Agreed. That is exactly the type of score I expected from Zimmer… droning, with percussive repetition, and no discernible melody.
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The internet in two posts - its both Zimmer and not Zimmer at the same time.
What’s agreed on is the dislike of it. One for it sounding like Zimmer…one for it not sounding like Zimmer.
Schrodinger’s Zimmer
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Do you like that part of the score?
It’s very reactionary, with tones playing off the sound of the vehicles - I’d be curious as to how it plays on the soundtrack.
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As a traditionalist concerning all things Bond I am very sad that the days of Barry are over. Or even Arnold who at least favored melody over sound design/noise.
I was listening to Mazzaro´s “The Rhythm Section”, hoping this would not be too much like “No time to die”.
Judging from this scene I am less hopeful.
But hey, the release date of the score has also been removed to April 2, 2021.
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Although public recklessness is a factor, the government should take most of the blame. Boris and his puppetmaster Cummings, not to mention Hancock, aren’t fit to run a bath. Boris and Trump may as well be the same person: they’re both sheltered, self-entitled, racist, sexist horn-dogs motivated solely by self-interest and ego, and struggle to govern even when there isn’t a pandemic. Not for nothing were/are these two countries the most severely hit by the virus.
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Don’t hold back; tell us how you really feel 
Meanwhile, others have identified TENET as the real villain that tore the silver screen…
Which is of course hardly the case. At the heart of the article though there is the oft-repeated fact that indoor gathering of larger groups of people is just asking for the virus to spread.
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Hang on, isn’t this the same paper that yesterday were crucifying Eon for postponing? I normally like The Guardian and value their intelligent reporting, but this is trying to have their cake and eat it: and that’s just greedy!
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There’s also this
A little more sotto voce if you please, @BondFan…
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Oh yes, The Telegraph. Used to be a newspaper, no? I distinctly remember having read one in the past. Also, there was the odd order of fish and chips the Telegraph helped me taking away. Used to be a solid paper, fit for many uses.
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That is how I feel about the New York Post. It was an afternoon paper my father picked up on the way home from the office, so it had the first cut of what had happened that day and the latest stock market figures. It was a liberal paper and had great columnists.
Rupert Murdoch bought it in 1976, and it has been unreadable ever since.
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Yeah, the hardest part was always avoiding this site for 3 weeks while we waited for the movie to be released in Australia. It was usually because the cast would come over for the premiere, and so we would have to wait for Daniel and his co-stars to slowly make his way to Oz.
By the time I got on here to discuss my initial thoughts on the movie, everyone else had seen it 3 times. I think the hardest wait was the 3 weeks for Casino Royale.
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That’s because it’s two different pieces of music being talked about. The gunbarrel is derivative of what we’ve heard time and time again. The piece that @secretagentfan refers to is from something else. which much more closely resembles what Zimmer has become known for.
I actually like the bit from the scene from The Tonight Show much better. If you’re going to hire Zimmer, you’re hiring him to do that, for better or worse. I’d rather hear the composer put their own stamp on the familiar sounds in addition to creating something new, rather than just mimic what has come before. The gunbarrel is a mimic. The Tonight Show scene, for better or worse, is much more what one would expect from Zimmer.
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Apologies if this has already been posted:
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This closing of theatres is a measure they have to take when profitable operations are no longer possible, i.e. when footfall and productions no longer meet overheads. This means a significant loss of jobs - but potentially you can reopen very quickly once the situation allows. The question is, when would the situation allow this?
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The Cineworld CEO gives a pretty thorough answer in one of the many interviews - when you’ve got several blockbusters on the schedule in a period of 6+ weeks.
So, say, if NTTD suddenly comes back on schedule, it’s not like they’d open up solely for that. That’s what the Tenet thing was ultimately about - that it was gonna be followed by Quiet Place 2, Wonder Woman 1984, NTTD.
Now, we’ve got Free Guy and WW84 at Christmas, followed by 355 in January. Then on the more ‘prestige’ side, Greengrass/Hanks collab News of the World in Dec and the Aretha Franklin film Respect too (from MGM/Universal) - would mention likely Best Picture frontrunner Nomadland but that’s Searchlight so gonna be a bit more specialised… On the family end, Peter Rabbit 2 and Rumble. And then there’s Sony with Monster Hunter and Escape Room 2… So for now, seems like that’s the restart period.
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I wouldn’t bet on Christmas either, takes quite a bit of fantasy to imagine much cinema business before the start of a possible ‘outdoor season’ for film theatres.
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