Which movie(s) do you think has the best soundtrack?
I think American Psycho has a good soundtrack and I listen to it occasionaly.
The Fifth Element is probably the only soundtrack I have ever bought. The diva’s aria is AMAZING!
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Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction / Kill Bill
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Stand By Me
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Dirty Dancing
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The Lost Boys
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Forrest Gump, hands down.
The blade runner soundtrack is my go to relax soundtrack. Have listened to it thousands of times by now.
No one mentioned Donnie Darko yet? Fanatic soundtrack.
Shrek 2, unironically
Also Sucker Punch and Tron Legacy
The Abyss really does something for me, can’t quite put my finger on it
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has a fantastic soundtrack. Can really push a system to its limits.
Thank you for so many suggestions! Honestly, I didn’t know most of them.
For anyone who are too bothered to read the entire comment section, here’s the list
List
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- Forest Gump
- Legion (show)
- Westworld
- Good Will Hunting
- E.T.
- Jurassic Park
- Indiana Jones
- Birdman
- 28 Days Later
- Trainspotting
- Garden State
- Once upon a time the west
- Blade runner
- Yellow Submarine
- The Muppet Movie
- School of Rock
- The Village
- Amelie
- Pride and Prejudice
- Shutter Island
- The Piano
- Reservoir Dogs
- Blues Brothers
- From Dusk til Dawn
- Gladiator
- Dump and Dumber
- Romeo and Juliet
- Pulp Fiction
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Help!
- Purple Rain
- La Boum
- Fame and The Kids from Fame
- The wackness
- Vertigo
- North by Northwest
- Psycho
- Ultraman Rising
- The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
- Desparado
- Conan the Barbarian
- The Fountain
- Grosse Point Blank
- Donnie Darko
- Reservoir Dogs
- Kill Bill
- Stand By Me
- Dirty Dancing
- The Lost Boys
- Hackers
- Summer Wars
- Kikujiros Summer
- Dunkirk
- Inception
- Desert Rose
- American Beauty
- Easy rider
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Matrix
- Interstellar
- Requiem for a dream
- Tenet
- Independence Day
- Garden State
- The Crow
- Pacific Rim
- The Decline of Western Civilization
- Schindler’s List
- Rogue One
- Dunkirk
- Judgement Night
- Full Metal Jacket
- Varsity Blues
- Oppenheimer
- Atomic Blonde
- Dazed and Confused
- Spawn
- Ransom
- Lord of the Rings
- Empire Records
- Get Shorty
- The Big Lebowski
- Buried
- A Knight’s Tale
- Pretty in Pink
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Third Man
- The Mission
- Dred
- Redline
- Tombstone
- Almost Famous
Let me know if I’m missing something
Tron Legacy, but that’s cheating as it’s essentially a Daft Punk music video.
The grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then. One day. I got in…
and then it BEAMS
The Game has changed, Son of Flynn!
One of my favorite
But to be honest: Its a good music video
Sadly not a good movie, though.
The Matrix
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Forest Gump+1 for The Matrix. I once watched the film at a theater where the music was played live by an orchestra. One of my favorite movie experiences of all time. The soundtrack is incredible.
O Brother is great for some classic folk.
- Pirates of the Caribbean (personally, At World’s End has the best, Hans Zimmer)
- The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)
- Gravity (Steven Price)
- Tron Legacy (Daft Punk)
- Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
- Harry Potter (can only speak to the ones by John Williams)
- Braveheart (James Horner)
- The Matrix (Don Davis)
- Interstellar
- Jaws
- Smokey and the Bandit
- The Way
More general answer than you expected, but…
I really like when the sound design in movies makes sense - it “plays” in radio, gramophone…
For example “Black hole sun” cover in first episode of Westworld is just brilliant and caught me off guard (I didn’t know what it is about).
The adjective for this type of music is “diegetic”. That’s sound which is occurring and audible in-universe, not just to the audience.
My favourite example of this is in Grosse Point Blank, when the GNR cover of Live and Let Die is playing non-diagetically, right until the moment Martin walks into the store, and suddenly a cheesy muzak version of it is playing over the shop radio. It’s beautifully done :-)
TIL, thanks.
Haven’t watched it yet, but I love Black Hole Sun. I’ll definately check it out
If you don’t know anything about Westworld - don’t read reviews…
The mindfuck from the first season is worth it when you go blind in to it. The soundtrack is making the vibe of it even more disturbing/disorienting.
Birdman. Just drums. Really fucking good drums. Also they appear in the middle of one scene in an excellent way.
Also: not a movie, but Cowboy Bebop. Lots and lots of great tracks.
Once upon a time the west. (Ennio Morricone)
Blade runner (Vangelis)
