Topic: Favorite movie...based on the soundtrack (Read 28687 times)

Thrillho · « **Reply #50 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 03:20 »

Assuming that was in jest, you'll fit in well here.

Inlander · « **Reply #51 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 04:51 »

Hey, I like the Shins!

Zach Braff's funny-lookin', though.

_yoda · « **Reply #52 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 05:09 »

I have nothing against the Shins either, but if I had a dollar for every person who told me to check out "this awesome unknown band" when Garden State came out...

In fact probably half of the cuts on the soundtrack are pretty great, but the album itself seemed to be a new touchstone for people to grab hold of once they figured "being indie" was cool.

Or something. I dunno.

Thrillho · « **Reply #53 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 07:26 »

There's nothing wrong with the Shins at all, it was the way the post was worded that made it funny.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #54 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 15:01 »

Quote from: _yoda on 16 Oct 2008, 05:09

In fact probably half of the cuts on the soundtrack are pretty great, but the album itself seemed to be a new touchstone for people to grab hold of once they figured "being indie" was cool.

Such things are a necessary evil. If she had played him "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" instead of that Shins song, I doubt anyone would be complaining that a bunch of new people got into NMH because of it.

Also, that movie is amazing, fuck the haters.

Lamrock · « **Reply #55 on:** 16 Oct 2008, 15:33 »

Trainspotting, narrowly over Donnie Darko.

AanAllein · « **Reply #56 on:** 17 Oct 2008, 19:28 »

It is very tempting to name Trainspotting simply because it opens and closes with two of my favourite songs, but I am a touch resentful of Born Slippy at the same time. Far too many people seem to regard Underworld as this one-hit-wonder band because of the song, which bugs me. It's not even their best dance song (likely "Pearl's Girl") or their best song (in my opinion, "Jumbo" by far).

Besides, Trainspotting would really be chosen on the basis of the songs on the soundtrack rather than the soundtrack within the film. Dismissing Trainspotting, I am torn between:

Requiem for a Dream, for obvious reasons. It's not coincidental that every second film trailer nowadays rips this soundtrack off...

Vertigo, because the score here is just perfect for developing and sustaining the mood. <3 Bernard Hermann

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 Oct 2008, 19:31 »

The soundtrack for There Will Be Blood is incredible.

Also, I just saw Vanilla Sky and was happily impressed with the music for it.

Can't think of an all-time favorite right now.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #58 on:** 17 Oct 2008, 19:37 »

Vanilla Sky most definitely had pretty much perfect music in it. My girlfriend at the time and I saw it in the theater and had to like, physically restrain ourselves from yelling "HOLY FUCK" when "Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space" started playing.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #59 on:** 17 Oct 2008, 19:50 »

On the subject of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I haven't listened to Nick Cave at all until this movie. What is his music like?

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #60 on:** 17 Oct 2008, 19:58 »

Nick Cave is the corpse of Elvis brought back to life using Voodoo magic and then possessed by a demon and dressed like hitman.

Listen to him now.

Er, you cunts.

Start with Abbatoir Blues or Let Love In.

Hljómalind · « **Reply #61 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 10:31 »

Acceptably, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Death Proof. Probably less acceptably, Juno and Definitely, Maybe. The score for another Coen Brothers film, Raising Arizona, is very cool. Deliverance is worth watching just for "Duelling Banjos". And, I guess Almost Famous has a pretty good soundtrack - and Dazed and Confused works, even if I don't like all the songs in themselves. Best scores are by John Carpenter and Ennio Morricone - The Untouchables is amazing. Oh, and I have a residual fondness for Ash's cover of "Cantina Band" from Star Wars.

As for TV shows, I would say The West Wing. Yes, I'm biased as it's my favourite show, but they make the best possible use of Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" cover, and they have amazing versions of "Shed a Little Light" (James Taylor) by Aimee Mann and "A Change is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) by James Taylor. Plus they use Ryan Adams ("Desire", from the underrated Demolition album). I always liked ER's music choices as well, and though I didn't watch the show religiously, it was cool that Friends used Jefferson Airplane at the end.

BrilliantEraser · « **Reply #62 on:** 18 Oct 2008, 13:40 »

Quote from: _yoda on 16 Oct 2008, 01:55

OMG Garden State is liek totally my favourite

You are wonderful, mostly because I was thinking the exact same thing (sarcastically, of course).

My favorite movie based on the soundtrack is probably The Beatles' Yellow Submarine

JayJayD · « **Reply #63 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 12:58 »

Really, really surprised noone has mentioned it yet:

Dead Man

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #64 on:** 20 Oct 2008, 13:53 »

Royal Tennenbaums had a great soundtrack. Actually, all of Wes Anderson's movies have great music.

Beren · « **Reply #65 on:** 21 Oct 2008, 06:02 »

Quote from: carrotosaurus on 20 Oct 2008, 13:53

Royal Tennenbaums had a great soundtrack. Actually, all of Wes Anderson's movies have great music.

The man should just make mix tapes for a living. Not that that could really be a living, or anything.

stale · « **Reply #66 on:** 21 Oct 2008, 10:03 »

The only two movies I have ever commented on it's soundtrack while watching it for the first time were:

Kill Bill vol. 2
Wall-E

Duke · « **Reply #67 on:** 29 Oct 2008, 09:03 »

Hackers. HACKERS. What is WRONG with you people!?

Some people have mentioned Trainspotting (and I will too,) and someone mentioned that they don't want to say Trainspotting because they think everyone thinks Underworld is a one-hit-wonder due to "Born Slippy". I have to disagree with the assessment that "Pearl's Girl" is their best dance track - that would have to be "Cowgirl."

Some others have mentioned "Into the Wild" whose soundtrack is by Eddie Vedder. I bought the album but couldn't get into anything other than the popular track "Hard Sun".

Even though I haven't seen the movie, I'll mention "Singles" because it has Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Smashing Pumpkins, and Alice in Chains.

But seriously. Hackers. There are also two additional compilations - Hackers 2 and Hackers 3 - neither of which are from a movie. They're "Music Inspired by the Motion Picture Hackers." I can't remember, but Hackers 2 may have a few tracks from the movie that didn't make it on the first soundtrack release. So there you go - a single movie with a full soundtrack and two additional inspired collections.

Broken_Drum · « **Reply #68 on:** 29 Oct 2008, 09:13 »

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,
Solaris,
The Virgin Suicides

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #69 on:** 29 Oct 2008, 10:56 »

The "I'm Not There" soundtrack is great.

It's a great album full of great songs covered by great bands written by Bob Dylan.

Thrillho · « **Reply #70 on:** 30 Oct 2008, 08:35 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 17 Oct 2008, 19:50

On the subject of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, I haven't listened to Nick Cave at all until this movie. What is his music like?

Bob Dylan as a Satanist, sung by Johnny Cash. Only with more sex.

Start with Let Love In or Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #71 on:** 30 Oct 2008, 08:45 »

Quote from: Jackie Blue on 17 Oct 2008, 19:58

Start with Abbatoir Blues or Let Love In.

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 30 Oct 2008, 08:35

Start with Let Love In or Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus.

It's already been taken care of.

Edit:

Quote from: Jackie Blue on 17 Oct 2008, 19:58

Nick Cave is the corpse of Elvis brought back to life using Voodoo magic and then possessed by a demon and dressed like hitman.

What a damned accurate description.

dd528 · « **Reply #72 on:** 18 Nov 2008, 16:45 »

Mean Streets fo sho. And I'd second Dead Man.

RedLion · « **Reply #73 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 00:08 »

The Darjeeling Limited had a pretty kickass soundtrack. DeVotchKa is a great band.

Dazed · « **Reply #74 on:** 20 Nov 2008, 05:15 »

28 Days/Weeks Later
Almost Famous
LoTR 2. I loves me some Rohan strings.

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #75 on:** 23 Nov 2008, 09:39 »

The Blues Brothers.

Ballard · « **Reply #76 on:** 23 Nov 2008, 10:04 »

I'll second any Wes Anderson movie.

Seu George and his Portuguese Bowie covers practically made The Life Aquatic.

nice! · « **Reply #77 on:** 23 Nov 2008, 13:27 »

How about Lost In Translation?

Krina · « **Reply #78 on:** 29 Nov 2008, 15:57 »

I agree on the Virgin Suicides.

Also, I saw this movie Waltz with Bashir the other night, I think it just came out? It's about what happenend during the Lebaonese war of 1982 and it's an animated movie. While the film was good but quite down-pulling at times, the music was excellent and haunting, at times it deepened what the pictures told you and at times it was in a total contrast to the images. Everybody should see / listen to that film.

MrBlu · « **Reply #79 on:** 29 Nov 2008, 17:57 »

Er, Pump Up The Volume... Wait, that was already my favorite movie, but the soundtrack was BOSS anyways. Sonic Youth AND Above The Law... Srsly.

Robert Paulson · « **Reply #80 on:** 30 Nov 2008, 06:55 »

Juno or Eternal Sunshine
maybe even Pulp Fiction

I was wondering if anybody had the soundtrack to choke?

eddie · « **Reply #81 on:** 30 Nov 2008, 10:48 »

I've lost all faith in this forum already. How has no one said Star Wars? The siginature darth vader/dark side tune is amazing.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #82 on:** 30 Nov 2008, 12:17 »

Yeah we don't usually like to suck the dick of John Williams that much 'round these parts. He's certainly not that shithead Danny Elfman by any means, but there's a lot better options out there.

Cyanide09 · « **Reply #83 on:** 02 Dec 2008, 04:10 »

There Will Be Blood has an awesome soundtrack. I mean GODDAMNED AWESOME, but then that was a given since Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) composed it

Blade Runner has a good one too, atmospheric

and my third choice is Into the Wild, Eddie Vedder + Kaki King is a great combination

Carabas · « **Reply #84 on:** 02 Dec 2008, 05:20 »

A Scanner Darkly. The music is extremely well done for background music, fits well with the scenes, and just adds to the feel of the movie. It's not the sort of stuff I'd listen to very much without the film rolling, but it's still pretty good. The Sting is up there as well, partly because ragtime is kickass, partly because of how anachronistic it is while still keeping with the feel of the movie.

Kill.kenada · « **Reply #85 on:** 02 Dec 2008, 06:52 »

Akira.

Some of that music is breathtaking.
Check out Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Runa · « **Reply #86 on:** 03 Dec 2008, 21:13 »

Laugh if you want, Apocalypse Now.
The End at the beginning simply gives me chills.

Star Wars. Sue me. "Across the Stars" was amazing.
I had a solo on my flute, accompanied by a violin.. and I cried during my solo. Violin's really get to me, I love them, and I've always wanted to learn how to play. I've just never taken the time.

300 is another one.

ambguitar · « **Reply #87 on:** 03 Dec 2008, 23:53 »

The soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James is amazing, but for some reason I found I only liked it on CD and not while watching the movie. The way they edited it into the movie was very poorly done for a lot of the songs. Still a pretty good movie, though.

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mond-amazing movie, amazing soundtrack
Royal Tenenbaums-the soundtrack really set the mood for this one.

Faker · « **Reply #88 on:** 04 Dec 2008, 10:43 »

Ok think most of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll just mention one that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned... Platoon!

Quote from: Hljómalind on 18 Oct 2008, 10:31

As for TV shows, I would say The West Wing. Yes, I'm biased as it's my favourite show, but they make the best possible use of Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" cover, and they have amazing versions of "Shed a Little Light" (James Taylor) by Aimee Mann and "A Change is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) by James Taylor. Plus they use Ryan Adams ("Desire", from the underrated Demolition album). I always liked ER's music choices as well, and though I didn't watch the show religiously, it was cool that Friends used Jefferson Airplane at the end.

Also in the West Wing, love the use of Massive Attack as Leo is running to tell the President about the kidnapping.

And if we are mentioning use of music in T.V. shows - The Sopranos.

DanteShepherd · « **Reply #89 on:** 04 Dec 2008, 12:13 »

Run Lola Run.

The soundtrack just makes the entire movie. I've rewatched the entire movie without subtitles just because the soundtrack kicked that much ass.

MrBlu · « **Reply #90 on:** 04 Dec 2008, 14:19 »

Has anyone said August Rush yet? I love Kaki King, she makes me happy. It's kind of a chick-flick, but I watched it with over a girl's house, and I actually liked it. The story was kind of cheesy, but musically, it was really well done.

Yoeni · « **Reply #91 on:** 06 Dec 2008, 03:39 »

Quote from: ambguitar on 03 Dec 2008, 23:53

Royal Tenenbaums-the soundtrack really set the mood for this one.

Yeah I loved that Nico part, was very nicely done.

Fight Club is amazing because of the Pixies, but mostly because of Tom Waits' 'Goin' Out West' when they enter the bar. Goosebumps every time, so badass and perfectly fitting lyrics. Here's the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJIurfr2nI

Also Taxi Driver with Robert DeNiro is one of the best scores ever made. Bernard Hermann made a very dark jazzy soundtrack for that movie, and it really set the mood.

stereobreadstick · « **Reply #92 on:** 06 Dec 2008, 04:20 »

Kontroll, not to be confused with Control. It's a Hungarian movie about the ticket checkers on the Budapest metro system, although that description doesn't really do it justice. The soundtrack has a lot of really cool electronic music that really makes the atmosphere of the movie that much more ominous and interesting.

evilCarl · « **Reply #93 on:** 07 Dec 2008, 13:31 »

I definitely have to agree with Everything is Illuminated (of course, I almost ruined it for myself by constantly having "Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordelo constantly playing in my head) O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Juno.

As for a movie not mentioned, The Last King of Scotland is amazing for anyone interested in African music.

Catacombs · « **Reply #94 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:58 »

I just watched "Wanted" and i thought it made good use of its soundtrack. Also, the one song (i don't know who its by but the vocalist sounds kind of like the guy from Cold War Kids) they play a lot in it sounds like "Goin' Out West" by Tom Waits.

atimholt · « **Reply #95 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 19:09 »

The Fountain.
Back to the Future.
Give my Regards to Broad Street. (which is more or less just a series of music videos. Paul McCartney.)
Hook
Bunches more that I can't think of (great movie

)

I like the use of that Queen song in "Shaun of the Dead."

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #96 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 20:16 »

Guys guys I forgot about The Illusionist.

I love Phillip Glass

Uber Ritter · « **Reply #97 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:09 »

Speaking of Phillip Glass...

Koyaanisqatsi. Sure, the movie and the soundtrack are pretty indistinguishable in some ways, in that at least the movie is inconceivable without the soundtrack.

Ran. Atonal flute music for the win.

These have been my hipster asshole suggestions.

Donnie Darko, Once and Lost in Translation also had good soundtracks.

Ballard · « **Reply #98 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:31 »

The soundtrack to Ran only made it more terrifying. I guess this is a good thing.

Harun · « **Reply #99 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 23:03 »

Tabarly

(I haven't even seen the movie, but it is probably awesome just because of the music)

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