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Post by Cuish on May 13, 2017 15:31:33 GMT
Which are your favourites? Mine would be as follows:
1. Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Nicholas Hooper
5. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope - John Williams
6. Batman Begins - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
7. The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat
8. Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith
9. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - John Williams
10. The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
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Post by koskiewicz on May 13, 2017 17:39:55 GMT
"Once Upon A Time In America" trumps them all...
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Post by marth on May 13, 2017 18:44:48 GMT
Once Upon a Time in the West / Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Morricone
Batman Begins - Zimmer / Howard
Leon - Eric Serra
Blade Runner - Vangelis
ET - John Williams
Jaws - John Williams
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Post by drystyx on May 13, 2017 19:44:02 GMT
Worthy picks, at least the ones I've seen-well heard.
Got to believe Morricone is tops. His score fooled so many feeble minds into thinking spaghetti Westerns weren't garbage. Without his scores, I don't think even the feeblest mind would stay awake through those Leone losers.
And Carpenter's THE THING, to me, relies on the score, and the sound effects in general. I'd say it was the cleverest use ever of sound effects and score in movies. Without them, we'd be more aware of the non-credibility of the characters.
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Post by moviemouth on May 13, 2017 20:00:00 GMT
Narrowing it down to just 10 is almost impossible for me to do because I love so many scores equally.
Jurassic Park - John Williams The Fountain - Clint Mansell Inception - Hans Zimmer The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore American Beauty - Thomas Newman Gladiator - Hans Zimmer Ravenous - Michael Nyman & Damon Albarn Road to Perdition - Thomas Newman The Untouchables - Ennio Morricone The Hours - Phillip Glass
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Post by moviemouth on May 13, 2017 20:03:20 GMT
Worthy picks, at least the ones I've seen-well heard.
Got to believe Morricone is tops. His score fooled so many feeble minds into thinking spaghetti Westerns weren't garbage. Without his scores, I don't think even the feeblest mind would stay awake through those Leone losers.
And Carpenter's THE THING, to me, relies on the score, and the sound effects in general. I'd say it was the cleverest use ever of sound effects and score in movies. Without them, we'd be more aware of the non-credibility of the characters.
Nonsense. If Leone's westerns didn't have a score at all I would still like them due to the cinematography and characters. Just because you don't like something doesn't give you the right to be insanely rude.
Shame on you.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on May 13, 2017 20:37:16 GMT
I really cant decide on 10 but my all time favorite is Batman by Danny Elfman.
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Post by mslo79 on May 14, 2017 4:24:04 GMT
In terms of film scores... 1. Road to Perdition (2002) (this has to be my #1 overall in terms of the movie itself (which is within my Top 10 movies in general) along with a strong score as the score helps amp up that movie as it's not often a movie will grab me with a solid score but that's one of the small amount that do it really well) 2.Lord of War (2005) (within my Top 10 movies in general and the movies score grabs me pretty much like Road to Perdition's does, or pretty close) the rest in no particular order (as i think these are strong but not quite at the level overall as the two movies above)... -Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -Good Bad Ugly (1966) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -For a Few Dollars More (1965) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -Drive (2011) -Only God Forgives (2013) -The Neon Demon (2016) there could be a bit more than what's listed above but it can't be much. but come to think of it... i listed half of the movies above i gave a 10/10 to in general above which is five movies. p.s. moviemouth ; Thumbs Up to you for mentioning Road to Perdition as it's just a great movie and is quite underrated on IMDb as that movie wipes the floor with a high percentage (damn near all) of the movies in the Top 250 in general and it's score stands out unlike a high percentage of movies in general. |
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Post by croftalice2 on May 14, 2017 5:12:07 GMT
Paul haslinger -resident evil the final chapter.
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Post by moviemouth on May 14, 2017 5:26:08 GMT
In terms of film scores... 1. Road to Perdition (2002) (this has to be my #1 overall in terms of the movie itself (which is within my Top 10 movies in general) along with a strong score as the score helps amp up that movie as it's not often a movie will grab me with a solid score but that's one of the small amount that do it really well) 2.Lord of War (2005) (within my Top 10 movies in general and the movies score grabs me pretty much like Road to Perdition's does, or pretty close) the rest in no particular order (as i think these are strong but not quite at the level overall as the two movies above)... -Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -Good Bad Ugly (1966) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -For a Few Dollars More (1965) (within my Top 10 movies in general) -Drive (2011) -Only God Forgives (2013) -The Neon Demon (2016) there could be a bit more than what's listed above but it can't be much. but come to think of it... i listed half of the movies above i gave a 10/10 to in general above which is five movies. p.s. moviemouth ; Thumbs Up to you for mentioning Road to Perdition as it's just a great movie and is quite underrated on IMDb as that movie wipes the floor with a high percentage (damn near all) of the movies in the Top 250 in general and it's score stands out unlike a high percentage of movies in general. Road to Perdition is underrated on imdb but not massively imo. It's personally around my #150th favorite movie. I rate it 8.5/10. My favorite scores rarely are in line with my favorite movies. 300 8/10 or higher probably seems like a lot to you but it really isn't considering I have seen over 5,500 movies. Half of the movies I have seen I rate 6/10 or lower btw (as you know that is a negative rating for me). I was just looking the other day and I rate around 200 movies 4.5/10 or lower. This week I even rated a movie 2/10. |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 14, 2017 7:36:10 GMT
No particular order:
Halloween
Suspiria
The Terminator
Jaws
Star Wars
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Requiem For a Dream
The Godfather
Batman
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Post by mslo79 on May 14, 2017 7:59:12 GMT
moviemouth Well then we are both in agreement that it should be in the IMDb Top 250 at the very least  except i praise it more since it's within my Top 10 movies in general which means almost nothing challenges it for me. also, Road to Perdition seems to fly under the radar especially for Tom Hanks movies of which it's my #1 Tom Hanks movie to as only The Green Mile can challenge it in my mind. but i imagine in terms of wide public there are quite a few other more known Hanks movies that the general public would like more and be more familiar with. That would be unlikely for me because if the movie itself is nothing special, especially if it's forgettable, chances are i won't remember the score etc much either. so in this basic sense it seems likely the movie itself will be amongst my favorites if it's a score i remember as standing out from the pack as nearly all of the movies i listed in my initial post are amongst my favorite movies outside of The Neon Demon which is a bit shy of that status but i still like the movie. but with that said... not all of the movies i score highly have a score that sticks with me as, like i pretty much said, barely any really do in general and only pretty much half of my 10/10's have a strong score to go with it. the rest of the movies i listed are basically 7/10's with The Neon Demon being a 6-6.5/10 for me for the movies themselves. p.s. but i guess it depends on what standard we are going by for the 'my favorite movies' standard. because, like i mentioned above already, outside of those five movies i mentioned the rest are on the lower side of my favorite movies with one being just a bit outside of my favorite movies. a 8 or higher for me totals 109 movies. so yeah 300 on a 8 or higher does seem a little high and while i realize you have seen 5,500 movies and i only have seen 2,100+ i would not expect my 8 or higher total count to rise much, if much at all, had i seen 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 or more additional movies FROM THE PAST (excluding anything from 2017 into the future) simply because i feel i have hit a point where finding movies i score 8's or higher, of movies from the past (i.e. movies released 2016 or older), are pretty much non-existent as even 7/10 range movies from the past, that i have not already seen, are hard to come by but at least 7's are not pretty much non-existent like 8's and higher basically are. so if they (i.e. movies i have not seen that i would score a 8 or higher) are out there it will be difficult to find them and ill likely have to see a bunch of mostly forgettable movies to MAYBE find a decent gem here and there which is why i am in no hurry to raise my movie viewing count and at this point, which i have been at for a while now basically, when it comes to movies i have not seen before they tend to be mostly movies from present into the future even though i do catch some movies from the past here and there but i am in no rush as i just watch whatever i watch and whatever happens, happens. with that said... i don't have a problem at all for you handing out 300 or so 8/10's or higher as that's still a very small percentage (about 5%) of everything you have seen. as for how many movies i gave a 4 or less... basically 355 movies. but like i have mentioned before... i would expect had i re-watched some of the movies that i currently scored a 5/10 i would not be surprised if some of them dropped back to a 4/10 or lower (as i would expect this to happen almost for sure as it's just a question of how many). but naturally i am not going to waste my time re-watching a bunch of average/forgettable movies as i only re-watch movies i score a 6 or higher with rare exception to that general rule. also, just looking at the current year (i.e. Jan 1st 2017 to date) the total of movies i scored a 2/10, which is basically my score i give to movies i cannot finish, is... 15 movies. i have seen basically 129 movies from Jan 1st through May 13th 2017 but that's counting re-watches which are generally much less likely for me not to be able to finish watching those (but it does happen and has happened in this time frame mentioned here) as it's largely (as in a high percentage) the first time viewings of a movie is where i can't finish them. just strictly looking at movies i have seen for the first time (from Jan 1st through May 13th of 2017) comes out to 87 movies and strictly out of those there is 12 of those movies i could not finish due to boredom basically, which is like 13.8%, which is higher than my long term average of roughly 6.5% (less than 8% for sure) for that statistic. that 6.5% figure is like saying i could not finish a bit more than 1 out of every 20 movies, on an average, that i have seen long term (this is actually 5% but it's close enough to the 6.5% figure to get the point across).
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Post by moviemouth on May 14, 2017 8:54:27 GMT
moviemouth Well then we are both in agreement that it should be in the IMDb Top 250 at the very least except i praise it more since it's within my Top 10 movies in general which means almost nothing challenges it for me. also, Road to Perdition seems to fly under the radar especially for Tom Hanks movies of which it's my #1 Tom Hanks movie to as only The Green Mile can challenge it in my mind. but i imagine in terms of wide public there are quite a few other more known Hanks movies that the general public would like more and be more familiar with. That would be unlikely for me because if the movie itself is nothing special, especially if it's forgettable, chances are i won't remember the score etc much either. so in this basic sense it seems likely the movie itself will be amongst my favorites if it's a score i remember as standing out from the pack as nearly all of the movies i listed in my initial post are amongst my favorite movies outside of The Neon Demon which is a bit shy of that status but i still like the movie. but with that said... not all of the movies i score highly have a score that sticks with me as, like i pretty much said, barely any really do in general and only pretty much half of my 10/10's have a strong score to go with it. the rest of the movies i listed are basically 7/10's with The Neon Demon being a 6-6.5/10 for me for the movies themselves. p.s. but i guess it depends on what standard we are going by for the 'my favorite movies' standard. because, like i mentioned above already, outside of those five movies i mentioned the rest are on the lower side of my favorite movies with one being just a bit outside of my favorite movies. a 8 or higher for me totals 109 movies. so yeah 300 on a 8 or higher does seem a little high and while i realize you have seen 5,500 movies and i only have seen 2,100+ i would not expect my 8 or higher total count to rise much, if much at all, had i seen 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 or more additional movies FROM THE PAST (excluding anything from 2017 into the future) simply because i feel i have hit a point where finding movies i score 8's or higher, of movies from the past (i.e. movies released 2016 or older), are pretty much non-existent as even 7/10 range movies from the past, that i have not already seen, are hard to come by but at least 7's are not pretty much non-existent like 8's and higher basically are. so if they (i.e. movies i have not seen that i would score a 8 or higher) are out there it will be difficult to find them and ill likely have to see a bunch of mostly forgettable movies to MAYBE find a decent gem here and there which is why i am in no hurry to raise my movie viewing count and at this point, which i have been at for a while now basically, when it comes to movies i have not seen before they tend to be mostly movies from present into the future even though i do catch some movies from the past here and there but i am in no rush as i just watch whatever i watch and whatever happens, happens. with that said... i don't have a problem at all for you handing out 300 or so 8/10's or higher as that's still a very small percentage (about 5%) of everything you have seen. as for how many movies i gave a 4 or less... basically 355 movies. but like i have mentioned before... i would expect had i re-watched some of the movies that i currently scored a 5/10 i would not be surprised if some of them dropped back to a 4/10 or lower (as i would expect this to happen almost for sure as it's just a question of how many). but naturally i am not going to waste my time re-watching a bunch of average/forgettable movies as i only re-watch movies i score a 6 or higher with rare exception to that general rule. also, just looking at the current year (i.e. Jan 1st 2017 to date) the total of movies i scored a 2/10, which is basically my score i give to movies i cannot finish, is... 15 movies. i have seen basically 129 movies from Jan 1st through May 13th 2017 but that's counting re-watches which are generally much less likely for me not to be able to finish watching those (but it does happen and has happened in this time frame mentioned here) as it's largely (as in a high percentage) the first time viewings of a movie is where i can't finish them. just strictly looking at movies i have seen for the first time (from Jan 1st through May 13th of 2017) comes out to 87 movies and strictly out of those there is 12 of those movies i could not finish due to boredom basically, which is like 13.8%, which is higher than my long term average of roughly 6.5% (less than 8% for sure) for that statistic. that 6.5% figure is like saying i could not finish a bit more than 1 out of every 20 movies, on an average, that i have seen long term (this is actually 5% but it's close enough to the 6.5% figure to get the point across). Even bad movies can have memorable aspects to them for me. I also love The Green Mile score btw, since you mentioned the film. I was just thinking about a movie the other day that I dislike overall but that has great cinematography and a great score. The problem is that I don't much care for any other aspect of the film. |
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Post by mslo79 on May 15, 2017 3:16:25 GMT
moviemouthmemorable in a negative way? because when i say memorable i generally mean in a positive way. but i guess with that said... even movies that are a 5/10 or less for me can occasionally have a decent bit here and there. Yeah, i have seen some movies that you can tell have strong cinematography but the movie as a whole don't work. one of the main movies that comes to mind for me in this area is... Days of Heaven (1978). solid cinematography but the overall movie itself i find to be below average.
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Post by kingkoopa on May 15, 2017 4:52:33 GMT
A lot of my top 10 would overlap some of what people had already posted, so I'll try to just leave a couple notable ones.
-'The Time Machine' (2002). Klaus Badelt is killing it with a full orchestra...doing the European orchestra style as well as getting some time to work with African choirs and Pacific Island mallet instruments. The movie was kind of 'meh' (Guy Pierce and Zoe Saldana are pretty damn good though...plus a small does of Jeremy Irons...they just didn't tell the story that well), but this score is unbelievable.
-'Edward Scissorhands'. Danny Elfman doing what he does best. The music is the saving grace for some of this movie. Some of it is too bizarre to really take seriously, but the music kind of grounds it. It's hard to explain.
-'Big Fish'. First direction I point anyone who thinks Elfman only does the Gothic 'ooh-ahh' choral scores. This score is one of my favorites from him. There's a heartfelt nature about it that seems to come through. I could say the same for 'Good Will Hunting', but the scores are so similar, and I think this one is just a tad better.
-'Signs'. James Newton Howard. Thanks. I loved how prominently the score was featured in the intro and ending...and it is fantastic. The intro is really unsettling, there are some highlights throughout the film, but the real treasure is in the ending (the last two tracks if you bought the soundtrack). This is some excellently done music. One of the times aside from "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" that I was really struck by the score in this way.
-'Catch me If You Can'. You may know now, but John Williams was once Johnny Williams and wrote and worked as a jazz pianist. He gets back to these roots in this score and it is a fun ride. Williams is obviously a titan of scoring, but he shows a different side in this one.
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Post by darksidebeadle on May 15, 2017 6:06:07 GMT
Which are your favourites? Mine would be as follows: 1. Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams 2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - John Barry 3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone 4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Nicholas Hooper 5. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope - John Williams 6. Batman Begins - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard 7. The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat 8. Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith 9. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - John Williams 10. The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone Psycho - Bernard Herrmann Once Upon a Time in the West - Ennio Morricone Jaws - John Williams Thief - Tangerine Dream Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith Blade Runner - Vangelis Conan the Barbarian - Basil Poledouris The Thing - Ennio Morricone Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann |
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Post by sostie on May 15, 2017 10:04:27 GMT
Halloween - John Carpenter
Assault On Precinct 13 - John Carpenter
Kikujiro - Joe Hisaishi
Moon - Clint Mansell
Tron Legacy - Daft Punk
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
Proposition - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Once Upon A Time In America - Morricone
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Danny Elfman
I could very easily include more Carpenter, Mansell, Cave/Ellis, Morricone and Hisaishi
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Post by miike80 on May 15, 2017 10:39:27 GMT
Worthy picks, at least the ones I've seen-well heard.
Got to believe Morricone is tops. His score fooled so many feeble minds into thinking spaghetti Westerns weren't garbage. Without his scores, I don't think even the feeblest mind would stay awake through those Leone losers.
And Carpenter's THE THING, to me, relies on the score, and the sound effects in general. I'd say it was the cleverest use ever of sound effects and score in movies. Without them, we'd be more aware of the non-credibility of the characters.
Nonsense. If Leone's westerns didn't have a score at all I would still like them due to the cinematography and characters. Just because you don't like something doesn't give you the right to be insanely rude.
Shame on you.
He feels so edgy because most people love Leone's westerns. He doesn't so he feels special |
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Post by Stuart "2-D" Pot on May 15, 2017 11:52:53 GMT
Anyfing by Michael Giacchino
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Post by drystyx on May 15, 2017 14:20:19 GMT
Worthy picks, at least the ones I've seen-well heard.
Got to believe Morricone is tops. His score fooled so many feeble minds into thinking spaghetti Westerns weren't garbage. Without his scores, I don't think even the feeblest mind would stay awake through those Leone losers.
And Carpenter's THE THING, to me, relies on the score, and the sound effects in general. I'd say it was the cleverest use ever of sound effects and score in movies. Without them, we'd be more aware of the non-credibility of the characters.
Nonsense. If Leone's westerns didn't have a score at all I would still like them due to the cinematography and characters. Just because you don't like something doesn't give you the right to be insanely rude.
Shame on you.
The fact that two other lunatic control freaks liked your insane remark proves that you are control freaks.
I said nothing rude. "Rude" is some demon possessed maniac pushing down glorification of homicidal maniacs down the public throats, which can only induce more criminal behavior, which is what it did.
Telling people that if they're homicidal maniacs who kill everyone they see will make them demi gods, well that's all Leone did in his Westerns. That's the entirety of what he did. It was sick. It wasn't "realism", not until he and his fellow lunatics preached it into the souls of everyone who listened to maniac critics who praised this sickness as "art".
Not to mention the neo Nazi preaching they did. Either you and your lynch mob of haters are liars who refuse to admit it, or you're truly moronic sheep. There isn't a third option.
No shame on me for your insane rudeness. Just because you and your lynch mob of hate desire to force everyone to love "hate", and because democracy makes you think that control freaks can "vote" any hatefulness into being art or good or quality, doesn't make you less insane. If a thousand maniacs believe art is showing heroes murder people all the time, and one person doesn't, that doesn't make the thousand maniacs "sane" or even remotely credible.
Nope, no shame on me. No matter how many haters you get on your side.
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