Batman Begins
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Free Music Review: GREAT SOUNDTRACK
Hit: 5 Stars
Great movie and Great soundtrack - if your a Batman fan buy both Free Music Review: Batman Begins soundtrack review
Hit: 4 Stars
I am a big movie score fan and I enjoyed listening to this score. Some parts were dark and haunting, but track 11 was even more haunting. An excellent buy.Free Music Review: A Different Approach to the Batman Scoring Franchise
Hit: 4 Stars
We all remember Danny Elfman's exciting, legendary score to the original Batman film, as well as the not as good, but still holds its own, sequel score 3 years later. We also remember Elliot Goldenthal's 2 excellent scores to the later Batman films in the late 20th century. Now, we are in a new century, yet going to the beginning of Batman and how he transformed into the dark knight.
With that said, the somewhat surprising composers for the film, as well as the upcoming sequel, are Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, 2 somewhat unique choices in that their writing styles are both so different. Whereas, Zimmer's role in the film is primarily in the action domain, Howard's role is primarily in the more lush, thematic domain. Since I am familiar with both composers' works, it is fairly easy to discern both composers throughout the score. Interestingly, all of the cues in the score are named after Latin species of bats, which won't mean much to you unless you are a die-hard fan of real bats.
Musically speaking, there are no rousing superhero themes as in the Elfman and Goldenthal scores. Rather, the intent here is to provide a more atmospheric approach to the film as Batman slowly transforms into his role. With that said, it then makes sense why the legendary Batman theme is absent, as Batman is not fully the dark knight we are accustomed to in this film as of yet. The first and last tracks begin and end, respectively, with electronic heartbeat effects, resembling the sound of a bat soaring through the air. Zimmer takes the lead in cues such as "Myotis", the second half of "Barbastella", "Antrozous", and "Molossus", with his usual fast paced brass and electronic percussion, reminiscent of his previous scores, namely The Rock and The Peacemaker. Howard takes the lead in cues such as "Eptisicus", "Macrotus", "Colynorhinus", the first half of "Barbastella", and "Tadarida". His work is very lush and beautiful, something we can expect from his previous works, but not something you would expect in a Batman film.
All in all, a very pleasant surprise with both composers contributions to the score. I certainly look forward to these two guys working together again in the future as they are both very gifted and talented composers. Their work together here proves that they can collaborate great together as well as individually.
Free Music Review: batman
Hit: 3 Stars
Great score, disappointing length...It feels like its missing some of the big movements. Probably in the mixing, but still enjoyable.Free Music Review: Perfect
Hit: 5 Stars
Tim Burton's Batman is very much like Danny Elfman's score for it: over-the-top, obvious, and gaudy. Similarly, Nolan's Batman is like Hans Zimmer's and James Newton-Howard's music in that it is subtle, believable, and absolutely wonderful.
Batman Begins, in my own, humble, opinion, was one of the best movies last year only because it didn't seem to be written as "a super-hero movie" but instead as a uniquely human story whose protagonist just happened to be one Bruce Wayne. If you enjoyed the film, the music will not disappoint. With its especially dark and haunting feel, and occasional heart-pounding action sequences, the music matches the film perfectly. Underneath the low, dark, themes, exceptionally warm, lush, and strangely human string melodies occasionally emerge, helping to establish the fact that the focus of the movie truly is on the characters themselves and the individual relationships they have with one another. These motifs are spread out strategically through the soundtrack and are slightly scarce, making them all the more heartbreakingly beautiful when they do eventually surface.
As a huge fan of both Zimmer and Newton-Howard, it was especially entertaining for me to listen to the score and pick out the aspects of it that resembled more Zimmer's technique and more Newton-Howard's. I tend to enjoy James Newton-Howard's quieter works (such as the work he's done with M. Night Shyamalan) and Hans Zimmer's grander ones (like The Last Samurai) and was amazed how well these two styles meshed together. They complimented each other wonderfully and I was left wanting more. I only hope that the two will collaborate again in the future.
If you are sick of movies and the music that goes with them, that hit you over the head with the loud, grand, ostentatious, brass-filled themes, and are looking for something better, then Batman Begins is the soundtrack for you.