Best Movie Scores/Soundtracks

Submitted by directorspen on Sat, 10/04/2003 - 10:02
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  • Amelie

  • American Beauty

  • Amistad

  • Anatomy of a Murder

  • Apollo 13

  • A Beautiful Mind

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  • Donnie Darko

  • Double Indemnity

  • Empire of the Sun

  • ET: the Extraterrestrial

  • Fight Club

  • Finding Nemo

  • Fried Green Tomatoes

  • Gangs of New York

  • Garden State

  • Gladiator

  • Goodfellas

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  • The Graduate (thanks to Rushmore)

  • The Green Mile

  • The Horse Whisperer

  • The Ice Storm

  • Jaws

  • Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2

  • Little Women

  • A Mighty Wind

  • Monsoon Wedding

  • My Neighbor Totoro (minus the opening and closing songs)

  • Once Upon a Time in America

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

  • Peter Pan (2003)

  • Pieces of April

  • Psyco

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Rabbit-Proof Fence

  • Reservoir Dogs

  • Road to Perdition

  • Roger Dodger

  • The Royal Tenenbaums

  • Seven Samurai

  • Shawshank Redemption

  • Signs

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

  • Star Wars: All

  • Taxi Driver

  • This is Spinal Tap

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Unbreakable

  • The Village

  • Yojimbo

grizham110/20/2003

Donnie Darko and 2001 both have wondeful soundtracks two of the best, Pulp Fiction as well.

JoeGraham11/11/2003

Resevoir Dogs? Maybe?

osirisdean11/13/2003

...do you mean soundtrack as in collection of music by random artists, or the movie's score done by a composer? i can never tell, and people never seem to specify.

if it's the collection of songs youre after, my vote(s) would go to batman returns, donnie darko, pulp fiction, natural born killers, and o brother where art thou.

if you're talking movie scores... jurassic park and star wars (john williams), crimson tide (hans zimmer), batman (danny elfman), conan the destroyer (basil poledoris), american beauty and shawshank redemption (thomas newman), toy story (randy newman)

...and ill throw in the dust brother's work on fight club for good measure. not spectacular, but i guess it fit the movie well enough for me to like it.

:-)
o.d.

directorspen11/14/2003

I think most of my choices on this list are the score, some are the various artists. Donnie Darko for various and score. I'm not sure Pulp Fiction has a score and a few others might be for various artists.

tickytock02/17/2004

Good list! I would suggest adding Lord of the Rings (all three are awesome, by Howard Shore) and Annie. I love Annie.

xfanatic5005/08/2004

You can't have a list like this without Moulin Rouge or The Royal Tenenbaums. Both are amazing, both in the various songs and in the original stuff. The Cold Mountain soundtrack is excellent as well.

AAA05/08/2004

I most decidely concur with both suggestions. The Royal Tenenbaums has really hit it big among the teens I know. Nearly single-handedly brought Nico back from rock critic obscurity.

directorspen05/08/2004

I wasn't even thinking of various artist soundtracks (besides Reservoir Dogs), I was mostly thinking of scores, but Royal Ts has one of my favorite various artist soundtracks.

Rushmore07/08/2004

Check out 'Grosse pointe blank' its a killer soundtrack

lukeprog09/01/2004

Cool list! I'm partial to Koyaanisqatsi and Truman Show.

Rushmore09/25/2004

"The Graduate" Has a great soundtrack

directorspen09/25/2004

Yes it does, I had forgotten about it.

Rushmore10/02/2004

"Rushmore" has aldo a great soundtrack.

Also "Grosse pointe Blank"

directorspen10/02/2004

I'll have to rewatch Rushmore as I didn't like it too much the first time I watched it. I loved the Tenenbaum's soundtrack, so I'm sure Rushmore's is good. Haven't seen Grosse Pointe Blank.

lenin12/16/2004

I would add Trainspotting, Rushmore and Goodwill Hunting

directorspen12/16/2004

I recall trainspotting having a good soundtrack, but I don't exactly remember it...and I saw it recently. So much for my memory. I'll have to hear it again soon. I checked out Rushmore from my library and will watch it within a week and see if I like the soundtrack. Haven't seen or heard anything from Goodwill Hunting so that will be in the queue to hear.

allegheny02/24/2005

I thought Last of The Mohicans had an awesome score? Easy Rider, along with its cinematography, is largely blessed by it's soundtrack. Otherwise the story is a little ambiguous and some characters are two-dimensional. Jack Nicholson's performance is easily the best in the movie, which is probably the reason why he was nominated for best supporting actor.

jpthompson02/24/2005

My all-time favourites would be The Who's Quadrophenia and the Requiem For A Dream score.