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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Starman (1984 - Nitzsche)    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Feb 12, 2019 - 5:26 PM     By:   MikeP   (Member) I didn't mind the similarities to ET, but having the final shot be a literal recreation was a little much. I completely agree! That the last shot was identical to E.T. was kind of stunning. It's pretty well known that Columbia Pictures was developing "Starman" for years along with "E.T." (at the time called "Night Skies"), and abandoned the latter in favor of the former. Of course, "E.T." wound up being the biggest hit ever at the time. Even stranger is the finale features the exact same kind of round, reflective spacecraft that was used in the low budget sci fi Wavelength, which came out a year earlier . The exact same thing !    Posted:   Feb 12, 2019 - 6:54 PM     By:   dogplant   (Member) Even stranger is the finale features the exact same kind of round, reflective spacecraft that was used in the low budget sci fi Wavelength, which came out a year earlier . The exact same thing ! I was not familiar with that one, Mike, but I found a blurry picture, and that is surprising! If we add Michael Crichton's burnished extra-terrestrial globe in "Sphere," 15 years later, that makes four shiny alien balls. Depicting a spaceship as a reflective sphere is difficult to realize, as it can be visually confusing – I liked Nitzsche's score in "Starman," and Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges were wonderful, but I felt that Carpenter bungled the finale, and his big shiny ball didn't quite work. In my book, E.T.'s bauble was the most successful. And beautiful.    Posted:   Oct 24, 2020 - 8:15 PM     By:   SpaceMind   (Member) I'm definitely in for a remastered expanded version. I love this score.    Posted:   Oct 24, 2020 - 11:28 PM     By:   Thgil   (Member) Even stranger is the finale features the exact same kind of round, reflective spacecraft that was used in the low budget sci fi Wavelength, which came out a year earlier . The exact same thing ! For being "the exact same thing" it sure lacks the ring that the one in Starman had. In seriousness, I enjoyed Starman when I last saw it over a decade ago but I doubt it would hold up for me again. Something about the alien knowingly impregnating her and that being a good thing just comes off as bizarre at best and a violation at worst. "I was screwing an alien that looks like my dead husband and now I'm knocked up. Boy, is this cathartic!"    Posted:   Oct 25, 2020 - 8:06 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) The deer resurrection is a wonderful scene with music.     General Discussion: Starman (1984 - Nitzsche)    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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