Batman Begins [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Free Music Review: Great synergy of Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Hit: 5 Stars
Amazing stuff. One of those scores that you could listen to without ever having seen the movie, and it would still stand on its own merits. Haunting, powerful, dreamy. Zimmer, to my mind, is today's equivalent of Beethoven, Wagner, Bruckner and Sibelius, all rolled into one. A worthy heir of a musical tradition that's languished under the yoke of modernist distortion for far too long, relegated to musty 'concerts' or being adapted for pop-culture and consumption by those who can't relate to music without watching the music video, or those who need it all packaged up into 'The Best of XYZ'.
The score captures the mood and pace of the movie, with its ebb and flow, its highs and lows-and ultimately it goes one better and transcends it.
It doesn't come much better than that.
Till Noever, Author: Keaen, (...)
Free Music Review: Exquisite
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excellent soundtrack - no ands, or, buts about it. I am not familiar with Elfman's score, but whether people think this soundtrack reaches those expectations or not, there's nothing to complain about here. It is a very rare thing when it comes to sountracks that I can listen to every single song. I never skip anything, this CD is that good, and I listen to it constantly.
As far as I'm concerned, that's easily enough to earn a 5 star rating. Elfman may have a great score for all I know, but this music couldn't have been better. It fit the movie beautifully. Many of the songs consist of variations of the main theme, but I happen to like the main theme a lot, so it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I loved it. Some people won't love it as much as I do, but regardless, this is very well composed.
Free Music Review: New Score Lifts New Batman
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first heard that both Zimmer and Howard were composin the score for Batman Begins, I couldn't wrap my head around the idea and drove my wife nuts with my constant questioning, "How?"
But when I got my copy I was astounded.
This was not one of Danny Elfman's interchangable scores. This was Zimmer. This was Howard. Together And, yet neither. Something all together new. Granted Zimmer borrowed some from "King Arthur" and possibly "Gladiator" and Howard took a bit from "Unbreakable". But, the end product was a new moody sound appropriate for the new moody Batman, understated without a monotonous charge everytime the Batmobile appears or Batman zips up his outfit.
I highly recommend to lovers of film scores. Just remember, this isn't your Danny Elfman's Batman.
Free Music Review: Beautiful, dark, alarming twilight music!
Hit: 5 Stars
Brooding, sinister and violent soundtrack, with lots of quotations from Wagner and other romantic composers, produced in an electronic environment.
Zimmer's music for The Thin Red Line stands out as one of the most gripping scores ever to feature in a movie; the music for "Batman Begins" equals that in intensity, imaginative power and sheer scariness.
Part of the reason this recording works so well separated from the movie is that it comes over as a coherent collection of musical essays (on the theme of monstrous bats, full of flapping, leathery wings, the pounding of strained hearts and the headlong rush of predator and prey).
Great fun to listen to if you need to write a dark novel (as I do) and highly recommended to almost everybody.
Free Music Review: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Hit: 5 Stars
As a dynamic soundtrack collector, I must say that Batman Begins is one of my all time favorite scores. With the combination of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, how could anything go wrong?
The score is dark, scary, beautiful, and full of action all at the same time. It has awesome synthetic base added to some songs which I happen to love very much.
IT SHOULD BE UP FOR SCORE OF THE YEAR, THAT SHOULD GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF HOW GOOD IT IS. WHEN I SAW THE LIST AND THIS WAS NOT ON IT I YELLED AND CURSED THE OSCAR IDIOTS. THEN I GLANCED DOWN TO NOTICE THAT NEITHER KING KONG, STAR WARS, BATMAN BEGINS, HARRY POTTER, NOR THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA WAS ON IT. I AM UTTERY AMAZED AT THE OSCAR FAILURE THIS YEAR.
I HOPE YOU BUY AND ENJOY THIS SCORE AS I KNOW YOU WILL