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Prompted by the pulp fiction thread I need to find a film to watch tonight. Really fancy something with a great sound track. If I list my type of film it will give my rough tastes, not saying these all have great sound tracks.
Pulp Fiction
Notting Hill
Lock Stock
Early Man
Leon
Taken
Love Actually
Die Hard
School of Rock
Rocket man
Local Hero
Flash Gordon, Highlander.
Trainspotting.
The Beach
Some great suggestions, but
Baby Driver
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The Beach
Shame the film itself is so shit. 🙂
Pi
Human Traffic
Kevin and Perry go large
Blade (just for that one track on the club)
Inception (not so much a soundtrack, just 2 great reoccurring tunes)
Dazed and Confused
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Repo Man
The World's End.
Grosse Pointe Blank
Mo’ Better Blues
Tron Legacy
Full Metal Jacket
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Most Coen brothers films have good soundtracks. The Big Lebowski is also great, I can credit it with introducing me to Townes van Zandt and Captain Beefheart.
I seem to remember Shaft and Superfly had a lot of good tunes.
Purple Rain is crammed full, obviously.
Paris Texas and A Clockwork Orange for something a bit different. I particularly like Harry Dean Stanton's version of Canton Mixteca, but that's more featured on the soundtrack album.
Then you've got Something about Mary (Jonathan Richman especially) David Byrne's True Stories, Rumblefish (Stewart Copeland) Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa.
Last of the Mohicans.
Withnail and I
"What are you doing Withnail!
"I'm making time!
The Blues Brothers
Convoy - 1978
Ducks over dubbed 2stroke Detroit diesel rather than the puny Caterpillar actually fitted to the Mack is sound for the soul.
Last of the Mohicans.
Epic.
Films with awesome soundtracks
action film: baby driver
comedy film : oh brother where art tho?
science fiction fantasy film : guardians of the galaxy 2
90's film: high Fidelity (great book too)
IMHO
Jase
For the best original score I have heard for some time with other good sixties music, First Man
A girl walks home alone at night.
You’re welcome.
Top Gun
Watchmen
Layercake
Young Guns 2.
LA Confidential
Pretty in pink
Lost Boys
Flashdance
Baby Driver
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This. Very much this. The choreography to soundtrack is beautifully done.
+1 O Brother Where Art Thou
Some I like:
Super Fly
Vampyros Lesbos
Girl On A Motorcycle
Trainspotting
Taxi Driver
Interstellar
Nosferatu (1979)
Jackie Brown
Run Lola Run
Apocalypse Now
...and The Doors stuff, obvs.
Breakfast Club.
Are you all to young to remember easy rider?
Trainspotting has as nearly a good soundtrack but easy rider is the best 🙂
+1 Big Lebowski. Just ace.
Donnie Darko S/T made an impression too, right from the opener
the holy mountain
(an absolutely incredible film - my favourite ever. the soundtrack is also an absolute beauty, featuring my all-time jazz hero - don cherry!)
The Crow
Grosse Pointe Blank
Came here to say this.
Any Vietnam war film due to the embarrassment of riches from that era to choose from, but the best is
It’s a game of two halves. The choice of tracks is brilliant, but Abigail Meads original score is incredible. You can play it and feel the tension of the sniper scenes.
I really fancy watching it again now. What a film!
Agree with TJ. Easyrider is an epic soundtrack
Any Tarrantino film - in fact, he'd make a belting party DJ!
Garden State- arguably just a really really long music video, but it is so good, and makes for a great standalone mix tape too
Another thought.
Plunkett & Macleane.
Drive.
Class.
Nobody's mentioned The Matrix!?! It's brilliant!
The lobby gunfight with the Propellerheads is just perfect!
Atomic Blonde has a fantastic 80's soundtrack.
Some great suggestions, but
Baby Driver
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You guys need to pay attention.
The Business.
Bizarrely not ruined by the inclusion of Danny Dyer, great 80’s soundtrack.
Or Sexy Beast.
Some great suggestions, but
Baby Driver
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You guys need to pay attention
I've never seen it so just looked it up, it's a no from me
The Big Lebowski however is class
Final one…..24hr Party People.
Baby Driver
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You guys need to pay attention.
the threads not over til someone mentions American Graffiti:-)
soundtrack as part of the sound design. The music is in the protagonist’s world not ours
Good call on american graffiti
Good call on american graffiti
Certainly is. Popsicle?
Also +1 for Easy Rider.
+1 for Garden State. It’s probably a bit marmite but I thought it was a great movie too and very chilled soundtrack.
Dead Mans Shoes (most Shane Meadows films really)
Drive
High Fidelity
Kill bill
The Life Aquatic.
Couple of others that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Cruel Intentions
Miami Vice
Baby Driver
Also, Driver
Sucker Punch.
The Magnificent 7 ( the real one, obviously)
Pretty much anything by scored by Sergio Leone, but special mentions for Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and The Mission.
The Graduate
Babylon
Do The Right Thing
The Harder They Come
Guys and Dolls (bit of a cheat as it’s a musical, but still)
Rude Boy
Rockers
To Live And Die In LA - Wang Chung's finest moment.... especially the fake money printing scene.
Errrrrr
American Werewolf in London
Not only a great soundtrack but adds to the comedy value of the film.
Dazed and Confused.
+ more 1s for The Life Aquatic, Withnail And I, and Easy Rider
Also, The Graduate.
And the BBC recently showed Small Axe which was part of a series I think, and it had a totally awesome soundtrack.
Assault on Precinct 13, John Carpenter, I can't believe it's not been mentioned yet.
Also worth a mention is Training Day.
Lost In Translation.
Any Shane Meadows.
Shockingly I'm going for Akira, second The Good the Bad and the Ugly et al though.
I was told to say Dirty Dancing but most of mine have been mentioned:
Trainspotting
The Crow
The Crow
+1, the only time I've watched a film and actively bought the soundtrack.
Surprised no-one has dare mention Xanadu 😂
zinaru sed>
the holy mountain
This is also rather good.
Some great suggestions, but
Baby Driver
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You guys need to pay attention
I’ve never seen it so just looked it up, it’s a no from me
/serious mode
It's a decent film, worth watching anyway. But you can't look at the soundtrack and judge based on the songs, it's the way the songs are choreographed into the film that makes it brilliant.
Lots of my favourites listed above but to add; Gross Point Blank, Purple Rain and Labyrinth.
Glad to see I got beaten to
The Crow (+1 for buying the soundtrack)
Donnie Darko
The Matrix (lovely touch with RATM's Wake Up for the closing credits)
Apocalypse Now
No love for 2001 so far?
Also most of the 90's 'Nam films conjured up a decent score.
Metallica's Through The Never I like but really it was just a live set with a half baked creepy plot around a missing satchel so not sure it should count.
Now here's a controversial one ...
Cars (the Pixar thing). I know Lightning is a bit of a dork and Sally could clearly do much better but my kids loved it and it's just got some lovely feelgood soft rock in it. I'd happily go for a can of oil with Mater. You just know you'd wake up groggy in a pitlane somewhere on another continent after a night out with him, Guido and Luigi.
Forest Gump
Tommy
Quadraphenia
Deadpool 1&2
paulneenan76
Free MemberLabyrinth.
Labyrinth soundtrack: Magic Dance, and, um... all that other stuff that nobody remembers. But Magic Dance!
Last of the Mohicans.
Yes, definitely yes, the soundtrack, like the film is so brilliant.
But I checked the whole thread and though Vietnam films have had a general reference, nobody nominated Platoon! (I had to restrain myself to only put in one exclamation mark). Any sound track with "White Rabbit" on it will take the win for me.
Lost Boys. Loved that soundtrack back in the day.
Pi
And Requiem for a Dream.
Who would have thought Vestan Pance could turn their hand to film scores!
The Big Chill - all very mainstream but every song a gem
Easy Rider - just brilliant
I went through a big Lalo Schifrin phase a while back, my favourite being Bullitt.
Regarding blaxpliotation soundtracks, I find some of the popular ones (Shaft, Superfly etc.) to each have several cracking songs, but few to be great from start to finish. My favourite in this genre is Savage, by Don Julian. Avoid if you can't abide jazz flute. A lovely album filled with jazz/soul/funk/Latin grooves.
Not seen the film, but the tagline is solid gold
