> We'll have to agree to disagree to pretty much everything said between us.
> I suppose with all compopsers (yes, not just Zimmer) I look at the work
> with more of a "glass-is-half-full" attitude whereas you, not
> only is the glass half-empty, but it has lipstick all around the rim.

> See the good in the world and stop nit-picking at the faults.

No, actually, in the case of Zimmer, the glass has nothing but a few drops left at the bottom, the rest was already sucked out by the time Gladiator was released.

That's the pain with about everyone who tries to defend Hans Zimmer to his death. As soon as someone with a musical background surfaces and reveals the rotten core of Zimmer's music, they start to generalise, because they can't bring up any valid points anymore. And they really can't.
Because music is notes on paper, and is open for close examination to anyone who has the will and the knowledge to do it.

No doubt Zimmer can write entertaining music for the easily entertainable musical illiterate, but he's in a world of his own, and I refuse to call his music "film music". At best, it's "orchestral pop music based on a motion picture".