[gwnn]

Am I the only one who thinks that all action movies have the same soundtrack? Yet when I read reviews about them after seeing them in the cinema they're raving about how original and amazing the score was, I don't get it?! Suspenseful action music whenever there's a chase etc. Most prominent examples: the Dark Knight and Inception. Isn't Hans Zimmer just copy pasting a lot? Where's the originality? Or am I out to lunch here?

[hotShot]

Cinema productions deal with a lot of money and the producers and directors have the responsibility.
As a result most of them don't like to make experiments.
So they pick cast and crew in a way that they can (and have to) almost repeat something they did successfully before.
The bad guys stay bad, the funny stay funny and the good guys stay good.
(If you are unsure, look at their computer, usually the good guys use Apple the bad guys use Windows....)
As a result the actors play the same roles over and over and the musicians write the same sort of music.
If the audience have had enough of them, they get sacked.

[hrothgar]

I find it very disturbing that "Despicable Me" and Casino Royale (the original) have the same score