Favorite Film Scores 00-09
 

What are some of your favorite film scores of the 2000s? If you want to throw out soundtracks too, that's fine- but I'd like to keep those separate.

Probably my top three...
Gladiator -- Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
Requiem For A Dream -- Clint Mansell
Blood Diamond -- James Newton Howard

I'll stick to that trio for now, to give others an opportunity to name some.

The Fountain - Clint Mansell. By far my favourite of recent years. I loved the Solaris S/T too but it's quite mellow and understated too. There Will be Blood was another highlight but definitely something you have to be in the mood for.

Heartlands by John McCusker and Kate Rusby is a wonderful folk soundtrack and of course the S/T to the film Once has some wonderful tunes.

The Fountain is great - big fan of whatever Mansell touches. Ohh, the violin. One that just came to mind in terms of both a solid score and OST was Into The Wild, with Eddie Vedder laying down some licks. Also should mention Lost In Translation OST - Death In Vegas, JAMC, AIR, Phoenix, and My Bloody Valentine all featured.

A lot of good scores this decade. Some films that come to mind concerning their original score:
- Amélie by Yann Tiersen
- Mulholland Dr. by Angelo Badalamenti
- Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain by Clint Mansell
- The lives of others by Gabriel Yared

I'll maybe name some others later.

Mine would definitely be all three of the LOTR scores by Howard Shore. They move my heart.

I think these were scores, the first one definitely was. And they are both amazing.

Plaid - Tekkonkinkreet OST (2007)

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Plaid - Heaven's Door OST (2008)

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The Punch-Drunk Love soundtrack by Jon Brion was some great minimalistic stuff. I've never owned it, but it suits the movie incredibly well.

The soundtrack to The Fountain is on regular rotation in my house. When i first heard it I didn't realise that it was by the same chap who did 'Def Con One' with PWEI years ago!

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And then a bunch of others that I can't remember.

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Highly, highly recommend getting this even if you haven't seen the film (I hadn't when I first got it).

The Village - Even though I didn't really like the movie, i loved the score.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Seriously, these movies are so important to the popular culture of this decade it's not funny.

Reqiuem For a Dream
Donnie Darko
Moon

My favourite of all time is only a few months too old of being elligible for this list:
Fight Club, by the Dust Brothers. Jesus, that had good music.

Lotr!

Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) by Hungarian director Bela Tarr has a beautiful score.

A very challenging movie to watch because it is REALLY slow (Tarr also directed the movie Sátántangó, which was over 7 hours long).

I don't want to give away to much but there is a scene where the mob destroys the local hospital almost in complete silence, no grunting or screaming, you can only hear the sound of things being broken. It ends when the mob discovers an old man, and at this point the music comes on... This scene has really benn branded into my mind, I can recall it so vividly.

Check it out if you are into art house films!

Nicholas Hoopers score for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is my favorite

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This thread has a bit of a date stamp: opened in Jan 2010 to review the previous decade. I for one would be quite happy to talk hear about any filmscore/soundtrack from 2000 til today. What do you think? It's pretty safe to say that pourmeanother is not going to complain.

EDIT: oops... missed the bit about it having to be from 2000 to 2009. I've heard many good film scores from that time period, but... none have been burned into my memory yet. The movies I have watched many times are mostly older than that, giving me less of a chance to have forged those connections with newer movies.

Dracula (the Coppola movie from 1993) has a really great, dark, gothic orchestral score that does a lot to enhance the dark mood of the movie. It's composed by some guy named Wojciech Kilar, whose other works I'm not familiar with. I'm not actually sure if he's a classically trained composer or just a "regular" film soundtrack composer.



The japanese anime movie Paprika also has a fantastic soundtrack, composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who has published many albums with his particular style of electronic music. He also did the soundtrack for the anime series Berserk, so quite a pedigree - at least for people who are into that sort of thing. I love the opening scene of Paprika, featuring Hirasawa's music front and center.

Peter Pan
 

I think I'd have to go with the live-action Peter Pan movie from 2003. James Newton Howard is awesome.

Something about 'Fairy Dance' is peaceful and calming, plus it works well when I'm trying to study or work.