Man of Steel Appreciation

[RandyS]

I feel that way about almost every Zimmer score since Gladiator -- even his video game scores! To me his style tends to be too monolithic, too serious, too grave.

Thank you! Glad someone agrees with me. I think the grindingly monotonous score was the main reason so many people wrote MoS off as "depressing"...

Add me to the list. The soundtrack was terrible.

And I don't know if it was the soundtrack that caused people's reaction. I think it was because Nolan and Goyer didn't know the difference between Superman and Batman.

 

[eyeresist]

I love the Zimmer scores of the new films as much as I love the Williams' (Williams' inspired) scores of the Reeve/Routh era.

Just to clarify, I'm not saying the score should have been more like Williams. I just don't think much of Zimmer as a composer.

 

[shapeshifter]

I gotta agree, the score was the films weakest link.

When reviewing the classic Superman films I have the stereo volume set to 'neighbors know what I am watching' level. For MOS, not so much.

 

[martok2112]

I love the Zimmer scores of the new films as much as I love the Williams' (Williams' inspired) scores of the Reeve/Routh era.

Just to clarify, I'm not saying the score should have been more like Williams. I just don't think much of Zimmer as a composer.

I will agree that there doesn't seem to be a lot of variation in Zimmer's works. Some might say "If you've heard one Zimmer score, you've heard them all."

Of course, the same could probably be said of James Horner, or Leonard Rosenman.

 

[Enterpriserules]

To me it was all about his theme for Superman in the end, I just really dug the new sound.

 

[eyeresist]

My apologies if I derailed the thread.