Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[Hologram AI]

Now THIS I gotta pick up.

 

[MaulFan]

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Eh, this movie's plot details has long been spoiled in this thread. I'm just excited to see the money shots now that the suspense of seeing how the movie ends is long gone lol.

I listened to the OST again and I don't know it's lacking something I feel. It's repetitive and very reminiscent of those 70's alien invasion films or adventures onto uncharted islands, but it doesn't get the juices flowing for me. I feel like each track pretty much repeats the same sounds with just a higher pitch, but there is no real climax. It just only gets louder.

It's not bad work at all. It's fine for a film on the level of "War of the Worlds", "Minority Report", the farst half of "King Kong", or "Super 8". It nails the feeling of wonder and adventure, but it doesn't have the ability to get you emotionally involved or thinking about the subject more introspectively like, for example, the Jurassic Park score was able to do so. It was masterful because they knew that they wanted that score to reflect adventure, but also, beauty, and horror. This shouldn't sound anything like a Jurassic Park movie, but there is nothing here that gives me that "**** just got real" feeling when Godzilla would surface out of the water to an I***ube score. The score gives an impression of awe, for sure, but lacks that tune that gets you emotionally invested into the animal. Frankly, it reminds me of the score from 1998 "Godzilla", where it treated Godzilla simply as a big animal. But knowing that Godzilla is really going to be portrayed like a natural disaster in this film, I guess it makes more sense why the score doesn't give him the grandiose treatment that I***ube did. Rant over.

 

[MaulFan]

I'm curious to see how well the OST reflects the music of the film. I found with the Nolan Batman films, some of the best parts were often left off. I wonder if there'll be pieces in this movie where we wish they were included.

I definitely have some favorite tracks from this OST already. Overall it doesn't quite have the stand out qualities of other Godzilla scores but it's really nice and effective at what it needs to do and often reminds me of the likes of JAWS or Jurassic Park music, even if not being as effective and memorable as those themes.

 

[jye4ever]

Where the Wild Things Are.

Eh, this movie's plot details has long been spoiled in this thread. I'm just excited to see the money shots now that the suspense of seeing how the movie ends is long gone lol.

I listened to the OST again and I don't know it's lacking something I feel. It's repetitive and very reminiscent of those 70's alien invasion films or adventures onto uncharted islands, but it doesn't get the juices flowing for me. I feel like each track pretty much repeats the same sounds with just a higher pitch, but there is no real climax. It just only gets louder.

It's not bad work at all. It's fine for a film on the level of "War of the Worlds", "Minority Report", the farst half of "King Kong", or "Super 8". It nails the feeling of wonder and adventure, but it doesn't have the ability to get you emotionally involved or thinking about the subject more introspectively like, for example, the Jurassic Park score was able to do so. It was masterful because they knew that they wanted that score to reflect adventure, but also, beauty, and horror. This shouldn't sound anything like a Jurassic Park movie, but there is nothing here that gives me that "**** just got real" feeling when Godzilla would surface out of the water to an I***ube score. The score gives an impression of awe, for sure, but lacks that tune that gets you emotionally invested into the animal. Frankly, it reminds me of the score from 1998 "Godzilla", where it treated Godzilla simply as a big animal. But knowing that Godzilla is really going to be portrayed like a natural disaster in this film, I guess it makes more sense why the score doesn't give him the grandiose treatment that I***ube did. Rant over.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

I'm curious to see how well the OST reflects the music of the film. I found with the Nolan Batman films, some of the best parts were often left off. I wonder if there'll be pieces in this movie where we wish they were included.

I definitely have some favorite tracks from this OST already. Overall it doesn't quite have the stand out qualities of other Godzilla scores but it's really nice and effective at what it needs to do and often reminds me of the likes of JAWS or Jurassic Park music, even if not being as effective and memorable as those themes.

I'm really hoping the visual of what is happening on the screen makes it more memorable to me. Hell, even the Autobots got more epic music when they arrived on Earth in the first live action Transformers film. I LOVED that theme because it made you feel all those characters had such a reputation outside the film. They knew that was the moment everyone was waiting for. I think Godzilla's theme should have felt that way as well (though darker of curse, since he destroys and kills), since he's already a legendary character.

 

[RIDDICK]

It's monotone yet messy, pompous but unfitting.

Frankly, it reminds me of the score from 1998 "Godzilla".

Despite the fact that '98 movie was a G-saster the music was wonderful. David Arnold is talented and much more professional than Desplat. I remember every major theme from his work for Emmerich's movies, and I even don't like those much.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

It's monotone yet messy, pompous but unfitting.



Despite the fact that '98 movie was a G-saster the music was wonderful. David Arnold is talented and much more professional than Desplat. I remember every major theme from his work for Emmerich's movies, and I even don't like those much.

But I think you'll agree that it didnt match the character of Godzilla. Don't get me wrong, the music made a great impact when Zilla broke through the cement in front of Ferris Bueler. And certainly made me feel sympathy when the monster was killed. But it was like Lost World music and didn't have that foreboding sense of unstoppable terror that Godzilla should have dedicated to him.

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[axecutioner18]

I think itll sound better if you listen to this in the movie hall... it sounds tiny over Youtube.

 

[jnmx2000]

Listening to the soundtrack now, I like it so far, it's primative and carnal, I hear alot of drums and tribe like type of music. I like it, it's a nice approach, I feel it's more in line with PJ's King Kong score when they are on Skull Island and the tribe's men are about to sacrifice anne to kong, it's in line with that I believe.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

It does i got the same impression. Very Skull Island-y. Thats not a good thing for this particular case though. There's a mood to hit when you are on a mysterious island on the run from cannibalistic natives and than there is the sense of doom and terror associated with a 400 foot monster tearing down a hugely populated city without bias and thousands upon thousands of lives are going to be extinguished.

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[JAWS]

Not all that impressed with the OST... If ever there was a film that Hans Zimmer should have scored this is it. I think of Marches like in Crimson Tide, Gladiator and The Rock and then Powerful scores like Inception and can't help but think he was the better/perfect man for the job. But he was busy being misplaced on the ASM 2 score.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

The theme for GMK was I thought very good for a non-I***ube score. Very epic and "big" but it truly captured Godzilla's incredible power and legend.

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[JAWS]

The theme for GMK was I thought very good for a non-I***ube score. Very epic and "big" but it truly captured Godzilla's incredible power and legend.

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I agree. Probably the best non Akira I***ube Godzilla score.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Not all that impressed with the OST... If ever there was a film that Hans Zimmer should have scored this is it. I think of Marches like in Crimson Tide, Gladiator and The Rock and then Powerful scores like Inception and can't help but think he was the better/perfect man for the job. But he was busy being misplaced on the ASM 2 score.

I agree wholeheartedly. Hanz Zimmer could make a movie about broccoli seem powerful. Aside from the ones you mentioned, his work on Last Samurai and Lion King has still stuck with me today. I still think his music adds so much to every scene it's included. He truly can capture the spirit in Godzilla, I believe.

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[RIDDICK]

But I think you'll agree that it didnt match the character of Godzilla.

It matches the movie perfectly.

it was like Lost World music and didn't have that foreboding sense of unstoppable terror that Godzilla should have dedicated to him.

I think we all (except Lar'ja) know that it wasn't Godzilla, so...






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Best non-Ifu(k)ube G-composer was and always will be Koichi Sugiyama.

 

[MaulFan]

that foreboding sense of unstoppable terror that Godzilla should have dedicated to him.

It all depends on how you characterize Godzilla himself. While he's not the best friend Godzilla of the 70s, he's not a pure killing machine of destruction either, he's somewhere between the two and has been described as a noble warrior. If you take that description and listen to the final track of the score, it really comes together. The theme used earlier in the movie captures a sense of a freight train coming through with a goal and you best get out of the way.

Does desplat's music capture the character of Toho's evil Godzilla, no, but until we see exactly how Legendary depicts him, we can't really comment on the effectiveness of the music.

 

[ironwez20]

Yea i think this godzilla is more of a i dont care who's life I take just stay out of my way and let me get to my goal. He's an animal at the end of the day. If a animal as big as him were following there insitinct but killing millions in the process the military would try to destroy it but since Godzilla is indestructible they cant really do a thing to stop him so they let him continue and stay out the way.

 

[crows]

Not all that impressed with the OST... If ever there was a film that Hans Zimmer should have scored this is it. I think of Marches like in Crimson Tide, Gladiator and The Rock and then Powerful scores like Inception and can't help but think he was the better/perfect man for the job. But he was busy being misplaced on the ASM 2 score.

I agree wholeheartedly. Hanz Zimmer could make a movie about broccoli seem powerful. Aside from the ones you mentioned, his work on Last Samurai and Lion King has still stuck with me today. I still think his music adds so much to every scene it's included. He truly can capture the spirit in Godzilla, I believe.

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I have to agree I listened to it again and it wasn't that great. Maybe it will get better with the movie seeing and hearing them together but as it is, it is not that impressive

 

[Viking Spawn]

Now THIS I gotta pick up.

Me too.

As for the score, I'll have to listen to it again. I like some things about it but not others.