5. The Hans Zimmer Sound - Inception (2010)
Annoying Examples: Prometheus, Star Trek Into Darkness, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Avengers, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Red Riding Hood, Battle: Los Angeles One of the best things about Christopher Nolan's
Inception was - aside from its astounding set-pieces and innovative structure - Hans Zimmer's bold musical score, which can only be described as:
BRAAAHM! BRAAAHM! BRAAHM! Although that sounds like I'm insulting it, it's just my way of saying that there were a lot of horns going on. Back then, of course, we hadn't really experienced a musical score like
that - it was loud, unflinching and yet somehow satisfying. So, of course, Hollywood has spent the last three years imitating it for everything. Not in movies, exactly, but in trailers: every single trailer that has been released in the last few years or so, and mainly those advertising a blockbuster of some sort where the stakes are high and the explosions are big, have been blatantly riffing on Hans Zimmer's bombastic
Inception score. So that includes the trailers for
Prometheus, Star Trek Into Darkness, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The
Avengers... and that's just to name a select few. I don't know about you, but I think this trend is past its sell-by date. I don't think I can't take another BRAAHM!