Favorite Score to a Film

'The Fountain' - Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet [url]http://www.amazon.com/The-Fountain-OST/dp/B0011ZYCZW/ref=tmm_msc_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1323966237&sr=1-1[/url] 'Moon' - Clint Mansell [url]http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B004WHOIKK/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_a_2[/url] 'Donnie Darko' - Michael Andrews [url]http://www.amazon.com/Donnie-Darko-Score-Michael-Andrews/dp/B000V7GFLU/ref=sr_1_1_digr?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1323966176&sr=1-1[/url] 'There Will be Blood' - Johnny Greenwood (of Radiohead) [url]http://www.amazon.com/There-Will-Be-Blood/dp/B001200T8A/ref=tmm_msc_title_0[/url] Some of my favourites of recent times. I don't usually like the more traditional score writers like the ones you have mentioned. I think as a film score their material is far to cliched. Good but completely expected. I like soundtracks that are a bit more edgy & surreal.

-The Last Samurai - Bladerunner -Chocolat - Picnic at hanging rock -many of zimmer ... but not in great movies ( inception , da vinci code , pearl harbour.... the thin red line e dark knight were good ) -many of morricone ( the early ones ) - sunshine - almost all the lord of the rings soundtrack - many of michael kamen ( that i had the pleasure to know )

I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings Score as well. ...Band of Brothers as well for Micheal Kamen

and the Social Network because I really enjoy Trent Reznor's work, especially on the new "Girl with a Dragon tattoo."

I have to say Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien. The most scary music I have ever heard,still cant listen to it with the lights out. Another fave- Brad Fiedel,Terminator 2

Has to be The Lord Of The Rings, All three films, Howard Shore is a genius! Some of this music still makes me cry!

Goldsmith for Alien. Zimmer for TDK

For me... The Dark Knight..and Michael Collins by Goldenthal

Goldsmith for Alien Ennio Morricone for John Carpenters 1982 The Thing. Carmine Coppola for Apocalypse Now Clint Mansell for Moon

Mine was one I cannot remember the name of but it belonged to the film "The Guns OF Navarone" I also really really LOVED the original score for the first AIRPORT film , think it was the best part of that movie too !!! LOL. I also loved the score for Once Upon A Time In The West and Once Upon A Time in America, both directed by my all time fav director Sergio Leone and both were Ennio Morricone creations I think. I loved Hans Zimmer's score for Ridley Scott's "Black Rain" as well, just loved it !!! But 2 of the best all time I ever heard were "The Sting" by Marvin Hamlish and undoubtedly the Theme for JAWS by William Goldman !!!

Frantz you mentioned Michael Kamon One of thing that Kills me is one year Roger Waters did a One Off Concert of "The Pros and Cons Of Hitchhiking album and the 2 guys who played on that album, Eric Clapton and Michale Kamon helped him recreate the exact sound from the album LIVE IN CONCERT, and I missed it !!! KAMON is a freaking musical genius !!!

the kindness of that person surpassed his musical genius ... an awesome human being .

I'd love to know what you do about that guy Frantz, Klaatu Halloween wasn't that bad either...Carpenter is a talented movie score guy as well, not many people know that. 2001; A space odyssey had an awesome score also as did The Exorcist with "Tubular Bells" by Michale Oldfield

I forgot 2001 S.O. !!!! A classic.......and one of the most brilliant films of all time. Also not mentioned yet was The Crow with the late Brandon Lee son of Bruce Lee. The soundtrack was incredible....

I remember "Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman had a FANTASTIC one too by a guy named Michael Small... Check it out !!! THIS IS ONE OF THE TOP 5 "UNSUNG" ALL TIME GREATS AS FAR AS MOVIE SCORES GO. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0_Uap2okg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0_Uap2okg[/url] IS IT SAFE? [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/SAFE.gif[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/marathonman.jpg[/img]

and then there was the score to this film folks... and if you think about it, it was a pure masterpiece !!! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/Carrieposter.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ns5pQF33U]Carrie[/url] you can here some of it by clicking the link underneath the poster the part that sticks out for me is just before the blood gets spilled in the gymnasium there was this buildup music that was incredible !!!

I listen to so much score music so understandably I love a lot.......Mine would be; Duck, You Sucker- Morricone Orca- Morricone Once Upon a Time in the West- Morricone Deep Red- Goblin Suspiria- Goblin The Beyond- Fabio Frizzi Let The Right One In-Johan Söderqvist Martyrs- Sepukku Paradigm The Outer Limits (TV Series)- Dominique Frontier A Name For Evil- Dominique Frontier King Kong(1976)- John Barry Dances WIth Wolves-John Barry El Topo- Alejandro Jodorowsky I guess that is it for what I can think off of the top of my head.

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