[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

He means, on which of Zimmer's projects did his music best complement the film? Which of his many scores best served their intended purpose as a film score, rather than as a standalone listening experience?

I'm tempted to say At World's End...horrible plot construction, the music is the only thing that makes it feel like something important is going on, and thus makes it fun to watch.

THE THIN RED LINE is my top example. It's a perfect score, frame-by-frame.

Hehe...

"Confirmed: Hans Zimmer Is Scoring Zack Snyder's SUPERMAN! Promises A "Reinvention"!"

Discuss!

*leans back and watches while everyone draws rayguns and starts firing wildly into the crowd"

woot!!!!!

Ugh. I really, really hate this. Not that they're not using John Williams' material or Zimmer, but ultimately he'll just provide something as underwhelming as his Batman scores. Superman is rooted in a key Americana symphonic sound, no matter if his actions were scored by Williams or Shirley Walker.

Excuse me while Justin and I grab our ray guns...

On the other hand, I like how Zimmer is scoring Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides -- as long as it's as good as the third film's score.

I really beg to differ. It's Zimmer's mixture of his Ring score with a dash of Thin Red Line and Crimson Tide. I will admit I enjoyed Batman Begins as a pure guilty pleasure, but all the good stuff in The Dark Knight was temped music from BB and Howard's Harvey Dent theme. His idea for the Joker was lazy but effective.

There's still time for Zimmer to get off the project and have someone better (like John Powell) doing the Superman score. Powell is the only ex-RC member I see doing a good, different Superman theme.

I sign every word, including the last statement. Listening to the classic theme again in front of a big screen while the effects machine went overload showing one cool planet after another WAS fantastic. But beside that and some other renditions of the classic material, the new stuff just seemed to fade into the background, unimportant and soon to be forgotten.

And if there´s one thing you can say about a Zimmer score, then that it´s not going to fade into the background. ^^

But I´ll give you that: It´s a really, really, really tricky thing. Superman is a great character, but obviously too PC driven for times like these. For this to work, every aspect of the movie has to deliver. If this fails, Zimmer will be fine. But the Superman myth may die very painfully with it.

"If the film is reimagined too, and nothing like the sunny optimism and Americana feel of the previous films, then why should the score channel Williams?"

Agree with every word. It's Zack Snyder. Look at the man's work.

But tell that to film music fans That music has to follow the picture first and then our tastes and anticipations



Not at all. It's an extension of his own compositional style indeed, but the way everyone uses that music, style and even plagiarizes those scores since their release (which also affected some film-making too) proves the re-invention.

It's coming to a point where I just don't care anymore. At least I have Donner's classic film and Williams' masterful score to fall back on. No one can take that away from me. And there is no way Snyder and Zimmer can capture the magic of the original film the way THIS does!

-Erik-

I'm even going to award myself 1000 kudos points for the most appropriate use of the word 'FACT!' I've ever used.

It's up there, it's definitely up there!

Yeah... they did do some really dark stuff with Superman in the 1990's. I can recall the shocking Doomsday story line (Superman's Death) that was very, very dark. That might make for a good story line for this new film but I have a bad feeling that they are going to do the origin story again... with lots of slow motion.

-Erik-

This is what I was thinking when Zack was announced.

I doesn't have to be dark. But there are any number of ways to approach the source material that is different from previous versions. I'm excited to see what they can come up with, even though I hated WATCHMEN as a film.