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As a fan of symphonic and orchestral styles of metal, I also frequently enjoy whacking on the soundtracks from films. They're expressive, flowing pieces of music which capture a number of moods perfectly, and probably have a lot more influence on metal than you might think. After all, the guys who arrange orchestral backing the metal acts often have the same style of training and musical background to film composers. Feel the same? And which soundtracks do you guys tend to go towards? Here's a brief selection of my favourites: Pirates of the Caribbean (terrible, terrible films, but I try not to think about that ;) ) Inception Lord of the Rings The soundtrack to the original Medal of Honor game

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Re: Film Soundtracks The Dark Knight soundtrack was done by Hans Zimmer, who has also composed the soundtracks to Gladiator, one of the PotC films, Inception, and - amongst other things - the Simpsons! I'm not familiar with it personally, but you always know what you'll get from him: massive, deep sound, with powerful string and brass sections. I've not yet come across a bad soundtrack that he's done.

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Re: Film Soundtracks Yeah, the music in Blade Runner was fantastic. I think my vote for best movie score has to go to Mulholland Drive, it's one of my favorite movies and the music really adds to why I love it so much. Other movies that haven't been mentioned yet with great scores were 2001: A Space Odyssey (incredible tension and climax based around the music), There Will Be Blood, and Requiem For a Dream. Another of my favorite movies that has a great focus on musical juxtaposition from the events happening on screen is American Psycho, but that movie is all about self obsession dulling your perception and having to appear to be different than you actually are to fit in.

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Re: Film Soundtracks I feel like an idiot for not being familiar with much of his output, I think the only movie I've seen of his all the way through was The Birds, and that was when I was pretty young, so I don't remember much of it. This is why my Netflix queue is so long, I'm trying to get the count down under 500 before I start adding more...

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Re: Film Soundtracks the rest of my family were stunned the other day when they found out how many metal albums I own, currently somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty, they just can't believe there are that many metal albums, when I said I knew of people who had well over one thousand they were speechless, one can never have enough metal, but there are only so many good movies out there and that number seems to decrease yearly

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Re: Film Soundtracks I'm somewhere around 1600 albums right now, and I haven't even scratched the surface of the stuff that I know about that I like, let alone the stuff that I don't know about that I would like if I had heard it. The quality of mainstream movies has been going down, but just like with music, the mainstream is far from all that is out there.

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Re: Film Soundtracks actually there's a really good Australian movie that's a couple of years old now called Wolf Creek, it's difficult to call it a horror movie because it isn't exactly scary but it is fucked up in the way that what happens in the movie could happen in real life, and has it was inspired by two major crime events in Australian history

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One really' date=' really good recent one, actually, is the soundtrack to Moon. I think the film was released around 2009, and was directed by David Bowie's estranged son. It's worth a watch, too![/quote'] I enjoyed that movie as well, which is surprising because I don't think I've ever liked Sam Rockwell in any other movies before, and he's basically the only person in it. The ending was a bit predictable, but the atmosphere was great, so it was good overall.
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