From AMG:

Darren Aronofsky's second film Requiem for a Dream features a score from his Pi collaborator, former Pop Will Eat Itself vocalist/guitarist Clint Mansell. This time, Mansell blends his usual electronic/industrial leanings with brooding, evocative performances from the Kronos Quartet. As with Pi, Mansell's compositions play a large part in Requiem for a Dream, which is an adaptation of Hubert Selby's 1978 novel about the harrowing lives of four drug addicts. Impressively, Mansell's score manages to be appropriately dark and disturbing, as well as compulsively listenable. by Heather Phares

So. Try the soundtrack for Pi. Or maybe something by Pop Will Eat Itself. Or possibly something by Kronos Quartet (though they vary quite a bit from album to album depending obviously on the composer).

But what do glasses have to do with Titanic?

Hee. I came this close to posting something very similar.

I heard bits of Howard Shore's score for Naked Lunch, and was pretty impressed by its jazzy, quirky style. I might end up getting it from Amazon.

I have the three LotR soundtracks, as well as the one from Pirates of the Caribbean, which I don't listen to that much since it's pretty repetitive around the same theme that gets old really fast, and also the rerecorded soundtrack for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was directed by Elmer Bernstein back in 1996 and is more complete than the original release from forty years ago. That one is still one of my favorite scores, and I highly recommend buying it.

Leo was great in Catch Me If You Can. And honestly, I think he was really good in Titanic, too, but so many people hate that movie, just because of the sheer size of it, and the dominance it had. Which is kind of sad, but oh well.

I like Titanic not because of the movie itself but the emotions that I feel while watching, knowing that it really happened. One of the times that I saw it in the theater I started crying (actually bawling) when Old Rose says, "I have no pictures of him. He only exists in my memory." I immediately thought of my grandfather who died in 1993 from complications of cancer. I was really missing him at that point and the movie brought it to the surface of my mind.

Movies should do this. I know that some are all emotion, others are all spectacle, but Titanic seemed to do both and I appreciate that.

The only instrumental soundtrack I've ever noticed and liked enough to buy is the one for Requiem for a Dream. Is there anything similar out there?

Side note to this: One of the LOTR:TT previews used an arrangement of this main score from Requiem for a Dream.

I was addicted to The Mission soundtrack during university. I wonder if it holds up. Is Tubular Bells the Exorcist score, or is it just music used a little in the movie?

The Princess Bride is almost all instrumental (love song over the credits), and I adore it. And I have some iteration of the !Blade Runner music too, which I quiet enjoy. The Big Blue is marvellous, except for the one track with the dialogue clips for the movie.

Taste caveat: I adore the PotC soundtrack, and listen to it multiple times a week. It's entrancing and easy.

Naked Lunch

"I can think of two things that are wrong with that title." t /Nelson

Hmm, instrumental scores I've bought: Get Shorty, Ravenous and Crash are the only ones I can think of on CD off the top of my head. I've got a few more on vinyl.

Plus a whole bunch of song-compilation soundtracks in both formats.

I know that some are all emotion, others are all spectacle, but Titanic seemed to do both and I appreciate that.

The part that always gets me is a background bit, where a family from steerage is trying to decipher the signs that point to the boat deck, and Dad has the translation book and is trying to be calm and help his family. Then I remember how few people from Steerage made it off, and it makes me want to just curl up.

Is Tubular Bells the Exorcist score, or is it just music used a little in the movie?

There is a whole album called Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield, but I don't know if it was pre or post movie.

There is a whole album called Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield

::imdbs::

Okay, Mike's credited under Non-Original Music.

Okay -- so I scratch that from my owned score/soundtrack list.