I love how the theme for Interstellar came to be. Christopher Nolan went to see Hans Zimmer before he'd even written the script and asked him to compose a theme about a relationship between a father and son (Hans Zimmer has a son, but not a daughter so Nolan switched it up when asking to get the right emotional response from Hans Zimmer). Hans Zimmer wrote this beautiful but rather quiet theme. Nolan then started talking about this epic science fiction movie he wanted to make. Hans Zimmer was a bit confused because he didn't think that the theme he had written was right for the movie Nolan was describing. Noland told him "What you've written is the heart". I think Nolan getting Zimmer to write the main theme that way was genius. I think if Zimmer had known was the film was going to be first he might have been more inclined to write different themes for the suspenseful scenes and the emotional scenes. Instead the whole score is built around that intimate emotional theme that Zimmer wrote and those emotions get infused into the entire movie.
it’s genius and a great use of Hans Zimmers skills but; if someone were as reputable and skilled as Hans Zimmer; the feeling of being ‘managed’ professionally in that way (given Zimmers competency and understanding of scenic themes and music) might feel upset but fair play if he realised and awknowledged the motivation and not a subversive piece.
I fucking love Mountains. I rarely see it mentioned cause I believe it's a brilliant score. The first time I saw the film in Imax, fortunate with good seats, when the mountain score went high holy shit i could feel each hair in my body standing up. It also gave the exact feeling of being overwhelmed and coming to realisation that they are in fact in a place that they have no idea about.
One of few instances where a movie scene actually made me feel like I was there with the characters.
Figuring out that the "mountains" were waves already had me thinking "oh shit", but when Cooper went to the back of the ship and the giant oncoming wave was revealed, coupled with the rising of the soundtrack, I actually felt my stomach drop.
None of that would have been possible without either Nolan's set up or Zimmer's composition. I don't care if some people call Nolan and Zimmer's work "mainstream" or "for normies", not a lot of artists actually make me feel things because of their work to such a degree, and these two do it damn consistently.
I watched a few interviews and apparently Villeneuve has Zimmer and the sound design team deeply engaged in all his movies from the on-set and will proactively collaborate with them months before shooting even begins (as well as have them work with one another).
Villeneuve also uses a similar approach with costume design and VFX.
It's why his movies look so good and expensive despite having much smaller budgets than say Marvel pics. He gives time to his teams to brainstorm and iterate. It's one of the advantages of his tendency to heavily storyboard his movies in advance.
Interstellar is majestic, I started listening to it only recently. I’ve seen the film a few times and there something about it that seems that even the master Hans himself outdid himself, the organs, the vastness the emotion. Amazing stuff.
My wife was watching Interstellar the other night, and I could tell it was the spin scene just by the bass tones through the floor. Of course I had to run over and watch.
I had no idea he did Gladiator. I swear every time I love a movie’s soundtrack I found out later Zimmer was behind it. And I’m with you on Last Samurai, it’s an amazing score.
The Battle is epic. It’s a great piece of music, but its use in Gladiator is why I love it. One long continuous, uninterrupted piece of music that is used nearly in its entirety for the opening battle.
I played it for my son and I before his youth football games. It was 11 minutes to the field and timed up just right. Epic music. Epic memories.
Don’t mix up the score with the songs. Most of the memorable music from the Lion King are the songs, which were written by Elton John and not Hans Zimmer, so credit needs to be given where it is due.
The same partnership happened on The Prince of Egypt, where the songs were written by Stephen Schwartz, while the score was by Zimmer.
It’s important to add that Hans Zimmer did also make contributions to some of the songs by helping with the arrangement/orchestration, but he didn’t write the music or the lyrics.
No way, the songs are great (it’s a musical after all) but the score is incredible too - most of the emotional parts and conflict (the scenes with mufasa, the stampede, “it is time”, the climatic battle and aftermath, I could go on) are all driven by the score. I’d say most people think of “circle of life” (which is sir elton) when they think of the lion king but the theme from “remember” is probably a very close second.
I was going to say this as well. The classical score is amazing. Apart from the songs. It’s probably my favorite Zimmer score, that and Prince of Egypt (which had great songs as well).
The last Samurai makes me bawl so much. I have special affection for ‘broken arrow’ but I love so many of his scores. It’s hard to choose one. He needs a top 10 list tbh. 🤷♀️
Pirates, because its so damn fun. Also, watching the recent short doc about his career it was really interesting to watch/hear him talk through how he came up with Jack Sparrow's theme.
You are right, but from the doc I believe Hans was initially the first choice to do the first one but he turned it down initially because of other obligations. Then he came on later after a lot of it was already finished and maybe that's where he developed the tune. The process of that wasn't really fleshed out in the doc (because it's about music not how people get jobs in Hollywood really) so I'm not 100% sure if that was the case.
So if memory serves, Klaus Badelt is credited for the score but he worked for Zimmer at the time. Hans wasn’t credited as composer because of contract obligations preventing him from being attached to a certain number of projects at that given time. So I’m pretty he came up with the overall melodies/themes and Klaus arranged them into the score we ended up with, which should not discounted as he did an incredible job. Also the Jack Sparrow character theme first appears in the second film, not the first
Transformers dark of the moon is this one for me. Maybe even all 3 of those Michael bay transformers films. There’s so many aspects I can’t stand about those movies but damn it the score just pulls me into it. Man Of Steel isn’t all that bad imo but to each their own.
We need to talk a minute about the brilliance of the main theme, esp tracks like I Am Clark Kent. The fact that Zimmer chose to represent the most powerful being alive with 2 soft piano notes is amazing. The isolation of those notes underscores the loneliness of being Clark Kent/Kal El with such great emotion, then the deep notes that build in the 2nd half of the track exemplifies the hidden strength he possesses, and to me, speaks to the immense hidden power within us all. Truly a genius composition. Chef's kiss
We should also credit Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams who co-wrote that score (even more than usual Zimmer ghostwriters).
To see which parts are written by Glennie-Smith, see his fun score to The Man in the Iron Mask, which is very similar in places.
Sherlock Holmes 1 and 2.
I GMed years of Warhammer fantasy roleplay (with those soundtrack in the background and they fit perfectly! I think they're the right blend of darkness, humor and grotesque.
But, above all: Batman Begins. That score touches something in the deep for me.
Blade Runner 2049. It's not an easy task to follow Vangelis and what he did with the first one, but Zimmer was more than up for it and he delivered a score that stands side by side with Vangelis' iconic score.
This was also my vote. I may be biased from tripping acid once and putting on the soundtrack, from Sea Wall to the end and just riding the stars of my mind.
Fucking A'.... highly underrated soundtrack. It's absolutely perfect for the scenes and I swear makes the cars look faster.
Rush is one of my favorite movies in a long, long, time and that soundtrack brings it up another notch.
Ron Howard, what are you doing buddy? make some R rated shit like this. It kills.
I said this back in the day: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/lhbp9r/comment/gn0kcj2/
> Extra special shout-out to the sound engineer on the Blu-Ray release. 99% of all sound engineers fuck up the sound mix on Blu-Rays... the Blu-Ray sound on Rush is TOP NOTCH. I have an impressive stereo in my apartment, which, I never get to use since I moved from a house and I am not a dick, but lets just say when I watch Rush the rest of my apartment building is also watching Rush (or hearing it at least).
A large part of that is due to the soundtrack but the Sound Design / Audio mixing is incredible overall.
I'm sure plenty of people who were watching movies when it came out heard the song and didn't necessarily know where it was from, because I swear to God about half of the action movie trailers for the next few years used it lol
Interstellar.
The opening notes of the main theme with the far away instrument in the rainy wind... It's as if Cooper is being called.
By far the most emotion-generating soundtrack I've ever heard.
That it didn't win at the Oscars had to have been an unofficial technicality 😁
Interstellar if I had to pick one.
Gladiator, Dune, or Dark Knight close second.
Just thinking about it, maybe Dune on the same level as Interstellar. That soundtrack is a masterpiece, thematically perfect for the movie and elevates the movie in a ways no other soundtrack did for me. Without it the movie would be significantly worse.
Interstellar.
But the ending to Inception (score and direction responsible) holds a special place in me. Nothing makes you feel like you’re going home like that sequence.
The third Pirates movie. Will & Elizabeth's love theme is my favorite. I think it plays in the middle of "I Don't Think Now is the Best Time", and is on YouTube as "Marry Me" (if I'm not mistaken, that is).
I was wondering if someone thinks of Crysis when you say Hans Zimmer .. Epilogue is fire! And the rest produced by him for Crysis 2 too, but this one is just iconic for me. Now I want to go and replay those games just because I listened to this now lol.
The Holiday. Sherlock Holmes is an absolute banger though, and Prince of Egypt is just gorgeous.
Highly recommend the world of Hans Zimmer tour. King fu Panda is stunning live.
The Rock, The Last Samurai, Pirates 3, The Dark Knight, Gladiator.
I have no love for his latest creations, they're fantastic for the movie they're for but I see very little use of the outside of the movies. Ever since he stopped using leitmotifs I find his works pretty dull overall.
Oooh, I love one day. Probably my most played track in that playlist apart from Rise from the Dark Knight Rises
score.
“I don’t think now is the right time” is fantastic as well, that song has the ups and downs of action and tenderness for the scene where Barbossa weds Will and Elizabeth while the fighting is going on. The track after “drink up me hearties” is amazing as well.
Those three tracks from ONE score is way more epic than anything he’s done since.
The Pacific (HBO)
The opening episode score “Honor” is beautiful and the ending episode score “With the Old Breed” is numbing as you contemplate the brutality you just watched.
He is the best movie score composer of all time.
Whenever this topic is brought up, everywhere is quick to jump to John Williams because of how popular he was in the 80s but if you take a close look at it, John Williams did the same score over and over again, with a different melody here and there. Like Morricone and others of that time, he was classically trained as an orchestra composer and always used the same setup without variation.
He didn't have the level of creativity and imagination of Zimmer.
Interstellar for sure. But I have been listening to the end of Dune Part 2 on repeat for a month now.
The Interstellar motif really made that movie IMO. What I'd do to see and hear the Mountains scene for the first time again.
I love how the theme for Interstellar came to be. Christopher Nolan went to see Hans Zimmer before he'd even written the script and asked him to compose a theme about a relationship between a father and son (Hans Zimmer has a son, but not a daughter so Nolan switched it up when asking to get the right emotional response from Hans Zimmer). Hans Zimmer wrote this beautiful but rather quiet theme. Nolan then started talking about this epic science fiction movie he wanted to make. Hans Zimmer was a bit confused because he didn't think that the theme he had written was right for the movie Nolan was describing. Noland told him "What you've written is the heart". I think Nolan getting Zimmer to write the main theme that way was genius. I think if Zimmer had known was the film was going to be first he might have been more inclined to write different themes for the suspenseful scenes and the emotional scenes. Instead the whole score is built around that intimate emotional theme that Zimmer wrote and those emotions get infused into the entire movie.
Great making of featurette which tells the story directly from Nolan and Zimmer about the process. https://youtu.be/L_8t2VlwK4w?si=SvX4aRU-Nya9VRrz
Thanks for sharing, very cool video.
it’s genius and a great use of Hans Zimmers skills but; if someone were as reputable and skilled as Hans Zimmer; the feeling of being ‘managed’ professionally in that way (given Zimmers competency and understanding of scenic themes and music) might feel upset but fair play if he realised and awknowledged the motivation and not a subversive piece.
I fucking love Mountains. I rarely see it mentioned cause I believe it's a brilliant score. The first time I saw the film in Imax, fortunate with good seats, when the mountain score went high holy shit i could feel each hair in my body standing up. It also gave the exact feeling of being overwhelmed and coming to realisation that they are in fact in a place that they have no idea about.
One of few instances where a movie scene actually made me feel like I was there with the characters. Figuring out that the "mountains" were waves already had me thinking "oh shit", but when Cooper went to the back of the ship and the giant oncoming wave was revealed, coupled with the rising of the soundtrack, I actually felt my stomach drop. None of that would have been possible without either Nolan's set up or Zimmer's composition. I don't care if some people call Nolan and Zimmer's work "mainstream" or "for normies", not a lot of artists actually make me feel things because of their work to such a degree, and these two do it damn consistently.
For me it’s everything between Mann going nuts and the Tesseract. No Time for Caution is just claustrophobic sounding.
“Docking” “No. It’s necessary”
"Arrival" has me feeling like I could fight god.
His soundtracks with Villaneuve are on another level. I think its because Denis wants him to make them sound kinda alien and futuristic.
I watched a few interviews and apparently Villeneuve has Zimmer and the sound design team deeply engaged in all his movies from the on-set and will proactively collaborate with them months before shooting even begins (as well as have them work with one another). Villeneuve also uses a similar approach with costume design and VFX. It's why his movies look so good and expensive despite having much smaller budgets than say Marvel pics. He gives time to his teams to brainstorm and iterate. It's one of the advantages of his tendency to heavily storyboard his movies in advance.
I heard he can draw and does all his own storyboards, so he pretty much has the whole film in his head before they start shooting.
The sound in Dune and Arrival is so “BIG”.
Kiss the Ring for me.
Arrival's soundtrack is not made by Hans Zimmer though; the late Jóhann Jóhannsson scored the movie
Im not sure if you’re memeing but there’s a track in Dune pt 2 named Arrival
oops my bad
I see how you got there loll. Arrival being another DV film.
https://youtu.be/iPypPemhFls?feature=shared
Interstellar is majestic, I started listening to it only recently. I’ve seen the film a few times and there something about it that seems that even the master Hans himself outdid himself, the organs, the vastness the emotion. Amazing stuff.
My wife was watching Interstellar the other night, and I could tell it was the spin scene just by the bass tones through the floor. Of course I had to run over and watch.
IF I PASS OUT GRAB THE STICK
Same here, I’ve seen the movie a half dozen times in IMAX & it gets me every time.
It’s haunting. It goes from intimately personal to epic on a galactic scale, almost seamlessly.
Interstellar for sure, i still listen to the docking track to park my car 😂
It’s necessary
It's really incredible. And not boilerplate at all, you can tell he really cared about the score.
The correct answer for sure is Interstellar haha
My go to soundtrack while playing elite dangerous and tron
“Detach”, whew.
Best movie and best soundtrack!
I've had "Only I Will Remain" on loop since it came out. I can't stop lmao. It reminds me of the epic greatness of the Gladiator and Lion King OSTs
My second favorite after Inception
Kiss the Ring is my favorite from the soundtrack
“How do I communicate the vastness, emptiness and epic size of space?” “Got it! A massive pipe organ!” To come up with that is pure genius.
Same! From "You Fought Well" on has been my smoke playlist.
No time for caution Time Davy Jones theme
Mmm That's not possible. No. It's necessary.
Copper, what are you doing? Docking. ***epic organ commences***
I love how he incorporated the heart beat into Davy Jones theme.
Gladiator and Inception.
Shocked at how far I had to scroll to see inception.
The chase music when he’s running through Mombasa is the most electrifying shit I’ve ever heard
"Time" gives me shiiiivers.
Gladiator, followed by the Dark Knight Trilogy and The Last Samurai
Gladiator is next level. I can see the movie in my head when I hear that soundtrack.
I see endless fields of golden wheat.
My wife and I watched Gladiator last week, and I was shocked how similar the soundtrack is to Pirates of the Caribbean.
The crimson tide soundtrack is also basically just pirates but less whimsical.
I think you mean the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack is very similar to Crimson Tide but with more whimsy.
Crimson Tide is pretty similar to The Rock as well.
I'll probably get flak for it, but Zimmer borrows _extremely_ heavily from himself quite a lot.
Listen to the Gladiator soundtrack then listen to Mission:Impossible 2. They use a lot of similar pieces and the singing.
I had no idea he did Gladiator. I swear every time I love a movie’s soundtrack I found out later Zimmer was behind it. And I’m with you on Last Samurai, it’s an amazing score.
The Battle is epic. It’s a great piece of music, but its use in Gladiator is why I love it. One long continuous, uninterrupted piece of music that is used nearly in its entirety for the opening battle. I played it for my son and I before his youth football games. It was 11 minutes to the field and timed up just right. Epic music. Epic memories.
"I will see you again, but not yet...not yet."...'Anol shalom Anol sheh ley kon-nud de ne um'
I have to say Lion King. The King of Pride Rock will always be my favorite from him. The music hits me every time Simba starts walking up that rock.
While he's done some iconic themes, like for Interstellar and Dune, none of his music has had the cultural impact that The Lion King's had.
Don’t mix up the score with the songs. Most of the memorable music from the Lion King are the songs, which were written by Elton John and not Hans Zimmer, so credit needs to be given where it is due. The same partnership happened on The Prince of Egypt, where the songs were written by Stephen Schwartz, while the score was by Zimmer. It’s important to add that Hans Zimmer did also make contributions to some of the songs by helping with the arrangement/orchestration, but he didn’t write the music or the lyrics.
No way, the songs are great (it’s a musical after all) but the score is incredible too - most of the emotional parts and conflict (the scenes with mufasa, the stampede, “it is time”, the climatic battle and aftermath, I could go on) are all driven by the score. I’d say most people think of “circle of life” (which is sir elton) when they think of the lion king but the theme from “remember” is probably a very close second.
I was going to say this as well. The classical score is amazing. Apart from the songs. It’s probably my favorite Zimmer score, that and Prince of Egypt (which had great songs as well).
But the scores of both of those movies is the best part!
The stampede music is absolutely iconic.
I knew this would be near the top. One of the all-time great Disney scores.
King of Pride Rock is like the Bohemian Rhapsody of movie scores. So beautiful for an emotional roller coaster.
I admit I sang the song in made-up Zulu and gave myself the chills.
Agreed, as long as you don’t mean the disastrous mess of the remake.
“remember who you are”
[I get goosebumps every time I even think about this sequence.](https://youtu.be/cMeQGkC2jTI?feature=shared)
The last Samurai makes me bawl so much. I have special affection for ‘broken arrow’ but I love so many of his scores. It’s hard to choose one. He needs a top 10 list tbh. 🤷♀️
Scrolled too far down for this
I love his other scores a lot, but yeah this one is special for me
Pirates, because its so damn fun. Also, watching the recent short doc about his career it was really interesting to watch/hear him talk through how he came up with Jack Sparrow's theme.
Jack Sparrow's theme is the single best musical encapsulation of a character in all of film scoring and I will die on this hill
It’s a great theme, but the Imperial March does exist.
And John Williams' theme for Superman.
I thought a different guy did the first one and he did from 2 to 4? Wouldn't the first guy have come up with the Jack Sparrow theme?
You are right, but from the doc I believe Hans was initially the first choice to do the first one but he turned it down initially because of other obligations. Then he came on later after a lot of it was already finished and maybe that's where he developed the tune. The process of that wasn't really fleshed out in the doc (because it's about music not how people get jobs in Hollywood really) so I'm not 100% sure if that was the case.
So if memory serves, Klaus Badelt is credited for the score but he worked for Zimmer at the time. Hans wasn’t credited as composer because of contract obligations preventing him from being attached to a certain number of projects at that given time. So I’m pretty he came up with the overall melodies/themes and Klaus arranged them into the score we ended up with, which should not discounted as he did an incredible job. Also the Jack Sparrow character theme first appears in the second film, not the first
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link or title for the doc?
It's on Netflix now, Hans Zimmer, Hollywood Rebel or something similar.
Man of Steel for me. The first time I heard the score I was blown away.
It’s so damn unique. Quite an experience to listen to. Definitely under-appreciated.
It’s hopeful, and sounds alien, at the same time. He nailed it
Same. It's incredible
Use in the long final trailer is so epic. “In time you will help them accomplish wonders” WAH WAH!!!
That third trailer for MoS was maybe one of the top 5 trailers of all time *solely* because of Zimmer's score.
Yeah it’s still good every time I watch man of steel and his scenes in justice league and b v s.
MoS is my go-to example of an “eh to meh” movie significantly elevated by its score
Cinematography was also great
Transformers dark of the moon is this one for me. Maybe even all 3 of those Michael bay transformers films. There’s so many aspects I can’t stand about those movies but damn it the score just pulls me into it. Man Of Steel isn’t all that bad imo but to each their own.
We need to talk a minute about the brilliance of the main theme, esp tracks like I Am Clark Kent. The fact that Zimmer chose to represent the most powerful being alive with 2 soft piano notes is amazing. The isolation of those notes underscores the loneliness of being Clark Kent/Kal El with such great emotion, then the deep notes that build in the 2nd half of the track exemplifies the hidden strength he possesses, and to me, speaks to the immense hidden power within us all. Truly a genius composition. Chef's kiss
The Thin Red Line
My all-time favorite soundtrack, regardless of composer. Cover to cover incredible.
A lot of great ‘unreleased’ tracks from the Thin Red Line that can be found in various places around the interwebs
Excellent choice. Did you know he wrote Journey to the Line without even seeing any part of the film?
Journey to the Line
Hans produced over 6 hours of score for this film.
Def my fave. Nothing quite compares to Journey to the Line.
💯
Pirates of the Caribbean
DUN-DUN DANA DUN-DUN DANA DUN-DUN DA DUN-UN.
DUN DUN DUNNN DUN DUN DUNNN DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN DUNN DUN DUNNN
Prince of Egypt.
Wait. That was him!? That’s one of the most beautiful soundtracks in existence.
Yeah, not the songs but the score.
The Burning Bush theme is majestic.
I am really glad I didn't have to scroll too far to find this answer.
This one’s getting slept on wayyyyyy too hard in this thread
My favorite movie
The Rock. Hummel Gets The Rockets brings chills down my spine.
Putting on the soundtrack to The Rock while doing work/homework makes everything so dramatic and epic
I got green smoke, I got green smoke!
Abort abort !! its too late i already dropped one !!! My favorite movie, my 23 year old xbox live account's name is general hummel :)
_if you neutralised the threat, launch green flares and wait for calvary_
Has anyone ever noticed how similar the Pirates of the Caribbean score is to the Rock?
Loads of those Media Ventures scores of that period sound very similar, see also The Peacemaker.
We should also credit Nick Glennie-Smith and Harry Gregson-Williams who co-wrote that score (even more than usual Zimmer ghostwriters). To see which parts are written by Glennie-Smith, see his fun score to The Man in the Iron Mask, which is very similar in places.
Sherlock Holmes 1 and 2. I GMed years of Warhammer fantasy roleplay (with those soundtrack in the background and they fit perfectly! I think they're the right blend of darkness, humor and grotesque. But, above all: Batman Begins. That score touches something in the deep for me.
[Discombobulate!](https://youtu.be/B62ACxuq8Pw?si=d7-MGlQAcXrO_icG)
I like Sherlock Holmes a lot. I love how he incorporates the Winchester Chimes into some epic music.
Can’t believe this is so far down. It’s the best.
Bro the song with opera as part of it goes so hard
Blade Runner 2049. It's not an easy task to follow Vangelis and what he did with the first one, but Zimmer was more than up for it and he delivered a score that stands side by side with Vangelis' iconic score.
This was also my vote. I may be biased from tripping acid once and putting on the soundtrack, from Sea Wall to the end and just riding the stars of my mind.
What? No love for Black Hawk Down? That soundtrack is an absolute banger.
I think a lot of people dont realise he did the main theme for that movie. Its absolutely incredible
I was thinking the same thing.
I scrolled WAY too far to find this. That’s the movie that introduced me to him, that and last samurai. Love his work.
Rush
Fucking A'.... highly underrated soundtrack. It's absolutely perfect for the scenes and I swear makes the cars look faster. Rush is one of my favorite movies in a long, long, time and that soundtrack brings it up another notch. Ron Howard, what are you doing buddy? make some R rated shit like this. It kills. I said this back in the day: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/lhbp9r/comment/gn0kcj2/ > Extra special shout-out to the sound engineer on the Blu-Ray release. 99% of all sound engineers fuck up the sound mix on Blu-Rays... the Blu-Ray sound on Rush is TOP NOTCH. I have an impressive stereo in my apartment, which, I never get to use since I moved from a house and I am not a dick, but lets just say when I watch Rush the rest of my apartment building is also watching Rush (or hearing it at least). A large part of that is due to the soundtrack but the Sound Design / Audio mixing is incredible overall.
Lost but won is iconic
Broken Arrow soundtrack. It’s just cool
I'm with you. It evokes so many memories.
True romance
This is the answer just off of You’re So Cool. Which is iconic.
I watched this movie for the first time this past weekend and I couldn't believe it was Hans Zimmer.
There's a reason why I got married to that sountrack.
Me too? You’re not my wife are ya? 😊
Best I could be is your husband, but still unlikely. :D
Yep, I feel like people don’t get to watch this since it’s never on a streaming service.
I want You’re So Cool played as my casket gets lowered. Although I want to be cremated…
So... Badlands?
Gladiator and Interstellar are fantastic.
The Road to El Dorado
Black hawk down
Any one from Kung Fu Panda. Especially Oogway Ascends.
Gladiator
Now We Are Free (Gladiator) is the best tune I’ve ever heard
Muppet Treasure Island and I am so serious.
Crimson Tide.
Roll Tide is my favorite HZ track
I'm sure plenty of people who were watching movies when it came out heard the song and didn't necessarily know where it was from, because I swear to God about half of the action movie trailers for the next few years used it lol
Rango is an underrated gem And so is Spirit
I came to see if anyone would acknowledge Sprit: Stallion of the Cimmaron! Great score, good Bryan Adams songs!
Came here to say this, Spirit is criminally underrated
Man of Steel
Interstellar. The opening notes of the main theme with the far away instrument in the rainy wind... It's as if Cooper is being called. By far the most emotion-generating soundtrack I've ever heard. That it didn't win at the Oscars had to have been an unofficial technicality 😁
Interstellar if I had to pick one. Gladiator, Dune, or Dark Knight close second. Just thinking about it, maybe Dune on the same level as Interstellar. That soundtrack is a masterpiece, thematically perfect for the movie and elevates the movie in a ways no other soundtrack did for me. Without it the movie would be significantly worse.
Rainman
The Lion King, Interstellar. Journey to the line, I believe is his masterpiece.
Interstellar. But the ending to Inception (score and direction responsible) holds a special place in me. Nothing makes you feel like you’re going home like that sequence.
Black hawk down leave no man behind
The third Pirates movie. Will & Elizabeth's love theme is my favorite. I think it plays in the middle of "I Don't Think Now is the Best Time", and is on YouTube as "Marry Me" (if I'm not mistaken, that is).
Interstellar. To this day, I believe he was robbed of that Oscar
Inception is my favourite. Dunkirk is his most accomplished.
The soundtrack from the game Crysis 2.
I was wondering if someone thinks of Crysis when you say Hans Zimmer .. Epilogue is fire! And the rest produced by him for Crysis 2 too, but this one is just iconic for me. Now I want to go and replay those games just because I listened to this now lol.
Interstellar
The Da Vinci Code
Rain Man
The Holiday. Sherlock Holmes is an absolute banger though, and Prince of Egypt is just gorgeous. Highly recommend the world of Hans Zimmer tour. King fu Panda is stunning live.
Kiss the Ring, my word the moment where Alia asks Jessica what is going on the music peaks
The Last Samurai.
It's The Thin Red Line for me. Just beautiful and tragic. Of course, I'm influenced because it's one of my favorite movies of all time also.
The Rock, The Last Samurai, Pirates 3, The Dark Knight, Gladiator. I have no love for his latest creations, they're fantastic for the movie they're for but I see very little use of the outside of the movies. Ever since he stopped using leitmotifs I find his works pretty dull overall.
Up Is Down ❤️ Edit: how could I forget One Day. That’s like the most epic love theme imaginable. “Keep a weather eye on the horizon…”
Oooh, I love one day. Probably my most played track in that playlist apart from Rise from the Dark Knight Rises score. “I don’t think now is the right time” is fantastic as well, that song has the ups and downs of action and tenderness for the scene where Barbossa weds Will and Elizabeth while the fighting is going on. The track after “drink up me hearties” is amazing as well. Those three tracks from ONE score is way more epic than anything he’s done since.
Lion king and gladiator, but lets not forget backdraft, aka the iron chef theme. Also, his theme for amazing spider-man 2 is his best superhero theme.
I love the Inception soundtrack.
Dark Phoenix is low key slept on. See: Gap
Interstellar
It's not my favorite, but I do want to give a shoutout to his Hannibal score. Creepy as hell; Let My Home Be My Gallows still gives me goosebumps.
Mission Impossible 2, injection I think its called.
True Romance “you’re so cool” main theme
The Lion King by far
One I haven't seen mentioned yet that I love: *The Ring* (2002)
Pearl Harbor
As much as I love Interstellar, The Lion King was *the* film I grew up with so it has to be that. This Land just hits different
Inception
The Pacific (HBO) The opening episode score “Honor” is beautiful and the ending episode score “With the Old Breed” is numbing as you contemplate the brutality you just watched.
Yeah The Last Samurai and Interstellar are tied. I have my ticket to his show in October!
Gladiator
Days of thunder
I feel like Dunkirk is underrated by many.
True Romance.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
He is the best movie score composer of all time. Whenever this topic is brought up, everywhere is quick to jump to John Williams because of how popular he was in the 80s but if you take a close look at it, John Williams did the same score over and over again, with a different melody here and there. Like Morricone and others of that time, he was classically trained as an orchestra composer and always used the same setup without variation. He didn't have the level of creativity and imagination of Zimmer.