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03 nov. 2010
A Hidden Classic
It is a small miracle that the movie was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2009. Although it only made about $5.7 million in its initial release, it cost under $2 million to make, not including revenues from its first release on VHS. This profit margin lead to infighting between the property owners and distribution rights holders; it took nearly 20 years to allow the movie to find new life on disc formats. Similar tugs-of-war also are confounding any effort to produce a sequel, even these many years later.
The movie and its soundtrack is a testament to how a scarcity of resources, albeit painfully, can lead to magnified creativity that produces a whole much greater than the sum of its discount parts. Simon Boswell hit on an effective mix of slide guitar with synthesizer backgrounds that make tracks like "No Flesh Shall Be Spared" and "Alligator Heart" both arresting and a pleasure to listen to independently from the movie.
"The Order of Death" is the absolute highlight of the album, and perhaps the best song that John Lydon's Public Image Ltd. has ever produced. Finally working with some restraint from his typical punk warbling, it's both moody yet driving at the same time--very focused.
The album suffers slightly with the typical tendency of the era to make soundtracks supposedly more interesting by injecting movie dialog over portions of the musical tracks. Although an interesting creative choice, it primarily disappoints fans of the movie that were hoping for straight musical tracks. The 1994 release of the Vangelis Blade Runner soundtrack suffered similarly, and fans had to relay on various bootlegs until satisfied with an official 25th anniversary release in 2007 containing unadulterated tracks. Alas, Hardware has no current groundswell of demand that will likely end up with an update to the soundtrack.
The album also slows down towards the final tracks, as the repetitive motifs of Simon Boswell start to grate rather than please. The track "StigMata" from Ministry is a minor peak, allowing those to reminisce about 1990's industrial music to have a small highlight. Despite the fall off at the end of the disc, the first half is worth so much repeated listening that the two largely cancel each other out.
The Hardware soundtrack is an aural testament to when a movie's quality could exceed its limited budget without resorting to cheap digital techniques. Everything about this movie was done in the real world, as gritty and rough as it might have been, and the soundtrack is an indispensable part of the experience.
26 mai 2010
Pit-Fighter? Moar like Pit-Flogger, amirite?
Turns out the that the copy that I bought on eBay has defective audio, so that the fighters' grunts and other noises sound like shrill whistles, but I still get a pretty complete view of the game play. I bought it mostly as a cheap nostalgia trip, and was curious to see how the hand-held experience on the Game Boy compared to the arcade version of my memory.
Basically, it is disappointing, even accounting for the limited capabilities of the Game Boy in 1992. Much like the Super Nintendo port, the biggest thing sapping the fun out of this game is the lack of extra lives or continues. You get one life, with its point value, and when it's zero, you're done. Most times you play, you're likely only to get through the first douchey villain, and then hang on maybe half way through C.C. Rider.
I give it two out of five for the fact that the translation of the digitized animations are actually reasonably good, given trying to pack it in a Game Boy cart in 1992. Not remarkable, but at least a decent match from the hand-held to the arcade in terms of feel. Still, not a very good game, and if you have a need for Pit-Fighter nostalgia, you should stick to the Sega Genesis port that's the most faithful to the original arcade version.
17 oct. 2007
Did the world need yet another 1980s compliation CD?
The world probably needs another 80s compilation like highways need more cars. However, especially for a budget title, this particular collection offers some good variety of the era, mostly on the lighter side, but across genres capably.
It contains some light Hair Metal (When I See You Smile by Bad English, The Flame by Cheap Trick), some pop Rock (Tuff Enuff by The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Day By Day by The Hooters), a little bit of (old) New Wave (Der Kommissar by After the Fire) and some R&B (Head to Toe by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam).
By far the best thing about the album is the rare Eddie Murphy dance / R&B gem, "Party All The Time". This song still is remarkably difficult to find, and somehow found its way on to this budget CD. At the height of his 48hrs / Delirious / Beverly Hills Cop fame, Eddie felt he could do no wrong, and made an R&B album produced with Rick James featuring his surprisingly decent voice. At the time, the song sounded a bit empty, repetitive, and trying too hard to be funky. However, the world at large has successfully degenerated enough so that this song fits in well with today's crop of popular low-rent but catchy hip-hop tunes. This song just happened to be 25 years too early, and downright artistic compared to many of today's options.
The oddest song included in the compilation is Cult of Personality by Living Color. A great song, it is a difficult fit with the lighter fare on the rest of the CD, and is by far the hardest rocking tune in the compilation. Add the fact that it is more of a late 80s song vs. the rest of the album's early- to mid-80s assortment, and it seems like it was included to fill the album, although the song is one or the strongest on the album.
Overall, not a bad collection of tunes now vintage enough to have enough valid nostalgia by increasingly aging people, and retro-love for people not even yet born in the era. For me, the nostalgia ends when I hear Tuff Enuff--the anthem of the San Francisco Giants in the late 80s. I always wondered how The Fabulous T-Birds got to be so big at the time--they looked like guys in your dad's weekend wedding cover band.