If you come here often you know we’re all about 80’s movies (You too? We should be friends)! So we thought it our duty to mention that the late great composer Basil Poledouris, has had his slamming score for Robocop released for the third time, but at last in its entirety!
The great Poledouris was the man scoring some of our favourite movies of the 80’s and 90’s. Roll Call: Conan The Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, Red Dawn, Iron Eagle, The Hunt For Red October, White Fang, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Hot Shots! Part Deux and Starship Troopers! He also gets honourable mention for surfer classic ‘Big Wednesday’ and the ace TV series ‘Misfits of Science’.
So the new Robocop score is out HERE, and in tribute to Basil, here’s some of his best!
Iron Man director John Favreau has announced that he loves AC/DC so much, he’s going to stock the whole of the Iron Man 2 soundtrack with tracks from their back catalogue. Yeah, there’ll also be a score released (by John Debney, for those interested), but the official soundtrack will be made up of 15 classic tracks featuring ‘Back in Black’, ‘TNT, ‘Let There be Rock’ and ‘Highway to Hell’.
As AC/DC have always resisted issuing a best of album, some desperate journo’s out there are hailing this as their unofficial greatest hits. Those fools must be smoking the rock to think that any AC/DC best of would be issued without ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’ sitting in the tracklisting!
Some people think Favreau has lost his marbles, including me. But he’s not the first director to be so hung up on Australia’s greatest export that he’s decided to turn the whole soundtrack to his movie over to them.
Back in ’86, horror scribe Stephen King decided to try his hand at directing one of his own stories. The result was the awesome Maximum Overdrive, starring Emilio Estevez as the leader of a group of average Joe’s trapped in a truckstop cafe by fleet of murderous trucks sent wild by a mysterious green mist that envelopes the Earth for 24 hours.
The film is fantastic, featuring some superb machine vs. human battles including steamrollers, lawnmowers, vending machines and the leader of the fleet that terrorises the diner crew, the Happy Toyz Co. Truck, which has a giant Green Goblin mask fastened to the front grill.
King also hit upon the idea of shoe-horning his favourite band in to the project, with the subsequent soundtrack released as the AC/DC album ‘Who Made Who’.
But looking back, it really seemed to work. Probably because the 80’s was the decade of anything goes, but also because you believe that Stephen King really did want his favourite band to soundtrack his first movie. Favreau bringing them in from nowhere to soundtrack what is likely to become one of the biggest movie franchises’ in years? There’s a deal been done somewhere alright. While it may line everybody’s pockets, it’s cheapened one of the greatest rock bands in history.
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