Good soundtrack - Dune: Part One (2021) Discussion

[–] avigalidou (618) 3 years ago

It's actually terrible.The vocals suck so loud and annoying...It's too ethnic it gets boring. No clear themes no heart just like the film itself...Zimmer needs to go on vacation

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[–] JohnMatrix (726) 3 years ago

Ok.. Well, I agree it could’ve still been much better, but it could’ve been much worse too. At least it wasn’t just your generic Marvel- action noise type of music. I think I liked it more in the beginning of the movie where it had interesting motifs. Made me look up the composer. It sounded quite intriguing.

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[–] peterkneter (391) 3 years ago

I am not that happy with the soundtrack...
Zimmer claims that he invented something new and very special for the world of dune but
for me the score - as heard in the movie - was somehow only repetetive, loud and clische (arabian sounds + the desert, arabian/oriental sounding vocals + the fremen)
One nice thing was the rhythm drums on the harkonnen planet. That was kind of nice but anyway I missed some sort of themes in this music. The old 1984 Version had a nice soundtrack with real themes - this is mostly a ear droning repetetive mess...

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[–] brux (14840) 3 years ago

I'd go further ... Zimmer's music is terrible in general, and though I want to be fair, I can't think of any exceptions. I didn't find the soundtrack terrible, just not good. When I'm watching a movie I don't even want to be conscious of the soundtrack ... then it is doing a great job.

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[–] peterkneter (391) 3 years ago

I would go further and say: When you don't notice the soundtrack while watching the movie but you can still have a nice listening experience as standalone then the composer made a great job. this is very rare theses days because many composers stay away from "melodies" or "themes" just because they are affraid of being to obvious in the picture. Thats why many soundtracks are no good listening experiences and dont work as standalone...

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[–] pjl69 (2647) 3 years ago

Maybe all melodies have been used up and all that's left is some random ambient noise. I have been a soundtrack collector since early 1980's and I can say, they don't make soundtracks anymore as they used to.

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[–] manavm (41) 3 years ago

I thought it was mediocre.

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