Perplexed Sugar

Film music is an art form that rarely gets the respect it deserves. Many people can leave a theater and hardly even remember the score let alone recognize it when it plays during the movie. Most people probably just tune it out, their brain registering the sound as background music and nothing more. But film geeks understand how important it is to marry picture and sound together. Imagine Star Wars without it's iconic sweeping horns or Batman without Hans Zimmer's brooding strings. It brings life to pictures. If the script is the soul of the movie, the score has to be the heart, beating along to keep our attention engaged and our emotions in check.  Here are my top composers working today that breath fresh life into those flicks and always continue to tickle our ears with majestic musical fanfare. Michael Giacchino Selected Tracks: Letting Go - Super 8 Married Life - Up John Carter Of Mars - John Carter Special Order - Rataouille Q...

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The Death Note anime and manga are a classic. Now I know people throw around that term a lot these days. As a hip-hop fan, every time a new album comes out from a top tier rapper people always post "CLASSIC" and they haven't even finished the damn album. But in this case it's true. The complex story weaves perfectly around the excellent written characters and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end. I have all black books of the manga and watched the anime series twice now and I haven't seen another story with so much suspense upheld over a long period of time.  Only masterful juggling act I can remember that rivals the thrilling pace in series form is Dexter Season 1& 2. The Netflix movie is...not that good. I'm all for changing things for film adaptations. I understand that film is a completely different medium than video games or comics or novels. Besides even if the adaptation is shit I always have the original to fall back on. And if i...