Posted on 09/18/2004 6:39:32 PM PDT by StACase
What's the best movie music of all time? John Williams and Star Warsor all the hits from Chicagohow about Joplin's rags from The Sting or the opening scene from 2001? I know I like the renditions of the Navy Hymn from The Perfect Storm you have to be hard hearted not to get a lump in your throat during that scene, and the rendition in The Crimson Tide. So Drama, musicals, Comedies, chick flicks, westerns, SciFi, etc. which movie has the best music? What's your vote?
Lonesome Dovealso, rates pretty high, in my estimation.
Come out and plaaaay.
Yeah, I got married about that time, and Lara's Theme from Dr Zhivgo was "Our Song" But The Good The Bad and Ugly has it beat!
Dove also. (proof read)
Well, if we can count stage musicals made into movies then I have to pick Jesus Christ Superstar.
And I have to pick Randy Newman. So many choices, but that intro song to Major League is a much better song about Cleveland than fat Drew Carey's theme song.
Okay, and Lord of the Rings.
So you just popped the Good Bad & Ugly CD in. Well so did I, and that's the reason I put up this thread. Yes, it is by far and away the best ever written. First time I saw it was in a squadron ready room aboard USS America CVA-66. I've loved it ever since!
Yes!
My favorite instance of music with movie action is the music in that scene from "Jaws" when the ORCA is leaving the harbor on its way to hunt the shark. But then it's my favorite movie.
"On the Waterfront" - Bernstein
"An American In Paris" - Gershwin
I have been wracking my brain trying to find out the title of that tune.
TPD
Phillip Kaufman's two movies "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Henry and June."
No doubt in my mind. Beautiful, haunting, evocative of the film's time & era and yet places it distinctly in a very stylized (and fictional) old American West. Very stylish and substantive, and utterly unforgettable.
I'm always impressed by its elegance and beauty. Great great soundtrack. Great great film.
I know a young lady who is a screenwriter and I have told her several times to see TGTB&TU. She doesn't like westerns. "That's ok," I tell her, "it's not just a western. It's a comedy, an action-adventure film, a drama, a war movie...."
It's also one of the best films ever made. Oh well, she won't learn!
For a good litmus test to see who is 'cool' or 'not cool,' I find that people who know that the last 2 tracks of the soundtrack album are 'The Ecstacy of Gold' and 'The Trio,' and can hum the tunes upon polite request, tend to be pretty 'cool!' ;-)
That was my first choice and "O Brother Where Art Thou" was second.
The "Desperado" soundtrack is pretty good, too.
The Excalibur soundtrack is now available on CD.
Hard to find but worth it...:)
Sorry, I didn't see the Full Monty (well, he was on TV today kickin' our US a$$). The song I referred to has been identified as Jerusalem and was sung by a choir in both the movie and the funeral.
P.S. Which one of our Ryder Cup guys are you?
One would have to be truly certifiable in finding amusement from such a topic...
/sarcasm off>....
oh my word HAHAHAHHAHAHAH now YOU are torturing me
and I've been GOOD all day!!!
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