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I love Desplat´s score and approach. But I don´t believe the game will be changed anymore. Scores will not revert back to just one style. Just like pop music - scores will diversify even more. There will be symphonic old school scores and there will be sparse electronic soundscapes, and mixes of both, and pop songs instead of composed scores etc.
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I love Desplat´s score and approach. But I don´t believe the game will be changed anymore. Scores will not revert back to just one style. Just like pop music - scores will diversify even more. There will be symphonic old school scores and there will be sparse electronic soundscapes, and mixes of both, and pop songs instead of composed scores etc.
Agreed. I'm not a believer in the much touted "pendulum" theory, or else by such an account, Titanic would have set the new standard. Even the more successful Avatar only registers in common Hollywood practice regarding 3D glut and a slight resurgence of prominent sci-fi.
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May 24, 2014 - 12:27 PM
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Huh? It was a poor mans Transformers movie.
I imagine "Huh?" is something you say a lot. That's an odd way to describe a film that isn't anything like Bayformers.
And yes, as far as kaiju cinema goes, maybe it IS a game-changer.
"Huh" as in taken aback by a lot of hyperbole. People like the film fine. But to call it a game changer? The score was practically themeless and actually quite annoying in the film. The script was as bright as a Transformers film. Incredibly successful is yet to be determined. It's not like this is in the same league as Titanic, Avatar, or Avengers. I bet at the end of the day, the much hated 98 film adjusted for inflation equals the box office of this incarnation. Game changer? I think not.
LOL! Nobody expected it to be Titanic, Avatar or Avengers. Godzilla is not universally loved.
Avengers' success is deserved and well-explained. Titanic was alright but nothing that blew me away.
Avatar? Now that was the most overrated, unoriginal, overhyped spectacle ever. A threadbare "magic whitey" story that is essentially Pocahontas in space. An alien race that suspiciously resembles Native Americans? It's embarrassing that that movie was as successful as it was. And the "science" in it was awful.
If Godzilla spawns a new renaissance for kaiju cinema (one particular genre), then yes, it may be a game changer in that respect.
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May 24, 2014 - 12:37 PM
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Huh? It was a poor mans Transformers movie.
I imagine "Huh?" is something you say a lot. That's an odd way to describe a film that isn't anything like Bayformers.
And yes, as far as kaiju cinema goes, maybe it IS a game-changer.
"Huh" as in taken aback by a lot of hyperbole. People like the film fine. But to call it a game changer? The score was practically themeless and actually quite annoying in the film. The script was as bright as a Transformers film. Incredibly successful is yet to be determined. It's not like this is in the same league as Titanic, Avatar, or Avengers. I bet at the end of the day, the much hated 98 film adjusted for inflation equals the box office of this incarnation. Game changer? I think not.
LOL! Nobody expected it to be Titanic, Avatar or Avengers. Godzilla is not universally loved.
Avengers' success is deserved and well-explained. Titanic was alright but nothing that blew me away.
Avatar? Now that was the most overrated, unoriginal, overhyped spectacle ever. A threadbare "magic whitey" story that is essentially Pocahontas in space. An alien race that suspiciously resembles Native Americans? It's embarrassing that that movie was as successful as it was. And the "science" in it was awful.
If Godzilla spawns a new renaissance for kaiju cinema (one particular genre), then yes, it may be a game changer in that respect.
Don't disagree with your assessment of Avatar, but that by definition was a huge hit. Another way this movie is like a Bay movie is in the fact it's really nothing more than a 2 hour long US military, knights in shinning armor propaganda film. Apparently they even controlled Japan! Didn't we give that back? LOL
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And you read my mind. I almost wrote, " I laugh at the superior intellect", in my previous post but didn't. For the record I wanted to see a great Godzilla film. I wanted it to be a success. But it failed for me big time. (Though some sequences by themselves were awesome)