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Mal ,'Serenity'


Buffista Movies 6: lies and videotape  

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Sean K - Feb 08, 2009 1:45:20 pm PST #9876 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Didn't Tangerine Dream do the cheesy 80's music for Ladyhawke?


Juliebird - Feb 08, 2009 1:47:06 pm PST #9877 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

No, that was Legend. Loved it!

Whatever you do, do NOT watch the director's cut with the replaced music, it's awful!

Ladyhawke was scored by some guy named Andrew Powell (last movie he ever scored). I used to have a casette tape of it (that I might have recorded off the tv)


Laga - Feb 08, 2009 1:47:50 pm PST #9878 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Didn't Tangerine Dream do the cheesy 80's music for Ladyhawke?

I know they did Risky Business.


Dana - Feb 08, 2009 1:47:58 pm PST #9879 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

One reason it's impossible for me to take Excalibur seriously is because I keep breaking into lines or songs from Holy Grail/Spamalot.

"God the almighty and all-knowing has lost a cup?"


Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2009 1:50:48 pm PST #9880 of 10000
brillig

some guy named Andrew Powell

In conjunction with Alan Wollfson (sp?) who is/was half of the brains behing the Alan Parsons Project. Love that band.


Sean K - Feb 08, 2009 1:53:21 pm PST #9881 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Oh yeah, that was it, connie. Half the Alan Parsons Project.


Juliebird - Feb 08, 2009 2:01:43 pm PST #9882 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

The music of the film was composed by Andrew Powell, a composer and orchestrator most well known for his work with Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson for The Alan Parsons Project. Donner stated in the soundtrack's liner notes that he had been location-scouting with a steady soundtrack of the Projects' albums, and so he married music style to pictures in his mind before the film was even begun. Powell wrote the score and approached Parsons to produce the music, thus making it appear to be an instrumental album of the band. Parsons is often mistaken as the composer for the film.

Cool.

*just listened to some APP*

Except for the part where that signature APP beat is my biggest pet peeve in the entire movie.


beekaytee - Feb 08, 2009 2:46:33 pm PST #9883 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant

I love absolutely every little teeny thing about Ladyhawke.

The sword plunged into the earth...honor, morality, sacrifice and unbounded love. Jeez. I've got to see it again.


Juliebird - Feb 08, 2009 3:17:55 pm PST #9884 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Watching it now, and I love the (natural) light, the colours, the ambient sounds, the music is genius at parts.

And I mentioned the howl at the end, but forgot there was also the gut-wrenching howl when the hawk is shot with the stray arrow and again when Navarre and Isabeau see each other at sunrise and she transforms before he can touch her. How does a human make that sound?! Breaks my heart.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2009 3:21:45 pm PST #9885 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

And I wish I could freeze Michele Pfeiffer and Rutger Hauer at the age they were in this movie (I still have a major crush on Etienne Navarre), they are both so incredibly gorgeous, and Navarre's howl in the cathedral during the eclipse kills me still.

I think Michelle may have beat you to it. This is a photo of her in 2008: [link]