That is all
As long as they’re good and don’t fuck anything else up. Because Rutger Hauer is to die for. So is that movie.
Now, now … even if LadyHawke’s score isn’t very good, she can rely on her extracurricular activities and personal essay to get into the school of her choice.
*slaps **Snooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopy *with a cold fish
In all seriousness, what don’t you like about the score? I don’t remember it (and even if I did, I doubt I would have much of an opinion one way or the other, not being a connoisseur of scores).
It’s a medieval-type movie. And a love story. The score is modern and like rock & roll.
I agree completely. I love this movie, love the story, love Rutger (mrow) and hate the music with the fire of a thousand suns. When I am queen of the world, my first command will be to rescore this movie.
My second command will be to **restore **Rutger Hauer.
To what he was in that movie, that is. 
Hey, if that were at all possible, I’d do it to myself, first. 
Seriously. I love the movie, but that’s in spite of the score. It sounds like the composer was trying for a copy of the score for Highlander. Syth, and electric shouldn’t be in a medieval morality play.
I thought when I first saw the movie, and each time I review it, that it would have done so much better with actual religious music from the time period.
In the parts that don’t have the drum beat and synthy stabby chords, it’s really nice music. I wish it had been done that way all the way through.
But then, Richard Donner hasn’t even released a special edition of it yet, it’s just a basic edition.
I’m happy that Legend has two scores, and both were released on the same DVD set. Yay for Ridley Scott.
Really? Wow timetravel. Ladyhawke came out in 85 and highlander in 86. Ladyhawke is in the [more or less] Alan Parsons style and Highlander is Queen.
BOTH are fantasy. There is no time period for Ladyhawke. Highlander actually OTHER than the flashbacks, set in modern New York. The flashbacks are [if i can remember] 1300s Scotland, 1700s colonial america and WW2 for meeting the little girl that became his assistant.
Deal with it.
Despite the magical element and some anachronisms, it’s set in medieval France, not an entirely fantastic fairytale world like, for ex., The Princess Bride. The synth music is rather jarringly modern in contrast.
I’m clinging to the hope that an upgraded DVD release will include an alternate score. I completely agree about the lovely, brief moments that are accompanied by a more traditional sounding orchestral score. But they’re also like salt poured and rubbed into an open, festering wound because they just provide more contrast for the crap, and they leave me yelling at the screen, **“Why didn’t you just do that all the way through???”
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I adore this movie, and I’ve seen it countless times. But in my unforgiving old age, I consider the score downright insulting.
Jeez, why are you so touchy? As Miss Mapp says, it is set in medieval France, so there could be music used.
I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. I won’t go so far as to say that the wrong music will ruin a movie for me, but it certainly can make me question the director’s artistic sensibilities/sanity. Even seeing the film for the first time as a 14-year old who would normally have liked the kind of music that scores LadyHawke, I felt that it sounded, well, just wrong. It took what was, in essence, a beautifully filmed historical romance with a touch of fantasy, and gave it an air of cheesiness that made it just that much harder to take seriously.
I didn’t see Ladyhawke 3 or 4 years ago and although I found it to be enjoyable the music had a very negative impact on me. The music just screamed “I was made in the 80’s” and it just didn’t sound very good. It is a horrible score.
Marc
I had completely forgotten about the score…
…until I introduced the movie to my 13 year old daughter who had never seen it.
And I like Alan Parsons (and his style), just not in this sort of movie. It was COMPLETELY jarring, and Himself & I almost stopped watching because of it. But I bullied my way through it, because it’s an awesome movie, otherwise.
But rescore the thing? You betcha!
Mind if I join the choir? I also like The Alan Parsons Project. I’ve owned several of their albums over the years. Ladyhawke is also one of the first DVD’s I bought. I particularly like Mouse’s relationship with God. I like the movie, however, despite the soundtrack. I don’t wince at it any more, but I do wonder what the people who produced were thinking, even after reading the explanation.