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re: Best/Most powerful instrumental scores in film
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:10 am to skrayper
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:10 am to skrayper
I mean, depends on what you mean by best. The one I associate most with a film? Maybe the theme of Pink Panther or the theme to Beverly Hills Cop.
The best overall score? The Fountain, Sicario, Mohicans, Assassination of Jesse James, Jaws, Psycho, Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Inception, Halloween, Requiem...
The best overall score? The Fountain, Sicario, Mohicans, Assassination of Jesse James, Jaws, Psycho, Empire Strikes Back, Blade Runner, Inception, Halloween, Requiem...
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Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:29 am to skrayper
Last of the Mohicans
Excalibur
Excalibur
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:31 am to Rockbrc
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Excalibur
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:50 am to skrayper
The Shining
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:53 am to skrayper
The docking scene in interstellar is amazing.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 11:54 am to S
Lots of great scores listed in this thread.
Some are very popular and recognizeable.
One that I've always liked, although it might not be as well known as say, Mohicans, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, SWs, etc...
Is the theme from Dune.
Very heavy bass notes.. very powerful and moving.
Some are very popular and recognizeable.
One that I've always liked, although it might not be as well known as say, Mohicans, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, SWs, etc...
Is the theme from Dune.
Very heavy bass notes.. very powerful and moving.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:01 pm to skrayper
Lawrence of Arabia
To Live and Die in LA
To Live and Die in LA
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:14 pm to LoveThatMoney
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The best overall score?
Most powerful individual score. Not a full soundtrack.
If being powerful is associating it directly and that's what it means to you, go for it - though I was thinking more of the music eliciting the appropriate emotion.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:15 pm to skrayper
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The Imperial March
....and that is the ringtone used to let me know my ex-wife is calling.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:37 pm to skrayper
No movie gets more out of a soundtrack than Conan the Barbarian. Every scene in the movie from start to finish is elevated by the score.
I guess an argument can be made for The Mission because music is intertwined with the plot.
I guess an argument can be made for The Mission because music is intertwined with the plot.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:37 pm to skrayper
Time - Hans Zimmer
That's my jam.
That's my jam.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 12:42 pm to LewDawg
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis -- arse. of Jesse James, Hell or High Water are exceptional
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:07 pm to JW
Schindlers list
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:17 pm to skrayper
The ecstasy of gold - the good the bad and the ugly
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:25 pm to JumpingTheShark
Ennio Morricone's work in the Eastwood trilogy. From sparse guitar work in Fistful to the almost operatic crescendo in The Good...Ugly.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:26 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:Great work but I think The Mission is his masterpiece.
Ennio Morricone's work in the Eastwood trilogy.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:28 pm to skrayper
IMO, How to Train Your Dragon has one of the best scores in cinema history.
Test Drive is epic.
The entire LOTR trilogy by Howard Shore should be enshrined in the Smithsonian.
Test Drive is epic.
The entire LOTR trilogy by Howard Shore should be enshrined in the Smithsonian.
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:30 pm to ThuperThumpin
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Tron Legacy
Second this
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:30 pm to skrayper
Steve Jablonsky's work from the first Transformers movie.
Shame it was wasted on that film and not used for something more Gladiator type epic-ness.
Shame it was wasted on that film and not used for something more Gladiator type epic-ness.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 1:44 pm to TejasHorn
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Best: Out of Africa
The track "I Had a Farm in Africa" is about as beautiful and sweeping a piece of movie music as I've ever heard.
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Most "powerful": Star Wars Imperial March
I would add "Main on End" from Avengers: Endgame, particularly the end climax where they show the original six Avengers over the end credits.
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