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Old 08-09-2011, 08:29 PM
Quasimodem Quasimodem is offline
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Your Top 5 ORCHESTRAL Soundtracks?

Mine in no particular order

1. 2001, A Space Odyssey

2. Barry Lyndon

3. Jaws (1)

4. The Lord of The Rings (all)

5. Immortal Beloved

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Old 08-09-2011, 09:13 PM
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Lord Of The Rings
Barry Lyndon
Princess Bride
Ladyhawke
Puppet Master series
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:29 PM
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Star Wars
Planet of the Apes (the original)
Star Trek: the Motion Picture
Psycho

And...um...uh...
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Up?

My criteria for best soundtrack is whether it enhances the movie and what it hopes to evoke, not detract from it. The five I picked do just that, even though Michael Giacchino's music pisses me off a fair bit.
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:36 PM
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I'd put the Superman soundtrack at #1.
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:37 PM
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Alien

Vertigo
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Old 08-09-2011, 10:31 PM
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Days of Heaven
Le Mepris (Godard)
Platoon

Well, that's all I can think of at the moment...
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Old 08-09-2011, 10:47 PM
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Star Wars
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Conan the Barbarian
The Lord of the Rings

One from TV:
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
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Old 08-09-2011, 11:13 PM
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Days of Heaven
Le Mepris (Godard)
Platoon

Well, that's all I can think of at the moment...
Wow! Some very sad and haunting music in Le Mepris, and sorry, but I've never seen Platoon or Days of Heaven. Looks like I'll have some watching and listening to do.

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Old 08-09-2011, 11:34 PM
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Wow! Some very sad and haunting music in Le Mepris, and sorry, but I've never seen Platoon or Days of Heaven. Looks like I'll have some watching and listening to do.

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I always loved how Godard used music, particularly recurring classical bits etc as an element in his movies.

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Old 08-11-2011, 07:41 PM
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Dambusters?
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Old 08-11-2011, 08:53 PM
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All five on my list are Peter Gabriel's Passion, the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ.

The next five are all Koyaanisquatsi.
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:23 PM
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I don't have five off the top of my head, but the first one that comes to mind is Victory At Sea.
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Old 08-11-2011, 09:29 PM
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Ladyhawke
That synth soundtrack ruins what is otherwise one of my favourite films.

My list:

Star Wars
Pirates of the Caribbean
Lord of the Rings
Back to the Future
Batman (1989)
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Old 08-11-2011, 10:22 PM
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Star Wars(I'll lump all movies together so my entire list isn't all SW)
2001
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
A Clockwork Orange
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Old 08-12-2011, 02:13 PM
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Blade Runner - Vangelis
1492 - Vangelis
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - John Williams
Tron Legacy - Daft Punk
Sneakers - James Horner
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann

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Old 08-12-2011, 02:25 PM
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Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Old 08-12-2011, 02:34 PM
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Off the top of my head, I'll say:

Superman: The Movie
Star Wars
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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Old 08-12-2011, 02:39 PM
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I agree with all the soundtracks so far mentioned and will add Gladiator.
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Old 08-12-2011, 03:09 PM
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Only f? Tough choice:


2001

Fantasia
(despite the cuts and changes. But I love the orchestral version of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor)

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (I love Bernard Herman's score -- he did North by Northwest, cited above, and several other Hitchcock and Harryhausen films)

The Rocketeer -- if only for the opening, although "The Airshow" is great, too.

Star Wars




Besides these:


Thunderball -- possibly the best of Barry's Bond scores

Patton -- I listened to Jerry Goldsmith's background music through many chess games with a friend)

The Magnificent Seven -- even after they picked it up for a tobacco company, Elmer Bernstein's score is impressive

Raiders of the Lost Ark -- John Williams deserves several nominations for his lush orchestral scores, but I'll limit it to two.

Barry Lyndon -- i loved it, too, but it could've done with far fewer repetitions of that damned Sarabande.

Forbidden Planet -- Louis and Bebe Barron's electronic score was the first for a mainstream motion picture, and it works so well that t's hard to imagine anything else in its place. I have a recording of it, along with one of their earlier works, which they borrowed from liberally for the score.

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Old 08-12-2011, 03:17 PM
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Alfred Newman's The Best of Everything (1959). It's my "life background music."
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Old 08-12-2011, 03:23 PM
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Off the top of my head, I'll say:

Superman: The Movie
Star Wars
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Crap, I forgot The Conversation. While the above list is in no order, this would replace Fellowship.
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Old 08-13-2011, 04:24 AM
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Dances With Wolves
The Last of the Mohicans
The Right Stuff
The Natural
Star Wars
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Old 08-13-2011, 10:24 AM
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Don't forget Amadeus.
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Old 08-13-2011, 10:58 AM
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Only a couple immediately came to mind:
Kung Fu Hustle
Empire Strikes Back
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