LADYHAWKE - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2025-12-23 17:00:16 +0000 UTCHere's the full length reaction to Ladyhawke, the winner of this month's spinning wheel! Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer were great in this! I thought Hauer looked familiar, and I totally forgot that I had already seen him in Blade Runner. Enjoy!
Comments
Thank you so much for doing this. I saw this in theaters when it first came out. I have gotten my 5 daughters hooked on it as well, and this has been a family favorite for decades. I am always searching for a quality reactor to do this one, and I am grateful to you for doing it. And you did it with little judgement, and I could see you really enjoyed it. They just don't make them like this anymore. As for the music, legend has it that while Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler were scouting shooting locations for this film, thy listened to a lot of Alan Parson's music (who was quite nichely popular at the time). While they were scouting, the fell in love with each other and were married not long after the movie came out. At the moment in time, in his brain, Alan Parson's music kind of equated to love, and he couldn't not put it in the movie. I get that for some (most) it is jarring at times, I guess, but I fell in love with the music in 1985, and to this day still listen to the soundtrack and my heart soars to hear it, and it syncs so well with the movie in my brain. It was nice watching this with you. Thanks again.
Damon Corrigan
2026-01-09 22:02:16 +0000 UTCLooking over Richard Donner's filmography, it's funny that he did The Omen immediately followed by Superman, talk about wildly different movies! 😄 I think my top Donner films are probably (in order of release), The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, and Lethal Weapon. Ladyhawke is kind of in the middle of the road for me. It's ok, Matthew Broderick in particular is really good in this, but some of the '80s cheese gets to me a little bit more in this one more than it does in the others I mentioned. And as an aside I think I might like Rutger Hauer better as a bad guy. He's terrific as the antagonist in Blade Runner, and even in the otherwise lackluster film The Hitcher for instance he was the one good part of that movie, but the couple of times I've seen him as the hero it just wasn't quite as good. So this one's ok, probably 7 out of 10 for me? 🤷🏻♂️ "Worth the watch, maybe not worth a rewatch."
Doug
2025-12-24 03:07:50 +0000 UTCThis movie was the film I ever personally owned as a kid in the 80s, a bootleg betamax tape recorded off HBO that someone had in a garage sale. It was my favorite movie growing up. I wore that tape out so that you couldn't even adjust the tracking on it.
Brian's Dog
2025-12-23 20:04:26 +0000 UTC
