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Author	Topic: Bernstein's "Slipstream" - has anybody else heard this one?

dantoris Oscar® Winner	From the 1989 movie w/Mark Hamill and Bill Paxton delivering some of their best performances. Virtually an unknown film in the states, but features an excellant Bernstein score. Sounds like a mixture of "The Magnificent Seven" and "Spacehunter." Any comments?
posted 02-24-2000 05:42 PM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	yeah, I heard it.
posted 02-24-2000 06:13 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Eh. Smart guy, hu? Actually, I was looking more for some comments on the score than whether or not someone had just HEARD it.
posted 02-24-2000 09:11 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I thought the movie was interesting -- more of an attempt at hard science fiction than you saw in Hollywood in those days (or see now for that matter). But I can't for the life of me remember a note of the score. This suggests it's not one of Bernstein's more memorable, although I think Bernstein really peaked in the 1960s, and I haven't liked much of his stuff in the past ten or fifteen years. I don't HATE what he does, but if I was hiring, he would be very far down on the list. The best thing he's done in the nineties, to my mind, was probably the adaptation of Herrmann's CAPE FEAR. THE GRIFTERS might be second.
posted 02-24-2000 11:18 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	If you ever have a chance, rewatch it, if for nothing else then just for the score. If the movie had been released theatrically in the States (and was successful at the box office), perhaps the score would be a little more well-known.
posted 02-24-2000 11:46 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Ya know what's funny? I probably WILL rewatch it, but not for Bernstein (though not in SPITE of Bernstein either -- always willing to discover a fine score) -- rather, for director Steve Lisberger (who previously made TRON, which I adore), and the performances of Bob Peck, and, particularly, MARK HAMILL, who I think was GREAT as the villain. (I'm sure he only did it as a favor for producer Gary Kurtz of STAR WARS/EMPIRE fame. Hamill, a big SF/fantasy/horror buff, usually only does those type of movies these days, because due to his royalties from the STAR WARS movies and -- especially -- the action figures with his face on em, he never has to work again if he doesn't want to. I find it endearing that he chooses projects as offbeat as SLIPSTREAM and GUYVER -- though GUYVER sucked -- and so on.)
posted 02-24-2000 11:56 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Hope you enjoy the score just the same. As I recall, it's the last movie Lisberger has directed to date. Mark Hamill is always great. Another underrated actor that people tend to forget about. If you wanna see him play a REAL psycho, check out the 1990 movie MIDNIGHT RIDE. He plays a psychotic hitchhiker who kidnaps Michael Dudikoff's wife after she runs away, and the Dudemeister must save her. Both actors are good, but Hamill is down right eerie. Perhaps over the top, but when he's having as much fun as he is in that film, you just don't care. I'm still waiting for Mark Hamill to make a really big (and really good) movie that gets a theatrical release and just does huge HUGE business. Then, maybe then, people would recognize him for the talent he is. (Sorry for going off-topic on my own post, folks.)
posted 02-25-2000 12:12 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	Although similar to many of his others in last 20 years, I really liked some of the action cues in it. Not bad overall. John.
posted 02-25-2000 04:32 PM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	Slipstream music was awesome. Big and robust in EB's diamond-cut angular modern style he uses for SF (Spacehunter, Heavy Metal, Wild Wild West), really lavished with elegance by the LSO, esp. appreciated at the expansive formal playout. Had a lightness of touch with that sanguinary lyricism I don't ever take for granted. 90-present The Grifters is one of Bernstein's greats. Loved Cape Fear, The Field, liked Last Man Standing, noticed a heaviosity creeping in like a mule kick. Now he's cool with the muted textural approach of today's "ultrasophisticated cinema"-- how unlike one of the most passionate of musicians. I enjoyed Twilight as a piece of music though no one else seemed to notice.
posted 02-25-2000 05:16 PM PT (US)

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