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 other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Reservoir Dogs (1992). Count them as composer (10 films) instead.

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.

City on Fire (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): City on Fire ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question.
    “This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Django (1966): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene.
    “Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Hard Boiled (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo.
    “I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

John Woo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): John Woo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The Mexican standoff was the first visual reference the speaker caught: like a John Woo Hong Kong action movie.
    “It was very like John Wu Hong Kong action movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Big Combo (1955): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads). Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
    “but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage.
    “It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Video Archives: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Video Archives ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Tarantino distilled the video-store aesthetic into the film; he programmed shelves like a film festival.
    “he talks about how he used to program shelves at the video story worked at as if it was like a film festival.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016): 1 line

  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)

Pulp Fiction (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs.
    “Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)

Swingers (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read). Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
    “The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Farewell (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read). The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential.
    “And that shot is still really influential.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read). Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era.
    “kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Very Bad Things (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they were tied to as imagined composer of a Tony Scott version of Reservoir Dogs (hypothetical): Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read). Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends.
    “Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 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)