re: greatest movie scores

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Last of the mohicans

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This one had some power.

I love John Williams for scoring movies. Most of my favorite movie scores are his.

Star Wars
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List (that violin solo.....)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
JFK

Other scores that are not by Williams that I think are wonderful are:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Purple Rain
Crazy Heart (Jeff Bridges is superb)

this market is cornered

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Wars (the version of the original score they play during the trench run...epic)

Empire Strikes Back (hands down the best, built upon the original score but added the iconic "imperial march", and my personal favorite was boba fett's music in cloud city.)

Jurassic Park

E.T.

Gladiator

Jaws

Temple of Doom

Halloween (and to think john carpenter came up with this himself on a piano with a couple of keys)

The Phantom Menace (it's too bad the movie sucked because the score was crazy good, better than jedi)

The Dark Knight

there are so many, but really John Williams owns this category and Hans Zimmer is his robin


now if we're including musicals, then the Wizard of Oz gets on here easily. Other scores I love

To Kill a Mockingbird
Ghostbusters
Batman
Gone with the Wind
Psycho
Lawrence of Arabia

I agree with the classics mentioned.

For an honorable mention that isn't truly a score, I'd add Friday Night Lights by Explosions in the Sky. Though some was adapted from a prior album and there are a couple of other songs in the movie, the original/adapted work undoubtedly set the tone for that movie and carried into the TV series as well.

The Bourne Identity

Conan the Barbarian. Every song fits perfectly with the movie. Only The Mission soundtrack is more integral to the movie than Conan.

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Conan the Barbarian.

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Holy shite, how did I forget this one? Yes. This is the winner. Just hearing the Anvil of Crom makes me want to crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of the women.

Hans Zimmer -

Inception
Pirates Of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Da Vinci Code
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
The Last Samurai
Lion King
Prince of Egypt

John Williams -

Schindler's List
Jurassic Park
Harry Potter
Star Wars
Jaws
Hook
E.T.

Ennio Morricone -

A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Once Upon A Time In The West


Just to name a few from my top 3 composers.

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