Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

need to spend time on since I had already provided online papers on those specific titles
(including many Herrmann-scored motion pictures) that the reader can access freely.
There will also be dvds that I will not review at all or very sparsely. There are just too
many items in this ambitious project and my time is limited! But this paper will serve as a
handy vehicle to delineate information on scores that I did not spend much time on
(scores that I would not do an “official” separate paper rundown on my site since I don’t
have information on most of the cues). This includes Barry’s My Life, Howard’s Vertical
Limit, Tiomkin’s High & the Mighty, Goldsmith’s Hollow Man, and so on.
Now: My star-ratings below can use even more synonyms! For instance, a minus
rating is waste (if you know what I mean). Call it “garbage” if you wish. A four-star
rating is generally a “classic” film more or less, but a five-star rating means a
“masterpiece.” (not too many of those!). There may be masterpiece movies and scores
out there that I did not review here, by the way, simply because I do not own the dvd. A
three-star rating is overall average but entertaining. Let’s face it, since this is the mean or
average, most movies listed here are going to be three-star pictures (give or take a half
rating). That’s partially why I want up to a five-star rating since three is the medium (not
including the rare minus rating). I believe I only have one minus rating in this 402-page
review. That’s because I instinctively know what is going to be really, really bad (!) or
I’ve already seen the movie (or a portion of it) on cable so I refuse to purchase the dvd.
At any rate, my star-ratings are as follows:
-(minus) Terrible/Worst/Disaster/UGLY Stinker/Repellant/Pathetic
1 *Bad/Lousy/Inferior/Shoddy/Groaner/Turkey/Waste of Time
2 ** Poor/Below Average/Mediocre/Third Class/Some Merits
3 *** Fair/Good/OK/Average/Second Class/Commonplace
4 **** Excellent/Classic/First Class/Superior/High Merit
5 ***** Outstanding/Masterpiece/Extraordinary/Best
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-The Giant Behemoth (1959). *** 1/2 [music ****]
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Behemoth-Gene-
Evans/dp/B000OHZJIC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1292877992&sr=1-1
This “B” (Behemoth!—maybe British!) monster movie is a guilty pleasure for
me, but not necessarily a giant one. I don’t know why the producers felt it was necessary
in the American release to precede “Behemoth” with “Giant.” I guess The Really Big
Behemoth would not sound quite as catchy. Despite the less-than-ideal title, there’s
something about this movie (or parts of it) that I like. The dvd cover states that it is a
“Cult Camp Classic.” You can probably safely take out the “classic” designation but it’s
still the kind of cozy movie I would tend to watch on a rainy day, especially if I had to
work out in such inclement weather as a mailman (such as I am doing this pre-Christmas
21010 period as I am writing “now”). The picture is located in the London area during
the cold, foggy, perennially overcast season sometime (probably just about anytime
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