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Atomic Blonde has a fantastic 80's soundtrack.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:10 pm
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Some great suggestions, but

Baby Driver

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You guys need to pay attention.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:13 pm
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The Business.

Bizarrely not ruined by the inclusion of Danny Dyer, great 80’s soundtrack.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:30 pm
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Or Sexy Beast.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:32 pm
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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


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:32 pm
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Final one…..24hr Party People.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:35 pm
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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


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:45 pm
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Good call on american graffiti


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 8:53 pm
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Good call on american graffiti

Certainly is. Popsicle?

Also +1 for Easy Rider.


 
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+1 for Garden State. It’s probably a bit marmite but I thought it was a great movie too and very chilled soundtrack.


 
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Dead Mans Shoes (most Shane Meadows films really)
Drive
High Fidelity
Kill bill


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 9:14 pm
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The Life Aquatic.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 9:23 pm
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Couple of others that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Cruel Intentions
Miami Vice


 
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Baby Driver

Also, Driver


 
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Sucker Punch.


 
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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


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 10:50 pm
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To Live And Die In LA - Wang Chung's finest moment.... especially the fake money printing scene.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 10:59 pm
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Errrrrr

American Werewolf in London

Not only a great soundtrack but adds to the comedy value of the film.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:11 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:12 pm
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Assault on Precinct 13, John Carpenter, I can't believe it's not been mentioned yet.

Also worth a mention is Training Day.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:13 pm
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Lost In Translation.

Any Shane Meadows.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:29 pm
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Shockingly I'm going for Akira, second The Good the Bad and the Ugly et al though.


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:48 pm
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I was told to say Dirty Dancing but most of mine have been mentioned:
Trainspotting
The Crow


 
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The Crow

+1, the only time I've watched a film and actively bought the soundtrack.

Surprised no-one has dare mention Xanadu 😂


 
Posted : 10/07/2021 11:57 pm
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zinaru sed>

the holy mountain

This is also rather good.


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 12:21 am
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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

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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.


 
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Lots of my favourites listed above but to add; Gross Point Blank, Purple Rain and Labyrinth.


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 12:27 am
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Northern Soul
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Northern-Soul-The-Soundtrack/release/6096923


 
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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.


 
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Forest Gump
Tommy
Quadraphenia
Deadpool 1&2


 
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Labyrinth.

Labyrinth soundtrack: Magic Dance, and, um... all that other stuff that nobody remembers. But Magic Dance!


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 2:36 am
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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.


 
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Lost Boys. Loved that soundtrack back in the day.


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 7:47 am
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Pi

And Requiem for a Dream.
Who would have thought Vestan Pance could turn their hand to film scores!


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 7:55 am
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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


 
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Secret life of Walter Mitty.

player one.

Rocky 4.

Restless natives.


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 8:49 am
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The Blues Brothers
The Commitments
These are to be expected really

Guardians of The Galaxy (both of them)


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 8:55 am
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/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.

Yes you are quite right about how the songs work with the film so I'll have to give it a watch 👍🏻


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 10:10 am
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INRAT

American Werewolf in London


 
Posted : 11/07/2021 10:15 am
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Good to see morricone and lalo schiffrin already mentioned.

Quincy Jones should also get a shout for his many fine soundtrack contributions.

It might not be the best overall soundtrack, but is there a better musical moment than the escape scene in The Italian Job?


 
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Night fever


 
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Big Lebowski


 
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Drive
Django Unchained


 
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Friday Night Lights


 
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Paint Your Wagon.

Last of the Mohicans. I saw the film & immediately bought the soundtrack, so yeah, epic.


 
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