Batman Begins [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Free Music Notes for Batman Begins [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Free Music Review: the perfect Batman movie "an artists opinion"
Hit: 5 Stars
(first off...this is not a kid...just too lazy to "fill out paper work"... :p ) but i hope this review helps you a lot.
this batman-words cannot describe how powerful this movie was. the music alone played an outstanding-brilliant-hmm...hauntingly, traumatizing, and hypnotic role to me.
it was very heroic- but in a very dark and disturbed way. and it came to me: "some of the greatest classical music is only heard in movies" and some of the greatest music is really twisted -like how most people described this soundtrack already, for you.
The part in the movie that shows a lot of emotion with these brilliant classical peices playing, was when Racheal was posioned. The insane driving scene, and the part when batman screamed her name...there was something about The Bat's voice that made it one of the most powerful scenes in the movie, to me...
Danny Elfman's input was more comical,heroic, and triumphant. Hans Zimmer gave it a more sinister feeling and at the same time made it sound kind of hopefull and heroic. you will be very pleased- its an hour long- read a book and put this in your CD player. preferably the Batman Begins book or any other graphic novel-or comic. even better with the Bat. you'll get smarter. its good to be creative with this on too. lots of different visuals.
TRACKS 4 through 8 is a wonderful-morbid musical ride.(ten is really good too). The music with the scarecrow whispering is very creepy- but its a perfect theme for the character. The rest of the CD is just as magnificant and beautifully composed, listen to it as a whole to get the Full effect.
remember: four through eight. thank you for taking the time to read this review. 4-8. i can't stress four through eight enough...4 through 8. thanks again for reading this review.
Free Music Review: A Classic Film Score
Hit: 5 Stars
Anyone who has browses music stores will notice that the film score to "The Good, Bad, and the Ugly", a film from the 60s, is still selling today. For anyone who hasn't heard it, the "G, B, & U" film score is a very complex score that contains many different beautiful themes.
This soundtrack is complex in the same way. To me it seemed like a bad idea to have two composers collaborate on a score for a blockbuster film but the end result is a score with a 8-10 beautiful and moving themes rather than 1 or 2. I did not really appreciate the depth of this score until I heard it at least a dozen times. It now ranks among my 3 or 4 favorite scores of all time.
Most great scores are not recognized in their time and this one will probably not receive its due in the form of Oscar recognition. I do think people will be listening to this score 40 years from now.
The comparison to the Danny Elfman score is silly. That was a fun and appealing score but this is pretty serious music appropriate to a more serious movie.
My favorite passages are the last 2 minutes of #2 Eptesicus (beautiful), the last two minutes of #6 Tadarida (sad and beautiful), the first 2 minutes of #7 Macrotus (again beautiful), the first 2 minutes of #8 Antrozous (very stirring), and all of #10 Molussus (again very stirring).
If you are familiar with Hans Zimmer's music you can probably guess which themes are his and which are James Newton Howard's. Both contributions are equally wonderful.
Free Music Review: Batman Begins - an amazing "soundtrack"
Hit: 5 Stars
I put soundtracks in quotation marks for a positive reason, just so we start out on the right foot. Please don't get me wrong when I say what I'm about to say, because I love Danny Elfman's composing talents and even enjoyed Eliot Goldenthal's version. I even own and enjoy Nelson Riddle's take on the Batman from 1966! I still say this is the finest score to date, and I hope to explain this thoroughly.
To my way of thinking this soundtrack is yet another character in this incredibly stark and moving film. It, like all the other characters that surround Wayne/Batman attest to his drive for justice and hope in a seemingly hopeless world. Unlike the others this soundtrack does not come off like a traditional soundtrack. It looms in the background and hauntingly draws attention to the angst and pathos of the creature known as Batman. From the death of his parents to his meeting with Ras Al Ghul to the creation of Batman to the rescue and further need of rescuing Gotham, I believe this film would lose something in the translation if not for the beautiful soundtrack that graces it. Just to think not one, but two major talents went into this and came out with a cohesive soundtrack that comes off sounding like a 12 mvt. symphonic suite for the Dark Knight! If you want to hear Elfman or Goldenthal then buy those soundtracks (I highly recommend them!), but if you'd like to hear the legend of Batman in music form grab this right away and be prepared for a listening experience like none before! ENJOY!
Free Music Review: Dark Beginning
Hit: 5 Stars
Too many people have tried to compare both the movie, Batman Begins, and its soundtrack to previous efforts. The problem is that Nolan's Batman is so much more real than those of the past. And that's probably the best way to describe Zimmer and Howard's score. It's not overdone. It isn't cheap or childish. It doesn't feel like fantasy. The essence of the music tells the story of flesh and blood, of a man who has been wounded and refuses to let that destroy him. You can feel the desire to do good coupled with the pull towards an inner darkness in the throbbing strings throughout the score. It perfectly carries the dark mood of a mind possessed with the conflict between justice and revenge. From the first moments, where a rhythmic thumping like great bat wings hovers on the periphery, to the repeating chant-like fanfare rising near the end, it speaks of darkness and loss. This is music for black, abandoned alleyways, for the deepest and most enigmatic wells of the psyche. There a moments where it descends to almost disturbing levels and here the hallucinatory sound effects of the Scarecrow are well-placed. Artibeus, particularly, communicates fear and confusion. On the other side of the coin, the tender piano and cello moments in Eptesicus and Corynorhinus remind us that underneath the black suit, the Dark Knight is just a man who bleeds like everyone else.Free Music Review: Awesome.
Hit: 5 Stars
I haven't been really excited about a movie soundtrack since Vangelis' Blade Runner, or Basil Poledouris' Conan the Barbarian. This work is a dark and unique masterpiece that is so good, it doesn't seem to know that it's just a soundtrack. At times it is delicately moving, at times majestically powerful, but always intensely atmospheric and highly emotional.
I can't believe some have said this soundtrack doesn't quite measure up to Elfman's work. In my opinion, by way of comparison, Elfman is not fit touch the hem of the garments of Mr.s Zimmer and Howard. Aside from the great theme, Elfman's work was far too comic book-ish and would have been more at home in a cartoon than a motion picture.
In any case, even if you have absolutely no interest in the Batman character, or comic book movies in general, if you enjoy baroque orchestral works, you will love this. An absolute must-have.
Some good news: Zimmer and Howard are returning to score this film's sequel, The Dark Knight.