Board Thread:General Discussions/@comment-27637441-20160201004741/@comment-25285745-20160206023419

But there is something to be said for the use of orchestral scores instead of rock or pop music. A prime example to me is honestly GODZILLA 1998. I'm not a big fan of the film itself, but I love David Arnold's score for it. Now, G98 had an entire album of rock and pop music released as a tie-in, and was marketed heavily with this music. Given the film's very lighthearted and often silly tone and how much it tried to appeal to the mass public, one might expect to hear a lot of this rock and pop music during the film itself. But instead, it has an entire orchestral score that feels very intense and epic at times, and very whimsical and fun at others. I believe at least score-wise, it works very well. It actually helps to make some specific scenes feel very epic or poignant. I feel like the use of rock or pop music in any of those scenes would have ruined the tone. And while I repeat it's not one of my favorite films, its score is very well-executed.