Favorite Movie Sountracks

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Posted by Titus2_1

Then when I thought about it some more I realised that just about every 2nd or 3rd movie steals Handel's Hallelujah Chorus (no matter how inappropriate the action on screen at the time), so I guess that would make Handel the greatest movie composer ever....

Got that right. Hmm ... I was watching a car commercial the other day and could swear I heard Mozart's "Requiem" in the background. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the car's safety features.

 

[Grammy1013]

Originally posted by Smoke_Eater:

I've always liked "The Wall", but is it still a soundtrack if the album came before the movie?[/QB]

Yeah, I think it's still a soundtrack, although I wouldn't call that a movie .... it's more like the world's longest Music Video.

I have to say I still like that one, too ... even bought the video.

 

[stubbornboy]

wow you got all this old ost.ok mine since their been a discussion of harry potter and all this dark stuff i like crow soundtrack.

 

[stubbornkelly]

Top 5? Since we seem to be puttering around between soundtracks, scores and musicals, I'll list my top five lists of each, in no particular order.

top 5 soundtracks:
Pulp Fiction
Mambo Kings
Bridges of Madison County (never saw the movie, never wanted to. the book was horrible, but the music was fabulous)
Eyes Wide Shut (half soundtrack, half score)
The Matrix

top 5 scores:
Heathers
Little Women - 1994 Winona Ryder version
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
The Mission
I'm also going to cop out and just say "almost anything by John Williams" -- seems to be a theme

top 5 stage musicals:
Tommy
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (actually made for a pretty good movie, too, but I like the stage production better)
Chicago
toss up: Company or She Loves Me

top 5 operas:
The Consul
Carmen
Lucia di Lammermoor
Pelleas et Melisande
La Boheme

top 5 operettas:
The Pirates of Penzance
Sweeney Todd
Miss Saigon
The Merry Widow
The Mikado

top 5 movie musicals:
The Sound of Music
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (put here because I like it better than any version of The Rocky Horror Show I've seen on stage)
Moulin Rouge (technically operetta, but . . . )
My Fair Lady

 

[A Fiery Fundamentalist]

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Heiress
4. The Greatest Story Ever Told*
5. Lawrence of Arabia*

*I do not endorse the movie itself, but I like the soundtrack.