What’s the consensus over here on Hans Zimmer scoring the film - POLL ADDED

Films No Time To Die (No spoilers)
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Judging from other Zimmer scores I feel safe to predict that the rest of the score will not be too different from this action scene‘s score. And it might be effective and incorporate the song‘s melody, and people will adore it.

Just for me, watching this scene with that score makes it much less of a Bond film and more of a generic thriller. All previous composers echoed Barry‘s blueprint. Zimmer does only echo his own in that scene. And it would be surprising if he only chose to do that scene in that style.

For me, Zimmer has opened the door for future composers to give Bond less of the characteristic haunting melancholy and more of the bombastic soundscapes he is known for.

It’s exactly why I always dreaded Zimmer to score Bond.

Changing of the guard, maybe.

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When I walked out of Dunkirk, a film which I enjoyed but didn’t love, I referred to it as having a non-score. My friends almost to a man said, “I honestly don’t even remember there being any music. Did it have any?”

That is obviously an approach to a score, eschewing melody and instead serving the purpose of underscoring tension through textural atmosphere. As an experiment on a single film I find that interesting and commendable, but as a signature for a composer it starts to just feel lazy.

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So, this is from an amateur - a rescoring of that scene. And while the music is on the nose and clichéd… for me, it really would be a much better template than the Zimmer score:

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Calvin Dyson is saying that there has been a single track of the score released somewhere already…?

Is that so? My search capabilities, while usually of good order, are not finding this. Can anyone help?

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Only the gun barrel:

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Ah, I see. Ta.

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I like it, even as mindful of SPECTRE as it is (which is not available, btw.)

Amazon is still listing a November 13th release date.

Oh, “Poison Garden” is giving me YOLT novel vibes. Could it be the Garden of Death?

Tracks are listed separately to buy, but says “Not yet available.” on all but “Gunbarrel.”

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It‘s moved to April 2021.

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Ugh. They can’t even give us that. Understandable, but disappointing.

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As long as the gunbarrel sequence is at the start, I am happy.

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So as it turns out, one of the NTTD tracks in the first released official podcast episode is “Back to MI6” - the YouTube Content ID flagged it in this upload

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Great find, it sounds appropriately Bondian. The guitar theme at the end is exactly the type of thing I’ve been wanting to hear. Sounds like a hint of the NTTD melody early on too?

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Oooh, that’s a great find! There’s a version of the Bond theme that plays at the end of the podcast, I’m sure it’s from the score - I wonder if it also has an ID tag from the soundtrack.

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Attach it to a video - YouTube takes music copywriting as a more serious issue than conspiracy theories and hate speech videos, they’ll flag it quick.

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Indeed it is - the driving nature of the theme somewhat reminds me of Zimmer’s ‘Why Do We Fall?’ from TDK Rises soundtrack.

And welcome to the site!

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Yeah, that’s “Back to MI6” (someone at MI6 Community uploaded the tracks from the podcast separately to figure this out)

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Great! I’m glad that there’s a variation of the Bond theme in the film proper - I was worried it would be relegated to the end credits like the other Craig films. I’m cautiously optimistic that Zimmer has done a good job on this film.

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I have been to the board for while, when is the soundtrack going to be released here in the U.S. or it out already.

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I have to ask the internet.