[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

Dan Brown can't write dialogue, it's just clunky and awkward.

What he can do in spades is keep his book a page turner, you really want to know what happens next.

I've gone off Eco since he started writing entire pages in French and Latin.
There's less annoying ways of showing how literary a snob one is.

Gawd, his Island was in fact one of the books I despised for the very reason I mentioned.
But to be honest, I've never had a taste for Dostoyevski either. I do not believe his characters' motivations, his dialogue is clunky, I'm not interested in his message.
The Idiot was interminable...

Guys.... The suites realeaseds in the "Treasure Soundtracks" are far better and more interesting than the unrealeased music from the final battle.

Lord Pirate of Singapore and Lord Cutler Beckett (No mention to "Hoist the colours" , wich you can rip from the End Credits if you want) are worth to the price alone.

Me neither; nobody else did imo, they just went along, it was mass hysteria and entertainment. And now gone, forgotten, just like all the other fast-food-like means of being entertained.

I didn't say the Suites are not good, but I feel the unreleased music is equally good as them and deserved to be released along with the suites too.

In part, yes, but I believe that came later. I think the main fuss was about the fact that the book was a time bomb in every faithful christian household. And, of course, it came down to the faithful to take a simplistic, easy piece of entertainment as an attack on common belief.

Me neither. And i have only watched the first film; i couldn't handle another one.

Melanie got a third of the way through the first book and threw it aside claiming it was so rubbishly written that she couldn't handle anymore. She is far more litterate and well read than I so I'll take her word as given.

And despite my enjoyment of them I TOTALLY understand!

I´ve read them all and enjoyed them massively. Although her writing does get better with each book (the seventh being the best and a worthy and quite complex finale, without a doubt), I believe that if the first book didn´t do anything for you, there´s nothing to be done aout the rest, since it´s only more of the same, even if better structured and with continually growing and, at times, rather dark, storylines.

I can´t see how anyone can understand a bit about what happens in the movies. They are just moving too fast und leave out too much to really work as a standalone experience. They are great companion pieces to the books, and the two-part finale will certainly help to do the book better justice, but all in all, the books are full of great nuances that get totally lost in the movies, which is a shame, really.

Harry Potter is a great story about growing up and learning to deal with responsibilities and the harshness that´s life.

Funny thing, I check on this forum and this thread every couple hours for new postings to see if there's any update regarding Hans Zimmer, and I see lots of new posts (YAY!). But when I click on th thread, I find out that it's all been about books?

Hmm, lemme see if I can do the same with another thread

I´m sorry. I forgot to mention that I really, really would love to see a Potter movie scored by Zimmer! Williams was the right choice, of course, but at least Zimmer would have been a far better alternative than Doyle or Hooper (although I like what Hooper did), not stylistically, obviously, but still it would have been interesting to see how he would have approached it. I can perfectly imagine a lot of scenes where his kind of music would have fit like a glove.

I'm not sure Zimmer could pull it off, but since I'm not really a fan of the Potter films, it would certainly be interesting to hear what he'd come up with (without resorting to a thousand and one additional composers). I'd like to hear it on album at least, but Zimmer would be WAY down on my list of composers I would like to hear score a Potter film.

A Potter film gives such a huge canvas for a composer to paint on, which usually equals a fantastic score (well, it should anyway. Hooper didn't quite catch onto that concept. )

Long time ago since I watched it, but as far as I remember I think he did a damn good job. The best score is still Azkaban though, that worked wonders in the film.