Favorite Film Scores?

DickTrickle said:

I'd also recommend work by Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables and The Good, The Bad, The Ugly in particular).

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sukik said:

Not a movie. But Bear McCreary's work on Battlestar Galactica was great.

Battlestar Galactica / Bear McCreary Playlist - YouTube

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Yup, love:

I'll add my 2c for Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL too, but if there's one film composer that doesn't get enough recognition ever since he started working in the west it's Kenji Kawaii.

He actually conducted his score for Ghost In the Shell a few years ago:

dont forget James Horner

Matrix trilogy
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Top Gun
Jurassic Park
Star Trek: Generations
Star Wars ....all of it except Rogue One
Da Vinci Code

I liked moments of The Devil's Advocate's soundtrack:

Philip Glass and Michael Nyman are my go-to guys, but Alexandre Desplat has his moments also:

Also:

There Will Be Blood. Probably by a long shot. Johnny Greenwood ratchets up the tension in otherwise benign scenes. The whole movie has this foreboding quality thanks to it; you can't quite shake the feeling of being on edge the entire time

Already mentioned.

khorum said:

if there's one film composer that doesn't get enough recognition ever since he started working in the west it's Kenji Kawai.

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Working in the west? I know he did Ip Man but idk what other exposure that could have thrust him.

Just gonna throw Joe Hisaishi, was always a go-to study music if I wasn't branching out into non-movie affiliated music.

and Akira Ifukube just being one of the most resonating scores, up there with something like Star Wars with its instantly recognized. Though, for me, slightly plagued with it following with "Get the fuck up"

Not too keen on LOTR's music but hot dang.


Hell or High Water

The Star Wars prequels get a lot of shit (and deserve it), but still, they did give us Duel of the Fates...

The only two that really stick out to me that blew my fucking mind were TRON: Legacy and Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Of course all the SW movies, but those are a given.

Daft Punk fucking killed it bringing emotions and themes to life.

The musical and visual cues in SPvTW were simply out of this world, it was really well done.

A selection of some of the stuff I've been listening to that hasn't been mentioned already, various composers.

Damn 5 media limit.