> Since Gladiator, Zimmer has slowly but surely sunk to the level where he
> writes the scores that no one wants to be compared to. Hans Zimmer's
> sickening overdosage of electronic instruments and simple melody with no
> counterpoint has simply become the staple of bad film scoring.

And what do you call The Last Samurai, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci Code or Angels & Demons, then? The scores nobody wants to be compared to, well, I really don't think so.

There's no denying that, while his studio members (Steve Jablonsky and Transformers especially) are doing a very good job of muddying his name, Zimmer's just as talented as he was when he wrote Gladiator.