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Zimmer Score

posted 3 years ago by peterkneter (383)
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What do you personally think of the score - as heard in the movie?
What I read about the creating process did not really mirror the result in my eyes.
Zimmer claims that he invented something new and very special for the world of dune but
for me the score - as heard in the movie - was somehow only repetetive, loud and clische (arabian sounds + the desert, arabian/oriental sounding vocals + the fremen)
One nice thing was the rhythm drums on the harkonnen planet. That was kind of nice but anyway I missed some sort of themes in this music.

[–] Theeboon (97) 3 years ago

There was some ear piercing stuff going on in some Bene Gesserit scenes which made things very ominous and intense.

[–] AckbarsRevenge (3800) 3 years ago

There has never been anything "new" about Zimmer scores. They're as bland as it gets. Although very successful.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 3 years ago

There has never been anything "new" about Zimmer scores.

Yeah, he only defined modern soundtrack, the same Williams defined soundtrack during the 70s/80s. Next to nothing.

[–] rudeboymurray (3279) 3 years ago

Mixed bag. It was certainly very effective at points but too familiarly Zimmer-esque at times. One of his better scores, probably, but he's never been a favourite composer of mine.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 3 years ago

I liked Zimmer's early works but he hasn't shown much since. He isn't alone. The age of great music scores is long long gone.

[–] avigalidou (611) 3 years ago

Forgettable background noise.Zimmer sounds bored and ready for his retirement

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Have to agree, I own many of his albums but his scores haven’t been up to his usual standard for at least a decade now.

[–] pjl69 (2647) 3 years ago

Interstellar (2014) seems to be his latest good score, altough I haven't heard everything he has done of course. I also liked Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Man of steel (2013).

[–] Rorikon (17940) 3 years ago

Always enjoyed Zimmer music. The way he conducts has this immersion affect on you that brings you into the movie itself.

[–] peterkneter (383) 3 years ago

he is not conducting at all. he is programming his sounds at the computer...

[–] kukuxu (5409) 3 years ago

That's the first mockup. And that's how everybody does it right now.

[–] peterkneter (383) 3 years ago

yes and for the rest of the score he has his ghostwriters. I like some of the old zimmer stuff which he did on his own in the 80s and in the beginning of the 90s...

[–] Mephariel (58) 3 years ago

They all use ghostwriters. Beltrami, Giacchino, Elfman, McCreary. Do you think they wrote the scores themselves? Zimmer is way ahead of the game.

Also, Zimmer wrote solo scores in the 2000s too: The Last Samurai and Interstellar for example.

[–] Beau_Buffet (341) 3 years ago

Most of it was really cliché (notably, the arabian-style high-pitched voice over a one note drone).

Not transcendent at all. Quite disappointing.

[–] peterkneter (383) 3 years ago

Edit: Just got an Globe Nomination - what???