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The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard) | 
| Artist: Hans Zimmer James Howard Newton
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 674
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 74
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 511101
UPC: 093624986003
EAN: 0093624986003
ASIN: B0017I1FP8
Release Date: July 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Why So Serious | | • | I'm Not A Hero | | • | Harvey Two Face | | • | Aggressive Expansion | | • | Always A Catch | | • | Blood On My Hands | | • | Little Push | | • | Like A Dog Chasing Cars | | • | I Am The Batman | | • | And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad | | • | Agent Of Chaos | | • | Introduce A Little Anarchy | | • | Watch The World Burn | | • | Dark Knight |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Disapointing September 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Whilst I really enjoyed the music that Zimmer and Howard produced for the film itself, I am a little disapointed that the album appears to be the "highlights" of the score, rather than a definitive reproduction of it. For example, you only get literally about 4-5 seconds of the opening scene (where the window is blown out and the robbers get onto the roof) (the tracks are blended together). The same goes for the scene where Batman is beating the drug dealers in the car park, but here it seems to be totally missing.
There are other bits missing, but I forget. I don't think that the piece where Gordon is giving his "Dark Knight" monologue is there either.
A great great score, but poorly represented on this CD.
 Listen to a new era of Batman!!!! September 3, 2008
Wow, great soundtrack!! A new era of Batman deserves a new era in music and sound to show just how much it has evoloved since the cartoon style films of the 80's and 90's! Zimmer is perfect to open up the explosive score with the harsh drums and suspencefull ear churning screeches of string instruments!!! With a definate style throughtout, the composers take you on a journey of fast paced drums and loud brass, to the harmonic, tranquil use of string and melody! Overall the scores represents a dark, suspensefull ride, that fits perfectly to a dark suspensefull superhero!!!!!
A superior soundtrack August 14, 2008
Those who remember the Danny Elfman epics from the the Tim Burton films may well be surprised at how different this score is. Where as Elfman used a much more uptempo score with flurries of brass, the Zimmer/Howard score is alternately high percussive or symphonic with strings. Hans Zimmer's score is driving and percussive, similar in style to his scores for Crimson Tide and Gladiator but a a very dark feel all of its own. His music picks out the isolation of both Batman and the Joker, the former with a heroic, determined feel and the latter with dread and fear.
Like all great scores it can almost tell the story through music in its own right; John Williams' great scores for Star Wars is the kind of tradition this music belongs to. One of the best film scores I have heard in a long time and highly recommended.
Minimalist Mayhem August 5, 2008
Zimmer and Howard trump their awesome core for 'Batman Begins' with this Minimalsit epic. Dark, intense and deeply unsettling, the two composers seem to be channeling Philip Glass's psychotic twin with pounding rhythms and throbbing chords as they obsessively reiterate their simple musical motifs. The best score of the year so far, and probably Zimmer and Howard's greatest work.
Bleak, austere and insanely addictive - this is pure musical genius.
JUST LIKE BATMAN: DARK, CHAOTIC & MAJESTIC July 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ever since THE ROCK and THE LAST SAMURAI had such an impressive soundtrack to be released! Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard did an incredible job in not only adding to the action on the screen but also capturing the essence of this new Batman.
Moving, exciting and ingenious. A true Masterpiece that can stand on its own as a piece of orchestral art. Strong percussions and nervous strings; brief melodies that build even higher tensions and the ever present thin black line of the Batman Theme to tie it all together. It is only deserving that the best movie this summer is accompanied also by the best Soundtrack.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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