Thursday 22 December 2011

Top 5 Soundtracks

Since I had the idea in my last post I may as well do it as I'm bored out of my mind right now. So the best 5 soundtracks list is a go!

In Fifth, we have Megamind, the quirky animated comedy from Dreamworks Animation. The soundtrack from this film perfectly reflects the morals of our main character and antagonist of this film, or is he the protagonist? But with songs like Michael Jacksons, 'Bad' and AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell' its easy to see why the soundtrack reflects the characters personality so well. This film also has one of my favourite songs, 'Mr Blue Sky' by Electric Light Orchestra.

Fourth place is Kick-Ass, with a happy uplifting beat and music from the last few decades it gives a feel to the film that many soundtracks just fail to deliver these days. The soundtrack has the exact same feel as the film and the songs really relate to the characters. And its absolutely hilarious seeing a little girl murder to the tune of Banana Splits.

Just in front is Sucker Punch, where music plays a rather integral part to the film and Emily Browning's haunting rendition of 'Sweet Dreams' just achieves a very creepy effect that Zack Snyder was obviously aiming for. The music is also used as a representation to show us whether the characters are in this dream, trance world that they enter or in their dreary existence in this 'hospital' as the tempo is always much faster in these dream worlds and much more slower and a more depressing feel in the real world. Making the soundtrack needed to achieve the greatness of this film.

In second place is Quentin Tarintino's absolute masterpiece 'Pulp Fiction' with a soundtrack that fits the mood of the film just right and with songs that are just so catchy and memorable. Memorable much like every moment of this film.

Then the top of this list, is what I believe to be the most carefully picked soundtrack I have ever come across as the titles of the songs, the names of the bands and the actual lyrics all fit the themes of this film. With bands like 'Echo & The Bunnymen' and 'Tears For Fears' the names fit perfectly with the film and with 'Mad World' making an appearance and every line of it being completely relevant to the entire film as is every other song this soundtrack has hit the nail on the head and deserves the Shhh award for best soundtrack, Donnie Darko, ladies and gents.

As an honourable mention I will also say the work of Hans Zimmer has had a huge contribution to music in film and with an Oscar and God knows how many other awards to his name and 144 soundtracks he has been involved with he is a true legend and if it was up to me, he would have a spot in all 5 positions for his work on films like 'The Dark Knight' (shocker, i know), 'Sherlock Holmes', 'Black Hawk Down' and the many other truly amazing films he has been involved in.

Thanks for reading, tried to make this one a bit shorter, didn't really happen, sorry :P
Harry

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