For me, it's absolutely hands-down Why Do We Fall? It just has such a great sense of build-up and drama, and is so inspiring to listen to even without hearing it with the successful climbing scene in the film. And that moment of silence makes the entrance of the Bat-themes all the more satisfying at...

There's a more obvious homage to Elfman's theme that was incorporated into a motif in TDK and subsequently TDKR. Who can find it? :P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mW5UgGUUrY First 30 seconds. Nice job, DreamPolice! Yes, that one too, for sure. Though I could never quite figure out what that theme...

In MoS, I think we will hear something completely different than Williams' theme. Even so, I can't help wondering if Hans will subtly pay homage to it somehow. The Dark Knight scores, for example, are of course all very different from Elfman's Batman scores, but I noticed a similarity between a them...

I'm still voting for Batman Begins, but since we're allowed 2, I'm going for TDKR as well. Bane's theme is just too cool.

By the way, what does everyone think of Hans Zimmer scoring TDKR solo rather than with James Newton Howard as in the previous two films? Better? Worse? Just different? What do you think? I've been thinking about this a lot since I've been blogging about the music of the Dark Knight series. (If you'r...

My vote is for Batman Begins. I just love the repeating figure we hear in the strings all throughout (F-F-D-D, F-F-D-D, etc.). So simple but so evocative of the dark knight himself. Awesome!