Favorite Movie Soundtracks...

[locustsofdeath!]

I've been listening to movie soundtracks lately while I write. My particular favorites at the moment are:

1. Conan the Barbarian (1982)

2. Spartacus (the new TV show)

3. Kingdom of Heaven

4. The 13th Warrior

5. Bram Stoker's Dracula

6. The Beyond (a Lucio Fulci Zombie film with a magnificent orchestral score)

7. John Carpenter's The Thing

Yours?

[Judge von Boom]

Conan the Barbarian is a definite favourite of mine.

Flash Gordon. Gotta love any soundtrack with Queen.

Highlander. Queen again.

Those are all that really come to mind at the moment.

JvB

[JOE SOAP]

Some faves:


Jerry Goldsmith - SECONDS.

Early Howard Shore is impressive too as are the Carpenter minimalist STs.

Conan the Barb... doesn't deserve a score as good as Poledouris gave it, really, the film lets it down a great deal. Tragic.

Blade Runner is a feat in itself for being completely non-beat-for-beat-incidental but going exclusively for atmospherics instead.

Takeshi Kitano has some fairly splendid Joe Hisaishi STs and Barry Lyndon is a great use/arrangement of old classics. Many of Kube's STs are great.

[locustsofdeath!]

Conan the Barb... doesn't deserve a score as good as Poledouris gave it, really, the film lets it down a great deal. Tragic.

You may really enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTPf0g4h9s.

[Dandontdare]

I use to share a flat with a guy who collected soundtrack albums and I always thought it was a bit odd. Often, they were from films he didn't actually like, but he just loved soundtracks.

I think the only one I've ever owned was Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas.

[JOE SOAP]

You may really enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTPf0g4h9s.

When you couple it with this, it's bewildering:

http://io9.com/5832792/proof-that-the-original-conan-the-barbarian-is-completely-insane-+-and-brilliant-[nsfw]

The two jokers involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqnFxVaIx4

[Beeks]

Taxi Driver

The Thing

The Thomas Crown Affair

Requiem For A Dream

Southern Comfort

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

[locustsofdeath!]

The two jokers involved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqnFxVaIx4

The commentary for that films is, at times, almost buffoonish cartoonish, but...there is a lot to like about the film: the score, obviously, but also the cinematography; Mako delivers some incredible narration and James Earl Jones is fantastic - as is ax Von Sydow (ever notice that the entire movie consists of mainly monologues?). Individual scenes are brilliant (the vulture and the tree of woe, the ritual tattooing lifted from Kwaidan) but as a whole it's ridiculous. Fun ridiculous.

[JOE SOAP]

ax Von Sydow

That shoulda been his name.

(ever notice that the entire movie consists of mainly monologues?)

Yes, Milius was to lazy to actually create dramatic scenes.

[Gavin_Leahy_Block]

Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?

Magnolia

Requiem For A Dream

[radiator]

Some of these are compilations rather than scores (is that cheating?)

Attack the Block
Dead Mans Shoes
Up In the Air
Juno
Little Miss Sunshine
A Life Less Ordinary
Sunshine
28 Days Later
Super

[M.I.K.]

In no particular order...

Man with no name trilogy

The Company of Wolves

Amelie

Let The Right One In

Young Frankenstein

Hobo With A Shotgun

Kill Bill (yeah, I know)

[The Cosh]

Favourite soundtrack: Until the End of the World. Really just a load of great songs all mashed together after the fashion of a Tarantino soundtrack but primarily contemporary rather than nostalgic.

Favourite score: Ghost Dog.

[Misanthrope]

Dredd (2012)

[Beaky Smoochies]

Ah, the mighty Conan the Barbarian soundtrack, the late and great Basil Poledouris, he of the equally mighty RoboCop and Starship Troopers soundtracks, gone but definitely not forgotten...