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Seriously, I can always tell a Hans Zimmer score without even having preknowledge that a film had hired him. Big, orchestral, boring score that repeats the same

Seriously, I can always tell a Hans Zimmer score without even having preknowledge that a film had hired him. Big, orchestral, boring score that repeats the same motifs he's been using for the last 50 years? Dude has one act.

pmoriarty 4y ago
What other Zimmer track sounds like Time[1] (from his work on Inception)? [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k
- kmonsen 4y ago
  I wonder if Hans Zimmer was part of thinking of the musical inception in that movie. That said, isn't this a "Big, orchestral, [boring] score"? Edit: It is one of my favorite pieces of music so not boring to me. I'm sure others have different opinion.
paulsmith 4y ago
I'm basically with you but Interstellar stood out for me, I think he matched well with that film's themes.
- Bayart 4y ago
  On Interstellar he stole from Philip Glass' to an unthinkable point.
vanderZwan 4y ago
That's more due to how movie scores are produced these days. Every Frame A Painting explains it really well in this video on why you can't remember any music from Marvel movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs (well, up until they made that video, at least)
- Litost 4y ago
  Thanks for posting this, I always wondered why I couldn't be bothered with the whole Marvel franchise and this whole playing it safe, cookie cutting of film scores between movies makes the whole thing massively less memorable than say Blade Runner etc. Though I did lol at the spiderman bit at the end. It ties in with a running discussion I have with a mate of mine about the state of music, compare the top 40 nowadays with 40 years ago and the variety of genres and styles on display back then feels much more unique and varied than now or maybe I'm just being nostalgic or maybe that's the whole problem with the need to recoup massive budgetry outlays and post the highest grossing box office yadda yadda (tangential tie in with the recent conversation about OKRs)? P.S. RIP I still have fond memories of listening to Albeido 0.39 whilst playing Elite on my BBC eons ago and going round to my mates and listening to Jon and Vangelis that we'd borrowed from the library.
nsonha 4y ago
Same to Chris Nolan actually, he should for once make a film that does not mess with the concept of time. At this point it has become a gimmick
- robotresearcher 4y ago
  Batman trilogy?
  - ygra 4y ago
    Also Dunkirk and The Prestige.
- dylan604 4y ago
  The way he blends 3 separate timelines of 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week into Dunkirk is brilliant. This also sounds like someone critique Gene Rodenberry for only writing space themed stories. Nolan's use of time as a theme is been unique in each one.
  - nsonha 4y ago
    I do not watch a film to be blown away by how brilliant another person is, I watch a film to experience a story. If the story is any good, he will not need all these convoluted technicalities. I like other films of his like Insomnia or The Prestige
    - dylan604 4y ago
      The fun thing about Dunkirk is that the story doesn't need the viewer to understand that there is a bit of magic with the timeline. It's just a good story, but for those so inclined, it is fun/neat/impressive how the time was manipulated to tell the story. We all like different things, but just because there's something you don't like doesn't mean that it is not impressive to others.
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nd 4y ago
I’ve found the opposite with some of the soundtracks of his I’ve paid attention to: - True Romance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7WTbzqp2o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7WTbzqp2o - Interstellar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-qxNVoUSo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-qxNVoUSo - Little Prince: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKG_EVEs0Ck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKG_EVEs0Ck - The Dark Night: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zyhQjJ5UgY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zyhQjJ5UgY - Dune: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtiYwSP9ko https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtiYwSP9ko He’s very prolific (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography). Is it possible that you recognize just one style of soundtracks that he composes?
- dan_hawkins 4y ago
  Well, he steals a lot I'd say. One example: "True Romance" -> "Badlands" slash Carl Orff "Grassenhauer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEgzGnzojc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEgzGnzojc
atombender 4y ago
Try his soundtrack to The Thin Red Line.
mhh__ 4y ago
No one does it like him though, or rather his team. I thought his work on no time to die was pretty boring, but the work he did with Pfister on 2049 and on Dune are almost genre defining, I feel. His ability to integrate the score into the sound design of the movie is something I don't think anyone can do. Maybe no one else has the budget for it. I think Dune is probably his best work, it's the perfect blend of atmosphere, evocations of a strange new world, but also thematic and structural rigour that has let down previous adaptations. I definitely get tired of him sometimes, but equally I never feel like I need more deliberate choices from his work. When I listened to Giacchino's mostly fairly good score to The Batman, I felt myself thinking "This motif's entropy is too low", I very very rarely feel that in Zimmer's more modern work. That being said I think Zimmer gets more credit than he deserves because I think more than many other names he is the director of the music. There's genius in sitting back, too, but I doubt he composed all the trills and melodies in the dune soundtrack.
TheFragenTaken 4y ago
What a boring, nonsense take.

pmoriarty 4y ago

What other Zimmer track sounds like Time[1] (from his work on Inception)? [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k

kmonsen 4y ago
I wonder if Hans Zimmer was part of thinking of the musical inception in that movie. That said, isn't this a "Big, orchestral, [boring] score"? Edit: It is one of my favorite pieces of music so not boring to me. I'm sure others have different opinion.

paulsmith 4y ago

I'm basically with you but Interstellar stood out for me, I think he matched well with that film's themes.

Bayart 4y ago
On Interstellar he stole from Philip Glass' to an unthinkable point.

vanderZwan 4y ago

That's more due to how movie scores are produced these days. Every Frame A Painting explains it really well in this video on why you can't remember any music from Marvel movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs (well, up until they made that video, at least)

Litost 4y ago
Thanks for posting this, I always wondered why I couldn't be bothered with the whole Marvel franchise and this whole playing it safe, cookie cutting of film scores between movies makes the whole thing massively less memorable than say Blade Runner etc. Though I did lol at the spiderman bit at the end. It ties in with a running discussion I have with a mate of mine about the state of music, compare the top 40 nowadays with 40 years ago and the variety of genres and styles on display back then feels much more unique and varied than now or maybe I'm just being nostalgic or maybe that's the whole problem with the need to recoup massive budgetry outlays and post the highest grossing box office yadda yadda (tangential tie in with the recent conversation about OKRs)? P.S. RIP I still have fond memories of listening to Albeido 0.39 whilst playing Elite on my BBC eons ago and going round to my mates and listening to Jon and Vangelis that we'd borrowed from the library.

nsonha 4y ago

Same to Chris Nolan actually, he should for once make a film that does not mess with the concept of time. At this point it has become a gimmick

robotresearcher 4y ago
Batman trilogy?
- ygra 4y ago
  Also Dunkirk and The Prestige.
dylan604 4y ago
The way he blends 3 separate timelines of 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week into Dunkirk is brilliant. This also sounds like someone critique Gene Rodenberry for only writing space themed stories. Nolan's use of time as a theme is been unique in each one.
- nsonha 4y ago
  I do not watch a film to be blown away by how brilliant another person is, I watch a film to experience a story. If the story is any good, he will not need all these convoluted technicalities. I like other films of his like Insomnia or The Prestige
  - dylan604 4y ago
    The fun thing about Dunkirk is that the story doesn't need the viewer to understand that there is a bit of magic with the timeline. It's just a good story, but for those so inclined, it is fun/neat/impressive how the time was manipulated to tell the story. We all like different things, but just because there's something you don't like doesn't mean that it is not impressive to others.

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nd 4y ago

I’ve found the opposite with some of the soundtracks of his I’ve paid attention to: - True Romance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7WTbzqp2o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7WTbzqp2o - Interstellar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-qxNVoUSo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-qxNVoUSo - Little Prince: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKG_EVEs0Ck https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKG_EVEs0Ck - The Dark Night: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zyhQjJ5UgY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zyhQjJ5UgY - Dune: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtiYwSP9ko https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtiYwSP9ko He’s very prolific (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer_discography). Is it possible that you recognize just one style of soundtracks that he composes?

dan_hawkins 4y ago
Well, he steals a lot I'd say. One example: "True Romance" -> "Badlands" slash Carl Orff "Grassenhauer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEgzGnzojc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEgzGnzojc

atombender 4y ago

Try his soundtrack to The Thin Red Line.

mhh__ 4y ago

No one does it like him though, or rather his team. I thought his work on no time to die was pretty boring, but the work he did with Pfister on 2049 and on Dune are almost genre defining, I feel. His ability to integrate the score into the sound design of the movie is something I don't think anyone can do. Maybe no one else has the budget for it. I think Dune is probably his best work, it's the perfect blend of atmosphere, evocations of a strange new world, but also thematic and structural rigour that has let down previous adaptations. I definitely get tired of him sometimes, but equally I never feel like I need more deliberate choices from his work. When I listened to Giacchino's mostly fairly good score to The Batman, I felt myself thinking "This motif's entropy is too low", I very very rarely feel that in Zimmer's more modern work. That being said I think Zimmer gets more credit than he deserves because I think more than many other names he is the director of the music. There's genius in sitting back, too, but I doubt he composed all the trills and melodies in the dune soundtrack.

TheFragenTaken 4y ago

What a boring, nonsense take.