Movies and Soundtracks

[meaneyedcatz]

Movie and soundtrack for
1. Smokey and the Bandit

2. Dances with Wolves

 

[Absalom]

I loved Clint's spaghetti so much as a kid, I bought the album by Hugo Montenegro.

My mother was, at various times, a concert-violinist, so that was probably my only music purchase she ever approved.

"Hang em High" was another good one of his.

Montenegro's covers of the spaghetti themes were pretty snappy, but they were just that, covers. All of Clint's Italian westerns were scored by the master, Ennio Morricone.

"Hang "Em High", a decent American try to imitate the Italian style, was composed by Dominic Frontiere, and the main theme is one of my favorite non-Morricone themes that sound like Morricone composed it. Francesco De Masi's theme for the Chuck Norris movie "Lone Wolf McQuade" is another:

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLm4TbxZmo[/ame]

 

[LVSteve]

Krull, a so-so science fantasy movie lifted by a first class soundtrack.

Good movie to spot a bunch of folk who later became big stars, like Liam Neeson and Robbie Coltrane.

 

[armenius]

If I could only turn the music down so I could hear the dialogue so I could know what was happening!

 

[shouldazagged]

"Amadeus" (Mozart wrote some pretty fair scores.)

"The Mission", especially "Gabriel's Oboe" (Morricone)

"Cinema Paradiso" (Morricone)

"The Sting" (Scott Joplin)

"The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" (Morricone)

The original "Star Wars" (Williams)

Most Mancini scores

"The Princess Bride" (Mark Knopfler)

"The Buena Vista Social Club" (Ry Cooder and veteran Cuban musicians)

 

[RobertJ.]

I loved Clint's spaghetti so much as a kid, I bought the album by Hugo Montenegro.

My mother was, at various times, a concert-violinist, so that was probably my only music purchase she ever approved.

"Hang em High" was another good one of his.

My dad had both, the original soundtrack and Hugo Montenegro's version. What I liked about HM's album was that it also had TGBU, plus A Fistful of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More.

Listening to the original soundtrack, I have no problem picturing the scene whatever the song is.

 

[Rpg]

Lawrence of Arabia

 

[amyp502]

Don't know if it was mentioned already, but
Run Lola Run Soundtrack is pretty dope.

Run Lola Run Soundtrack - YouTube

 

[Cardboard_killer]

While showing its age, I think the soundtrack to The Right Stuff is still great. The theme intertwines a marshal march with a dissonance that recognizes the mistakes made along the road. Great stuff.

 

[ace22]

lots of great choices here, one of if not my favorite is dylan's soundtrack for pat garret and billy the kid.

also godfather 1 + 2, boogie nights, and just about any scorsese movie, goodfellas, departed, raging bull, etc.

 

[raljr1]

I notice that I seem to be in the minority with this, but I have never liked purported "soundtracks" to movies which actually consisted of nothing but a grab bag of pop songs that played for a few beats at some point or another in the film.

Since I was a teenager, I've been into the grand instrumental stuff actually composed for the movies:

Maurice Jarre's "Lawrence of Arabia"
Elmer Bernstein's westerns
Ennio Morricone
Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams
"Last of the Mohicans"
From the 90s Hans Zimmer's soundtracks for action movies like "Crimson Tide", "Broken Arrow", "Gladiator". On his "Pirates of the Caribbean", I don't even care much for the movies, but the music is epic.

But you didn't mention Butch Cassia and the Sundance Kid, or Jeremiah Johnson...both good soundtracks without a bunch of pop.

Robert

 

[raljr1]

1. Objective Burma - Not really history, but good drama. Excellent Waxman soundtrack.
2. Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice - Great stories (despite the source material) and fabulous soundtracks.
3. The Wind and the Lion - Great period story and great soundtrack.

The Wind and the Lion is one of our top 5 movies of all time. Anyone who hasn't seen it, needs to.

Robert

 

[the ringo kid]

One not mentioned s: The Red Badge of Courage. The one with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin.

Shame the movie was butchered before release-or it coulda-SHOULDA-been one of the best movies ever.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERZVyLX-HjY[/ame]

This tops them all.........BOO YAH!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cellar Hound]

Three of my favorites:

1. Say Anything
2. Casino
3. The Big Chill