, King Lear (dir. Grigori Kozintsev)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4EL3OdGco

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