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Music : The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard) .
Rating: 
- Mr Zimmer Please write something else!!!!!!
Well here we go again!Another example of Hans Zimmers "orchestral meanderings".Typical score that speeds up and slows down and with very little theamatic material in it at al.Im sorry to all the people out there who think Mr Zimmer is the bees knees when it comes to film scoring but im one of the people who misses listening to a score with some kind of coherence in it!I dont know how much input James Newton howard had into this score as with previous one he has composed far better ones(Wyatt Earp, The fugitive and Signs !).Not a score i would recommend to anyone!Dull Dull Dull!
Rating:
- Fantastic!!!
Best soundtrack I've bought this year. If you enjoyed the film, you'll love this CD. Played very loud through my Cyrus Hi-Fi it is simply stunning. Fantastic musical score!
Rating: - Much better than expected
I bought this on a whim, just out of interest really, and didn't expect that I'd go back for repeated listens. On the one hand the score is quite predictably "Hollywood blockbuster"-ish with lots of big drums, urgent marcato strings and dark industrial synth sounds. But you get past that, and the vision of the score becomes clearer over repeated listens, and I began to find it a very satisfying piece of work, and as an album, feel that the narrative and coherence works really well: the album flows seamlessly. Recommended for children of darkness everywhere.
On a different note, some reviewers commented that the album leaves off some of the score - but the CD comes in at 73 minutes, so you can't really complain that you don't get your money's worth. Possibly a double CD album would have nailed it 100%, but then maybe the album wouldn't have been so coherent, and anyway, it means you've got an excuse to watch the film for those missing parts eh?
Rating:
- Missed titles and mixed ones
I totally agree with B.J.Lee. Some titles are missed (e.g. the piece after Gordon gives his "Dark Knight" monologue). Frankly, I bought the CD just for the last track in the film, but it wasn't there!
In addition, some other tracks are "blended together"!
Bottom line, the soundtrack on CD was worthless for me; I even didn't add it to my music library. However, the movie soundtrack is great, but they are NOT identical.
Rating: - Disapointing
Whilst I really enjoyed the music that Zimmer and Howard produced for the film itself, I am a little disapointed that the album appears to be the "highlights" of the score, rather than a definitive reproduction of it. For example, you only get literally about 4-5 seconds of the opening scene (where the window is blown out and the robbers get onto the roof) (the tracks are blended together). The same goes for the scene where Batman is beating the drug dealers in the car park, but here it seems to be totally missing.
There are other bits missing, but I forget. I don't think that the piece where Gordon is giving his "Dark Knight" monologue is there either.
A great great score, but poorly represented on this CD.
- Mr Zimmer Please write something else!!!!!!Well here we go again!Another example of Hans Zimmers "orchestral meanderings".Typical score that speeds up and slows down and with very little theamatic material in it at al.Im sorry to all the people out there who think Mr Zimmer is the bees knees when it comes to film scoring but im one of the people who misses listening to a score with some kind of coherence in it!I dont know how much input James Newton howard had into this score as with previous one he has composed far better ones(Wyatt Earp, The fugitive and Signs !).Not a score i would recommend to anyone!Dull Dull Dull!
Rating:
- Fantastic!!!Best soundtrack I've bought this year. If you enjoyed the film, you'll love this CD. Played very loud through my Cyrus Hi-Fi it is simply stunning. Fantastic musical score!
Rating:
- Much better than expectedI bought this on a whim, just out of interest really, and didn't expect that I'd go back for repeated listens. On the one hand the score is quite predictably "Hollywood blockbuster"-ish with lots of big drums, urgent marcato strings and dark industrial synth sounds. But you get past that, and the vision of the score becomes clearer over repeated listens, and I began to find it a very satisfying piece of work, and as an album, feel that the narrative and coherence works really well: the album flows seamlessly. Recommended for children of darkness everywhere.
On a different note, some reviewers commented that the album leaves off some of the score - but the CD comes in at 73 minutes, so you can't really complain that you don't get your money's worth. Possibly a double CD album would have nailed it 100%, but then maybe the album wouldn't have been so coherent, and anyway, it means you've got an excuse to watch the film for those missing parts eh?
Rating:
- Missed titles and mixed onesI totally agree with B.J.Lee. Some titles are missed (e.g. the piece after Gordon gives his "Dark Knight" monologue). Frankly, I bought the CD just for the last track in the film, but it wasn't there!
In addition, some other tracks are "blended together"!
Bottom line, the soundtrack on CD was worthless for me; I even didn't add it to my music library. However, the movie soundtrack is great, but they are NOT identical.
Rating:
- DisapointingWhilst I really enjoyed the music that Zimmer and Howard produced for the film itself, I am a little disapointed that the album appears to be the "highlights" of the score, rather than a definitive reproduction of it. For example, you only get literally about 4-5 seconds of the opening scene (where the window is blown out and the robbers get onto the roof) (the tracks are blended together). The same goes for the scene where Batman is beating the drug dealers in the car park, but here it seems to be totally missing.
There are other bits missing, but I forget. I don't think that the piece where Gordon is giving his "Dark Knight" monologue is there either.
A great great score, but poorly represented on this CD.
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