[Thor Joachim Haga]

Nah. By my experience it is rather the other way around. Rarely I experience Zimmer fans praising how he creatively uses the symphony orchestra as another sound design tool besides his computers. More often enough he gets praised by them as a new Mozart or Beethoven or John Williams. And such statements hurt my soul.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my 30+ years online, so our experience differs radically. Most of the criticism I’ve seen comes from reactionary, orchestra-biased people who can’t see that Zimmer does things differently. Most of the time, when he uses orchestra, he uses it as colourization, not as an end to itself. There are exceptions, but that’s the gist of it. But for some reason, critics evaluate it with the same criteria one uses for John Williams. It’s ridiculous.