Your Favorite Movie Soundtracks

[Faith Trust & Pixie Dust]

After unpacking our CDs for the umpteenth time, I once again realized how many movie soundtracks we have. I love movies and have often walked out of a theater thinking "the movie was awful/okay but the soundtrack was great!" I have soundtracks from embarrasingly bad movies. I'll name a few of my favorite movie soundtracks
--what are yours?

Love Actually
Peter's Friends
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
The Wedding Singer

[DisneyMomof2]

Saturday Night Fever
Moonstruck
The Breakfast Club
The Wedding Singer
The Body Guard

Disney.... Lilo & Stitch, The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast

[stinkerbell]

I Am Sam.....beautiful Beatles songs, sung by contemporary artists like Sarah McLachlan (her version of Blackbird is one of my all-time favorite songs), Howie Day, Rufus Wainright, etc. Incredible album.

[MrsPooh]

I don't have too many soundtrack CDs. I am picky about CDs and there aren't many that I like the whole CD. Forrest Gump had some great music spanning several decades, I have always said I want to get that one.

One I did buy was Bridges Of Madison County. I love the blues/jazz tracks on it.

Disney: we have Lion King, Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Piglet likes those.

[sdfilmcritic]

There are two types of soundtracks for films: original musical score and compilations. For me the answer to the question would be..

Original Musical Score: anything that was composed by John Williams
Compilations: (tie) Anywhere But Here and Where The Heart Is

[nursemelis374]

There are two types of soundtracks for films: original musical score and compilations. For me the answer to the question would be..

Original Musical Score: anything that was composed by John Williams
Compilations: (tie) Anywhere But Here and Where The Heart Is

You're a nerd, except for the John Williams thing.

[sdfilmcritic]

You're a nerd, except for the John Williams thing.

I am? Why am I a nerd? {scratches head}

[SallySkellington]

Soundtracks I love and own
Nightmare Before Christmas
All soundtracks for the Harry Potter movies

Soundtracks I want to own
Edward Scissorhands
Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2
Pirates of the Caribbean

[nursemelis374]

I am? Why am I a nerd? {scratches head}

Becuase you broke it down into 2 categories.

I mean it in the most loving way though!

[sdfilmcritic]

Becuase you broke it down into 2 categories.

I mean it in the most loving way though!

I lurve you too Mel.

[tod]

• Bernard Herrmann, who John Williams stole from wholesale "studied under": Psycho, Vertigo, Sisters, Taxi Driver, Forbidden Planet, Citizen Kane, the abandoned score for Torn Curtain. The best ever.
• Occasional rarefied John Williams: The trombone part at the end of the theme from Superman, the Elgar rip-off tribute at the end of Star Wars, and it's always fun to play spot-the-Bernard-Herrmann riff and the Pulp Fiction where-did-he-rip-that-off-from? game
• Joel McNeely's eclectic coillection for Radioland Murders
• Alan Price's O Lucky Man!
• Joe Jackson's Tucker: A Man and His Dream

Are the ones that come to mind right now...

--t

[JeffG]

Bernard Herrmann, who John Williams stole from wholesale "studied under"

Huh? Williams style rarely, if ever, even remotely resembles Herrmann's style. He definitely was influenced quite a bit by Korngold, although it is more a stylistic influence than any kind of direct lifts.

-Jeff

[sdfilmcritic]

I forgot about Bernuh Hermun. (I heard a British woman referr to him with that pronunciation.) He's an excellent composer too!

[Merm8fan]

Non-Disney Movie Soundtrack: Say Anything

I have a lot of soundtracks, too. Mostly because there is one great song I want, but never appears on an artist album. (Such as Everybody's All-American) I have many soundtracks that I wear out just one single track on...

[The Lovely Mrs. tod]

"Patton"...Jerry Goldsmith. Always great stuff
George Duning's score for "Picnic."
And my favorite, Richard Rodney Bennett's score for "Murder on the Orient Express."

-TLMt

[Emma]

Love Actually
Little Women (1994)
Chicago
Oliver!
Garden State

[tod]

Huh? Williams style rarely, if ever, even remotely resembles Herrmann's style.

It doesn't resemble Herrmann. Throw your copy of Star Wars into the ol' DVD player, go to chapter 36, and listen carefully when Obi-Wan starts to tippy-toe around the tractor beam controls.

Then go rent a copy of Psycho, (the Alfred Hitchcock version, of course) go to chapter 16 and take it through to about the first minute of chapter 17 and see if you don't see a similarity.

I spotted that particular "influence" in 1977, when Bernard Herrmann had only been dead about a year and a half.

There are others.

--t

[adriennek]

Currently: Lilo & Stitch.

I have had others but my mommy brain fart is forgetting them now.

Adrienne

[sdfilmcritic]

I spotted that particular "influence" in 1977, when Bernard Herrmann had only been dead about a year and a half.

Now this is where critics can really come to a disagreement. Do you think it was a nod to Hermann or a copied piece of creativity on Williams' part?

[Mrs. Newseditor44]

anything by John Williams (can't wait to see him again at the Hollywood Bowl)
Phenomenon
Sleepless in Seattle

[tod]

Now this is where critics can really come to a disagreement. Do you think it was a nod to Hermann or a copied piece of creativity on Williams' part?

You got it.

--t

[Emma]

anything by John Williams (can't wait to see him again at the Hollywood Bowl)
Phenomenon
Sleepless in Seattle

Ooh, I forgot Sleepless in Seattle.

And also Grease.

[scaeagles]

Last of the Mohicans (the one starring Daniel Day Lewis)

[wwithers]

Bridget Jones' Diary
Pulp Fiction

[Javanod]

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou -holds up very well
Phenomenon -recalls the story well
Star Wars, the origional soundtrack -Still brings chills