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Hans is currently scoring Neill Blomkamp's new film CHAPPIE, out in about 4 months.
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Ha! Didn't he just say he wanted to take a sabbatical between Interstellar and Batman v Superman?
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Sony Classical will release the score on CD.
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I don't know why I have this impression, but whenever I see that Zimmer has scored a film that comes out in the first quarter of the year (so before the summer movie season), I always assume it's going to be one he craps out with eight assistants while waiting to start something that's really going to "inspire" him. Thor's "review" and the clips I've seen of the film make me think that this impression isn't totally off base.
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Mar 2, 2015 - 1:29 PM
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Thor
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I just came back from the film. It isn't quite there, unfortunately, but the score was GREAT! Fat beats, beautiful textures -- it's easily one of my favourite scores of the year so far.
I was worried about that - the lack of critical reviews so far suggests that the studio doesn't have a lot of faith in this one. Can you elaborate, Thor? Is it "not quite there" in the same way that Elysium wasn't quite there?
Chris
Yes, I would say so. Both ELYSIUM and CHAPPIE have some fine tendencies here and there, but ultimately they both mess it up. In this case with some really 'goofy' elements. It's supposed to mix ROBOCOP with those 80s things like FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, MAC & ME, E.T., SHORT CIRCUIT etc. -- so the tone is supposed to be a bit 'off' -- but it doesn't work very well.
It's a shame that after the brilliant debut film DISTRICT 9, which mixed satire with intense plots with amazing character arcs, he doesn't seem to get his act together properly. Here's hoping he manages before his new ALIEN film gets off the ground.
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I just came back from the film. It isn't quite there, unfortunately, but the score was GREAT! Fat beats, beautiful textures -- it's easily one of my favourite scores of the year so far.
I was worried about that - the lack of critical reviews so far suggests that the studio doesn't have a lot of faith in this one. Can you elaborate, Thor? Is it "not quite there" in the same way that Elysium wasn't quite there?
Chris
... the brilliant debut film DISTRICT 9, which mixed satire with intense plots with amazing character arcs, ...
He may never top it. just the facts of life
brm
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Mar 2, 2015 - 3:45 PM
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Rnelson
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I just came back from the film. It isn't quite there, unfortunately, but the score was GREAT! Fat beats, beautiful textures -- it's easily one of my favourite scores of the year so far.
I was worried about that - the lack of critical reviews so far suggests that the studio doesn't have a lot of faith in this one. Can you elaborate, Thor? Is it "not quite there" in the same way that Elysium wasn't quite there?
Chris
Yes, I would say so. Both ELYSIUM and CHAPPIE have some fine tendencies here and there, but ultimately they both mess it up. In this case with some really 'goofy' elements. It's supposed to mix ROBOCOP with those 80s things like FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR, MAC & ME, E.T., SHORT CIRCUIT etc. -- so the tone is supposed to be a bit 'off' -- but it doesn't work very well.
It's a shame that after the brilliant debut film DISTRICT 9, which mixed satire with intense plots with amazing character arcs, he doesn't seem to get his act together properly. Here's hoping he manages before his new ALIEN film gets off the ground.
I can imagine what the movie is like not having seen it. I want it to succeed but early indications are that the movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. At least the studio doesn't seem to know how to market it. The first ads were more cute and fuzzy, the later ones more mecha-mecha action stuff. Hard to bridge the two.
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The description "fat beats" leads me suspect that this isn't going to be the kind of Zimmer I like (I find him very hit and miss - for example I adored INTERSTELLAR, but found THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 to be the worst score I'd heard in a cinema in years.) I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
I'm also hugely underwhelmed at the prospect of a Zimmer ALIEN score, which seems like a strong possibility now.
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