# Favorite movie score of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 22, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124 "2010-06-22T14:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/41 "2010-06-23T17:22:04Z")
> [@CWN](#): > > **[Pirates Of The Caribbean](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVoFymy3IMU&NR=1)**,one of the few movies that left me wanting to buy the soundtrack It’s the only soundtrack that I went looking for and bought. ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/42 "2010-06-23T18:05:50Z")
The main score (title music) from “Ragtime”, by Randy Newman. I think the title is “One More Hour”. Just the piano, with no vocal, as it is in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/43 "2010-06-23T18:37:53Z")
_The China Syndrome_ what? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/44 "2010-06-23T19:15:30Z")
Star Wars soundtrack … John Williams’ score beautifully evokes the serial origins of the story Cat People (the remake) … Giorgio Moroder’s score is a haunting backdrop for the story Sorcerer – the Tangerine Dream score underscores the tension and desperation of the characters hauling unstable batches of dynamite over remote jungle roads ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/45 "2010-06-23T19:21:34Z")
**Super fly** , of course. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/46 "2010-06-23T20:03:21Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > I came in to post[The Last of the Mohicans](http://www.amazon.com/Last-Mohicans-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B0000042MY/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b) soundtrack. Ditto. Also, in a very different vein, _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_ ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/47 "2010-06-24T00:00:32Z")
Star Wars (Original/A New Hope) Raiders of the Lost Ark Godzilla Born Free The Incredibles The various Pink Panther movies ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/48 "2010-06-24T00:20:48Z")
In order: 1. “Blade Runner” Vangelis Not the truncated legitimate versions in release, but the complete score, all 2 cd’s worth, available only on bootlegs. 2) “Alien” Jerry Goldsmith The complete score(s), released just a year or two ago as a 2-cd set. 1. “Long Riders” Ry Cooder, David Lindley ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/49 "2010-06-24T01:01:08Z")
Local Hero is my favourite. The original Star Wars would be second, but I can’t sit and listen to it all the way through the way I can with Local Hero. On a lighter note, the music in Finding Nemo was used to very good effect. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/50 "2010-06-24T01:46:30Z")
My favorite movie scores by these composers are not the ones they’re best known for. [Dimitri Tiomkin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006323/): _Giant_ (and props for adapting Debussy in _Portrait of Jennie_) [Miklós Rózsa](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000067/): _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_ [Bernard Herrmann](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002136/): _On Dangerous Ground_ [Maurice Jarre](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003574/) _Is Paris Burning?_ [John Barry](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000290/): _Chaplin_ [Jerry Goldsmith](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000025/): _The Sand Pebbles_ An exception to this is [Aaron Copland](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178716/): _The Red Pony_ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/51 "2010-06-24T01:47:30Z")
So many wonderful answers! It’s hard to put in my two cents and they’ve already been mentioned, but “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Last of the Mohicans” have always been my favorites. Devastatingly, achingly beautiful. Zeldar - “Adventures in Paradise” ! First mention of that long-ago and forgotten show I have ever run across on the interwebs! ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/52 "2010-06-24T02:09:12Z")
I watched Ingourious Basterds last night and liked the score. Tarantino always has good soundtracks, so I guess that carries over into his scores too. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/53 "2010-06-24T02:12:00Z")
No contest for me–_American Beauty_ by Thomas Newman. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/54 "2010-06-24T02:21:34Z")
Fight Club There Will Be Blood Requiem for a Dream ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/55 "2010-06-24T02:32:03Z")
[Cinema Paradiso](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYWFv4dqTU0). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/56 "2010-06-24T03:46:32Z")
_The High and the Mighty._ ---
**Author:** ![kingbighair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kingbighair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbighair)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/57 "2010-06-24T03:53:40Z")
Amelie (any Yann Tiersen, really) The Fountain ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/58 "2010-06-24T03:56:34Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > I watched Ingourious Basterds last night and liked the score. Tarantino always has good soundtracks, so I guess that carries over into his scores too. Again, not an original score–just music cues cannibalized from other films. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/59 "2010-06-24T04:10:02Z")
_Superman_–John Williams ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124/60 "2010-06-24T12:05:15Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Zeldar - “Adventures in Paradise” ! First mention of that long-ago and forgotten show I have ever run across on the interwebs! Except for the star’s name (Gardner McKay) all I remember of the show is the music. To hear a sample, check out [http://www.televisiontunes.com/Adventures\_in\_Paradise.html](http://www.televisiontunes.com/Adventures_in_Paradise.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-score-of-all-time/544124.md?page=4)