# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/81 "2012-06-15T05:35:41Z")
_The Graduate_ and \*Gandhi \*are the first two films I think about liking the soundtracks. _The Big Lebowski_ has a weird eclectic sountrack that appeals to me. George Harrison’s soundtrack in _Wonderwall_ is rather cool. Certainly, I also like some of the films already mentioned in this thread topic. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/82 "2012-06-15T12:34:57Z")
The opening and closing song for \*\*Kelley’s Heroes \*\* is cheesy, lame, and kind of dumb, but it fits so well in the movies that I find myself humming along. The tank attack scene is also cool. The music seems pretty low key thru out most of the pic, but I think they did a good job of it all. That said, another Eastwood movie with music I enjoyed was **Thunderbolt and Lightfoot** also **Play Misty For Me** and **Unforgiven** and of course, the Dollars trilogy already mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/83 "2012-06-15T13:59:51Z")
Tron: Legacy a.k.a. Two Hour Daft Punk Music Video ETA: Fear of a Black Hat, the Spinal Tap of rap ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/84 "2012-06-15T14:06:49Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > - **Tous le matins du monde** - I love cello, and the music in this movie, combined with the scenery, takes me far, far away and I love it. Thank you. I saw this movie years ago in a French class, hadn’t thought about it in forever, and just yesterday it came to mind when I started thinking about the 7-string cellos (before seeing this thread). What a nice coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/85 "2012-06-15T14:11:27Z")
**Superfly** , for Curtis Mayfield, and **The Virgin Suicides** , for Air. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/86 "2012-06-15T15:28:27Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > In both _Matewan_ and _Songcatcher_, the Appalachian music is haunting. Don’t know _Songcatcher_, but I saw _Matewan_ three times in two days when it opened. Yes. _The Natural Silverado_ ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/87 "2012-06-15T16:36:58Z")
When I saw the thread title I immediately thought of _**[The Rock](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/)**_ (1996, directed by Michael Bay, original music by Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer). Every time I watch that movie I’m struck by how much I love the score. ---
**Author:** ![cdsilv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cdsilv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdsilv)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/88 "2012-06-15T16:52:54Z")
No fans of _The Last Waltz_? Truly a good music movie. In fact that is the point of the movie. O Brother where art thou, for the music I listened to as a child, Amadeus as a paen to classical music and Ray for jazz/blues, Walk the Line for the Johnny Cash fans (of which I’m one). ---
**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 15, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/89 "2012-06-15T17:34:39Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Fear of a Black Hat, the Spinal Tap of rap Now I’ve got “I’m Just a Human” in my head. Thank you for that, my day needed a little pick-me-up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/90 "2012-06-15T17:51:47Z")
Stanley Kubrick’s films, ever since **Dr. Strangelove** , have been particularly good in their musical choices, and I love the music in them. I’m particularly fond of Walter/Wendy Carlos’ music in **A Clockwork Orange** and **The Shining**. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/91 "2012-06-15T18:06:38Z")
I don’t know that I have an answer to the question in the OP; for the following I probably like the movie just a bit more than the music, but I can’t imagine any of them without it. _The Thin Blue Line_ - haunting and mesmerizing _Sweet Smell of Success_ - pulses with New York City energy _Blue_ - heartbreaking and tragic ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/92 "2012-06-15T18:10:05Z")
_Rude Boy_, for the live concert songs by The Clash. The DVD even has a “Just Play the Songs” option on the menu. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/93 "2012-06-15T18:11:10Z")
90 posts and still no mention of: Miyazaki’s “Mononoke Hime” (Joe Hisaishi soundtrack) “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” Crash (Mark Isham soundtrack) Not really a ‘movie’ but the “Victory at Sea” soundtrack by Richard Rogers sure hit the note for me. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/94 "2012-06-15T18:12:57Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > **Sweet and Lowdown** , a rare Woody Allen movie that doens’t suffer from him being in front of the camera. Well, I just can’t let this go unanswered! 🙂 Broadway Danny Rose; Annie Hall; Manhattan; Love and Death; Sleeper, Play It Again, Sam; Hannah and Her Sisters; for these and maybe a few others, I can’t imagine anyone else in the respective roles, and no one who could have done them better. Eh, to each his own, of course. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/95 "2012-06-15T18:25:52Z")
Wow, this thread is like music porn. I might have to put on some soft lighting to read it. **Love Actually** would not have been the same movie without the score. The main title of **Insomnia** was brilliant. The main title of **North by Northwest**? Eargasm! ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/96 "2012-06-15T23:23:25Z")
_2001_ springs to mind. Odd thing is that as a kid I didn’t seem to absorb the Ligeti music - you know, the aahaaaaahhh-aaaahhh! voices during the Monolith scenes. 'cause I distinctly remember seeing the film as a teenager and thinking “hang on, these scenes have music in them that wasn’t there before”. I assume that I simply hadn’t learned to parse dissonant voices and sound effects as music, and just dismissed them as background sound. But the music’s an integral part of the film. Try watching it with Robbie William’s “Angels” instead, playing on a loop for two hours. I tell you, the film isn’t nearly as effective with that musical backdrop. Although, oddly, the whole thing seems to sync up with the lyrics. _Crocodile Dundee_? Don’t really _love_ it, but I remember that the music seemed much more epic than the film, as if it had been written for a historical blockbuster. John Carpenter always gave his films a good soundtrack, and I remember taping the music from _Escape from New York_ and _Assault on Precinct 13_ when I was young. _Educating Rita_ is another one of those films with a soundtrack that seems larger than the film. “I’ll blind him, I’LL BLIND HIM!” Sorry, I’m still thinking about _Watership Down_. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/97 "2012-06-15T23:30:25Z")
**In Bruges** ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/98 "2012-06-15T23:55:44Z")
And I eschew you And I say “SCREW YOU!” And I hope you’re blue too :::drum biddy drum biddy drum drum drum::: We’re all bloody worthless [succumbs to neck pinch paralysis] * * * One song high light from a movie listed upthread ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/99 "2012-06-16T01:51:06Z")
Does Phantom of the Opera count? I know it was technically on Broadway first, but… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054/100 "2012-06-16T02:59:32Z")
_The Man From Snowy River_ _The Right Stuff_. It took me ages to find the soundtrack but its worth it [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-love-for-the-music/625054.md?page=6)