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jeezus christ, the rest was equally appalling. The fact Hans Zimmer is even named in the credits (though I feel it has Junkie XL's stamp all over it) makes it all the more impossible. This score makes Man of Steel feel like a masterpiece.

I can't imagine Hans Zimmer fans truly liking this, this is a disgrace for Hans Zimmer standards. At least Man of Steel had music, this has noise

Believe me, you will love it.

The only listen of Batman vs. Superman that will be worth my precious time is if I choose a track of Elfman's Batman, followed by a track of Williams' Superman, and that repeated until there's no more track of either score to choose from. It will be bizarre to listen to, perhaps a tad schizophrenic but I bit it'll be much more musically rewarding then this latest Zimmer junk.

It's funny (to me) that you say this, because I don't actually hear that much Williams in Jurassic Park III. It's very much a Davis score (with a few of his usual Horner influences), like a slightly more tonal, slightly less complex version of The Matrix.

I agree with Erik (NOT Thor) vis Jurassic World, which is an okayish score, but outside of its new theme is pretty lame when compared to the other three.

Totally agree with Steven about Jurassic World. Superb score, especially in the film and Giacchino's new theme is a beauty. I love it.

Hard Target - Bear McCreary

Just the first of 3 discs and its full of meaty, old school thematic scoring - broad, flexible main theme woven into some great action material. The nearly 11 minute 'Flipping the Plane' is an especially well sustained set piece highlight.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Hans Zimmer and Junk XL

Quite terrible. It really is that bad as people say it is (I found many people to be excessive in their negativity about Man of Steel even if it wasn't great or anything particularly good). I largely agree with Southall's review. Even if we ignore all the generic, bombastic and annoying action material, most if not all of the ambient music is just so damn unengaging, it is just marking time without doing anything interesting and I am a HUGE lover of ambient/electronic music and most of its various sub genres.

Even if I by no means thought Man of Steel was anything special, it has its fair share of more listenable and more interesting material. I can't find much at all of interest here save for maybe a minute or two that sticks out above the rest of the material. There is no way I want to try to take the minute or two or whatever out, I just don't care about it.

Love it. It's huge, tight, kick-ass, and very fresh to hear such a masculine purely orchestral approach in 2016

When Beltrami is in a good appetite mood, he rocks!

So Gilles and Thor don't like it? I couldn't have given it a better blessing: it's fantastic.

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE - Bear McCreary

Above average, at best. Yeah, sure, several tracks are enjoyable when taken on its own merits (opening Michelle, Hazmat Suit, and the enjoyable end-credits suite 10 Cloverfield Lane), but this is mostly a single theme used to death by overkill, which gets no development throughout the score, and is drowned out by lengthy sections of the same kind of horror scoring thats been done many times before with the same predictable orchestrations, bereft of any kind of actual suspense because all mood is killed by the fact it's more of a dark action score than a moody thriller kind. To be honest, Michael Giacchino managed to be more creative in a single 12 minute suite, which featured more ideas than McCreary delivers in 60 minutes.

A fine summation.

So edgy and daring and different of Hansie XL to write a bad score on purpose!

Hah! A third!

Passion of the Christ leftovers, minus the actual 'pasion' in writing