# Movies you love for the music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054 "2012-06-13T19:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/41 "2012-06-14T01:27:50Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [The Ecstasy of Gold](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rHdSWZLpQ) - It just doesn’t get any better than that. Yes. Learning that on the piano is now a goal. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/42 "2012-06-14T01:33:38Z")
**Birdy** **A Clockwork Orange** **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** And I love John Carpenter’s work from the 70s and early 80s, particularly **Assault on Precinct 13** , **Halloween** , and **Escape From New York**. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/43 "2012-06-14T01:37:48Z")
**The Fountain** was a mess of a movie, but had an excellent score. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/44 "2012-06-14T01:45:37Z")
Master and Commander ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/45 "2012-06-14T01:52:18Z")
**Conan the Barbarian** and **The Hunt for Red October**. Love love love Basil Poledouris scores. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/46 "2012-06-14T02:44:22Z")
Seconding _Immortal Beloved_ & _The Commitments_. Adding _Trainspotting_. Glad for MP3s after replacing those CDs several times. ---
**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 14, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/47 "2012-06-14T02:54:13Z")
[_The High and the Mighty_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSZ08KpL0Q). My all-time favorite movie theme. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/48 "2012-06-14T03:00:52Z")
I love that in _Die Hard_ almost all of the background music is “Ode to Joy”. It’s played at various tempos, with different instruments to convey the mood of what is happening at that point in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/49 "2012-06-14T03:08:31Z")
For what it is, _Joe Dirt_ has a pretty good soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/50 "2012-06-14T03:09:07Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The Third Man. Whenever someone mentions that they’re going to watch The Third Man (one of my favorite movies ever BTW) I always tell them “When you’re done watching, you’re gonna have one burning question, and the answer is ‘zither’.” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/51 "2012-06-14T03:12:42Z")
> [@Mewl\_Dear](#): > > Jesus Christ Superstar. Amen. And kinda sorta in that vein, _Hair_…except every time I watch it, as I just did, “for the music”, I realize that I’m not crazy about what they did to the music, either. _Amadeus_, check. _Moulin Rouge_, check. _Rent_. Love the music. The movie is made of meh, but the musical performances in it are solid. _Across the Universe_. Actually, that feels like cheating, because I love the story/characters/visuals as well, but I have put it on before I go to sleep, because just the music and I “see” the movie in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/52 "2012-06-14T03:13:46Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I love that in _Die Hard_ almost all of the background music is “Ode to Joy”. It’s played at various tempos, with different instruments to convey the mood of what is happening at that point in the movie. … Either I didn’t notice it was there a LOT, or I’ve forgotten. Will have to remember that next time it comes on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/53 "2012-06-14T03:15:02Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > _Across the Universe_. Actually, that feels like cheating, because I love the story/characters/visuals as well, but I have put it on before I go to sleep, because just the music and I “see” the movie in my head. Oooh, yes. I have several of the songs from the soundtrack mixed in with my stuff. I really, really love their version of ‘I Just Saw A Face’ and it’s impossible not to bounce happily around when I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/54 "2012-06-14T03:32:50Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Amen. And kinda sorta in that vein, _Hair_…except every time I watch it, as I just did, “for the music”, I realize that I’m not crazy about what they did to the music, either. I’ve never seen the stage show so I don’t have anything to compare it to but I had a friend in college who introduced my to the soundtrack. I listened to that soundtrack hundreds of times and had it memorized forwards and backwards before I ever saw the movie. I believe the soundtrack that you would hear on the radio or buy in the store is the movie version (Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo etc). For a while when my (at the time 4 or 5 year old) daughter would wake up I’d say “Good morning starshine” and she’d reply “the earth says hello”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/55 "2012-06-14T03:46:55Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’ve never seen the stage show so I don’t have anything to compare it to but I had a friend in college who introduced my to the soundtrack. I listened to that soundtrack hundreds of times and had it memorized forwards and backwards before I ever saw the movie. I believe the soundtrack that you would hear on the radio or buy in the store is the movie version (Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo etc). For a while when my (at the time 4 or 5 year old) daughter would wake up I’d say “Good morning starshine” and she’d reply “the earth says hello”. Awww. I grew up with [Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1968 Original Broadway Cast)](http://www.amazon.com/Hair-American-Love-Rock-Original-Broadway/dp/B000002W1S), on cassette tape, no less, and performed in a truly dreadful, horrifying community theater production of it once. I find the movie’s versions jarring. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/56 "2012-06-14T05:57:00Z")
**Chocolat** (2000) starring Juliette Binoche featuring the music of [Rachel Portman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4NC0eB3cY). ---
**Author:** ![emu2swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@emu2swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emu2swan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/57 "2012-06-14T08:45:03Z")
Moulin Rouge Driving Miss Daisy Rocky Horror Pulp Fiction Little Shop of Horrors ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/58 "2012-06-14T09:01:09Z")
_Star Wars IV-VI_ I really can’t believe no one said that [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tV4js7fgIuo/hqdefault.jpg "The Hologram - Binary Sunset (6) - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Soundtrack") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4js7fgIuo) _Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog_ which is actually a musical, but whatever - if you haven’t seen it, please do [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apEZpYnN_1g) _Dances with Wolves_ just an awesome score - John Barry won an Oscar for it [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LZW_poTp4rc/hqdefault.jpg "John Barry Orchestra Dances with Wolves") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZW_poTp4rc) _Gladiator_ - the vocals by Lisa Gerrard (from Dead Can Dance) are fantastic [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObGYFInWrU0) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/59 "2012-06-14T09:30:43Z")
Any Cameron Crowe movie: Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Elizabethtown, Singles, We Bought a Zoo… the man has a great ear for music. Ditto Wes Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/60 "2012-06-14T11:56:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **Sorcerer**. I was going to say pretty much anything scored by Tangerine Dream, but especially **Sorcerer** and **Thief**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054.md?page=4)