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I so love the entire Goldsmith "quote" (did he REALLY say this?), "Whew!...This is a hell of a film. It has everything - love, pathos, crises, high drama and awesome scenes!"
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"Whew!...This is a hell of a film. It has everything - love, pathos, crises, high drama and awesome scenes!" . . . to
be followed by, "and like a lot of films I sign on to, it's a load of shit!"
Nevertheless, he managed to dress up this turd in classy fashion.
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I can't comment on the liner notes as being bad, but I can say who my two favorites are, Schweiger and Bond. Not that everyone else aren't good, but I just tend to like these two a lot!
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Let's not forget that when a film is new and you're endorsing tie-in merchandise, you say what you're supposed to say, not what you really think.
I'm sure Jerry Goldsmith was under no illusions this was a terrible film. But you ain't going to market your film/album with a comment like, "It's a turd but buy into it anyway".
Cheers
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Never in the history of film has a movie had so many amazing actors giving wretched performances. The whole exercise was a "take the money and shut up" situation for just about everyone.
I watch the film often; the extended DVD cut is hysterical. It's seriously one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever seen. Check out Michael Caine and Richard Widmark's shouting argument about killing the bees with pesticides. Good God...
"That is the POINT, general! The honey bee is vital to the environment! Every year in america, they pollinate six billion dollars worth of crops! If you kill the bee, you're gonna kill the crop! If you kill the plants, you'll kill the people! NO! NO, GENERAL!!! There will be no air drop, until we know exactly, what we are dropping. And where! And how! EXCUSE ME!!!!!"
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In nearly every interview poor old Michael Caine gets it in the neck for this, but as he likes to point out, it also had Henry Fonda & Richard Widmark (& quite a few others) in it.
Caine is also regularly grilled over his participation in JAWS IV, about which he said: "But the house it helped build is beautiful". 
Not that JAWS IV is anywhere near as awful as THE SWARM.
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They're not the worst, they're the funniest!
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Never in the history of film has a movie had so many amazing actors giving wretched performances. The whole exercise was a "take the money and shut up" situation for just about everyone.
I watch the film often; the extended DVD cut is hysterical. It's seriously one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever seen. Check out Michael Caine and Richard Widmark's shouting argument about killing the bees with pesticides. Good God...
"That is the POINT, general! The honey bee is vital to the environment! Every year in america, they pollinate six billion dollars worth of crops! If you kill the bee, you're gonna kill the crop! If you kill the plants, you'll kill the people! NO! NO, GENERAL!!! There will be no air drop, until we know exactly, what we are dropping. And where! And how! EXCUSE ME!!!!!"
God I love that argument. Just when you think he can't shout any louder he manages it.
So many stupid moments. How did you get into this classified US base? "That's a complicated story. It begins a year ago. But let's skip that" AND THEY DO!!! No, let's not skip that, you're a bloody intruder!
I do get really annoyed at the film though - I'm not big on wanton destruction of mass survivors, especially when there's probably many kids among them. This one's guilty of it in the train wreck scene - so if your child wasn't horribly stung to death earlier they'll be exploded a few hours hence. Cassandra Crossing also does it at the end when carriage loads of extras we've never even met before plunge off the bridge while all the irritating characters (bar the Magnificent Harris) walk away. Most egregiously, Earthquake parks all it's rescued people in an underground area and then has it collapse on them! It's so horrible that these films get watched a lot less than, say, The Towering Inferno, which I love enough to own on blu-ray.
Sorry about that rant, it's obviously one of my buttons! (Don't get me started on Widmark - who's actually right most of the time! - dying at the end and yet the film skips how Caine and the limped Ross get through all the Houston bees with no protection!)
I do love the film, though, really.
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THE SWARM is the great-awful liner note equivalent of TROLL II.
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