In my opinion, music can make or break a movie. It can help drive a dramatic scene home and gives us another way to interpret the environment exposed to us through film. Some soundtracks do also make excellent albums on their own.
Quite simply, what movies/TV shows have spawned your favorite soundtracks? Mine are:
Amadeus
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars
The Lord Of The Rings
The Godfather
The Animatrix
Beyond The Sea
Requiem For A Dream
A couple of my favorites, both by the same composer, are the soundtracks to Road to Perdition and Meet Joe Black. The latter was a really boring film, but I liked the music. Danny Elfman’s soundtracks usually appeal to me a lot as well. I especially liked the orchestral scores of Sleepy Hollow.
I’m not really a huge fan of ‘soul music,’ but the soundtrack to The Committments really works, at least in context with the film.
I hear soundtracks here and there but I don’t remember them. I do own the one from “Get Shorty” and I like it. Its an entertaining combination of jazz styles mostly.
I could name i few, but they would be dwarfed by the (i cant believe nobody has mentioned it ) monstrous size, the vast scale and distance it dwarfs all those opposed to it, the unreachable emotion it brings when you think back to a clip of the film, the ability it had to literally make a whole epic and not just a film; all this was despite the terrible lead acting of Stallone. THE MONTAGE MUSIC OF ALL MONTAGE MUSIC: [size=59]Rocky[/size]
I hated the soundtrack to the first Resident Evil movie, although I loved the film itself (marry me, Milla- pretty please! ). The music for the second one was a lot better, though, IMOHO.