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I started to listen to this and 4 tracks into it, I had to turn it off... it was nothing but noise to my ears. I'd rather listen to Superman Returns score than this Turd Of Steel.
The Zimmerities Horde: "Now you will be stoned to death!"
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I like a lot of this score. I do wonder though what it would have sounded like if say Don Davis had scored it...hmmm. But that's just my own curiosity mind you.
The reviews for the film are generally not great from the sound of it. Pity as I was looking forward to this revisionist version. Maybe Clint Eastwood should have written and directed this and he could have played an aged Superman coming out of retirement. The score would have been a quiet piano based one with some tense string swells at the dramatic moments (like when he's reaching for his Imodium).
I think Zimmer's score is collateral damage where the criticism is concerned. He's not the captain of the ship but he's still going down with it. I know I will enjoy this music on its own for a while. It is what it is.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 10:03 AM
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Sean
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I am not a huge fan of Hans Zimmer´s work.
I am not even a big fan of his work. I like some of his scores from the 90´s and his comedy scores.
I think he struck gold with his sound and way of composing, became a factory, a small industry that monopolized film scores for blockbusters and influenced the new generation of producers and studio executives as much as movie audiences. To the point that other ways of composing scores became "old school", "outdated" in the minds of these people.
Others who grew up during the Silver Age of film scores became resentful, naturally, because their idea of film scores was on its way of becoming extinct. One might argue whether this is just the natural order of things, some eras ending, some beginning. Sometimes the old ways will be new again, or at least refreshed, as in the era of John Williams´ 70´s scores.
One might also argue that the complexity of film scores composed by the Golden and the Silver Age is a sign for a greater intelligence and ability at work. Hans Zimmer has not composed in that style yet, and as long as he does not offer that kind of score, one might believe that his skills indeed are inferior.
One thing is clear: Zimmer is a minimalist. Someone whose pop music roots are always easy to detect, even now.
But something else is very clear as well: his scores work. Sometimes they just rehash ideas, sometimes they are experimenting with new soundscapes, sometimes they invent new things.
Now, I was prepared to hate his MAN OF STEEL score. I am an unabashed Williams fan. His SUPERMAN score, IMO, is one of the biggest achievements in film score history.
When I heard the samples of MOS a few weeks ago I was extremely disappointed. I thought Zimmer´s Batman scores were not more than mediocre (and the best ideas came from JNH), but the MOS score, judging from the samples, was even worse. A wasted opportunity.
Then I saw the trailer which featured Zimmer´s score - and I was pleasantly surprised. I liked the theme. No, I loved it, I admit it. But still I was sceptical of the whole work. However, I wanted to give it a chance.
Today I got the Deluxe Edition of the score.
And... I´m sorry, YOR, and all the others who are outraged - but this is not a bad score at all. It is typically Zimmer, through and through, but it does feature themes, and a very good one for Superman himself.
Zimmer, IMO, has not worked as hard on a score for years. He delivers great melodies, he experiments and tries to create something new. Not everything succeeds - but for me it works.
Sorry, guys. I cannot join the "hate gang". I like MOS.
Agreed on all counts.
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Does anyone have an initial hack on the chronological order of the album--including the deluxe tracks?
Unless you have the iTunes or Amazon MP3 versions with clean cuts, it makes no real matter as the CD version is gap less.
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BTW I'm not outraged I just find the "score" unlistenable. It's nothing but noise to my ears. I prefer the score for Superman Returns over this ....whatever you'd like to call it.
BTW I'm not outraged I just find the "score" unlistenable. It's nothing but noise to my ears. I prefer the score for Superman Returns over this ....whatever you'd like to call it.
I saw the film this evening here in the UK.
For me the music was a wall of sound that was completely overwhelming and unbearably loud. That may have been the fault of the threatre. It was so bad I had to cover my ears at one point. It overwhelmed in such a way that it was like an auditory fog so I could not immerse myself in what I was seeing and so experience the film's narrative thrust and emotional impact on me. I was being pounded by what seemed to me to be a predominantly monothematic cue that never ended.
I agree with the rotten Tomatoes aggragate of 57% for the film. There was a really fine film in there but I personally thought it was also overwhelmed by a conglomeration of cgi visuals that seemed to be coming from a bit of John Carter of Mars, a bit of Prometheus, The Avengers and Independence Day. I thought the Krypton scenes were overly drawn out as was the final third of the film. For me, the most powerful parts of the film were the scenes of the non Superman Clark Kent saving the children on the bus and the splendid oil rig scene of him crunching away the door and walking through the flames. Brilliant. But it was all destroyed by a totally unecessary monstrosity of a battle sequence at the end that could have been much much shorter and not so blatantly derivative. It was just so pointless for the plot.
Why is there a school of thought that 'more is better'. It certain cases it most certainly isn't.
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My review of the album, if anyone's interested:
http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=3683
Having read your review I think it echoes my experience of the score quite accurately. I have enjoyed some of Zimmers output but I have not enjoyed anything of his since King Arthur and Batman Begins.
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My review of the album, if anyone's interested:
http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=3683
Excelente review, friend!
YOR laugh a lot with ”General Zod opens with some even stranger noises, this time resembling one of the songs Ross played on his keyboard in that episode of Friends".
Indeed that was EXACTLY what YOR remebered while listening to this pinacle of movie music turd!
"The name is Zimmer. Hanzimmer!"
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