YMMV / Saturday's Warrior

• Adaptation Displacement: Due to the difficulty of finding the original 1974 soundtrack and no video recording of the production being available, the 1989 Saturday’s Warrior film adaptation is much better known than the play it’s based on.
• Awesome Music: Some of Lex de Azevedo's best work is on display here.
  • The main theme and its reprise at the finale, which is awesome from the opening chord.
  • “Sailing On,” Jimmy’s solo song at the end of the first act.
  • “Feelings of Forever,” a duet in the final act with Todd and Julie.
  • On the score side of things, there’s also the instrumental music in the 1989 film for when Pam dies and reunites with Emily in heaven and when Jimmy returns to his family.
• Narm Charm: The Closing Credits scene in the 1989 film of Jimmy holding a sword above his head. Cheesy? Yeah. Cool? Also yeah.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Manages to pull this off in every version.
  • The original play came into being during the counterculture movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, so it specifically addresses issues that came up during that time, such as the zero population movement.
  • The 1989 film has characters with hair and clothing styles that are very late 80s, and the synthesizers used in the music are clear products of the decade.
  • The 2016 film attempts to avert this by being an intentional period piece set in The '70s, but still updates the music yet again in a way that is unmistakably The New '10s.
• Values Resonance: Religious content aside, the plight of parents struggling to connect with wayward children and a family’s desire to stay together is still applicable decades after the initial release.

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