Best Film Scores

Ben Hur just came out on bluray and I'm so excited to get it.  It features a copy of some Charleton Heston journal entries during the filming of it.  And other new documentaries I haven't seen.

Ben Hur is one of my favorite films and certainly has the best film score out of any film I've seen.  So in honor of that, here are my favorite film scores.

These are my Favorite Film Scores. That is music that makes a film rock at what it is doing. Or enhances the epic factor of any film.

Top Ten
1) Ben-Hur
2) Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3) The Hours
4) Amelie
5) The Fountain
6) Hero
7) Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9) Pride and Prejudice
10) Schindler's List

Honorable Mentions:
Psycho, Star Wars, E.T., Schindler's List, Fiddler on the Roof (not listed because it is mostly a musical).

This list is subject to change like all of my lists.

Feel free to post your faves ;)

Featured photo.

A desert plant I found on a walk with my brother and dad in Alamogordo a couple years ago.


Remember how when you were in kindergarten and your teacher asked you to describe a picture? Maybe not. I had to describe a bear once.  I said things like it was fuzzy, and lovable and such.  I didn't really understand that it could potentially kill me.  Probably because of my ideal plaid teddy bear that my grandma let me play with.  Anyway, here is my 23-year-old attempt at a photo description 18 or so years later.

There's nothing special about it, it's beautiful.

It has purpose.

It has meaning.

It's got style.

It has eyeliner.

And borders.

It defines itself and its environment.

It could stab me and you.

It's not invisible.

It's not serving Tea.

It doesn't have insomnia.

And it's not in Alaska.

It does say something about its maker though.