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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: Re: Great opening and closing film credits (Ladyhawk..)
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 11:15:14 EST
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> I haven't heard Ladyhawk mentioned yet.  I found the opening credits
> visually stunning.  That it has a lot to do with the plot I didn't
> discover until about halfway through the movie.

Yes, the visually impressive credits in LadyHawke actually have some
kind of meaning!  Too often the credits of a film are presented as a
light-show with little attention to how they might integrate into the
over-all film.  Btw:  One of my favorite WORST credits sequences were
those for "Superman."  Overdone light-show (swooosh, swisshhh!) In
LadyHawke, the sun turns into the moon and back into the sun and the
moon and the sun and over and over and over...

> While I'm on the subject, I enjoyed Ladyhawk very much, but would have
> enjoyed it more if they had turned the music down (off?) a little.  I
> found the main theme crass and annoying.

Like you, I enjoyed LadyHawke very much.  A visually stunning film, but
with, I'm sorry to say, quite a weak storyline.  The imagry does not
carry the narrative... it simply provides the atmosphere and the
background within which the story is told.  The storyline is spoon fed
by the banal dialogue.  Mathew Broderick is good as Pierre "the
mouse."  Overall the acting was ok.

The music is OVERDONE to the point of being annoying.

The imagry is the film's strong point.

In the Washington area the reviewers are hyping it to death.  This
isn't a GREAT film.  But it IS a visually impressive film and well
worth seeing, especially if you enjoy a good B grade movie.
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