Terrible score
It was the just the constant BWAM thing over and over with other droning noise. The score for the 1984 by Toto and Brian Eno was way better
shareI am shocked this criticism isn't mentioned a lot more. Hans Zimmer's score was absolutely dreadful. He has become a complete caricature of himself. I have no idea how they approved that score. Most of it never fit the scenes. It didn't matter if it was a battle sequence or a discussion, the musical score (or more appropriately, the musical noise) was always dowtrodden and somber. It made the film feel heartless and sterile. It needed a better composer to actually create a distinguishable score. Characters should have identifiable themes.
shareCompletely agree.
shareI thought his score was decent, and that's coming from someone who HASN'T liked Hans Zimmer since he became Christopher Nolan's yes-man.
The score seemed to work well enough to carry the film and convey an "other worldly" sense that these events are occurring thousands of years in the future. I swear I also heard him cleverly hint as the theme from the 1984 Dune in one of the scenes. It was like a tip-of-the-hat motif.
That being said the prefer the score of the '84 film. But I did LOVE the 2021 Dune trailers finally using Pink Floyd music in a Dune movie.