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.

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

Pre-movie, I think, but--Mike Oldfield!!! The Tubular Bells albums kick all sorts of butt. There's an orchestral version of the original album, then a 2nd Tubular Bells album, which has a guest stint for Alan Rickman doing a bit of narration. The credit lists "Wandering Player".

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.

Seriously, it's all the background bits that kill me. When the old couple clutches each other in bed, as the water rushes in. When the Mom in steerage recites Winken, Blinken, and Nod to her kids, trying to get them to sleep. Those are the parts that really just make me sob.

Then I remember how few people from Steerage made it off, and it makes me want to just curl up.

I also get sad when the mom is telling her kids the story of Tiernan-Ogg while the ship is going down. It must have been very hard for third class parents to keep a brave facade while accepting their fate and not scaring their kids.