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Originally posted by Hasta:
What was I on when I wrote this?

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Who knows...

Hasta, am glad you have grown past that phase, (if it was a phase).

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Originally posted by Hasta:
What was I on when I wrote this?

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Originally posted by Rommel:
Listening to many parts of Badelt's Pirates he seems to be copying Zimmer's Gladiator and The Rock. Of course much of Zimmer's work sounds the same. If I'm nieve and don't realize some things please... fill me in.

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They had very little time to write the score. I think it was something like 3 weeks but I don't know for sure. Originally, after Alan Silvestri was rejected, Zimmer and Badelt were both credited, even in some TV spots. But then at the last moment Hans' name was dropped as composer and added as Overproducer. Not exactly sure what an overproducer is but I am pretty sure he helped out with the score along with 7 other people due the very short ammount of time they had to write it.

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Originally posted by scoreguy16:
But then at the last moment Hans' name was dropped as composer and added as Overproducer. Not exactly sure what an overproducer is but I am pretty sure he helped out with the score along with 7 other people due the very short ammount of time they had to write it.

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"Overproduced by Hans Zimmer" is nothing to be taken seriously... well, it is, but it isn't. Of course anything produced by Mr. Zimmer is more than likely overproduced, but in the case of Pirates, lol -- it was definitely over-done. Lots of guys shelled out their boojies on that project, all in the name of Mr. Z and the proliferation of their work on high profile projects.

It's a fun score with the unmistakeable "Z" brand burned heavily into its buttocks. Despite its heavy-handed similarities to other Zimmer films, for me at least, it is saved by the single grace of having been "overproduced." Yup, says it right there on the CD. Makes the entire CD make a whole lot more sense... audio mix not withstanding.

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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
Worth re-visiting this topic just to read Rutherford re-score all of film history with Media Vultures music. God forbid.

Nice or not, the one thing that does come across in Zimmer interviews and the like is that he's very depressed and self-deprecating. He's like "Why would anybody want to listen to my music, it's not very good." I have to give the guy points for honesty and for getting it--it's not very good (for the most part, there are some exceptions), but if that's the way he feels, why not do something else? In any case, I prefer Zimmer's humbleness to Horner's arrogance.

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Shaun Rutherford is the only person on this board whose criticism of Zimmer is actually hilarious—I see his points and find them entertaining.

But Lou, considering how many films Hans Zimmer works on each year, his scores are pretty damned good. None of us could ever compete or compare.

I do wish Zimmer would stop saying his music is bad; I know he's a perfectionist with his work, and it shows, but his comments are probably a little enlarged with what he has to say of his work in interviews. On that new Backdraft CD, he says that he's no good at writing action music. That's ridiculous, he's easily one of the best at it, if not the best—it's what he's famous for, for heaven's sake.

James Horner sounds slightly insane these days: read the recent FSM interview with him; it's a little strange.

NP: Steamboy (Steve Jablonsky) *****/*****

I love it!

ROTFLMAO

Joey

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I don't walk up to someone on the street when looking for directions and say, "Excuse me! Blow me if you hate tourists, but do you know the way to San Jose?" Imagine what kind of response I'll get! I probably won't get any directions, that's for sure.

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