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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2019
    wow this place has changed. zimmer burried down page 4 and last comment from feb 2019? heh remember the jordi years? and what was the other lunatic? an indian guy i think.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorCaliburn
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2019
    For who is interested in my thoughts. I have reviewed X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX.

    https://soundtrackworld.com/2019/07/x-m … ns-zimmer/
  1. Apparently Hans Zimmer prepared a second CD for Dark Phoenix that contained many suites and ideas from the conceptual phase of the score. Due to the film's poor performance, it looks unlikely that that CD will be released, but there's a petition going around to demonstrate the public's interest in hearing more music. Sign, if you'd like (though I doubt it will accomplish much):

    https://www.change.org/p/head-of-music- … f3f23ff4be
  2. Edmund Meinerts wrote
    Apparently Hans Zimmer prepared a second CD for Dark Phoenix that contained many suites and ideas from the conceptual phase of the score. Due to the film's poor performance, it looks unlikely that that CD will be released, but there's a petition going around to demonstrate the public's interest in hearing more music. Sign, if you'd like (though I doubt it will accomplish much):

    https://www.change.org/p/head-of-music- … f3f23ff4be


    I rather sign a petition for A League of Their Own deluxe edition than this
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
  3. Sounds we had a lucky escape
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorCaliburn
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2019
    Sounds to me like quality over quantity. I have not heard the music of course, so do not know if there is any truth in my statement.

    Also: first review where I get a lot of remarks of "You are wrong". I need a thick skin for this one.
  4. As long as they don't insult you three generations back (which is essentially how modern fans tend to roll in any subject matter), you're fine.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2019
    • CommentAuthorMixMkv
    • CommentTimeJul 7th 2019
    i wish hans zimmer was the composer of tenet 2020
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJul 7th 2019
    MixMkv wrote
    i wish hans zimmer was the composer of tenet 2020


    So do we all.
    I am extremely serious.
    • CommentAuthorJoep
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2020
    In recent days, is there another composer whose releases include action montages similar to 'Chase' - The Peacemaker?
  5. No, I don't think even Hans does that anymore.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2020
    True. I can't remember the last time I heard the power anthem style. Maybe the last PIRATES film or something.
    I am extremely serious.
  6. We're not talking about the style here, but the kind of album programming like Peacemaker, Crimson Tide had. I think that he has edited his album differently for a while. I know there was an idea to release Inferno the "old" way (two long tracks), but he was recommended against due to how difficult the score is sometimes.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
    • CommentAuthorJoep
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2020
    Indeed, I am specifically talking about the programming of such action scores.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2020
    I see. Well, I wish he'd do more of that.
    I am extremely serious.
  7. I don't. The tracks on those old Zimmer albums are so long and unwieldy and not always consistent all the way through (they're not naturally flowing like James Horner's long tracks) which makes it hard to pick out the good bits for a playlist.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2020
    Screw bits and playlists! I adore those long suites.
    I am extremely serious.
  8. Edmund Meinerts wrote
    I don't. The tracks on those old Zimmer albums are so long and unwieldy and not always consistent all the way through (they're not naturally flowing like James Horner's long tracks) which makes it hard to pick out the good bits for a playlist.


    They aren't a long-form narrative like Horner's cues (except the heavily edited Perfect Storm, actually). Hans has programmed these cues like a prog rock album, some do have 10-15 minutes, even longer, tracks. This approach worked very well in case of some scores (Fools of Fortune, K2, actually), but not so well in others (Crimson Tide could have better material selection, but the idea itself works; Peacemaker is actually a LOT more subtle than the album gives it credit, to the point of belying the structure, not unlike, actually, Thin Red Line).
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
  9. Also, if there is a long-form cue on a Zimmer album now, it's more likely and not that rather than combining bits and pieces in one score (like Crimson Tide or Peacemaker's Sarajevo), they are derived from his original suites. That said, sometimes he actually divides his suites into shorter chunks, while retaining their long form by virtue of flawless crossfades. A very notable example is Da Vinci Code, where the whole second half of the album (from Poisoned Chalice to Chevaliers) is essentially, the edited "concept suite" he wrote before scoring the film proper.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2020 edited
    God, I miss those days. The two tracks on K2 are so brilliant. Yes, they could technically be separated into tracks (like Poledouris' LES MISERABLES), because the suite thinking is marginal, but I just love the 'ritual' of sitting down and getting engrossed into a musical 'ascent' and a musical 'descent'.
    I am extremely serious.
  10. K2 (which was done by Robert Townson, not by anyone fromt he Hans Zimmer team or the man himself) is one of the very best compilations of that kind.

    In the case of some scores it's not the type of presentation I disagree with, but rather the chosen material. Both Crimson Tide and Peacemaker have MUCH better material left off, in the latter case the beautiful dramatic theme is featured much, much more often. On Crimson Tide, the main title cue and a long cue when Hackman is relieved of duty could replace quite a bit of the released material.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
  11. So, I'm working on another sticker - this time with Zimmer. (If you didn't see my show-and-tell at our last Zoom meetup...I'm working on a composer vinyl sticker series. I just started it, and my first one was John Williams! biggrin

    It was a ton of fun to draw while listening to my favorite John Williams scores back-to-back. To get in the drawing mood for Hans Zimmer, I have to listen to my favorite Zimmer scores then! Off the top of my head, the ones that seem to have risen to the top of the list over the years are Man of Steel, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, King Arthur, The Lion King, The Rock...

    What are some of your most favorites?
  12. The.

    Thin.

    Red.

    Line.

    Everyone on this board knows it's MY favorite biggrin

    Interstellar, Da Vinci Code (on album, not as much in film), Beyond Rangoon, Spanglish (so overlooked, sadly), Crimson Tide, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal... among others.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
  13. Oh yes, I meant to add The Thin Red Line to my list as well, brain fail!

    Oh, I do love Spanglish too! That's a wonderful one! I just listened to Beyond Rangoon while I ran errands early today. So beautiful, and one of his more unique ones I'd say.

    Thanks for highlighting some of your favorites Pawel, love these!
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 3rd 2020
    BEYOND RANGOON is in a class of its own to me.
    I am extremely serious.
  14. A relatively late discovery for me. Not unlike Snow Falling on Cedars, where it was actually getting the original CD that made me reassess a score I merely liked as close to a masterpiece. The only complaint I have against Rangoon is some of the action music, but other than that it's a masterpiece, though probably nobody even notices what's my favorite cue on it.
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
  15. It was hot in my kitchen the last evening, so I thought about putting on some cooling music - and Dunkirk came to mind, so I played that. Does anyone else ever think of scores as having a temperature to them? Other than horror, like chilling, cold=evil...but other genres? Would you put on a "warming" comforting score to warm up in the winter or a "cooling" score to cool down in the summer, or is it just me? Haha, could be just me. biggrin
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2020
    Sure, but that's a whole topic onto itself!
    I am extremely serious.
  16. Filmscoregirl wrote
    It was hot in my kitchen the last evening, so I thought about putting on some cooling music - and Dunkirk came to mind, so I played that. Does anyone else ever think of scores as having a temperature to them? Other than horror, like chilling, cold=evil...but other genres? Would you put on a "warming" comforting score to warm up in the winter or a "cooling" score to cool down in the summer, or is it just me? Haha, could be just me. biggrin


    Did it work?
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website