The Best Film Scores of All Time

  I am a huge film score buff. Film scores set the mood of the film and also capture the emotion of the characters and their surroundings in a film. So without a score, the film is just dry with talking and no music. Some movies don't have a score because it feels more realistic and dramatic. Anyway here is my list of the best Film Scores of all time.
1. The Molly Maguires by Henry Mancini. This film and it's epic score has a connection to my area because the movie was filmed around where I live. The score is one of those that captures the hardships of an Irish coal miner in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1870s, it also brings the surroundings to life when the mines are being sabotaged by the Molly Maguires. It is one of those scores that is truly underrated and should have been nominated for an Academy Award for best score.
2. The Social Network by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I knew off the bat that Trent Reznor would win the Academy Award for best score when it was announced he was scoring The Social Network. Not only did the industrial score capture the dark emotion that went into the founding of Facebook, it also was the perfect type of music for a film about computers and the internet.
3. The Brave Little Toaster by David Newman. This score is one of the many that defined my childhood. Not only would I hum the score sometimes throughout my day, I would know every part of it with a passion. Fortunately I am lucky enough to own the CD release of the soundtrack which is long out of print. It's supposedly one of David Newman's favorite scores he worked on and it's one of mine as well.
4. Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog by John Scott. This film was one of my favorites growing up as a child. The score was one of the best ever composed for a children's film. Not only does John Scott capture the emotion and mood of a teenager and his dog getting shipwrecked in British Columbia, it captures the emotion of their various dangerous encounters with the wildlife in the wilderness and the epic search and rescue music is one of my all time favorite score tracks of all time.
5. Midnight Express by Giorgio Moroder. This score is one of the best Academy Award for best Original score winners of all time. It was way ahead of it's time using synthesizers which pioneered the disco era of music. It also captured the dark and depressing mood of being an American locked up in a Turkish prison. This is one of those scores that paved the way for The Social Network to win best score.
6. Jaws by John Williams. Do I need to explain this one?
7. The Good The Bad and The Ugly by Ennio Morricone. I don't need to explain the best western score of al time do I?
8. Star Wars by John Williams. I don't need to explain this one.
9. Batman Forever by Elliot Goldenthal. As much as this film gets a bad rap from Batman fans alike, however I love the score, its one of the many I would hum everyday. The score is better than the film.
10. Jurassic Park by John Williams. If I have to explain this to you. I will facepalm myself.

SyFy Channel Original Movies Are Unoriginal and Bad

  Every once in a while my mom will have on the SyFy Channel and they would be showing one of their original movies. I can tell you this they are all cheesy and predictable. These movies are 99.999% bad that they are actually riffable. If you are reading this post and wondering what I mean by riffable I will tell you. Riffing is when you crack jokes at a horrible movie. If any of you are familiar with the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 or MST3K for short you will know what I am referring about. You probably know or have heard about Rifftrax which is basically the same thing as MST3K.
  Now if you go onto IMDB and look up one of these movies, you'll notice that they all have low user ratings. This alone just goes to show how bad these movies are. Take the movie Snakehead Terror for instance. This movie is allegedly based on actual events that took place at a lake in Northern Maryland. Now the problem with this movie is that it is unoriginal. Why is it unoriginal? Well considering that this movie is a ripoff of a couple of major blockbuster movies, such as the Jaws franchise, Lake Placid series and Piranha. Lets investigate how similar Snakehead Terror is to Jaws shall we. First off both Jaws and Snakehead terror have law enforcement officials as main characters. Jaws has a police chief and Snakehead Terror has a sheriff. Second Jaws and Snakehead Terror both deal with a town that has a tourism industry that is being threatened by a man eating monster. Third the head of the local law enforcement wants the lake and or beaches to be closed to swimming in boating and even puts up signs to prevent people from doing so. Fourthly both in Jaws and Snakehead terror, there are scenes of local fisherman going into the water to catch the beast that has done the harm. The fifth similarity is that both movies have a scientist being called in to investigate the terrorizing fish.
   One factor to these SyFy Channel movies that contributes to them being so bad is that they all have some kind of really shitty looking CGI monster. These CGI monsters look so convincingly fake that they make the Godzilla costumes look real. Another thing that I noticed about these B Movies is that a great majority of them are filmed in Canada. Why Canada? I have nothing against America's Hat here. It just seems to me that everyone of these movies are filmed there. They probably get some kind of tax break to film in Canada.
    Another thing I will mention is the horrible acting in these SyFy Channel movies. They get Z list actors and some D list ones to star in this movie. Take the movie Snakehead Terror again, Carol Alt was in it. Why does the name Carol Alt sound familiar? Oh wait Family Guy made fun of her. If it wasn't for Family Guy making fun of her being an aging supermodel, I wouldn't have known who in the hell she was.
    Finally if you are super bored and have friends around turn on the SyFy Channel and watch one of their original movies and Riff the hell out of it. I guarantee you'll have a great time and generate lots of laughs in the process. Every time my mom and I watch one I riff it at her annoyance.