Hans Zimmer

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q76364: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to As Good as It Gets, which As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard credits them on.

Counted as composer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they scored, which the two lists below run through too: Rain Man (1988); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); As Good as It Gets (1997); The Thin Red Line (1998); Something's Gotta Give (2003); Iron Man (2008); Terminator Genesis (2015); 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016); Top Gun: Maverick (2022); F1 (2025).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Edge of Tomorrow (2014): 1 line

  1. career (career) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they scored: Edge of Tomorrow ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
    “That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Hans Zimmer: 1 line, within their own work

  1. craft (craft) · through 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), which they scored: Hans Zimmer ⇒ 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (the host's read). The speaker hears the 13 Hours and Terminator Genesis scores as 'dollar store Zimmer,' guessing Zimmer supplied a theme and others filled in the rest while his name was farmed out.
    “these are scores that, like, don't, like, you know, they sound like, uh, dollar store Zimmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:09:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40 sure it was them)

Martin Donnelly: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through F1 (2025), which they scored: Martin Donnelly ⇒ F1 (the host's read). The crash that ends Sonny's career was based on Donnelly's real crash, and he advised on the film.
    “The crash that ended, Sonny's career was based on the actual crash of Martin Donnelly in the 1990s Spanish Grand Prix.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:25:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Meet the Parents (2000): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Something's Gotta Give (2003), which they scored: Meet the Parents ⇒ Something's Gotta Give (the host's read). Nicholson may have seen Meet the Parents and wanted a piece of that audience.
    “Do you think he saw meet the parents and was like, I can do that too?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 0:05:06 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (enabling success) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they scored: Mission: Impossible – Fallout ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Fallout's success is what lets Cruise do Top Gun: Maverick.
    “he's not in a position to do what he's doing now with Top Gun 2.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

RoboCop (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: RoboCop ⇒ Iron Man (the host's read). The Ironmonger voice and suit recall ED-209, and the finale is ED-209 versus RoboCop.
    “You know what the voice is? He's Ed 209.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:53:20 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Rocky IV (1985): 1 line

  1. theme (theme) · through F1 (2025), which they scored: Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read). Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV.
    “Right into the Rocky 4 training montage”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they scored: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read). Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others.
    “It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Stan Lee: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Stan Lee ⇒ Iron Man (the maker said so: Stan Lee interviews). The film follows the first comic issue's origin; Lee wanted to make an industrialist war profiteer compelling to hippie kids.
    “here's like an industrialist, war profiteer, Laos, and make him like compelling to these, like, hippie kids.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:27:36 · unknown (probably David) (0.40 sure it was them)

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (legacy-sequel heirs) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they scored: The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided.
    “now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Top Gun (1986): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel verdict) · through Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which they scored: Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read). Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees.
    “It's better than the 1st one”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Iron Man 3 (2013): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce.
    “as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read). Iron Man 3 later parodies the Osama-type Mandarin expectation that Iron Man originally planned (Ten Rings leader, no magic).
    “And then Iron Man 3 wisely parodies that expectation.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:25:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016): 1 line, within their own work

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Hans Zimmer ⇒ 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (the host's read). The speaker hears the 13 Hours and Terminator Genesis scores as 'dollar store Zimmer,' guessing Zimmer supplied a theme and others filled in the rest while his name was farmed out.
    “these are scores that, like, don't, like, you know, they sound like, uh, dollar store Zimmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:09:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40 sure it was them)

Chill Factor (1999): 1 line

  1. people (people) · through As Good as It Gets (1997), which they scored: As Good as It Gets ⇒ Chill Factor (the host's read). Gooding and Skeet Ulrich supposedly bonded on this set and made Chill Factor together.
    “They clearly just hit it off so hard at the craft service table on as good as it gets that they said, we got to find a vehicle for the 2 of us”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:58:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ghostface Killah: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ Ghostface Killah (the host's read). Ghostface is the Wu-Tang member particularly obsessed with Iron Man, who is the avatar of many of his songs.
    “Iron Man is like the like his hero.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:40:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Pearl Harbor (2001): 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they scored: The Thin Red Line ⇒ Pearl Harbor (the host's read). Disney used the Thin Red Line score in the Pearl Harbor trailer without permission, and Malick later cashed that in.
    “Disney uses the score for the thin red line, um, when they, uh, when they do the Pearl Harbor trailer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:40:07 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80 sure it was them)

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (the host's read). That film parodies the page-flipping Marvel logo, which opens Iron Man.
    “They, uh, they do a really good parody of that in, um, Teen Titans go the movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:08:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Avengers (2012): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read). The post-credits Nick Fury scene established the shared-universe model that changed Hollywood for a decade or more.
    “I mean, this has changed the next 10 years of Hollywood filmmaking.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:13:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

modern superhero movies: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Iron Man (2008), which they scored: Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read). Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on.
    “this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Music (12) everyone in music

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Hans Zimmer → John Williams. Zimmer's F1 soundtrack is pictured as Zimmer closing in on John Williams as the top film composer.
    “Coming at John Williams now. Has John Williams in his sights?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:26 · unclear (one of the hosts) (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. The speakers treat Zimmer's sweeping orchestral score as a fixture of Meyers's films.
    “Hans Zimmer again. Nancy's reliable sweeping score.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:43:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Hans Zimmer → Driving Miss Daisy. Zimmer wrote the synthesizer theme for Driving Miss Daisy.
    “Can you imagine Hans Zimmer wrote that?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:33:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Hans Zimmer → Rain Man. Rain Man was Zimmer's first score.
    “No, he did the score for Rainman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (6)

  1. craft (score should have won): Hans Zimmer → The Thin Red Line. The Thin Red Line score should have won the Oscar even though it is unusually deployed in the film.
    “Hans Stimmer should have won for the thin red line, although I think that score is sort of oddly deployed in the movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:39:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Terrence Malick → Hans Zimmer. Malick scored The Thin Red Line, then recut it and placed pieces of Zimmer's score where they were not written.
    “it's the classic Malic thing where it was like scored and then he recut it and put pieces where they weren't written.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:39:43 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Hans Zimmer → F1. Zimmer scored the soundtrack.
    “soundtrack by Hans fucking Zimmer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Ludwig Goransson → Hans Zimmer. His Black Panther score carries a Hans Zimmer-style propulsive action feel.
    “plus that sort of like sweeping Alan Sylvestri, Hans Zimmer, kind of propulsive feeling that you need in an action movie”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:54:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Hans Zimmer → 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. The speaker hears the 13 Hours and Terminator Genesis scores as 'dollar store Zimmer,' guessing Zimmer supplied a theme and others filled in the rest while his name was farmed out.
    “these are scores that, like, don't, like, you know, they sound like, uh, dollar store Zimmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:09:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Hans Zimmer. A joke that Meyers hands Zimmer the name of a spa-waiting-room track and tells him to replicate it for 90 minutes.
    “She goes to the receptionist and goes, can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:01 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Lorne Balfe → Hans Zimmer. Balfe is described as having been part of the Zimmer team and now rising to A-list.
    “wasn't Lorne Ball one of those people who was like part of the Hans Zimmer team”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:08:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → Hans Zimmer. Imagining Tony Scott's version, a host wonders if it would have had a Hans Zimmer score in place of the 70s songs.
    “Would it have been like a Hans Zimmer score instead of the 70s songs?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Hans Zimmer: Joke: Meyers asks a spa receptionist for the track name and tells Hans Zimmer to replicate it for 90 minutes.
    “can you give me the name of the track, sends it to Hans Zimmer and says, replicate this for 90 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)