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What underrated or average movies have the best musical scores?

I love listening to movie scores and some of them are pretty famous mainly from winning and being nominated for awards. Those films also usually receive accolades in general which makes it seem like only critically acclaimed movies have great scores which isn t the case. There are a few that I really love, the movie "Days of Heaven" has a score, some of it was even used in the "Beauty and the Beast", particularly in the very beginning when the prince s story is being told. Another one is "The Next Three Days". It s a pretty good Russel Crowe film that just came and went which is a shame partly because of the great music that was composed for it. "Blood Diamond" is another one and even though it was popular during the 2006 award season, a lot of people either haven t seen it, haven t heard of it, or can t remember it and again, that sucks since the soundtrack is amazing. Other scores that I love is "The Truman Show", "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", and I also have to mention the TV show "Lost", which also had great music.

Can you think of any other little-known, under-appreciated, or even bad movies that have great scores?

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hannibal had a wonderful musical score, worthy of the classics, but was an absolute piece of trash as a movie.

    It's not an average movie, but The Right Stuff had a magnificent score. It wasn't underrated either, as it won Academy Awards- but it is a neglected film.

    The Japanese movie Antarctica had a great soundtrack also- a good movie, though not well known in the US. It was the highest earnings of any Japanese movie at the time it was made (1983), same year as The Right Stuff.

    The New World also had magnificent music. I am not a Wagnerian but the use of the Overture from Das Rheingold was brilliant.

  • James
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Waking Ned Devine. It's a very good but underrated comedy setting in a small sea-side village in Ireland, and it has a beautiful score composed by Shaun Davey. Here is the opening track:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4FWkLc1Og0

  • LilyRT
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    i love the score for The Firm. the jazz / blues is great.

    the soundtrack for Twilight and New Moon are fantastic even though the story is…well, you know.

  • D J
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Highlander, soundtrack by Queen!

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