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Which movie(s) do you think has the best soundtrack?

I think American Psycho has a good soundtrack and I listen to it occasionaly.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Lots of good ones here, I'll add some that haven't been mentioned: Sahara, Rango, both Sherlock Holmes movies, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the JJ Abrams Star Trek's, The Incredibles, Godzilla 2014, The Road to El Dorado

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Monsoon Wedding

Lord of the Rings

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Scream 3 soundtrack is one of my favorites and was my introduction to System of a Down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

yup! and finger eleven

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know that I could pick one, but Joe Hisashi's Studio Ghibli sound tracks are done of my favourites

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Dazed and Confused

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Baby Driver, The Third Man, anything by John Williams

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A Knight's Tale

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Big Lebowski deserves a mention.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I am quite fond of the recent Dune movies' soundtrack. Hans Zimmer can make a good bwowwwum, and a helping of One-Woman-Wailing :tm: also helps

Aside for that I would get into movie musical territory. A much derided subgenre that I adore.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Stranger Than Fiction, soundtrack by Spoon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • Spawn
  • Baby Driver
  • Garden State
  • the Lord of the Rings trilogy
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

+1 for Spawn. Such a great soundtrack for a such bad movie.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The Third Man has that fantastic zither theme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I quite like the Interstellar soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you. I listen to that when I need motivation. Especially “No time for caution”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A few not listed:

  • The Crow
  • Empire Records
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Get Shorty
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • ~~Pulp Fiction~~ (listed elsewhere)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The Lord of the Rings

This is Howard Shore's Magnum opus. It's what distinguishes this movie as more than just a great adaptation. His use of themes to represent not only races and kingdoms but characters, objects (like the One Ring, of course), and even concepts is a level above most movie soundtracks. There are even elements of storytelling through the music!

For example, the first time we hear the theme for Gondor is when Boromir is in Rivendell. Since he's more or less alone, the theme is played by a single French Horn in a somber (almost tragic) style. In Return of the King, we see Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor, in all its glory, and so the full orchestra plays the theme.

One more: As the Fellowship begins to break down, so too does the theme. We go from heroic phrases to shorter, interrupted instances. There's a book about the soundtrack written by Doug Adams. I highly recommend it if you're interested!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, At World's End has the best, Hans Zimmer)
  • The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
  • Gravity (Steven Price)
  • Tron Legacy (Daft Punk)
  • Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
  • Harry Potter (can only speak to the ones by John Williams)
  • Braveheart (James Horner)
  • The Matrix (Don Davis)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
  • Interstellar
  • Jaws
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • The Way
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Into The Wild

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Blues Brothers - it's stringing together performances from famous musicians, and the soundtrack was successful as an album in its own right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, or anything by Clint Mansell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is an old one, but:

The Mission, scored by Ennio Morricone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Conan the Barbarian

Resident evil

Dred 2012

Redline

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Eraserhead, Side B

The album has been seen as presaging the dark ambient music genre, and its presentation of background noise and non-musical cues has been described by Pitchfork's Mark Richardson as "a sound track (two words) in the literal sense". -wikipedia

The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia's post-industrial history. Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger; describing it both as a "sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place" and "beautiful, if you see it the right way."[8][9][1] Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. -wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Tombstone and Almost Famous for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tron Legacy, but that's cheating as it's essentially a Daft Punk music video.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then. One day. I got in...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

and then it BEAMS

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But to be honest: Its a good music video

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sadly not a good movie, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

One of my favorite

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Birdman. Just drums. Really fucking good drums. Also they appear in the middle of one scene in an excellent way.

Also: not a movie, but Cowboy Bebop. Lots and lots of great tracks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

28 Days Later

Trainspotting

Garden State....could not tell you a single thing about the film but when it was released, the soundtrack was full of my favorite artists at the time

Honorable mention: Most Wes Anderson films have pretty thoughtful soundtracks but I've never been blown away or introduced to a new band

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Matrix
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Forest Gump

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

+1 for The Matrix. I once watched the film at a theater where the music was played live by an orchestra. One of my favorite movie experiences of all time. The soundtrack is incredible.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good Will Hunting has a fantastic soundtrack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's the movie that introduced me to Elliot Smith!

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