tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877371347086447490.post8692305650893478856..comments2024-03-28T20:37:08.491+11:00Comments on The Audient: Check one off the listDerek Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13750747272647975591noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877371347086447490.post-37355937971673805062009-08-27T13:05:54.343+10:002009-08-27T13:05:54.343+10:00Oh, I've revisited - I have the DVD. I adore t...Oh, I've revisited - I have the DVD. I adore this film, even though it's hysterically bad in places. Tobe Hooper said in interviews at the time that his intention was to make a 50s Hammer style sci-fi/horror. I think the biggest problem the film has is that he was TOO successful - apart from the high tech visual effects and OTT gore, the film is almost indistinguishable from the sort of film which would have been made three decades earlier.<br /><br />As a side note, the fabulous score by Henry Mancini was, and remains, one of my all time favourites. To most people Mancini means Moon River or Peter Gunn, to me he means "Lifeforce"!Lord Vaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766908965841904549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877371347086447490.post-19444808172867957612009-08-25T14:17:39.946+10:002009-08-25T14:17:39.946+10:00I'm curious whether you've revisited. I do...I'm curious whether you've revisited. I don't think it was bad at all, just not as scary as I'd hoped. But, given my 24 years of hyping it up in my head, it never could have been.Derek Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13750747272647975591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877371347086447490.post-63853828229982220332009-08-25T14:04:47.317+10:002009-08-25T14:04:47.317+10:00Oh, Vance. If only you'd seen "Lifeforce&...Oh, Vance. If only you'd seen "Lifeforce" at the age of 15, as I did. I saw it once a week for its ENTIRE theatrical run (that's right, I went to see it three times) and believed it was robbed at the Oscars.Lord Vaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766908965841904549noreply@blogger.com