Close your eyes and just listen to the music.
This is what you get when you hire the same guy - or his associates - for both movies. You not only get music that “sounds like” what so-and-so did for that film over there, you get pretty much the same stuff.
And if that wasn’t enough proof of One Thought Zimmer’s penchant for borrowing from himself, about half way through this compilation, you’ll find that Glad and pirates sounds like a chunk of the soundtrack for a Wesley Snipes parachuting movie.
Zimmer’s not alone. James Horner seems to have had one idea and milked it through several movies as well. The bits from Willow and Enemy at the Gates are laughable. And right at the end, there’s the past master of “homaging”, John Williams with photocopy job in JFK and Jurassic Park.
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