Nicholas Kmet | Irony: Starcrash (1979) vs. Rogue One (2016) @nicholaskmet2059 | Uploaded April 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Starcrash (1979) was a cheap American knockoff of the vastly more popular Star Wars (1977), produced in a blistering 18 months and filmed in Rome, Italy. John Barry wrote the excellent score (well, excellent in comparison to the rest of the film), though the main theme is more than reminiscent of John Williams' theme for Star Wars.
Let me be clear: Starcrash is a bad movie. So bad, that it was one of the films riffed on for the reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was watching the episode on Netflix, and thought I heard a familiar theme. That's right, Michael Giacchino's theme for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), sounds eerily like Barry's theme for Starcrash.
In other words, it sounds like a knockoff of the score to a film that was a knockoff of the originating film of the franchise. Now that's irony.
Starcrash (1979) was a cheap American knockoff of the vastly more popular Star Wars (1977), produced in a blistering 18 months and filmed in Rome, Italy. John Barry wrote the excellent score (well, excellent in comparison to the rest of the film), though the main theme is more than reminiscent of John Williams' theme for Star Wars.
Let me be clear: Starcrash is a bad movie. So bad, that it was one of the films riffed on for the reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was watching the episode on Netflix, and thought I heard a familiar theme. That's right, Michael Giacchino's theme for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), sounds eerily like Barry's theme for Starcrash.
In other words, it sounds like a knockoff of the score to a film that was a knockoff of the originating film of the franchise. Now that's irony.
