Best Movie Scores

[leemajors]

Saturday Night Fever!! Chicago!!

sound of music.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Basil Poledouris does good work, his scores for Conan the barbarian and Conan the Destroyer are pretty good.

[shelshor]

I like John Williams

I think Jerry Goldsmith is underrated, he did films such as:
Most of the Star Trek films
Patton
Planet Of The Apes
The Waltons (TV seriess)
Chinatown
The Omen
Alien
Total Recall
The Mummy

just to name a few.

Goldsmith is severely underrated--he has over 200 scores to his credit:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000025/

Another underrated, and overlooked, composer is Elmer (no relation to Leonard) Bernstein; also with over 200 credits
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000930/

well i forgot to mention them, but ennio morricone is the best imo, hands down. once upon a time in the west (man with a harmonica is sublime), the man with no name "trilogy," and countless other movies. the collection "the legendary Italian westerns" (pretty comprehensive) is on my iPod and a staple for listening. what's amazing is he never won an oscar.

edit: "has" never won, he's still alive and kicking at 78.

And almost 500 more scores in genres across the movie spectrum
The Academy did give him one of those "honorary" Oscars for his contributions earlier this year
http://imdb.com/name/nm0001553/

[L.I.T]

well i forgot to mention them, but ennio morricone is the best imo, hands down. once upon a time in the west (man with a harmonica is sublime), the man with no name "trilogy," and countless other movies. the collection "the legendary Italian westerns" (pretty comprehensive) is on my iPod and a staple for listening. what's amazing is he never won an oscar.

edit: "has" never won, he's still alive and kicking at 78.

I agree completely. Morricone has created some of the finest scores in cinematic history. Top to bottom, his work is amazing, and what's great is that he really doesn't have a 'signature' style; especially with how prolific he is. He was given an honorary I think.

[The Red Hood]

Let not forget

Last of the Mohicans
King Arthur
Xmen3 (movie was crap but score was cool)

pretty much any Hans Zimmer is good

HANZ is ING BAD ASS he is developing a Batman and Joker theme as we speak

[Ronaldo McDonald]

requiem for a dream score is great.
Danny Elfman is awesome in ESH, NBC.
Although an average movie, road to perdition has a great score.
Forest Gump has some great music in it.
Schindlers list is awesome - first song i learned on my violin
Enemy at the gates has awesome music also (it's funny how the main theme is almost exactly the Schindler's List one)

[leemajors]

i'm also a fan of the amelie score, not sure who did it.

edit: yann tiersen.

[1369]

Repo Man

[Shelly]

Any 80s teen flick....Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, Some Kind of Wonderful.

John Hughes always put great songs in his movies.

[1369]

Any 80s teen flick....Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, Some Kind of Wonderful.

John Hughes always put great songs in his movies.

You forgot St. Elmo's Fire

Add in Valley Girl

[sabar]

I don't remember specific movies, but I like Harry Gregson-Williams and Joe Hisaishi's work.

[BeerIsGood!]

[ATRAIN]

Basil Poledouris does good work, his scores for Conan the barbarian and Conan the Destroyer are pretty good.

Yeah Basil did Starship Troopers as well, I have the extended one . I love that movie.

[ATRAIN]

HANZ is ING BAD ASS he is developing a Batman and Joker theme as we speak

Sweet, I heard that they are making the Joker to look really wicked!! Here is the new Bat-suit (looks the same to me)

http://www.comingsoon.net/images/batmannewsuit.jpg

[MrChug]

I'm voting for the guy who invented:

"BOW-CHIK-A-BOW-BOW"

...or any variation thereof. You guys are pointing out scores for ONE movie. That dude composed the "score" for not only ALL adult movies of that time but of that ERA