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Comments about the soundtrack for Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer/Various)

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These types of reviews tire me...
• Posted by: Jim Washburn   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Monday, June 17, 2013, at 3:13 p.m.
• IP Address: c-67-190-2-166.hsd1.co.comcast.net

Maybe it's time the reviewer simply stop listening to soundtracks by Hans Zimmer.

He clearly has an ax to grind and refuses to budge from his ostensibly anti-Zimmer crusade. The objectiveness of a soundtrack review cannot be combined with an obvious and overt disdain for the style and process of the composer. If you don't like how they compose film scores, that's fine. But to drag up the same arguments over and over aimed solely at a composer who is clearly liked and respected by filmmakers and fans alike reeks of an inability or unwillingness to even try to be objective. Just let it go, man. If you can't distance yourself enough, than just stop listening to and reviewing his material. And by the sound of it, maybe stop watching movies that are so thoroughly corrupted by the influence of a composer you clearly hate.

The same type of frustration is evident right from the start of the review. As for the opening paragraph, in one sentence he bemoans the lack of intelligent new ideas in Hollywood, then spends the rest of the paragraph mourning differences from the "classic" superhero films and how these completely different films are...well, completely different.
Most of the classics, in all honesty, have not aged well--few movies are actually timeless. I doubt anyone wants a shot-for-shot, dialogue-intact remake of these films; nor do many people want them to delve back even further to previous eras of Batman or Superman. Comics have always reflected the attitudes and socio-political environments of the times in which they are created or re-interpreted. It's not surprising that both Batman and Superman have been reinvented through the lens of a post-9/11 era of global violence and terrorism. Wanting a film that reflects the nostalgic quirks of eras past is simply not financially feasible beyond the realm of the DC and Marvel animated movie programs. The reviewer undermines his opinion by making such strongly contradictory statements while still under the not-so-subtle veil of a clearly anti-Zimmer rant.




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       Jim Washburn - Monday, June 17, 2013, at 3:13 p.m.



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