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You thought Star Crash was a good film? Yikes!
Personally I thought Star Crash to be the worst film Barry was ever involved in. Even worse than Night Games and Howard The Duck. Well, I suppose I can enjoy it in a cheesy kind of way - as a film to laugh at due to its hilarious badness. It kind of knows it's bad, and plays up to it. Yeah, I can enjoy that.
The film is a rarity on VHS, there is a French DVD of the movie coupled with a recently made sequel, Starcrash 2.
As to the score: I feel the score is desperately let down by the thoughtless, childish main theme and a very dull love theme for Stella Starr. Barry was most definitely not engaged with this film on any level. It's like, "for goodness sake, let's just write something quick and get this piece of crap out of the way". I always skip those tracks. However, the internal cues get more interesting, a few have some nice Moonraker-isms.
Anyway - as a major Barry fan I'm always pleased to meet someone who loves a Barry score!
The Silva Screen CD is rare now but appears on E-bay from time to time. It is paired with Until September.
Interesting to note is that the CD is sequenced differently from the original LP and one track is a different version to the same track on the LP. I'd love to see the LP programme released.
Cheers
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You thought Star Crash was a good film? Yikes!
Personally I thought Star Crash to be the worst film Barry was ever involved in. Even worse than Night Games and Howard The Duck. Well, I suppose I can enjoy it in a cheesy kind of way - as a film to laugh at due to its hilarious badness. It kind of knows it's bad, and plays up to it. Yeah, I can enjoy that.
The film is a rarity on VHS, there is a French DVD of the movie coupled with a recently made sequel, Starcrash 2.
As to the score: I feel the score is desperately let down by the thoughtless, childish main theme and a very dull love theme for Stella Starr. Barry was most definitely not engaged with this film on any level. It's like, "for goodness sake, let's just write something quick and get this piece of crap out of the way". I always skip those tracks. However, the internal cues get more interesting, a few have some nice Moonraker-isms.
Anyway - as a major Barry fan I'm always pleased to meet someone who loves a Barry score!
The Silva Screen CD is rare now but appears on E-bay from time to time. It is paired with Until September.
Interesting to note is that the CD is sequenced differently from the original LP and one track is a different version to the same track on the LP. I'd love to see the LP programme released.
Cheers
FYI,
The SILVA contains EVERYTHING that appeared on the LP, it does have a slightly different runing order that as I recall was pretty close to film order.
I think the cue your talking about was damaged on the master tape we had to work from and we used a portion of another cue that contained the exact same passage with the drum machine either mixed either softer or louder to replace the damaged section, whatever the case, it worked and the cue appears in the complete form on the CD.
Ford A. Thaxton
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I've never had the pleasure (?) of seeing the actual movie (I would love to though, it sounds hilarious!) but add me to the list of people who enjoy the score immensely, daft and cheesy though it mostly is. Let's face it, there's no such thing as a completely worthless John Barry score - the man is too much of a genius! 
The CD does go for reasonable prices on Ebay from time to time and is well worth seeking out, for both STARCRASH and UNTIL SEPTEMBER (which, as Timmer said, is really beautiful).
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Well, personally I wouldn't baulk at paying $40-50 (if I was feeling flush at the time) for a CD I really wanted that was otherwise unavailable. But $99 is very steep, I agree... All subjective of course.
As for the genius of STARCRASH, I think you've said it all better than I can! 
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