Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

his best works. Let’s put it this way: I never bothered to buy the cd release. But you can
listen to tracks here:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/cds/detail.cfm/cdID/71/
-Helen of Troy (2003) ***
http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Troy-Sienna-
Guillory/dp/B00005JMH8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1293768184&sr=1-1
-Total Recall (1990) ** 1/2 [music ***]
http://www.amazon.com/Recall-Special-Limited-Arnold-
Schwarzenegger/dp/B00005N918/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293768251&sr=1
-3
This Verhoeven movie is okay but I didn’t care for the Verhoeven total violence
approach, I seem to recall, when I first saw the movie. I was more interested in the Jerry
Goldsmith score.
-The Hindenburg (1975) * 1/2 [music ** 1/2]
http://www.amazon.com/Hindenburg-George-C-
Scott/dp/0783229372/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293768407&sr=1-1
This Universal movie had promise (directed by Robert Wise, screen story by
Levinson/Link, good cast) but The Hindenburg falls flat! The music by David Shire is a
bit better and more uplifting than this under-inflated movie. I suppose you could call this
an Airport type of movie set in Nazi Germany in 1937 with a passing parade of
suspicious passengers aboard the doomed craft. The St. Elmo’s fire sequence at 45
minutes into the movie provided a temporary excitement or interest in this dull film up to
then. At an hour into the movie the rip of the balloon provided another interesting
diversion. The decision to convert to black & white at the explosion scene in order to use
old stock footage of the actual destruction was a cheap way to go!
-Super Size Me (2004) *** 1/2
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Size-Me-John-
Banzhaf/dp/B0002OXVBO/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293768469&sr=1-1
Morgan Spurlock is another documentary filmmaker but not anywhere as famous
as Michael Moore. I liked this feature documentary, so I recommend it. I did not like his
Where In the World is Osama Bin Laden?, and I did not yet see his latest offering, The
Greatest Movie Ever Sold. I am not much of a McDonalds eater. If anything I now &
then get a senior coffee (my white beard convinces them!) and the dollar salad. Very
infrequently I get their fish filet on sale on Fridays (but not all McDonalds do that!). Even
more infrequently I get their fries. I haven’t had a hamburger since the early Seventies. I
onced worked as a cook at McDonalds for a month or two, and I would take advantage of
their surplus food at the end of the night. That would be my late dinner! I stopped eating
meat and chicken since the early or mid-Eighties for sure after reading Geoffrey Hodson
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