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)
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Disney's animated Robin Hood - some amazing folk songs, o brother where art thou has a lot of great old timey/folksy songs too
The Third Man - the zither to end all zithers
anything by John Williams or Hans Zimmer for that big epic sound with recurring motifs- star wars, Indiana Jones, interstellar, etc
Baby Driver - lots of variety, the chase sequence with Hocus Pocus by Focus is amazing
The Blues Brothers - not just great blues, tons of soul, motown, etc with a lot of energy
The Guest - parody of '80s action/thriller style movies, soundtrack is lots of electronic & synth, feels a little like a darker version of the Drive soundtrack which is also great
A couple directors that have a very specific sound direction/profiles to them too are Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and John Carpenter.
Soundtrack or score?
Soundtrack: Judgement Night. Paired hip hop artists with rock and metal bands. Biohazard and Onyx fucking tear it up. And Faith No More and Boo Yaa Tribe sounds incredible.
Score: Terminator 2. James Cameron is incredible about quality sound in his films. One of the best directors for sound in the biz.
Beauty and the Beast
But also I recently saw the comedy Bottoms, and thought Charlie XCX did a great job with that soundtrack
Lost Highway with lots of tracks from Angelo Badalamenti.
Monsoon Wedding
Memories of Matsuko and Sakuran.
Buckaroo Banzai
Clerks
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
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- Densha Otoko
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terminator 2
Tron Legacy
The Crow
Shrek 2
Sucker Punch
Fight Club.
Tron 2. Daft Punk without lyrics is perfect for me.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou is a good one.
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- The Good The Bad And The Ugly by Ennio Morricone
Trainspotting
Hackers
Atomic Blonde
Go
Grease
The Big Lebowski
The Crow
Mary Poppins
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
Koyaanisqatsi
Solaris (the remake)
Whiplash
Broken Flowers
The Fountain
Pirates ot Caribbean
Props for Koyaanisqatsi
I too like subjecting my neighbors to hours of Philip Glass albums.
I feel like whiplash is cheating but you right lol
- Lock stock and two smoking barrels
- o’ brother where art thou
- tron (daft punk)
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)
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.
Nausicaa!
X-files.
Amélie
I was a hipster in high school and I used to have Amelie on my iPod classic. Was such a tiny screen. :)
Give it a listen the whole album still hits!
- Cosmos
- Blade Runner
Vangelis, enough said.
The crow
Dune (1984)
The Fifth Element
Toto’s Dune score is objectively amazing, and also that one Brian Eno track was perfect. Good pick.
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
Not a movie but all 3 Beastars openings sound so good
2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I love it.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is my absolute fav.
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
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Kill Bill Volume 2! And I like the Carol (2015) soundtrack (totally not a lesbian).
- Tron by Draft Punk
- Lord of the Ring
- Interstellar
- The Graduate
Animatrix. It's been in my regular listening rotation for probably over 15 years now.
My favorite is the soundtrack to Princess Mononoke, composed by Joe Hisaishi.
Scream 3
Django unchained
American pie
Spiderman into the spider verse
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