Godzilla vs. Kong Soundtrack Discussion

@Gman

I agree

The soundtrack...is fine, I guess.  Holkenborg's best work is easily still Zack Snyder's Justice League.  I liked how he remixed Hyper Potions in Sonic, and also liked Jia's "theme" in the soundtrack.  It's overall a 6/10.  I've seen better.

And Bear McCreary should've collaborated with Junkie XL in order to make the score better.

KOTM's Godzilla theme was easily the best Goji theme.

sonictiger,
That's because McCreary was using Akira Ifukube's theme from the original films. It's not just Godzilla's best theme, it is his penultimate theme.

I wish they just brought McCreary back. This wasn't the right project for Holkenborg.

Zack Snyder's Justice League, I could understand.

But GVK? I'm not sure....

Actually, I'm surprised Junkie didn't use a tune similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juiULmf-AZ8

I'm not going to listen to the soundtrack until the movie releases here(in America), but hopefully its not...too horrible? I wanted it to surprise me, but by the sound of it, looks like its going to disappoint me instead.

I was expecting a godzilla theme that emulated the one in KOTM  but had a eerie or sinister feel to it while Kong had a more or less standard emotional heroic nature type theme. 

"I was expecting a godzilla theme that emulated the one in KOTM  but had a eerie or sinister feel to it while Kong had a more or less standard emotional heroic nature type theme."

Maybe you won't be disappointed then. Godzilla's theme is similar to the Ifukube motif, but it's also so close that it makes no sense as to why they wouldn't use his real theme. It sounds like a cheap knockoff of Ifukube's theme.

Kong's theme is certainly the better of the two, certainly heroic at times, but also a little generic. I think the main problem is their themes are brought to life largely by electronics and synth, instead of real instruments.

Uh oh, Gman.i think this is a largely zoomer vs boomer scenario.

You cant deny it, you're just sick of those darn zoomers with their electro-pop music. 

I'm joking, but I find that alot of new new age music don't use real instruments anymore. Atleast, the music i listen to. :(

 I want to see a movie studio do an official Godzilla soundtrack that uses portions of his original theme, not enough to feel like its a copy but it brings something new and exciting to Godzilla and his theme...Oh wait

Hey, atleast people weren't turned off from the movie by the music. :)

I love electronic music, but its effectiveness depends on what you're trying to do with it. The Godzilla theme here falls flat because it feels so hollow compared to the actual instruments Ifukube used and McCreary used to bring it to life as well.

Electronic music was primarily used for one of my all time favorite Godzilla scores. The difference was it wasn't trying to sound like low-rent Ifukube and created a wholly original theme for Godzilla on its own.

the theme isnt orignal its a bunch of chords pretending to be Ifukube. It sounds random and not thought out

"the theme isnt orignal its a bunch of chords pretending to be Ifukube."

Pretty much the best description possible.

literally!! it was fine during the movie but listening to it later was so,, depressing? godzillas theme in gvk is a constant tease of the recognizable introduction without leading into the rest of it. Kong's is fine and fun, but the antagonist deserved better. I was so excited to hear that theme reimagined for a somewhat more 'serious' movie. 

I enjoyed KOTM as a film very much. So to each his own. As for the soundtrack...why not wait until you see it with the movie. Sometimes listening without the movie doesn't do it justice, you know.

Godzillatheking123,
I saw the movie Sunday night at a preview screening I was invited to. You're right, the soundtrack is improved largely because the sound effects drowned it out so I didn't have to hear it.

The Hollywood Noises just blend together