[Closed] HANS ZIMMER

Some interesting comments above that's sparked some rambling comments...(just comments BTW, and not huffy digs at people.)

I think that I am someone who does go into a movie expecting to see the vision of the filmmakers (including the music) and I believe that I didn't watch the film with my own expectations of what the music should be. I'd heard Zimmer's score before I saw the film and there's something about this style that I like as a listening experience independent of the film (hell, I like Jean-Michel Jarre's 45 minute final track on his album Waiting For Cousteau as a listening experience!!)

I don't believe that I sat through the film thinking that "this bit should have this music" or "that part should have this (clichéd?) musical device". I just felt that, at the end, the film would have been enhanced with a score that seemed to be more integrated with the visuals rather than just broadly painting a feel. (And no I don't mean it should be a mickey-mouse score!)

To me, applying my own personal preferences onto a film is completely natural to me - and in no way negates anything that the original filmmakers had in mind when they made the film. I've been watching/listening to film music for 40 years now, particularly 70s/80s film music. Before "music" included just being "sound". Maybe todays scores in the vein of Inception and (to a lesser extent) The Dark Knight are almost subliminal in their effect rather than having to have more obvious devices? And that may be my loss.

Does this make sense? To anyone!?