As suggested by TexasStar
I'm a huge John Barry fan. I would suggest Body Heat as one of his best. I feel like sweating when I hear it.

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Well with some of Kathleen Turner's scenes I don't doubt it!

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Maybe I'm more the whimsical type or I just like Mark Knopfler. I loved the sound track to Local Hero. (Good movie too!)

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I feel like sweating when I see other things in it.

Seriously, I forgot if I have the DVD. I haven't seen it in a long time. Wasn't one of the lawyers the guy now on "CSI"?
If memory serves, a gun in it looks like a nickled S&W M-36. Might be a Model 60.

Soundtracks that I admire include, "Patton", "The Longest Day, "Out of Africa", and "The Last of the Mohicans." (The 1992 version.)

Mark Knopfler also did Princess Bride, also excellent.

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The soundtrack for Dances With Wolves by John Barry is very nice.

Yes, Ted Danson was the Dancing D.A. in body heat.

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Atticus Ross did a pretty good soundtrack for The Book of Eli.

I also thought the soundtrack in Man on Fire was pretty great, especially with how upbeat some of the music was for the scenes that song was in.

Also, I need to watch the movie again, but I had to laugh when I saw this scene in American Psycho.
American Psycho - Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? - YouTube

My other favorite soundtrack composer was Henry Mancini.
Though he didn't write it you should catch his version of Walk on the Wild Side.

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• The Sea Hawk
• Kings Row
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Goldfinger
• You Only Live Twice
• Our Man Flint
• In Like Flint
• Murderer's Row
• Gladiator
• Last of the Mohicans
• The Enemy Below
• Star Wars
• Patton
• The Warriors

Dang Cmort, I could have written that list myself.
You left out Don Juan.

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But he nailed, "Gladiator", which I should have mentioned. Dang, that's good music!

I believe, "The Sea Hawk" is two words, if it's the movie I have in mind. Did that star Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power? Been awhile since I saw it.

And, "Captain From Castile" with Tyrone Power and Caesar Romero has some good music, inc. the march, "Conquest." I saw that in Latin American History class in high school and loved it. Later found and bought the DVD.

I think it's the only place where you can hear spoken Nahautl, the language of the Aztecs, as Dona Marina/La Mallinalli negotiated with Montezuma's ambassadors. There's some Aztec music, too. Flutes, drums...If you've read the epic, "The Conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Diaz del Castilo, you'll especially enjoy this movie. The book details what the author and his companions on the Cortes expedition endured to achieve their goal. That was among the most remarkable achievements in all of history. I think there's an excellent chance that the Spaniards received Divine assistance. What they did was just incredible!

The Sea Hawks , The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood were all Erich Wolfgang Korngold soundtracks. And all three starred Errol Flynn.

Erich Korngold - The Sea Hawk 1/2 - YouTube


Great soundtracks all of them.

Jack Flash hit on another great soundtrack...Mark Knopflers "Local Hero".

I'll also add most anything done by John Barry or John Williams.

Goldfinger

Jaws

Local Hero

Star Wars

Too many favorites to list.

FN in MT

John Williams - "Conquest" from Captain of Castile (Newman) - YouTube

I found, "Conquest" from, "Captain From Castile." I think it's quite impressive.

The composer was named Alfed Newman. Lived from 1901-1970. Not to be confused with Alfred P. Neumann from Mad Magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guqYe8fzOp0 (performed by an orchestra from USC, which uses the song for its theme in football games.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKThbK-DLD8 Here's the complete main title from the movie.

How about Once upon a time in the west

A few of my ecclectic favorites:

2001 a Space Oddesy

Lion in Winter

Fiddler on the Roof

Jesus Christ Superstar

American Graffiti

Easy Rider

Repo Man

Wayne's World

This is Spinal Tap

Maximum Overdrive

Heavy Metal

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Honeymoon in Vegas

Jackie Brown

Honeysuckle Rose

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One that comes to mind recently would have to be "De-Lovely"
.. All Cole Porter stuff done by some great acts.*

De-Lovely - Movie Trailer - YouTube

~ Don

I'll listen to anything by John Williams

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Amen to that. I listen to it often.

"The Mission".

Korngold, Newman, Knopfler, yes. Some John Williams.

Morricone, absolutely.

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Top Gun
Forrest Gump
O Brother Where Art Thou

These are my favorites

Ennio Morricone, Good, Bad the Ugly. Specifically "Ecstasy of Gold", (I imagine the sound coming from the inside of the Pearly Gates)
and
Once Upon aTime in the West.

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"The Mission"
"Patton"
"Prometheus" - (Outstanding cinematography, but the novie sucked badly)
"2001 - A Space Odyssey"
"Lawrence of Arabia"

Agree with many of above. Thanks!

James Horner, The Mask of Zorro.

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Heavy Metal and Maximum Overdrive are my 2 favorites. I also liked the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou!!

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What, no Magnificent Seven reference yet? Wow.

Plus 1 on franzas re: John Williams. The man's a genius.

I like Zulu and The Right Stuff.

Lots of good ones already mentioned but I've always loved the sounds of Ry Cooder's musical scores.

Also like the scores from Top Gun, Pretty Woman, Tin Cup, The Magnificent Seven, Streets of fire, Eddie and the Cruisers I and II, and Titanic

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I always like Lalo Shifrin's score from the Steve McQueen movie "Bullitt".

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"Tommy"

"The Exorcist"

http://youtu.be/m60s70qX-xw

The stuff that has really grabbed me has been Carter Burwell's work for the Coen brothers, especially Fargo and Miller's Crossing. Those are both movies that bear repeated watching, but I wonder how gooe they would be, especially Miller's Crossing, without that score.

I had forgotten about Body Heat, and I can't recall the score, but that was an excellent movie. Ted Danson, and a nice little role for Mickey Rourke before he messed up his face with implants.

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Various, but I really like the opening music from "The Wind And The Lion".
Jerry Goldsmith, The Wind and the Lion, Main Title - YouTube

I had the tape of it playing when I drove up to the battleship Missouri when it was berthed at Bremerton WA one day about 35 years ago. Just overpowering.

PATTON (1970) Main Title - Movie Soundtrack By Jerry Goldsmith - YouTube


"Patton" Main titles. Needs posting. Composer was Jerry Goldsmith.

One of the grandest movies that I've seen.

Easy Rider
Zabriski Point

I like most of the guys we mentioned, particularly Korngold. John Barry is good if we simply overlook The Black Hole.

I like Philip Glass a lot. He did the Koyaanisqaatsi trilogy, art film, but great American minimalist music. He also did Candyman.


Klaus Badelt is pretty great.

John Williams has decades of work and hundreds of films behind him, and for good reason. However, he's in recent years been using studio writers. He composes the thematic material, makes notes, and understudies orchestrate according to his instructions and established style--and I really get why. I still like the music.

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Is the movie composer John Williams the same as the classical guitarist? I have a DVD of him playing at the Alhambra. He plays guitar as well or better than any Spaniard.

as someone mentioned...Top Gun

and one of my faves...The Crow

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No, the John Williams who plays classical guitar is not the composer John Williams.
If I recall correctly he is from Australia.
Regards, Ray

Two come to mind:
"The Big Chill" and
"Goodfellas".

"Dirty Harry", especially the first ten minutes or so, when they find the first victim.

He also did the soundtrack to "Mishima", which is a little more accessible to non-fans. His '50s rock and roll themed piece for the movie is excellent.

Regarding "Koyaanisqaatsi", "PDQ Bach" (Peter Shickele) did an HILARIOUS parody of Glass's "Einstein on the Beach" called "Einstein on the Fritz". At one point, a voice sings (instead of "Koyaanisqaatsi"), "Coy hotsy-totsy".

As an aside, Schickele also did the soundtrack for the cult science fiction film (starring Bruce Dern) "Silent Running".

There used to be a show on Monday nights at 6:00pm on WCSB, the Cleveland State University radio station, called "The Music of Science Fiction and Fantasy". I don't know if it's still on or not. They used to play a lot of good film music.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the sound track from Quigly Down Under yet.

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apocalypse now soundtrack is one of my faves,and pulp fiction

Jerry Goldsmith was one of the all time great film composer. No one can top him. Amazing range..."Patton" to "Chinatown".

I also admire John Barry. Apart from Bond (and that would be enough!), many great scores...for example, "Zulu" and "The Ipcress File".

Lalo Schifrin perhaps defined the cop movie score with "Bullitt" and "Dirty Harry"...a great composer. "Mission Impossible" is a masterpiece of its genre.

For me, Elmer Bernstein defined the classic film Western score. So many John Wayne films...such as "True Grit", "The Shootist", "The Sons of Katie Elder" and so many more. The all time great Western score has to be "The Magnificent Seven". He wasn't limited to the old West...consider the score from "The Great Escape". Perfect.

I find most current film scores to be underwhelming and distinctly unmusical.

I miss these great composers very much...

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Absolutely!! Every time I play that video I turn up the base on the stereo. It will make you feel your heart beat. I like when they are getting off the boat at the first of the movie and the rude dude in the Daniel Boone cap tries to cut in front of the old couple. Very rousing music all the way through.

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Two of my favorites, both from Jerry Goldsmith: Chinatown and The River Wild. I read somewhere that Chinatown, when previewed, was a flop. The producers changed the score to the one written by Goldsmith and that changed everything. The opening tune from The River Wild is one of the prettiest I've ever heard. It's an age-old tune that he adapted for the film.

I own a few soundtracks:
Last of the Mohicans
Somewhere in Time
Gettysburg
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Babylon 5

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Ray-

Which is the Aussie? I think the other is English.

BTW, it's good to see you posting again. We don't hear much from the South American members.
Is it warm down there now? We've had a nasty winter here.