The music… Oh god the music…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Ladyhawke
myforeskinsgoneohmygod — 18 years ago(February 11, 2008 05:46 AM)
I love this film, I love this story and I love the music in it But as an example of how important the score is. If the fashion or trend in music at the time isn't taken into account, it can seriously date the film in years to come, as it does with Ladyhawke. Was this score cool in the eighties? Yup Is it cool now? No Is the music funny? Hell yeah!
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Cel_Stacker — 18 years ago(February 20, 2008 12:21 PM)
Well, considering what passes for cool nowadays, I don't mind it.
I realize it clashes with the tone of the film quite jarringly, but it does have this weird "Trans-Siberian Orchestra" vibe that's kind of fetching. That '80s cheese is refreshing if not taken in great doses.
I sometimes like to call it "Phillipe's Theme", since Matthew Broderick occasionally seems a little out of place here as well.
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ruxiegirl — 18 years ago(February 27, 2008 07:46 PM)
This was my FAVORITE movie when it came out, I was 13. I watched it when it came out on VHS over and over and over again. Then I bought the soundtrack and listened to it constantly. Now when I listen to it, it brings back some sweet memories of those days, but it's soooooo dated. Very beautiful, but very, very 80's.
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Magnus_Buchan — 17 years ago(July 05, 2008 12:29 PM)
I don't think the point is that the music is necessarily "bad", it just doesn't fit into the themes, tone or overall feel of the film one bit. It clashes, quite honestly which is exactly what a score
shouldn't
do unless you were
trying
to make it uncomfortable (ala Jonny Greenwood's score in There Will Be Blood.) I can say with complete confidence that an unsettling feel to the entire film was not the point, therefore making this score quite horrible.
That's my opinion at least, and I think that's why the score is pretty widely hated. I really like this movie, but it could have been 100 times better with a real score.
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aristaeus77 — 17 years ago(December 21, 2008 11:41 AM)
You love me music? Jesus christ it was amazingly terrible. I saw this movie based on this thread, eh..thanks a lot. It was really bad im afraid. The music was a combo between the theme music for "falcon crest" and the intro from Miami vice . Nice swords though looked very real.. If someone feel the urge to see this movie, then dont. See Willow (again) instead.
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niblet_511 — 17 years ago(February 10, 2009 11:24 PM)
I loved this movie when I was a kid (I was 9), and never noticed the music.
It's been at least 18 years since I've seen it and just got done watching it now. And though I still love the movieI agree"Oh God, the music!!" Soooo terrible and rather distracting.
In a few places, the music reminded me of Tron. And this type of music is perfectly fine in THAT setting. Sure would be nice if someone did a "remake" of the score, but left the film intact, and then re-released it.
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ragreen259 — 17 years ago(February 19, 2009 12:50 PM)
Not sure what the hell is going through the peoples' mind when they add music like this another exceedingly stupid one is A Knight's Tale wtf is with the music and the hairdos? Too bad, because it's a good fun story, but it looks like an extended episode of Star Trek: The Rock Opera.
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catiecat19 — 17 years ago(February 22, 2009 01:49 PM)
To be honest, the music just don't bother me that much. I LOVE this movie a lot, and the music doesn't distract me from the movie at all. I was fourish when I first saw it, thirteen when I watched it next (and actually remembered it). Ever since then I have loved it. The music doesn't bother me.
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anatja — 16 years ago(May 04, 2009 06:38 AM)
I had just finished and there I was, feeling pretty sick with cold excited about seeing a film that I have not watched since childhood, I even have it in my wishlist to show my girl, what did I find? A film with a couple of Brilliant British actors, a decently heroic Dutchman, Pfeiffer looking luminous and the most annoying two things in fantasy film history EVER! Matthew Broderick and the score!
I spent half my time laughing at the screen and the other half getting on with my book.
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Moondrop_C — 16 years ago(May 07, 2009 04:33 PM)
I just caught this movie today on cable, after having not seen it in eons and the music made me feel like Hunter & McCall were going to come running around the nearest corner. Problem with the score in this movie is what was wrong lots of music in the 80s: musicians had discovered the synthesizer and USED IT TO DEATH. Never once did they consider whether it was the right sound for a given situation or piece of music.
At least they didn't go all-out, full-on, gag-me-with-a-spoon 80s and give Michelle Pfeiffer huge hair
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jcosyn-1 — 16 years ago(December 02, 2009 01:19 PM)
I'm curious: how many of you people who say you hate the score of this movie have ever had any musical education of any sort whatsoever? How many were born after the movie was made and grew up during the rap-and-earbud era? Also just exactly what kind of musical score would any of
you
compose, with your impeccable personal taste and knowledge of music? Are you thinking that a movie fantasy filmed in the 1980s and set in 13th century France would somehow be better served with a 19th century Romantic orchestral arrangement? Or an Appalachian bluegrass score, or something more along the lines of zydeco, or perhaps reggae, or ska, or swing, or be-bop jazz, or fusion, or a 1990s hip-hop score, or what? It would be wonderfully enlightening if, instead of merely kvetching about the music with complaints as meaningful as "eww!" and "I don't like it!", you would all share your own deep conceptions of what the score to this movie
should
have been. I'm sure many of the rest of us would learn a great deal about music.
(Incidentally, if you're one of those who think the music in this movie is "disco", you don't get to have an opinion, because you obviously don't know anything whatsoever about pop music of the twentieth century. Alan Parsons and Andrew Powell made many albums, but there wasn't anything resembling "disco" on any of them. Failure to recognize this simple fact automatically disqualifies your musical opinions.) -
lunadelrey — 16 years ago(December 28, 2009 04:10 PM)
jcosyn-1 - excellent observations about the people who don't like the score to this wonderful movie. I'm a big fan of the Alan Parsons Project and this movie was made during their peak years in the 1980s. I don't know how or why the producer or director decided to use their music for this movie; however, I never found it out of place or distracting. I think it enhanced the narrative.
And your point about the people mistakenly thinking the music is "disco" is spot on. Alan Parsons never made "disco" music - their music was experimental in electronic and futuristic musical genres. They had quite a number of top-ten hits in the late 80's early 90's ("Games People Play", "Time", "Eye in the Sky", "Damned if I Do", to name a few). They were really big at the time. Too bad the current "music" makers in the 2000's are so trite and boring. There's not anyone doing anything remotely experimental or interesting in this generation. It all sounds the same now, very vanilla and dull. And the sad fact is, the current generation doesn't realize it.