Watched this just this week. I think you're trolling by acting like you don't know what a great score this is but I will humor you haha. Been wanting this one for 3 decades. Very nice acoustic/synth scored, especially the scenes when Alan is on the rope bridge and cliff swinging. Lots of marimba/piano sequencing, loads of the infamous 80's Roland D-50 "DigitalNativeDance" patch. Love all the songs too. It's a shame so many electronic influenced scores of the 80's haven't been released/expanded. Still wondering what the story is on Mannequin. Would love a complete Secret of My Success as well.
Watched this just this week. I think you're trolling by acting like you don't know what a great score this is but I will humor you haha. Been wanting this one for 3 decades. Very nice acoustic/synth scored, especially the scenes when Alan is on the rope bridge and cliff swinging. Lots of marimba/piano sequencing, loads of the infamous 80's Roland D-50 "DigitalNativeDance" patch. Love all the songs too. It's a shame so many electronic influenced scores of the 80's haven't been released/expanded. Still wondering what the story is on Mannequin. Would love a complete Secret of My Success as well.
I have not seen the film, it's never on TV and not on youtube.
Yes, it has good songs by Bruce Hornsby & The Range and Cutting Crew.
Is there much missing from SOMS? The 3 Themes track is fantastic.
It's a fascinating failure of a movie. You can see it glimpses of why in the trailer, where a clearly-older Astin plays the chummy narrator. That's because they shot those scenes well after principal photography to essentially change the tone of the movie. The skeleton of the film is a surprisingly dark story that turns into a battle of wills between Bacon's borderline abusive wilderness guide and Astin's bookish but stubborn city kid. It works well enough and features strong performances (especially from Bacon at a time when he could have cashed in for much more likeable and less complicated characters), but it wasn't in tune with the 80's teenage flicks that were a dime a dozen back then. I don't know whether it ran afoul of studio people or bombed at test screenings, but a taller, deeper-voiced, mulleted Astin was brought back two years(!) later to snarkily speak to camera and convince you it was all really a comedy. The result doesn't ever mesh, as you might imagine, but it's worth a watch as a snapshot of post-production strife, and certainly for Bacon and young-Astin's performances.
There isn't a ton of score in the movie, as I recall. What's there is in line with the synth-pop scores of the day. I've always like the songs much better than the score, especially Cutting Crew's "Life in a Dangerous Town."
Here's a sampling, though the clip comes towards the end of the movie and is a bit spoilery.
Last score? That can't be right. He did The Adventures of Milo and Otis in 1989 (and good God, would I love a CD of that).
OK. I checked his imdb credits and that film was listed as a 1986 movie. But seems like he scored the US version in 1989.
The Japanese version (scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto) was an '86 release, but Columbia bought the film, added Boddicker's music (and Dudley Moore's narration) and gave it a US release in '89. Film's kind of a sentimental favorite of mine.
I have not seen the film, it's never on TV and not on youtube.
Yes, it has good songs by Bruce Hornsby & The Range and Cutting Crew.
Is there much missing from SOMS? The 3 Themes track is fantastic.
Some key music, IMO, is missing. The Pemrose music played a few times in the film, the instrumental to the Brantley & Christie love theme, and a few more smaller pieces. Agree, love the 3 Themes track.
