Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-27637441-20160201004741/@comment-25238001-20160206022424

The King of the Monsters wrote: Just because a song may have "dark and gritty" lyrics doesn't mean it automatically should be in a "dark and gritty" film. Songs like this are not meant to appear in kaiju films. In a more serious kaiju film, hearing this would take me out of the experience entirely. For a scene of Godzilla annihilating a city, I would expect to hear either ominous orchestral music or potentially no sound at all, but not a rock and roll song, no matter how serious or gritty it is. It just feels forced to include a rock song in the score of most films, especially kaiju films. The use of "We're All To Blame" in Final Wars feels forced to me, even though it does draw parallels to the onscreen action. I'm not saying it's a bad song, but it just doesn't feel right to hear it in the middle of a kaiju battle. And Final Wars is by no means a serious film, so if I heard a song like that in a serious kaiju film, I imagine my reaction would be even more unsavory. I liked the inclusion of "All to Blame". The lyrics didn't fit the scene super well, but it got my blood flowing, which is all Final Wars is supposed to do. I might okay with rock-and-roll in a movie like Final Wars, but it would completely break an otherwise poignient scene, such as Godzilla's very first raid in G54