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I can't believe John Williams scored this film.

posted 15 years ago by PazuzuTheLeper
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I had always known Williams provided the score to this film, but I knew nothing about the film itself. Well I just saw the movie today on HBO Family and I was in shock.

The score was great, but the movie was just bizarre. I wanted to change the channel, but I felt obligated to see it through because of John Williams and whichever person provided the makeup.

Nevermind the signals of a bad film with a cheap robotic police thingy, Dick Miller (though I concede Demon Knight and Gremlins) or Paul Bartal making an appearance (all of which make up the film Chopping Mall) but just the idea that John Williams was roped into this...

The man had written some of the best if not the best (Star Wars) score of all time and years had passed, I mean did he need the money or something? I'd consider this charity work.

I suppose the only musical aspect that seemed odd was the fact that Bernadette Peters did not sing some robot lullaby.

[–] mjp36 15 years ago

Stan Winston did the make-up.

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[–] PazuzuTheLeper 15 years ago

Well that explains why I liked the make-up. I guess this is one of those situations where a great composer and a great make-up artist can't save a weak film.

[–] hollywoodpsychic 14 years ago

Or at least slightly elevate, if not full on save the thing.

A lot of strange things happen in this world. Things you don't know about in Grand Rapids.

[–] Brando10 14 years ago

I remeber McDonalds or BK doing promotion for this movie on their cups and stuff. Even then I was about 10 and new it was crap.

[–] redmanreturns 14 years ago

I think according to the album liner notes Williams scored it as a favor to producer Michael Phillips who produced Close Encounters. It's a business and people do different projects for different reasons. Williams career was off and running. The score is a rarity now, sadly.

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[–] larrygrijalva 9 years ago

Really, fool? John Williams did many films and TV shows and wasn't a snob -- I was upset that he did not perform any of the music when he was conductor of the Boston Pops. It would have helped promote the film. And this film is NOT the worst ever made. It could have made a decent showing, but it was sabotaged by Universal. And got a bum rap for killing The Tony Clifton Story --- that was in trouble by Andy's bad habits of lateness and refusal to be cooperative on Taxi and other places. He did other films, besides this that never get blamed.

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[–] christomacin (4529) 2 years ago

Maybe Williams thought of it as a sort of "'The Rievers" with Robots"?