Pearl Harbor was a much anticipated and hyped film about the Japanese attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It boasted of great visual effects, historical accuracy and actors Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale to excite the young film goers. The film ... Read review
Hans Zimmer's lush and romantic Pearl Harbor album inverts every expectation of what a ... more
World War II epic should sound like. Zimmer previously explored the American Pacific war in The Thin Red Line (1998), though this time he takes a more commercial dir...
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Advantages: Not difficult listening Disadvantages: So boring you could cry
Pearl Harbor was a much anticipated and hyped film about the Japanese attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It boasted of great visual effects, historical accuracy and actors Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale to excite the young film goers. The film was shot down by critics and theater goers alike. Of the three-plus-hours of the film, the first two were wholly dismissed as boring and tedious, and when you ... ...to describe Zimmer's score for Pearl Harbor: boring! This is quite possibly one of the most monotonous film scores I have ever heard, employing only one real theme, with sub-themes that sound so much like the main theme, that it's hard to tell them apart at times. There is absolutely no action music to be found, even in the attack scenes. Tracks 1-5 sound almost wholly alike with lot of very gentle strings, piano and other such instruments. And this ... more
Pearl Harbor was a much anticipated and hyped film about the Japanese attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It boasted of great visual effects, historical accuracy and actors Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett and Kate Beckinsale to excite the young film goers. The film was shot down by critics and theater goers alike. Of the three-plus-hours of the film, the first two were wholly dismissed as boring and tedious, and when you got to the attack itself near the end, it wasn't enough to save the film from total destruction (despite the stunning visuals).
The score reflects the film perfectly. It was mainly composed by Hans Zimmer, a well-known veteran of film scoring and the founder of Media Ventures organization, a house for young, similarly inclined composers like James Newton Howard, Steve Jablonski and Klaus Badelt. There is only one word needed to describe Zimmer's score for Pearl Harbor: boring! This is quite possibly one of the most monotonous film scores I have ever heard, employing only one real theme, with sub-themes that sound so much like the main theme, that it's hard to tell them apart at times. There is absolutely no action music to be found, even in the attack scenes. Tracks 1-5 sound almost wholly alike with lot of very gentle strings, piano and other such instruments. And this mood never really gives up, making you (or at least me) very sleepy. Only on the track "Attack" do we find anything at all resembling action, but even then it is very unexciting.
Moreover, the main theme is very unmemorable. You need at least ten listening times (or more) before you can hum it without the score in the background. The score as a whole is not very original either, borrowing motifs from various other MV scores, like The Rock. To give at least some colour, we have the contribution of soprano Julia Migenes and several light solo instrumentalists and an occasional chorus. But nothing raises this score from being nothing more than very a mediocre affair.
The marketing ploy for the Pearl Harbor album is the song "There You'll Be," performed by Faith Hill. Even this song is nothing above average and should not be held as a very effective reason for buying this CD. All in all, if you want something that will lull you to sleep, then this will be a wonderful buy, but otherwise, its nothing more than uncharacteristic, unmemorable and boring underscore (sorry all Hans Zimmer fans).
Advantages: Great soundtrack for the film Disadvantages: I don't know whether it will be that popular
Been to see the film?! If so did you like it!? I have been advised to go see the film but have also been warned off it, although it's supposed to be this massive BIG HIT BLOCKBUSTER of the year I've heard its supposed to be quite cheesy and thats why I'm advising you to listen to the soundtrack instead of watching the film!
(Many people I know have only gone to see the film because of the gorge lads in it!) HOW PATHETIC YOU THINK- WE ALL DO IT SOMETIMES!
... ...sung by 'Faith Hill' and although it may not beat 'Shaggy' and 'Moulin Rouge' in the charts I'm pretty sure it could hit the top 10! The song is starting to proove very popular and is lovely to listen to.
Faith Hill has only released one CD single in Europe which was released earlier on this year, she is better of known for her country music talents in which she has sung many many songs.
Many have said that 'Pearl Harbor' was supposed to be the ...
emu128 25.06.2001 (26.06.2001)
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Advantages: Beautiful melodies... Disadvantages: ...but a bit samey and too short.
To be honest Pearl Harbour, the film, came as a bit of a disappointment to me when it was released as it had so much potential at being a classic such as Tora! Tora! Tora! (also about Pearl Harbour). However, the film did bring with it a soundtrack which contained a few gems of musical writing.
Hans Zimmer made an impact with Gladiator which was great music, and once again he has complemented the film world superbly. The first five tracks of the ... ...tradgedy of what happened at Pearl Harbour with some moving writing mixed in with the more sinister battle music.
As with Titanic, Pearl Harbour contains a love ballad based on the film score, although in this case it is sung by Faith Hill, not Celine Dion. It may be a tad cheesy, but this song is a nice way of launching you into the instrumental music as it contains several of the themes from the secomd track, Tennessee.
All in all a good soundtrack ...
lostprophet 08.04.2003
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Advantages: A beautiful score Disadvantages: Music often lacks development
I raced to the cinema to buy my ticket to see the long awaited "Pearl Harbor", barely unable to contain my excitement, not about seeing the new blockbuster film, but hearing the new Hans Zimmer score. And it was unmistakably Hans Zimmer, those agonizing appoggiaturas and suspensions, those heavy strings, but to my surprise, a piece of practically flawless, symmetrical musical form. Feeling a little disappointed after the expectation of a work of ... ...score a second chance to prove itself to me.
One might be forgiven for thinking Hans Zimmer had been transformed from a genius of classical musicianship to a composer of well-orchestrated popular music. Indeed the opening song "There You'll Be" is a traditional movie song, and is beautifully arranged and orchestrated. The remainder of the score lacks development however; the pieces are practically pop songs for orchestra, and show none of the complexity ...
tbreeze 15.05.2002
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Product details
Title
Pearl Harbor
Performer
Original Soundtrack
Genre
Soundtracks
Sub Genre
Film
Release Date
28/05/2001
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2001
Label / Distributor
Warner Bros. / Cinram Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
93624811329
Catalogue Number
9362481132
SPAR code
DDD
Additional notes
Album Notes
Original score composed by Hans Zimmer. Producers: Trevor Horn, Byron Gallimore, Bob Badami. "There You'll Be" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and for Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. Faith Hill's TITANIC-style "There You'll Be," a song that will live in infamy, leads off this soundtrack to Hollywood's latest tribute to the men and women who fought and died in America's bloody introduction to World War 2. It's fittingly sweeping and majestic, as is the rest of this soundtrack CD. The simple, heart-tugging musical theme is stated and extemporized upon through the movie's various stages--it does double duty as the soundtrack to what is both a war film and a love story. As with most movie soundtracks, only the orchestration changes. These pieces are an uplifting, and at times moving, memento of an old fashioned Hollywood blockbuster.
Titles on disc 1
1.
There You'll Be - Hill, Faith
2.
Tennessee
3.
Brothers
4.
And Then I Kissed Him
5.
I Will Come Back
6.
Attack
7.
December 7th
8.
War
9.
Heart Of A Volunteer
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