Film Score Discussion

[Pounder]

The Village had a great score from James Newton Howard.

[Nightrunner]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

Do anything with the score playing, it instantly makes it 10x more awesome.

agreed. if you look at Star Wars without the soundtrack. WOW. it falls flat. add John Williams and it's ALIVE!

Take the music out of any film and well, I cannot image what cinema would be like without it.

Even in the silent film era they had a small orchestra or a single piano to carry the movie.

Question: what was the first movie to incorporate modern music into it? (modern music; music that could be played on the radio)

[notops]

I am currently obsessed with the score from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The slow jazz is just a sumptuous as it was in the series, but what really gets me are the atonal moments.

Whenever the 'people from another place' are about to show up, or just exert their otherworldly influence upon events, certain tones and frequencies get played backwards in the stereo channels (sometimes subtly, sometimes not) and the effect is mesmerizing.

I would rank it up with The Shining in terms of a score that can scare you just as much as whats up on the screen.

[caode]

Originally Posted by Pounder

The Village had a great score from James Newton Howard.

It's a wonderful soundtrack, one of my all time favourites. Regardless of what the popular opinion towards that film is - I don't think anyone can deny the quality of the score. James Newton Howard's best score in my opinion.

Everyone should listen to it at least once from beginning to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ro4FHd51t4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6IgwbTYnrI

[blonde_devil]

As a fan, I have always felt the Trek scores have been ignored especially the original Motion Picture score Goldsmith did. Honestly, I think it is better than Star Wars as with Star Wars, you can see where Williams used things like "The Planets" for inspiration but Goldsmith is a lot more out there and interesting. The cantina music is obviously earth influenced where as the Klingon bit that Goldsmith does is alien. Plus if you hear some of the cuts they didn't use, you can really see him experimenting. I think it is a great score and one that gets ignored unfairly.

[VanDammage80]

Originally Posted by caode

It's a wonderful soundtrack, one of my all time favourites. Regardless of what the popular opinion towards that film is - I don't think anyone can deny the quality of the score. James Newton Howard's best score in my opinion.

Everyone should listen to it at least once from beginning to end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ro4FHd51t4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6IgwbTYnrI

Movie is average but the score is GREAT. I can say the same for Lady in the Water as well.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

As a fan, I have always felt the Trek scores have been ignored especially the original Motion Picture score Goldsmith did. Honestly, I think it is better than Star Wars as with Star Wars, you can see where Williams used things like "The Planets" for inspiration but Goldsmith is a lot more out there and interesting. The cantina music is obviously earth influenced where as the Klingon bit that Goldsmith does is alien. Plus if you hear some of the cuts they didn't use, you can really see him experimenting. I think it is a great score and one that gets ignored unfairly.

I'd say that Goldsmith's score for STTMP is one of the greatest movie scores of all time. I think it isn't held in as high regard because many people do not like the movie itself.

[Dotpattern]

Originally Posted by EddieWilson1983

Wow!!! Does that number include soundtracks too, or just scores?

John Powell did the music for the first three "Bourne" films; I'd love to find those on CD. He also scored John Woo's "Face/Off", which is an action fave of mine. I'm not familiar with Michael Giacchino, but Brian Tyler's done a couple of entries for both Marvel and the "Fast & Furious" series. I wouldn't mind finding those as well.

Verrry few soundtracks. I do have a dozen or so like (don't judge ) Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby.

The Bourne scores are pretty good and I love listening to them loud in my car. Face/Off was played often when I first bought it. For an introduction to Michael Giacchino, I'd recommend his two scores for the last two Star Trek movies. And for Brian Tyler, yes, check out his Marvel scores or any of his action scores if you like aggressive music (some don't and that's cool).

[SammymeBlu]

Originally Posted by Pounder

The Village had a great score from James Newton Howard.

Agree,that is my favorite JNH score.

[SammymeBlu]

Originally Posted by VanDammage80

Move it average but the score is GREAT. I can say the same for Lady in the Water as well.

I personally like the Village movie & score. Night's only movie that has not been released on Bluray as odd as it seems,it did rather well at the box office and this year is its 10th anniversary just last week.

[JimDiGriz]

Originally Posted by notops

I am currently obsessed with the score from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The slow jazz is just a sumptuous as it was in the series, but what really gets me are the atonal moments.

Whenever the 'people from another place' are about to show up, or just exert their otherworldly influence upon events, certain tones and frequencies get played backwards in the stereo channels (sometimes subtly, sometimes not) and the effect is mesmerizing.

I would rank it up with The Shining in terms of a score that can scare you just as much as whats up on the screen.

It is brilliant. I bought the soundtrack years and years ago. Think Ive got another one as well. Even Audrey in the series comments about the music in character!

[Hintermann]

My musical score preferences, particularly for silent films, often goes against the majority. For example, for the 1924 version (Douglas Fairbanks) of The Thief of Bagdad, I don't like the Carl Davis score at all, as presented in the otherwise good Cohen Blu-ray package. I much prefer the Mont Alto score as in the Kino DVD, which I have retained.

[klauswhereareyou]

Got the score for Bernard Herrmann's It's Alive (1974) the other day. Cool creepy Moog heavy score with non-moog moments very similar to Herrmann's non-Jazz portions of his later Taxi Driver score.