Posted on 08/05/2005 8:13:58 AM PDT by ken5050
Unless we missed one ;-)
***Or the arena battle in Gladiator. ***
Good call! I love that soundtrack (and most anything by Hans Zimmer--Crimson Tide, Pearl Harbor, King Arthur, etc.)
Although, I must admit that I'm a huge fan of the Braveheart soundtrack.
Laura YES..Lara NO!!!
I can't believe no one has mentioned the following Star Wars songs:
The Imperial March
Princess Leia's Theme
Across the Stars
Classic John Williams.
Reminds me of a funny story.6 years after Summer of 42 came out..there were 13 girls in my niece's kindergarden class...SIX were named Jennifer..she was Jennifer 4..Jennifer instantly became the MOSDT popular female name for three years runnig..
What relatively recent movie had a girl named Kaitlyn Brianna in it? Cuz that name seems to be all over like white on rice. I cringe everytime I ask what the baby's name is and I hear "Kaitlyn Brianna". blargh.
***The entire soundtrack from "The Mission."***
"Gabriel's Oboe" comes to mind. Beautiful song!
Here's my top ten, in no particular order:
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There are so many. I only have one to add. The theme from Titanic. I never watched the entire movie, but Celine Dion just brings me to tears sometimes when I listen to it.
Or how about "Super Fly" from the late great Curtis Mayfield?
Tired of Laundry mentioned the Potter movies score.
And suddenly the deranged lullaby from "Rosemary's Baby" popped into my head, too. (Shudder!)
It seems our favorites here were all written by the same guy - Hugo Montenegro - including Lara's Theme, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...
...and "Rosemary's Baby":
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Surprised nobody has mentioned the theme from "Patton" yet.
Ditto. Howard Shore is another favourite of mine. He grew up across the street from my dad, here in Toronto, though he was about ten years older. Was apparently a weird kid: used to just sit on people's steps and compose new songs on his recorder.
My favorite is the "Chariots of Fire" theme. I love that movie too.
The "Blackhawk Down" soundtrack is very good, and so is the soundtrack for "Sharky's Machine" (great jazz singers).
"Thirteen days of Glory", theme song from The Alamo, w/John Wayne.
Theme song from the movie "The Sting".
Wonderful collection of tunes!
However, I have to insist-there has NEVER been a more effective score to a movie than "Jaws".
I have a friend who told me about a dream he had:
"I was in a giant underground parking lot, and I walked through this door into a darkened area. It was pitch black, and on the far end of the room, maybe 25 yards away, there was a small barred window, with a shaft of light streaming down onto the floor. The big heavy metal door swings shut behind me of its own accord and snaps shut with a resounding, echoing, clunk. All I see now is pitch black with the window far away with its shaft of light, and I hear the music...'bum bum-bum bum-bum bum-Bum Bum-BUM BUM-BUM BUM...' and I KNEW there was a giant man-eating shark in this underground parking lot! So I run to the barred window streaming light, leap up, grab the bars and place my face between them, and scream in a terrified voice at the top of my lungs 'HEEEELLLLPPPPP! HELLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!'. I then woke up, I was standing on my bed with my face in my window because my room is in the basement, it is around 5:00 AM and I see my neighbors light switch on..."
I nearly died when he told me this...I still laugh about his shark in the underground parking lot...
LOL! Well it looks like his weirdness paid off, huh? I never really had an appreciation for him until the LOTR, but he really impressed me.
"2001"
"The Magnificent Seven"
"The Professionals"
"The Third Man"
"The Hustler": Entire Soundtrack
"Goodfellas" : "Rags To Riches". "Layla": Soundtrack
"The Sweet Smell Of Success": Entire Soundtrack
"The Big Combo": Entire Sountrack
"To Live And Die In L.A.": Wang Chung
"Thief": Tangerine Dream's Opening Theme
Jack.
That's the "Colonel Bogie March" which was written for the Australian New Zealand Army Corps in WWI.
The Theme from the First Thomas Crown Affair movie... only hinted at in the remake.
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