I gotta say, this is shaping up to be my favorite work from Giacchino. I always liked his work on The Incredibles and even the Mission: Impossible entries he worked on. But then fan boys kind of ruined him for me with always associating him with Popcorn style stuff. This here though, even with the subject matter being a comic book film, I feel the film as well as the character in it are being given a sense of well-deserved gravitas and dramatic weight. I haven't seen the film at this point, but I can feel that sense of dark dread (and that's a very good thing), the sense that this Batman inhabits a seedy Gotham. That 4 note theme seems to have this weight about it. Like it's the feeling vengence that Bruce Wayne is carrying within him and trying not be consumed by it. That build up to the full operatic version of the 4 note theme is fantastic. This score also enforces some of the feelings I've had about the DC movies after Nolan, even Snyder to an extent, got a hold of them: comic book films can be dark and dramatically weighty (to an extent); they can be stylistically/aesthetically played with without straying too far from the source material. It doesn't have to be bright colorful popcorn fare all the time. I'm not saying it should be a downer either but i hope you get the picture. Giacchino, I feel is really hitting the gas and cutting loose with this score. "Highway to the Anger Zone" and "A Bat in the Rafter Pt.2 " is one the true standout pieces that proves this for me. Great work. Bravo! P.S. By the way, correct if I'm wrong, but I think I detected a few throw backs to Zimmer's theme in some points.
I will admit to being among the many who doubted Pattinson's ability to carry a Batman Film. But my real disappointment came when I first heard Micheal Giacchino's Batman theme. Having been familiar with his past work, I expected a grandiose and memorable theme that Batman sorely needed after almost four decades with Elfman's Batman theme remaining the definitive variant. But the four-note motif we got was vastly underwhelming. To me, it amounted to something an eight-year-old would compose for a Batman fanfiction. I was let down by one of my personal favorite composers... AND THEN I SAW THE FILM! Giacchino knows what he's doing, he provided Matt Reeves with a bombastic, intimidating, action-packed, and most importantly, malleable theme that could fit any scene Batman was in. It fit the detective feel of the film perfectly, and, best of all, it was easy to recall. I've never felt more proud of my Batman fandom than when I walked out of the theatre and heard other audience members humming The Batman theme. It was beautiful... I almost feel ashamed for my doubt every time I find myself humming the theme now, hats off, once again, to Micheal Giacchino!
To be fair, Hans Zimmer's main theme for Nolan's trilogy was just two notes. If Zimmer could do that with just two notes, Giacchino had a better chance with four notes. 🦇 Just saying 🦇
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 To be honest with you, as much as I love Hans Zimmer, I really really don't like his Batman theme in the dark knight trilogy, the pacing and the notes feel out of place for me where I can't just follow through the notes, and it doesn't hit me as a batman theme overall tho it was good for the trilogy and it is not a bad Batman theme but I'm just not a fan of it, this is why I love his batman theme in Batman v Superman, he improved it so much while working along side with Junkie XL, that theme felt more as a Batman theme in Hans Zimmer's work with Junkie XL, better than the dark knight trilogy theme in my opinion
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 I'm I found another person who agreed and also respects my opinion on the take, while others are just being delusionals
"Uhm actually it's just imperial march. Which is significantly better!" 🤓 Bro get a life. Anyone who actually knows about the score knows that it was inspired by the melody of "Something in the way." By Nirvana. It sounds like imperial march, yes, but it wasn't just Michael heard that and said, "That's Batman." Plus Bruce's theme is very much an original piece. Lightly inspired, maybe by some Metallica tracks like "Nothing Else Matters." It'd be like saying that because Danny Elfman took influences when making Batman 89s soundtrack, that it's bad. But everyone loves that score. Music influences one another. Even indirectly, it will always sound similar. As that's how scales and music work on a fundamental level.
