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Mine is Gladiator. The Disney Tarzan soundtrack is great too. What are your favorite soundtracks?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Tron 2. Daft Punk without lyrics is perfect for me.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Oh Brother Where Art Thou is a good one.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

A few of my favs, in no particular order:

  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  • Tron: Legacy
  • Oblivion
  • Gladiator
  • Star Wars (especially Episode I)
  • Interestellar
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  • Cosmos
  • Blade Runner

Vangelis, enough said.

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Trainspotting
Hackers
Atomic Blonde
Go
Grease
The Big Lebowski
The Crow
Mary Poppins

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dune (1984)

The Fifth Element

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Toto’s Dune score is objectively amazing, and also that one Brian Eno track was perfect. Good pick.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Either Pulp Fiction or Judgment Night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Judgement Night is awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fuck yeah. Soundtrack is better than the movie. Lol

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A few that spring to mind...

Vertigo
Psycho
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
All 3 LOTR films
Star Wars OT
Indiana Jones (especially Raiders)
The Sweet Smell of Success

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I remember the Twin Peaks movie having the Cherubini requiem. Awesome stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, I never knew what that piece was. It's fantastic though, a perfect fit along with all of Badalamenti and Lynch's music.

My particular favourite is the weird drone of The Pink Room, turned up loud, but it's all good!

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  • Lock stock and two smoking barrels
  • o’ brother where art thou
  • tron (daft punk)
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  • Tron by Draft Punk
  • Lord of the Ring
  • Interstellar
  • The Graduate
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Footloose are probably my favorites of all time. It's really hard to find soundtracks with a better collection of absolutely amazing songs imo.

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Escape from New York.

Oldboy.

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My favorite is the soundtrack to Princess Mononoke, composed by Joe Hisaishi.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Koyaanisqatsi
Solaris (the remake)
Whiplash
Broken Flowers
The Fountain
Pirates ot Caribbean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Props for Koyaanisqatsi

I too like subjecting my neighbors to hours of Philip Glass albums.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like whiplash is cheating but you right lol

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Pump Up The Volume

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The score for Star Trek II: the wrath of khan is absolutely amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers' works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.

Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.

And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Already lots of LOTR & Tron: Legacy here. Not seeing much love for animated film scores, so on that note & in no particular order:

  • How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, 1 is personal favorite
  • Kung Fu Panda trilogy, 2 is ~~so fucking good oh my god~~ personal favorite
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Spirited Away
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  • The Super Mario Movie
  • Finding Nemo
  • Up

A couple of these have great soundtracks, too, but I do love a good score.

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Terminator 2 Theme

Not sure if "favorite", I can't recall every soundtrack I've heard, but definitely one of my top favorites and the first I thought of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You Could be Mine was the perfect choice for the moped scene.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Animatrix. It's been in my regular listening rotation for probably over 15 years now.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Not a movie but all 3 Beastars openings sound so good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

To Live and Die in LA by Wang Chung is another great one that hasn't been mentioned yet

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Into the wild

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Tron Legacy

The Crow

Shrek 2

Sucker Punch

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Tron Legacy.

One of the few soundtracks I can listen from front to back.

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Gross Pointe Blank

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Bad Company (Trevor Rabin)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
Star Trek 2009 (Michael Giacchino)
The Mask Of Zorro (James Horner)

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Haven’t seen anyone mention Cinema Paradiso or The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Both are wildly different. Ennio Morricone is a genius.

There’s also The Incredibles - Michael Giacchino The Greatest Showman - Various Artists
Saving Private Ryan - John Williams
The Prince of Egypt - Hans Zimmer
The Gospel of John - Jeff Dann (great middle eastern vibe)

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Last Samurai is super chill

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A few I did not see in the thread yet,

  • Repo Man (1984)
  • Jungle Book (1967)
  • The Harder They Come (1972)
  • This is England (2006)
  • Super Fly (1972)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So many good ones, I don't know how to choose.

  • Interstellar 55555 (slightly cheating)
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Green Knight
  • The Girl With All the Gifts
  • Dune (the original)
  • Densha Otoko
  • Spirited Away
  • Dark Knight
  • Interstellar
  • The Last of Us (game and show)
  • Innocent Venus
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Fight Club.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Gladiator (that battle tune is timeless) Gone in 60 seconds Human Traffic Snatch & Lock Stock Guardians of the Galaxy I am Sam Magnolia

All make regular appearances.

Hotline Miami, Doom and Sim City are game OSTs that also get a lot of play time. Honourable mentions for Dark Reign, Spirit Farer and This War of Mine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Kill Bill Volume 2! And I like the Carol (2015) soundtrack (totally not a lesbian).

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