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NFT: Your favorite movie orchestral themes

DC Gmen Fan : 6/27/2024 4:03 pm
Among the obvious John Williams and Hans Zimmer staples, I find this one to be tremendously moving and inspirational.


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The Sting used Scott Joplins famous piece, The Entertainer.  
Ira : 6/27/2024 4:15 pm : link
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I'll tell you one . . .  
3000_MilesToMeadowlands : 6/27/2024 4:23 pm : link
The organ music by Hans Zimmer for Interstellar, especially the spinning docking sequence by Cooper (McConaughey) after Mann (Matt Damon) fails at docking his craft and causes and uncontrolled spin of the main ship.

"Come on Tars!!!"

John Williams has been a staple for me for as long as I can remember,  
Angel Eyes : 6/27/2024 5:13 pm : link
Zimmer is an acquired taste (more Pearl Harbor, not Batman v. Superman). And then there's Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings), Jerry Goldsmith (per the OP, also like Goldsmith's score for The Mummy (1999)), and James Horner (Apollo 13 and The Mask of Zorro are my favorites.
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I've always found...  
Russ in NH (formerly Queens) : 6/27/2024 6:16 pm : link
...the soundtrack to the old Robert DeNiro movie The Mission to be insanely moving.
The Last Of The Mohicans...  
JCin332 : 6/27/2024 9:07 pm : link
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RE: The Last Of The Mohicans...  
eric2425ny : 6/27/2024 11:33 pm : link
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Good choice. Danny Elfman has been strong with Batman and Edward Scissorhands.

On the Hans Zimmer resume, The Thin Red Line and Inception are phenomenal.
First one that comes to mind is Trevor Rabin’s  
CMc in 342 : 6/27/2024 11:42 pm : link
from Remember the Titans. Been used as background music on many occasions including several closing ceremonies at the Olympics as well as the last game tribute at Shea Stadium. He has become quite prodigious in the movies. First took notice when he did his stint with Yes.
Remember the Titans Score  
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Conan the Barbarian  
Ron from Ninerland : 6/28/2024 12:04 am : link
Written by the late Basil Poliduras
James Horner, Glory and Braveheart  
widmerseyebrow : 6/28/2024 10:00 am : link
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Fury Road's score is pretty incredible too  
widmerseyebrow : 6/28/2024 10:02 am : link
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I have to give a shout out to Alexandre Desplat  
SteelGiant : 6/28/2024 10:47 am : link
To name some
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
He does a lot of Wes Anderson movies
Also Imitation Game,Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,The Kings Speech.

Lots of good stuff by him.
RE: The Last Of The Mohicans...  
moze1021 : 6/28/2024 10:49 am : link
In comment 16544698 JCin332 said:
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Great call..


Another one I bet is unerrated:

Oblivion (Tom Cruise movie)... fantastic score
And with The Leftovers not being a movie and it being his main credit.  
moze1021 : 6/28/2024 10:53 am : link
Max Richter tracks always crush it in movie scores.
Zimmer..  
Racer : 6/28/2024 11:12 am : link
...'Man of Steel', 'Crimson Tide'. All of the Nolan 'Batman' films but the ending credits for 'The Dark Knight' and 'Rise' from the finale stand out.

Kamen's 'Band of Brothers', and also the work he did on 'From the Earth to the Moon'.

Special mention 'Battlestar Galactica', Bear McCreary

I am really enjoying 'Masters of the Air' by Black Neely lately.
And agree with the OP.  
Racer : 6/28/2024 11:14 am : link
'First Contact' is a classic.

'Stealing the Enterprise' track from STIII is on my favorites list.

I could never study to music with lyrics so my sountrack collection became massive early on.
The Mission  
section302 : 6/28/2024 11:24 am : link
soundtrack is my favorite - composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by Ennio Moricone. Morricone also did the music for all those spaghetti westerns and a host of other movies thru the years.
Oh sorry "Track" not "Score"  
moze1021 : 6/28/2024 11:36 am : link
My list:

Last of Mohicans - Promentory - Trevor Jones

Arrival - On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter (which I guess disqualified the composer of the score, Johan Johannsson, from Academy Award contention since it wasnt original for the movie)

Oblivion - Waking Up - M83






Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore  
HMunster : 6/28/2024 11:36 am : link
His score for all three films made really elevated them to a whole other level. Probably my favorite score of all time.
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Named Later : 6/28/2024 12:04 pm : link
I'm old school, and I go back to Elmer Bernstein's score for the Magnificent Seven.

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Amadeus.  
Crispino : 6/28/2024 12:38 pm : link
Some dude named Mozart.😀
Copland  
bluefin : 6/28/2024 2:23 pm : link
Our Town
The Third Man  
TJ : 6/29/2024 10:09 am : link
I always enjoy the Anton Karas zither score whenever I watch this.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 6/29/2024 10:19 am : link
'Jurassic Park', 'JFK', & 'Dances with Wolves' first come to mind for me.
How to Train Your Dragon  
JohnF : 6/29/2024 1:28 pm : link
by John Powell is a Epic masterpiece.

Oh, and anything by 2 Steps From Hell (Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix). "Invincible", "Archangel", "BattleCry", "Unleashed', "Sun" and "Illusions" are amazing
The Magnificent Seven, Never on Sunday and second The Last of the  
gtt350 : 6/29/2024 1:41 pm : link
Mohegans, also Exodus
Also Ben Hur was stirring  
gtt350 : 6/29/2024 1:42 pm : link
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The Terminator 2 theme  
SimpleMan : 6/29/2024 2:22 pm : link
is badass.
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Many great calls so far, esp Mohicans  
j_rud : 6/29/2024 3:37 pm : link
Adagio for Strings is a conspicuous absence. It's use in Platoon might be my favorite use of classical music in film.
Gladiator  
RasputinPrime : 6/29/2024 3:54 pm : link
The Mission
Interstellar
Chariots of Fire was strong.  
nygiantfan : 6/30/2024 9:37 am : link
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Now for TV scores,  
Angel Eyes : 7/1/2024 2:56 pm : link
the first TV score that I really remember listening to in earnest was Barry Gray's score for Thunderbirds.
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