BOT's Top 100 Film Scores: The Countdown Thread (2015 Edition) (#1 Revealed Page 14, Full List Page 15)

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So Tele after dat Transformers appearance I know what will cheer you up:



50. Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Original Music by Sergei Prokofiev
228 Points
Top 10 Placements: 2
Top 5 Placements: 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQXxabWZUqY


One of the handful of foreign films on this countdown is a classic Russian historical epic that is as blatant anti-German propaganda as can be. Prokofiev's score is old-fashioned for sure, but it's use of progressions, repetition, and slow escalation really helps to build tension and drama more and more until the clouds burst on the screen and in the ears.

[Kalo]

I hate most old film scores, I think they are really creepy sounding and annoying. especially ^ that. 

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49. Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Original Music by Basil Poledouris
229 Points
Top 10 Placements: 1
Top 5 Placements: 1
#1 Placements: 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4EjeCEbHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LckJTjGtz2M


This was my #1 pick on my list. There are some films that can be driven entirely by music alone, 100% of the length. Conan the Barbarian is one of them. Basil Poledouris crafts a beyond epic score that thrusts you back into a visceral, dramatic, and powerful audio adventure. The main theme builds you up for action like few others do and even incidental action music has a unique and stellar flair to it.

[Plain Old Tele]

One of the handful of foreign films on this countdown is a classic Russian historical epic that is as blatant anti-German propaganda as can be. Prokofiev's score is old-fashioned for sure, but it's use of progressions, repetition, and slow escalation really helps to build tension and drama more and more until the clouds burst on the screen and in the ears.

 

YESSSSSSSS

 

Back in the day I used to post links to "Battle on the Ice" on YouTube just to explain what Helm's Deep should feel like.

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48. Chinatown (1974)

Original Music by Jerry Goldsmith
230 Points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmOhNyitewI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6J2t_ov4VY


Master Goldsmith, one of the true musical legends, drops by our countdown with Roman Polanski's 1974 film noir set in Telelandia. Goldsmith's score definitely echoes the genre Polanski pays tribute to with its melanchoy trumpet solos and its eerie and unnerving incidental music. It's a body of work that works better as a whole washing over you with the film rather than isolated tracks listened to on their own.

[The Futurist]

Poledouris was a MASTER.

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47. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Original Music by John Williams
246 Points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awgAzxysyu0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIl7-rDOuTM



Star Wars finally arrives, with the final film of the Prequel Trilogy first at the plate. John Williams does a very good job of playing on existing themes developed in the previous five movies while also adding in one very strong theme and a bunch of nice little cues and incidental dramatic music. Especially in the second half of the film the score gets more operatic and in-your-face as the Sith unleash fire and fury on the galaxy and Anakin falls to the Dark Side. It's not the best Star Wars music, but it's certainly a good way to send a franchise out....for 10 years.

[TalismanRing]

YESSSSSSSS

 

Back in the day I used to post links to "Battle on the Ice" on YouTube just to explain what Helm's Deep should feel like.

 

The Battle on the Ice is just so damn brilliant.

 

I hate most old film scores, I think they are really creepy sounding and annoying. especially ^ that. 

 

Philistine!

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46. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Original Music by Elmer Bernstein
248 Points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KAjt7v4t4


One of the most famous Westerns out there shows up in the top half of our countdown. At the core of Elmer Bernstein's upbeat and vigourous score is a main theme that energizes everything along with confidence and bravado, the bombastic horns supported by quick-paced strings getting the blood pumping for a rip-roaring time. You can't ask for much better music in an adventure tale.

[The Futurist]

Some very old scores showing up, some I don t know especially the last one.

[Kalo]

Star Wars is the reason I love film scores.. I cannot wait for The Force Awakens score.. I'm almost as excited for it as I am for the movie. 

[The Panda]

Very happy Alexander Nevsky made it up this high! Its in my top 5

Transformers shouldn't be on the list but it's not a bad score, it has some good tracks actual but as whole it's not all that great. Plus it's pretty basic and unimpressive

Also very happy about the Magnificent Seven and Chinatown. Especially Magnificent Seven, its a brilliant and fun old western score, one of my favorites actually.

Edited April 28, 2015 by The Panda

[Kalderic]

I hate most old film scores, I think they are really creepy sounding and annoying. especially ^ that. 

 

Watch your mouth... the Russians were easily the greatest composers of the early 20th century... and Prokofiev was a sly, sick mother fucker who wrote some dark music. His ghost will find you if you belittle his works... 

[The Panda]

Watch your mouth... the Russians were easily the greatest composers of the early 20th century... and Prokofiev was a sly, sick mother fucker who wrote some dark music. His ghost will find you if you belittle his works...

I'm hoping another particular Prokofiev score that I like a bit more makes it...

[The Futurist]

I didn t know Prokoviev scored movies.

[Kalderic]

There are actually several classical composers who wrote for film, as well as many film score composers who have successful careers as classical composers outside of film. It's alway enjoyable seeing the cross between genres.

[The Futurist]

There are actually several classical composers who wrote for film, as well as many film score composers who have successful careers as classical composers outside of film. It's alway enjoyable seeing the cross between genres.

I know Williams and Morricone have written non score pieces.

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45. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Original Music by John Williams
250 Points
Top 10 Placements: 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR97f7t8HJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2XUJ5PWg-8


Our second Star Wars film on the countdown is the fourth one that was made, and the first one chronologically in the franchise. After 16 years John Williams returned to the Galaxy Far Far Away with a fun and energetic score that brought in several new themes, including an all-time fave of Star Wars fans everywhere, and a lot of solid incidental action cues. However you feel about the movie as a whole, there's no denying the skill put into its music.

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44. Henry V (1989)

Original Music by Patrick Doyle
254 Points
Top 10 Placements: 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-dR8HD45qs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FrLGB_oK8


Now we're talking. Kenny B and Pat Doyle reunite for their second and final time on the countdown. Doyle's music is epic and sweeping, using modern style yet at the same time feeling like stuff you could be hearing in the early 15th Century. His St. Crispin's Day cue is an all-time get psyched piece of music and his work in the Non Nobis Domine tracking shot is emotional and powerful. A lot of the wonder in this score comes down to Doyle's smart use of string instruments in various tones and speeds to get the dramatic tension of a particular scene across. If ddddeeee hadn't been lazy this could have been around 20 spots higher.

Edited April 29, 2015 by Numbers of Westeros

[Kalo]

Phantom Menace is too low. Duel of the Fates is one of the best themes ever composed.