The Abyss really does something for me, can’t quite put my finger on it
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Shrek 2, unironically
Also Sucker Punch and Tron Legacy
For me the criteria is: would the movie be very different with another soundtrack. The below offerings truly elevate their movies imo.
Tron Legacy
Blade Runner
Black Panther
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Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction / Kill Bill
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Stand By Me
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Dirty Dancing
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The Lost Boys
Forrest Gump, hands down.
The blade runner soundtrack is my go to relax soundtrack. Have listened to it thousands of times by now.
No one mentioned Donnie Darko yet? Fanatic soundtrack.
Hackers
The prodigy!
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a fantastic soundtrack. Can really push a system to its limits.
Tron Legacy, but that's cheating as it's essentially a Daft Punk music video.
The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then. One day. I got in...
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The Matrix soundtrack is amazing
American Beauty.
It's the most autumn sounding OST I know, super moody.
Can't believe no-one mentioned The Crow..
It can’t rain all the time.
The Matrix
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Forest Gump
O Brother is great for some classic folk.
+1 for The Matrix. I once watched the film at a theater where the music was played live by an orchestra. One of my favorite movie experiences of all time. The soundtrack is incredible.
- Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, At World's End has the best, Hans Zimmer)
- The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
- Gravity (Steven Price)
- Tron Legacy (Daft Punk)
- Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
- Harry Potter (can only speak to the ones by John Williams)
- Braveheart (James Horner)
- The Matrix (Don Davis)
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Rogue One. First time I saw it I was sure no one could hold a candle to John Williams. Then I watched it again and the way Michael Giacchino uses a half-step to underline the theme of hope gives me chills just remembering it.
Thank you for so many suggestions! Honestly, I didn't know most of them.
For anyone who are too bothered to read the entire comment section, here's the list
List
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Forest Gump
- Legion (show)
- Westworld
- Good Will Hunting
- E.T.
- Jurassic Park
- Indiana Jones
- Birdman
- 28 Days Later
- Trainspotting
- Garden State
- Once upon a time the west
- Blade runner
- Yellow Submarine
- The Muppet Movie
- School of Rock
- The Village
- Amelie
- Pride and Prejudice
- Shutter Island
- The Piano
- Reservoir Dogs
- Blues Brothers
- From Dusk til Dawn
- Gladiator
- Dump and Dumber
- Romeo and Juliet
- Pulp Fiction
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Help!
- Purple Rain
- La Boum
- Fame and The Kids from Fame
- The wackness
- Vertigo
- North by Northwest
- Psycho
- Ultraman Rising
- The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
- Desparado
- Conan the Barbarian
- The Fountain
- Grosse Point Blank
- Donnie Darko
- Reservoir Dogs
- Kill Bill
- Stand By Me
- Dirty Dancing
- The Lost Boys
- Hackers
- Summer Wars
- Kikujiros Summer
- Dunkirk
- Inception
- Desert Rose
- American Beauty
- Easy rider
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Matrix
- Interstellar
- Requiem for a dream
- Tenet
- Independence Day
- Garden State
- The Crow
- Pacific Rim
- The Decline of Western Civilization
- Schindler's List
- Rogue One
- Dunkirk
- Judgement Night
- Full Metal Jacket
- Varsity Blues
- Oppenheimer
- Atomic Blonde
- Dazed and Confused
- Spawn
- Ransom
- Lord of the Rings
- Empire Records
- Get Shorty
- The Big Lebowski
- Buried
- A Knight's Tale
- Pretty in Pink
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Third Man
- The Mission
- Dred
- Redline
- Tombstone
- Almost Famous
Let me know if I'm missing something
Akira(1988)
The soundtrack compliments the action so well.
real. Geinoh Yamashirogumi elevated that movie beyond "weird mindfuck anime" to an immersive experience.
On the same note, Ghost in the Shell's soundtrack is also a masterwork, though it doesn't have a single stand out track like Kaneda's Theme
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Dazed and Confused
Watched Blade Runner 2049 2 days ago. Had a very good soundtrack but I wouldnt just listen to it just.
Personal favorites:
Tron: Legacy
Pacific Rim
- Spawn
- Baby Driver
- Garden State
- the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Yes, spawn. Amazing.
+1 for Spawn. Such a great soundtrack for a such bad movie.
Oh just my thing.
- Summer Wars
- Kikojiros Summer
- Dunkirk
- Inception
- Desert Rose
I have a lot of these on my shortlist. More series and even way more videogames
The Lord of the Rings
This is Howard Shore's Magnum opus. It's what distinguishes this movie as more than just a great adaptation. His use of themes to represent not only races and kingdoms but characters, objects (like the One Ring, of course), and even concepts is a level above most movie soundtracks. There are even elements of storytelling through the music!
For example, the first time we hear the theme for Gondor is when Boromir is in Rivendell. Since he's more or less alone, the theme is played by a single French Horn in a somber (almost tragic) style. In Return of the King, we see Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor, in all its glory, and so the full orchestra plays the theme.
One more: As the Fellowship begins to break down, so too does the theme. We go from heroic phrases to shorter, interrupted instances. There's a book about the soundtrack written by Doug Adams. I highly recommend it if you're interested!
More general answer than you expected, but...
I really like when the sound design in movies makes sense - it "plays" in radio, gramophone...
For example "Black hole sun" cover in first episode of Westworld is just brilliant and caught me off guard (I didn't know what it is about).
The adjective for this type of music is "diegetic". That's sound which is occurring and audible in-universe, not just to the audience.
My favourite example of this is in Grosse Point Blank, when the GNR cover of Live and Let Die is playing non-diagetically, right until the moment Martin walks into the store, and suddenly a cheesy muzak version of it is playing over the shop radio. It's beautifully done :-)
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The Blues Brothers - it's stringing together performances from famous musicians, and the soundtrack was successful as an album in its own right.
I am quite fond of the recent Dune movies' soundtrack. Hans Zimmer can make a good bwowwwum, and a helping of One-Woman-Wailing :tm: also helps
Aside for that I would get into movie musical territory. A much derided subgenre that I adore.
The scene with all the bagpipes (not sure if it was the first or second movie) was badass. Up there with Mad Max guitar guy for cool film uses of instruments.
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I was just watching Tenet last night and the music kind of took me out of it sometimes because I was like, “Fuck, that music sounds awesome”, though not sure how well it will stand on its own, I’ve not tried that yet.
Birdman. Just drums. Really fucking good drums. Also they appear in the middle of one scene in an excellent way.
Also: not a movie, but Cowboy Bebop. Lots and lots of great tracks.
Easy rider
Bohemian Rhapsody
Once upon a time the west. (Ennio Morricone)
Blade runner (Vangelis)
Yeah American Psycho does have a good soundtrack. Eyes Without a Face is great.
My vote is for Interstellar or some of the other Hans Zimmer ones
A few not listed:
- The Crow
- Empire Records
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Get Shorty
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- ~~Pulp Fiction~~ (listed elsewhere)
Swingers has a great oldies/crooner soundtrack.
- Schindler's List
- Requiem for a Dream
- Independence Day
I know you said movies, but a soundtrack for a show I'm hooked on currently is Legion (FX/Marvel, on Hulu). The whole entire show has an amazing cast to begin with, but Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek Discovery, more) and Noah Hawley put together one hell of a score. I highly recommend it and the show.
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The Decline of Western Civilization
Batman Forever
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