Citizen Kane,
King Kong,
Gone with the Wind,
Ben Hur,
The Ten Commandments,
The Robe,
Pyscho,
Rear View Mirror,
The Omen,
Star Wars,
Superman,
ET,
Hoosiers,
Rudy,
Alien,

...this is harder than I thought. There are soooooooo many.
I can't do it. I'm such a bumb.

Best Western: "Magnificent Seven"
Best Sci-Fi: "Star Wars" (of course)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Citizen Kane
Psycho
Vertigo
King Kong
Batman
Ben Hur
Edward Scissorhands
Dangerous Liaisons
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Star Wars
Alien
The Day The Earth Stood Still

...and a million other that I can´t remember right now

SFT

Off with his head, I say, off with his head...

I thought I was the only one who liked the score to Outland, awesome score. Not the best but pretty good.

Wizard of Oz is more based on songs than around the score, as is Sound of Music. Both those movies and there songs will stand the test of time!

Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, Star Wars(basically a lot of the John Williams compositions will stand time, because they are so recognizable and part of the pop culture.) Pop culture has a lot to do with it. You go to a football game and you hear what? Jaws, when defense is up. Or you'll hear the imperial march or you'll hear Indiana Jones or Superman. I think to stand the test of time you need a classic theme that catches peoples ears and something that people enjoy listening to.

Aaron

Anyway, in order to answer this question, I'm going to have to use just about everything in my collection.

Best (personally):
The Alchemist
The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca
El Cid
Jurassic Park
Merlin
A Patch of Blue
The Piano
Sleepy Hollow
Somewhere in Time
The Wind and the Lion

Best (personally & globally):
Batman
Doctor Zhivago
Edward Scissorhands
How the West was Won
Lawrence of Arabia
Planet of the Apes
Psycho
Romeo & Juliet (Nino Rota version)
Star Wars (trilogy, hexalogy?)
Vertigo

I think Audacity hit it right on the button. Why did the soundtrack sell out? Because of the pop song sung by Celine Dion! Do you think all these crazed score fans ran out of there house and said "oh my god, the score is so awesome, let's go buy it!" Pop songs are a little easier to remember because they have words and those songs are a lot easier to remember then an instrumental score. I think Titanic is not a classic score, and I am not one of those people that say "I am a man and there is no way I am going to admit that I like the score to Titanic!" I think the Titanic album will be memorable, let's say about as long as Britney Spears will be!

Aaron

As for the discussions about Titanic and the test of time, please allow me to comment. First, Titanic is a good score. It's popularity however is due to many circumstances as is the film itself. The reason the film received so many Oscars, is because almost every one in the industry worked on the darn thing.
The reason the film was such a big success box office wise is largely because young girls who went goo goo ga ga over Leornado Di Caprio.
The reason the album sold as many copies as it did is because of the song and because the score was composed in a style that happened to be very popular at the time. Tons of people bought cds before Titanic with that style (mix of new age and celtic tunes). Let's also not forget the pictures of Leornado.
I have a 13 year old niece at home who is crazy about one of the guys of Backstreet Boys. She will get and buy anything with that nutt's face on it wether she likes it or not.
As far as popularity is concerned. More people recognize music to ET,Star Wars, Jaws and Supermannn than Titanic. I play music in the background in my class. I often ask my students if they recognize some of the music. Titanic is almost never recognized. But get this, most people will recognize Star Wars and Supermann although they've never seen the movie but fail to recognize Titanic although they've seen that movie.
Titanic has beautiful music but it is not as recognizable as Raiders or Star Wars.
Further, just because a score is not as recognizable or has a catchy tune, doesn't disqualify it as one of the greates scores. If this were the case, the majority of classical compositions by some of our great masters would be deemed not great. I mean , a lot of classical music doesn't have catchy tunes.
Finally, a great score has really nothing to do with how many people like it and how catchy the tunes are. It has to don with feeling, emotions, the technicals aspects as in orchestrations, arrangements and even performances. Case in point,Schindlers List or evern Alien, two great scores that are difficult to listen to for most people and really have no catchy tunes. Yet they are perfect for the pictures they were composed for and stand on their own very well.
I hope I made sense here, and if I didn't, consider the source.

James

As for this whole Leo thing. Let me first say that i dislike him. Now let me say that He is a good actor-I cite Gilbert Grape as my support. I used to dislike Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, but both are excellent actors who have managed to ditch their pretty boy stereotypes(Fight CLub rules, and M:I2 is gonna kick ass, hehe). Leo will do this too.
Now let me say that Leo has been in many movies, only one of which has grossed several HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS DOMESTICALLY ALONE. Romeo and Juliet made him a star with the screaming girls crowd, but did that movie make a ****load of money?? NO. So dont tell me that Titanic was popular only because of Leo, ok?? We can get into a big long debate over why it was...and should we have that get together id be happy to. but not here since typing it out will suck
Just a note: Leo was cast before he became a star. Cameron wanted 2 young academy award nominees, and that is what he got.

Matt,

I was being sarcastic with my comment about Titanic score will be like Britney Spears and I do appreciate the comment that I am a good guy! Thanks!

I think that we should have a poll, similar to the poll at Movietunes a while back and vote on what scores have influenced us and what should be the greatest scores.
I would also like to see more of us do reviews of scores. I personally will be reviewing many scores shortly. Let's get this train a moving!

Aaron

James, with all do respect, 15 girls out of millions is NOT a good comparison. Let's face it, milllions were made on that movie because of reapeted viewing, by mostly young girls. Hey, my nephews liked it and so did I. I even have the video.

Now I'll drop the subject to.

Scott