Best Movie/Theme Tune or Score Match?

ShiverinEskimo

What song best suited a movie?
Any score's left your hairs on end at the perfect moment?
Any theme tunes make you wanna watch the movie any time you hear it.
I'm not looking for best soundtrack - but what song suits its movie fantastically?
If this has been done before i beg for forgiveness, but hey...

Third_Echelon

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

What song best suited a movie?
Any score's left your hairs on end at the perfect moment?
Any theme tunes make you wanna watch the movie any time you hear it.
I'm not looking for best soundtrack - but what song suits its movie fantastically?
If this has been done before i beg for forgiveness, but hey...

What song best suited a movie? Stuck in the middle with you - resevoir dogs. (For that scene anyway)

Any score's left your hairs on end at the perfect moment? Not that I can think of

Any theme tunes make you wanna watch the movie any time you hear it. Kelly's Heroes

thats way too much thinking dude for this hour of the evening...

grumpytrousers

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

What song best suited a movie?
Any score's left your hairs on end at the perfect moment?
Any theme tunes make you wanna watch the movie any time you hear it.
I'm not looking for best soundtrack - but what song suits its movie fantastically?
If this has been done before i beg for forgiveness, but hey...

If you're talking classical, i suppose the part of apocalypse now with the Wagner/helicopters is a bit good, and one of those things you'd love to experience in a full size cinema with proper surround sound...

if you're talking 'pop' music, I think Scorcese managed to cram in around forty eleven corkers into Goodfellas...highlights being (for me) Gimme Shelter, Layla (piano bit) and some other bit i can't remember, but it were a good 'un...all 3 adding bundles to the coke-addled mentality of Henry at the time of the movie when it's all coming undone...

OfflerCrocGod

The greatest.....The Greap Escape

bringitdown

Platoon - Barbers adagio for strings - the effect is a bit diluted now thanks to William Orbit

A Dub in Glasgo

The songs in Get Shorty suit the film down to the ground.

Tears for Fears 'Head over Heels' in Donnie Darko
Gary Jules version of Mad World at the end of Donnie Darko
Sinead O'Connor at the end of In the Name of the Father
The Long Road by Mark Knopfler in Cal
Perfect Day by Lou Reed in Trainspotting


I am sure there are loads more

shellspeare

What song best suited a movie? I loved The Doors in forest gump when he was off to Vietnam

Any score's left your hairs on end at the perfect moment? officer and a gentleman, love lifts you up, the final scene, classic

Any theme tunes make you wanna watch the movie any time you hear it.
kill bill vol 1

jacko

Karate Kid - "You're the best around" .. got to be all time classic. seein Daniel son kickin ass, must have been all that wax on, wax off, paint fence up -paint fence down crap but ya gotta love it

Big Nelly

Gary Jules version of Mad World at the end of Donnie Darko

Perfect day in Trainspotting! class!

RuggieBear

without sounding lame...i like the imperial march music from the Starwars movies...you know the one everyone has on their bloody mobile phones:(
Real sense of evil and foreboding about it..

grumpytrousers

RuggieBear wrote:

without sounding lame...i like the imperial march music from the Starwars movies...you know the one everyone has on their bloody mobile phones:(
Real sense of evil and foreboding about it..

See also Jaws, theme from....:D

ixoy

If you're talking original scores, then one of my fave is James Horner's compositions for 'Aliens'. Certain tracks, such as them fleeing from LV-426 just before she blows are perfection. Another great score is the Kronos Quarter/Clint Mansell's work on 'Requiem for a Dream'. I'd also like to nominate Howard Shore's work on LotR for throwing me back to the magical days. And in reusing classical terms, "The Blue Danube" allows throws me back to 2001 as, of course, "Also Sprach Zarathusra" (apes and bone!). Actually I could lots of others from Kubrick's works, such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Barry Lyndon".

As to great use of songs... well we had a thread on this last month but I'll reiterate: Pixie's "Where is My Mind?" instantly recalls The Narrator in the collapsing skyscrapers at the end of "Fight Club". That's number one on my list because it takes me back to the cinema, sitting there in a sort of numb "was that just as ****ing incredible as I thought it was?" daze. Tarantino has already been mentioned as has Donnie Darko. "Fields of Athenry", now, reminds me of Veronica Guerin being killed, even when not sung by a kid.

shellspeare

Big Nelly wrote:

Gary Jules version of Mad World at the end of Donnie Darko

Perfect day in Trainspotting! class!

Hi there fellow sheffielder

RuggieBear

ixoy wrote:

As to great use of songs... well we had a thread on this last month but I'll reiterate: Pixie's "Where is My Mind?" instantly recalls The Narrator in the collapsing skyscrapers at the end of "Fight Club". That's number one on my list because it takes me back to the cinema, sitting there in a sort of numb "was that just as ****ing incredible as I thought it was?" daze.

Totally agree.....