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It also has what I feel to be one of the worst scores I have heard in a long time. Zimmer’s main Spider-Man theme is basically Fanfare For The Common Spider-Man, and sounds like a parody (it’s like a cross between the Copland piece and Zimmer’s Going For Gold theme), and the action music just came across as obnoxious noise. I didn't feel the "whisper-rapping" to characterise Electro, worked at all either. The score is the very antithesis of Horner’s finely crafted, dramatically astute, and emotionally rich score for the previous film. He is sorely, sorely missed. I'm sure I'll be branded a Zimmer-hater for that assessment, but I'm really not. From his recent work, I love his Batman and Robert Langdon scores, and I think INCEPTION was genius, but on the other hand I only liked the emotional stuff in MAN OF STEEL and didn't take to the action music at all. In AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 even the emotional material was pretty by-the-numbers, and barely made an impression on me, unlike the other elements I have mentioned which sadly made a negative impression. Perhaps he had too many collaborators on this one. Too many cooks, etc. Nope, your assessment doesn't make you a Zimmer-hater. The Zimmer-hatin' posts are quite obvious. You gave fair and detailed examples of what you feel didn't work. I haven't seen the film, but from the portions of the album I've heard, my opinion of the score would probably align with yours. Still, I'm glad attempts are being made to take superhero scores in new directions.
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Wow. This was put out yesterday, another concert of SPIDERMAN music, like Zimmer did with the BATMAN films and INCEPTION: https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-amazing-spiderman-2/ Fantastic! I love it. The vocal parts aren't exactly my thing though. But it looks like Zimmer is enjoying live performing more and more. Is Dave Stewart there?
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