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I love THE SWARM...
I cannot even comprehend anyone not responding to it. It is way funnier than POLICE SQUAD! simply because it is the REAL THING.
Jerry Goldsmith's music -- when listened to apart from the movie -- is a magnificent SWARM horror ride.
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Is this out on Blu Ray? I GOTTA pick this up. :-)
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Jeepers, I gotta get me some of that Cardio Pep Compound, I could really use some. That, and some of those Reduce-o pills I saw in Hitchcock's LIFEBOAT.
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I love the Ed Wood-like conversation between the three guys with the flame throwers.
The very idea of fighting a marauding swarm of killer bees with flame throwers of all things is great.
And I'm still trying to figure out how any writer thought that if a civilian is the sole survivor caught on a missile basis riddled with dead bodies, when questioned what he's doing there he could get away with a response like: "that's a long story, let's skip that."
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Anyone else get a weird feeling during the Slim Pickens and his son in the Body Bag scene? I just remember seeing it in the Theater and the way Pickens played it, it just seemed strangely comical. Goldsmith's underscore was heartbreaking, but it just struck me as funny in some way.
Hmm, yeah, I had the same reaction zooba. It's a very odd scene, as if you're not supposed to really know if it's a comedy or not - but with Goldsmith's genuinely moving score it seems to tip the balance, not into "ah, it's drama" mode, but rather into the "ah, it's a comedy, like AIRPLANE" realm.
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I remember laughing at how the old couple (offhand, was it Fred Astaire..... and Olivia DeHavilland?) are introduced, he gives her flowers, their romance blooms after about two minutes screen time, then they are both killed when the bees derail the train. That's not just common-or-garden genius.
EDIT - Fred MacMurray?
Olivia DeHavilland and Fred MacMurray and Ben Johnson... :-)
Passenger carriages in this movie must contain huge chunks of TNT, the only possible explanation why they should EXPLODE after derailing...
What were they THINKING...
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'The Swarm' worse than 'Beyond The Poseidon Adventure' ? No way !!!!!
ooooh, there's Michael Caine again ! 
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I love THE SWARM...
I cannot even comprehend anyone not responding to it. It is way funnier than POLICE SQUAD! simply because it is the REAL THING.
Jerry Goldsmith's music -- when listened to apart from the movie -- is a magnificent SWARM horror ride.
You may be right about the comedy aspect. Even though it preceded "Airplane!", a little rewriting of the script might have made it into a big hit:
"Major, there's a problem at the missile silo!"
"The missile silo? What is it?"
"Sir it's a big military facility with soldiers and missiles and silos, but that's not important right now."
Muhahahaha!
That's it...! Don't change it! ;-)
The movie is VERY close to being a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movie, even though it was originally meant to be totally serious.
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