However, when the cinema lights go down and you start popping Maltesers into your mouth like there’s no tomorrow, there’s one ingredient which gets the adrenalin pumping and raises expectation to explosive levels – and that’s a soundtrack which blows you away.

Here are five classics without which their movies would be as unthinkable as imagining Brad without Angelina or David without Victoria.

James Bond

Monty Norman’s score has me patting my DJ to check my imaginary Walther PPK is in place. It has done ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, except then it was my nappy I was checking and not for a Walther PPK. As the familiar strains started to build in Casino Royale and Daniel Craig uttered those immortal words for his first time with a voice as sexily smooth as silk sliding across a golden thigh, the hair on the back of my neck stood up with an audible ‘ZING’.

Star Wars

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen the movies, when John William’s symphonic score booms out as big yellow letters disappear into the black infinity of space you’ve just got to plonk yourself down on the sofa, grab your lightsabre, and get ready to be thrilled by Luke, Han and Leia’s attempts to overthrow the Empire all over again.

Indiana Jones

It’s impossible to imagine Indy dodging boulders and poisonous darts or swapping blows with shaven headed Nazi heavies without John Williams’ Indiana Jones theme helping him to run that bit faster or adding more steel to his uppercuts. I can’t walk across a rickety bridge over a raging torrent in the jungle without humming the music and breaking into a run. Luckily it’s not a situation I find myself in every day otherwise by now I might be sporting a jacket which has arms that tie at the back.

The Bourne Trilogy

Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne reinvented our idea of a secret agent. Here was a man who could inflict as much damage with a rolled up newspaper as Bond could with any number of Q’s gadgets. It was only fitting that he was aided and abetted by a 21st century soundtrack. Composer John Powell obliged with the electronic equivalent of sinking a shot of tequila. The addition of Moby’s Extreme Ways reinforces the feeling that you’re enjoying the ride of your life in the company of the world’s second best secret agent.

Pirates of the Caribbean

As soon as I hear this theme I know I’m about to spend a couple of hours with the most lovable rogue of the decade, Cap’n Jack Sparrow. It might not be the most original piece of music ever, but who cares. It’s swashbuckling, jaunty fun and promises a damn good time even as it’s stealing the gold doubloons from your pocket. Tell me you don’t automatically smile when you hear it.