• tehciolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Reservoir Dogs

    Tarantino has a good feel for scores in general, but this one is perfect.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Not my favorite because I don’t really pick favorites but I remember that forgettable vampire movie, the one with Aaliyah, had a pretty good soundtrack. If you like early 2000s rock.

  • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Choosing is too difficult, it all depends on your mood in a given moment.

    Some favourite OSTs:

    • 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Blade Runner
    • Ghost in the Shell 1/2
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Scarface
    • Trainspotting
    • Six-String Samurai
    • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
    • The Matrix
    • The Terminator
    • City of God / Cidade de Deus
    • StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops / Keruberosu: Jigoku no Banken
    • Guest from the Future / Gostya iz budushchego (technically a mini-series)
    • The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! / Ironiya Sudbi, ili si Lehkim Parom
  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I can’t answer what my favorite is per se, but two of the most memorable scores I can think of are for Swiss Army Man and Ravenous.

    I believe Daniels tapped the band Manchester Orchestra to do the music for Swiss Army Man. For whatever reason, they chose to have Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe sing on the soundtrack and the lyrics are usually just narrating what is happening on screen. case in point. It’s a lot of fun.

    Equally avant-garde, but substantially more “challenging”, shall we say, the score for Ravenous is very striking and idiosyncratic, as befitting the film it’s accompanying. Also written by a popular musician, in part at any rate. Michael Nyman, the second composer, said Damon Albarn (of Blur and, later, The Gorillaz) wrote about 60% of the tracks and he composed the remainder. Several of the tracks were performed by people who had never played their assigned instruments before in their lives, to create a deliberately off-putting soundscape. Others are traditional period marching songs befitting the frontier America setting. Some are based around electronic loops and samples. And others are very traditional, pleasant (if ominous) orchestra pieces. It’s really a wild listen. Check it out for yourself.

    • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I’ll throw another vote for Ravenous. That movie has been a huge part of my life and in no small part thanks to the soundtrack.

      It was the last movie I saw with my dad before he passed and it was a great one to discuss over a cup of coffee after.

      The recently highdef releases we’re great.

      • redhorsejacket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        Man, I literally wound up listening to that entire playlist last night after I posted the comment. I’ve only seen the film once, probably a decade or more in the past at this point, so I really only had the overall impression of the score in my head. It’s even better than I remember it.

        Also, I put together that Nyman also composed the score to Gattaca, which is another very stirring soundtrack. I can hear elements it in the more traditional portions of Ravenous.