[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

Seriously? Batman Begins was appropriately scored and still was way more melodic than those for the director's previous efforts.
Madagascar was a slapstick movie that got the score it deserved. Worse scored? Nah! Purely serviceable with a solid thematic base? Yes!

I'll refrain from further comment about Batman Begins (I've spent so much time saying I think it's dreadful, there's no point retreading old ground) but I don't think enough words could ever be spoken about how dreadful Madagascar is. It's a poor film, but the music made it so much worse. Tired, lazy, cliche-ridden, an affront to film composers everywhere. Nautilus, the reason other composers never talk about Zimmer is because he comes up with stuff like Madagascar (though of course he didn't actually have anything to do with that score - despite receiving "Music by Hans Zimmer" credit - which is probably another reason).

Well, you gave Batman Begins a 2-star rating, which meant you found some merit in it. It's certainly no Elfman, Goldenthal or Walker effort, but there's certainly room for the theme to grow into something vaguely Elfman-esque. Maybe since Steve Bartek is co-orchestrating Zimmer's scores now we'll get that sound for TDK.

Jordi, Zimmer is a fine composer and even provides some really good scores on occasion. But he needs to get out of his comfort zone and try some new stuff... like actually compose an entire score by himself without his crew to help him out. Or get a score mixer that makes the size of the orchestra sound smaller than what it is.

Yes, no doubt. Predominantly disappointed because the film deserved more (though I acknowledge that it's probably more Nolan's fault than Zimmer/JNH that it didn't get it).

I really find so obvious that Zimmer is one of the maestros of our days (Williams ....I really find this so obvious, that this kind of let me more traditional oriented composers ahead...rather ridicolous. ( i don't mean powell, who really has this genius touch).

What version of "At world's End" fanfarre do you like better?

A) Marry me. With trumpets over the strings, and fiddle playing a little jig

B) Drink Up me Hearties. With strings over trumpers and a kind of Erhu doing the fiddle job.

I watched "The Holiday" last night. What an awful score.

mc

IMO It's not as good as As Good As It Gets or Spanglish, but it's still quite a breezy fun ride while working really well for the movie. Sounds great on album too.

Holiday and Spanglish are two scores i truly love, excellent, feel-good, warm music.

How many projects can Zimmer possibly do at once?

A lot if they're not all really by him

Can Anyoe whisper the Cameroon border post descending string theme without take air ?

I can't! But Im aspmhatic.

Why does everyone rate prince of egypt so highly?

I am listening to it at the moment (after a number of run throughs) and i find it barely passable when its zimmer score, with no definable theme and less drive than most of his other scores, and most of the songs make it worse, including the awful boyz2men codswallop.

The only redeeming features for me are "all I ever wanted" and similarly "the plagues" both of which had help from schwartz. so many better other zimmer scores, why is this one rated so high??

Yeah....there are several awesome themes in Prince of Egypt. My personal favorite is the "deliverance theme", and by that I mean the melody that the children sing in Hebrew in the film version of "When You Believe." It also appears two other times in the complete score, once performed by an adult choir and once by orchestra with no choir. I'm not sure if it was written by Zimmer or by Schwartz, but either way, it's tremendously uplifting.

the top 5 and the rate are very diferent things.

Revell doesn't have enought good score to make a top 5, and people doesn't rate high his score .

Prince Of Egypt is highly rates because it's a masterpiece. If you don't consider Red Sea one of the most epic and memorable cues for the las 20 years, you are not from this world.

I'll join his species, its just mediocre compared other scores of his that I do like.