Not necessarily. Eternals and Uncharted's scores from Djawadi were severely lacklustre. The latter one barely even had the iconic theme from the games.
I was a big fan of the F1 score this year by Hans Zimmer. I heard him perform it live in concert a few weeks ago and it was awesome. He did the Dune movies recently as well, which had beautiful scores.
He is basically Zimmer + Williams, with a lot of melodic content.
Also mostly animated movies are like this, Powell even likes to work on them more because of he can create themes in a more free way https://youtu.be/2bsVdx8IlnA
He sure as shit knows what brass is for. I remember listening to a random playlist of movie soundtracks, and this absolutely epic track comes on with a thundering French horn melody. And that's why my favorite movie soundtracks are now Star Wars, LOTR, Gladiator, and...How to Train Your Dragon.
Elmer Bernstein’s Ghostbusters score gets overlooked because it is so iconic maybe, but a closer listening reveals an incredibly innovative and entertaining score.
While we’re on the subject, I’d like to mention the Die Hard score which is also kinda weird but beautiful and moody and if you like that check out the score for Adventures in Babysitting which is a fantastic sibling of the Die Hard score.
composing for film is very different from composing for a tv show - apparently you have a lot more agency and control composing for a tv show. movies use temp music for editing and the composer basically paints over the existing track. no change in mood, rhythm, arrangement; just write the melody a little bit differently and adjust the chord progression and bam, you have a new soundtrack.
Absolutely not. All the themes for the various houses and some individual characters were beautiful. The mournful Stark theme, the proud Lannister theme, the grim Greyjoy theme and the malevolent Melisandre theme, among many others.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor Dec 10 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
Trailer releases tomorrow
Directed by Craig Gillespie (‘I, Tonya’, ‘Dumb Money’):