The Best Score Ever Was...?

[K7P5V]

South Pacific was awesome, but I was thinking of non-musocal scores. I agree that Musicals are a different category.

Well in that case, I'll just say any movie that used a musical score done by Ennio Morricone.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

John Williams' Star Wars score followed closely by Superman. Superman has my favourite film theme ever but as an overall score Star Wars is still the one to beat.

[Cyke]

Well in that case, I'll just say any movie that used a musical score done by Ennio Morricone.

You can never go wrong with Morricone.

[C_Miller]

Lawrence of Arabia is pretty ace.

[Sammael]

Here is one from a movie that almost no one ever saw.

Stardust. Directed by the greatest director few people know much about, Matthew Vaughn.

Star studded cast, original place I saw charlie cox from daredevil, scored by Ilan Eshkeri.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTU76tteRQ

[Sammael]

You can never go wrong with Morricone.

True.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1u-SP4RjPU

[BruceWayneJr.]

I can't choose. It's like deciding between which baby you love less. It's hard to quantify certain kinds of beauty.

[Iron Maiden]

Mine tend to be oldies: My favorite film composers are Franz Waxman, Erich Korngold, Bernard Herrmann (can't believe his name hasn't been mentioned yet), John Williams, James Horner (mostly for Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan)

Scores

Bride of Frankenstein - Franz Waxman
Sunset Boulevard - Franz Waxman
Erich Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood

John Williams....yikes where do you begin?
Dracula
Jaws
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back (which I think is actually the better score)
Superman

Bernard Herrmann

Ghost and Mrs Muir (one of his personal favorites)
Vertigo
Pyscho
Obsession (completed just before his death )

[JKtheMac]

My standouts would be:

Vangelis on Bladerunner for its sheer sumptuous feel.
Shore on LOTR:Fellowship for the thematic work.
Williams on Jaws for one of the most iconic moments in film music history.
Williams on Star Wars because of that glorious operatic element he brought back to movies.
Morricone on The Good the Bad and the Ugly because it is the first theme I was ever conscious of existing and loving.
Herrmann’s North by Northwest because it’s just the most fitting opening theme I have ever heard.

[BeastieRunner]

Composers ... Bernstein, Elfman, and Williams ... they are the giants to me. Vangelis is close with Chariots of Fire and Bladerunner and Steiner for Casablanca and Gone with the Wind.

Single films would be ... Flash Gordon (Queen rules!), Back to the Future (Silvestri), LotR (Shore's stuff), Godfather (Rota), and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Morricone).

I'm partial to Berstein's Magnificent Seven, True Grit, and Ghostbusters scores, Elfman's Batman and Edward Scissorhands, and Williams has giant catalog I enjoy.

[Jim Kelly]

I don't really like Williams or Elfman that much. When I first heard the big brassy sounds in Williams movies, it offended my taste. I like that for what it is and I love SUPERMAN, but I don't want music intruding so much and pushing me to feel things. It's too much. Likewise Elfman and the Batman movies. I like some of those melodies, but I don't believe a movie should rely so heavily on music to build up a scene.

I much prefer musical scores that work in the movie as part of the soundscape.

[Cyke]

This may be the Trekkie in me, but I find myself humming Jerry Goldsmith's score from The Motion Picture/First Contact to other space exploration movies that really soak in the visuals, like Interstellar. And by that, I mean some of the slow build and quieter, more patient sections rather than the bombastic parts that it's more known for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWqFnalzKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARcgqTx3NOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiK1...1MKP_&index=28

[Ilan Preskovsky]

This may be the Trekkie in me, but I find myself humming Jerry Goldsmith's score from The Motion Picture/First Contact to other space exploration movies that really soak in the visuals, like Interstellar. And by that, I mean some of the slow build and quieter, more patient sections rather than the bombastic parts that it's more known for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWqFnalzKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiK1...1MKP_&index=28

So it's not just me!

I'm not even a huge Trekkie but the First Contact theme is one of the great underrated movie themes. Combine that with the acknowledged masterpiece that is the main theme for TNG/ TMP and you have a real winner.

[Totoro Man]

I guess I'd pick the most obvious choice: the "Star Wars" original trilogy.

yeah, if you listen to a lot of classical music the music of John Williams can be hyper-romantic, pandering, and schmaltzy... but for Star Wars it was a perfect fit. actually made these ground-breaking genre films into the classics that they are. if these films didn't have such a great soundtrack these films probably would have been cult classics instead of the pop culture behemoths that they have become. (okay, maybe they wouldn't have been as obscure as "Space Hunter" or "Flash Gordon"... but, y'know, they wouldn't be as huge as they are now)

"Star Wars" works superbly well as a soundtrack and also as a stand-alone piece of music in the concert hall.

[Iron Maiden]

I really regret not seeing John Williams conduct the Chicago Symphony orchestra in a program featuring his film work earlier this spring.