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May 12, 2014 - 7:31 AM
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MikeP
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I'm off to see the movie right now.
I'm kinda excited. Not as a GODZILLA fan (which I'm not), but as a lover of monster and disaster movies in general. I like what I've seen in the trailers.
How could you be a lover of monster movies and not be a Godzilla fan?!
Well, for me, I am a big fan of "monster movies" but, the "classic" Godzilla movies basically are...well, awful. I did see Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster in theaters as a kid, and liked them, watched other 'zilla movies on TV, but somewhere along the way it hit me...these movies are terrible. Yeah, some ( most...all ? ) are supposed to be cheesy and loopy ( right? ) but to me they are just ridiculous. I didn't want funny monsters, with baby Godzilla playing jump rope with daddy's tail  . Even Mothra, Gammera , I seem to remember them being more serious, but also remember them being pretty bad. I guess the overall style of those Japanese monster fests just turn me off. That's why the Emmerich Godzilla movie didn't infuriate me as it did others, to me it was an improvement. There I said it For me there wasn't some holy Godzilla legacy to protect, as the original movies were never great.
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May 12, 2014 - 7:44 AM
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dan the man
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TO THOR- THANKS, The one word I wanted to hear was INTENSE, GOOD, that is what I hoped for.ok, I know Josh won't hear this now but I have to answer when he asked the question how can you be a big monster film lover but not care too much for Godzilla. To me that is the easiest answer to give in film history. First off If you love all those light hearted Godzilla films from japan over the decades, fine, GOD BLESS YOU. But please get real here. Many people will share my sentiment. I know this first hand and second hand. When I was young the adults would watch and really enjoy BEAST FROM 20,000 Fathoms, The giant behemoth, Gorgo, Them, the monster that challenge the world, loads more. From them many of us grew up liking those films and respecting them as good SCIFI HORROR films. Today they still look good.But when a Son of Godzilla, Ghidrah or a Gammera came on the tube, many of the adults would start to chuckle and make remarks I won't repeat hear not because of any foul language but because of derogatory remarks made about those films. What can I say? again to each one's own. But always remember that statement means just what it says, it works both ways. But sometimes one gets the feeling that statement is siding with if it is good then it's fine but you can't say something is bad and if that is the case then To each one's own really won't mean anything, will it? Anyway I am looking forward to see this film next week and I will take my girlfriend telling her the name of the movie we are seeing is THE BIG G.Otherwise I might have a hard time getting her in the theatre[ha, ha] it's the way of the world. what can I do?
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My review of the soundtrack, if anyone's interested:
http://www.movie-wave.net/godzilla/
Nice review James but I will disagree on one point- as far as brass clusters and Goldenthal like scoring, Banos' Evil Dead still reigns supreme for recent vicious scoring. It's the closest thing to Alien3 we've heard in the last several years.
Truth be told, and remember I'm the guy who started this thread, I'm a little vexed by this score. I listened through today but found it rather unaffected. Yes, technically it's very well executed and the brass writing with those crazy triplets and quadruplets are very nice. But it doesn't sound very far removed melodically in its approach from Arnold's 1998 score. I'm also a little surprised at the lack of vacuous hall size. If Desplat used a large orchestra you almost wouldn't know I it based on how close mic'd the instruments are. There's little to no "air" in the room to give the music that vacuous bigness that even Ifukube managed with resources a third of the size.
I'm seeing the film opening night and hope it makes me like the score more. At this point I hate to admit I'm a little disappointed (in the music). I guess I was envisioning Shostakovich meets Ligeti or Varese.
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I'm also a little surprised at the lack of vacuous hall size. If Desplat used a large orchestra you almost wouldn't know I it based on how close mic'd the instruments are. There's little to no "air" in the room to give the music that vacuous bigness that even Ifukube managed with resources a third of the size.
I noticed this as well.
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I think I'll still be re-spinning Arnold's version more than Desplat's. If anything, Arnold really nailed a great theme.
Well, sort of. That 4 note motif is Herrmann's Cape Fear. But his actual theme was indeed very nice!
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