10 Reasons Why Batman V Superman Can’t Top The Dark Knight Trilogy

2) Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer announcing he was “officially retired from the superhero business” post-Batman V Superman wasn’t a great surprise. You can hear the composer’s comic book movie fatigue all over BvS. Far from his best work, Zimmer’s score on the film often sounds like a sludgy retread – and, at its worst, a parody – of his contributions to the Dark Knight trilogy. BvS is the sound of Zimmer uncharacteristically phoning it in.

Compared with Zimmer’s influential work on Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which has helped shape the way modern blockbusters sound, BvS is no contest. The Dark Knight trilogy features a Zimmer score by-turns bombastic, frightening and oddly experimental. It’s the kind of music a composer makes when he’s completely in sync with the filmmaker and his ideas.