As the holidays fast approach, I, and many other people, will begin to inevitably frequent the movie theaters to pay an exorbitant amount of money (the price of your house for a ticket and some popcorn, soda costs the furniture) and hopefully enjoy the moving images on the big screen. I have already visited the movie theater twice during my Thanksgiving break where I watched The Road and 2012 and consequently started thinking that the apocalypse fast approaches. Movie soundtracks (unless of course you are The Road which should not have had a soundtrack) usually are a fundamental part to the picture. The perfect song can make you cry during some scenes (see Titanic which my mother is still crying from) and can make you cringe and anticipate scary moments in horror flicks. It is the narration for the film and can often give a film the extra life it needs. Hey, if the movie is bad but the soundtrack is good you often do not think your taking out a second mortgage to see the movie in the movie theaters was in vain.
So, let us ponder what the best movie soundtrack is of all time. In this poll I am going to not put movies that were made specifically for the music provided (i.e. “A Hard Day’s Night” and “The Sound of Music”). While these may be some of the best movie sountracks of all time I would like to focus on films that were not made specifically for the music.
What do you think? If you have another movie that you really think is the best leave a comment and let us know what you think. I had trouble limiting my choices so, yeah, you have a nice amount to choose from.
The Music Court 
Regardless of where, when, or what context it’s in, I cannot hear the opening guitar riff of All Along the Watchtower without picturing Forrest Gump in Vietnam.
Yeah, movie soundtracks, especially those with a various amount of songs, can most definitely put an immediate picture to a song
I must say. Forrest Gump does dominate this poll. There was a great soundtrack recently, Watchmen, that could be put up there. They compiled some awesome songs for that movie.
Yes, good point. Watchmen was an interesting soundtrack. Probably had the best usage of “The Times They Are A Changin” in a movie that I have ever heard.
Forrest Gump is a popular pick, probably because the music, like Forrest, narrated the story
I know its predictable, but I had to go with Star Wars. John Williams is awesome.
As for best use of song in a movie though I have to go with ” For what its worth” in the opening of Lord of War.
Yeah. I agree with you that John Williams is the best movie music composer. The guy just seems to have a perfect formula.
That is also a great video. Love the song, never saw the movie