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Mine is Gladiator. The Disney Tarzan soundtrack is great too. What are your favorite soundtracks?

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terminator 2

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So many good ones, I don't know how to choose.

  • Interstellar 55555 (slightly cheating)
  • Perfect Blue
  • The Green Knight
  • The Girl With All the Gifts
  • Dune (the original)
  • Densha Otoko
  • Spirited Away
  • Dark Knight
  • Interstellar
  • The Last of Us (game and show)
  • Innocent Venus
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Fight Club.

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Tron Legacy

The Crow

Shrek 2

Sucker Punch

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is my absolute fav.

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Haven’t seen anyone mention Cinema Paradiso or The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Both are wildly different. Ennio Morricone is a genius.

There’s also The Incredibles - Michael Giacchino The Greatest Showman - Various Artists
Saving Private Ryan - John Williams
The Prince of Egypt - Hans Zimmer
The Gospel of John - Jeff Dann (great middle eastern vibe)

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Tron 2. Daft Punk without lyrics is perfect for me.

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Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Not a movie but all 3 Beastars openings sound so good

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Kill Bill Volume 2! And I like the Carol (2015) soundtrack (totally not a lesbian).

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Oh Brother Where Art Thou is a good one.

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Trainspotting
Hackers
Atomic Blonde
Go
Grease
The Big Lebowski
The Crow
Mary Poppins

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  • Lock stock and two smoking barrels
  • o’ brother where art thou
  • tron (daft punk)
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Koyaanisqatsi
Solaris (the remake)
Whiplash
Broken Flowers
The Fountain
Pirates ot Caribbean

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I feel like whiplash is cheating but you right lol

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I was a hipster in high school and I used to have Amelie on my iPod classic. Was such a tiny screen. :)

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Already lots of LOTR & Tron: Legacy here. Not seeing much love for animated film scores, so on that note & in no particular order:

  • How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, 1 is personal favorite
  • Kung Fu Panda trilogy, 2 is ~~so fucking good oh my god~~ personal favorite
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Spirited Away
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  • The Super Mario Movie
  • Finding Nemo
  • Up

A couple of these have great soundtracks, too, but I do love a good score.

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Mine is from the 1996 anime film X. It is based on a CLAMP manga and goes much harder than the poster would lead you to believe.

X Movie Wikipedia

The soundtrack complements the tone perfectly with its experimental and unsettling atmosphere.

X Original Soundtrack

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A few of my favs, in no particular order:

  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy
  • Tron: Legacy
  • Oblivion
  • Gladiator
  • Star Wars (especially Episode I)
  • Interestellar
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  • Cosmos
  • Blade Runner

Vangelis, enough said.

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2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I love it.

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Dune (1984)

The Fifth Element

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Toto’s Dune score is objectively amazing, and also that one Brian Eno track was perfect. Good pick.

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Scream 3

Django unchained

American pie

Spiderman into the spider verse

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Tron Legacy.

One of the few soundtracks I can listen from front to back.

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  • Tron by Draft Punk
  • Lord of the Ring
  • Interstellar
  • The Graduate
[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A few that spring to mind...

Vertigo
Psycho
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
All 3 LOTR films
Star Wars OT
Indiana Jones (especially Raiders)
The Sweet Smell of Success

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Oh yes, I remember the Twin Peaks movie having the Cherubini requiem. Awesome stuff

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Ah, I never knew what that piece was. It's fantastic though, a perfect fit along with all of Badalamenti and Lynch's music.

My particular favourite is the weird drone of The Pink Room, turned up loud, but it's all good!

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I just watched Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure yesterday and though the soundtrack is not original, the soundtrack made the movie.

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The Mission 1986.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Either Pulp Fiction or Judgment Night.

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My favorite is the soundtrack to Princess Mononoke, composed by Joe Hisaishi.

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Into the wild

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Desperado

Batman (both Elfman and Prince)

Last Action Hero

The Matrix

LOTR

The Fifth Element

Terminator 2

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Animatrix. It's been in my regular listening rotation for probably over 15 years now.

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To Live and Die in LA by Wang Chung is another great one that hasn't been mentioned yet

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Bad Company (Trevor Rabin)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
Star Trek 2009 (Michael Giacchino)
The Mask Of Zorro (James Horner)

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Gross Pointe Blank

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Pump Up The Volume

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