* AwardSnub: The excellent accentuation of color at key moments and sweeping views of the countryside are among the best-liked things about the film but it failed to get a Best Cinematography nomination.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkjiZr4zMdI Main Title music]]. It later became [[BootstrappedTheme the logo music]] for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQrPWw6HK8 The Donners' Company]], Creator/RichardDonner and his partner Lauren Shuler-Donner's company[[note]]Formerly Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions[[/note]] (note the logo is a ShoutOut to ''Ladyhawke'' itself.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Some viewers have mixed feelings about Phillipe, which is based mostly around Creator/MatthewBroderick and whether or not his performance fits the character or the film.
** [[http://1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/ladyhawke.htm 1000 Misspent Hours]] also felt that Phillipe should not have been the main viewpoint character, as the story revolves entirely around the lovers and their curse.
* BrokenBase: Go to any retrospective discussion on this movie and half the comments below it will consist of complaints about Music/TheAlanParsonsProject [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsyHq9VDm7s eighties-synth soundtrack]]. While many fans feel that the incongruous nature of the music helps ''Ladyhawke'' stand out from the pack of sound-alike fantasy films, many others complain that it takes them out of the movie altogether.
* CultClassic: It's not the most well-known film of the 80s, but it's very well-loved by most people who've seen it.
* SignatureScene:
** The transformation scene, both for the SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome and how it emphasizes TheWoobie status of Navarre and Isabeau.
** To a lesser extent, the scene at the inn, where Pierre eludes the guards for a while before Navarre's BigDamnHeroes EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Being produced by Alan Parsons and company, several songs reflect some of his group's works. "Main Title" and any of Philippe's themes reflect the orchestral bridge of "Silence and I" and "I, Robot" respectively, and share many compositional similarities, such as 16th note hi-hat strokes on the crescendos of "Silence and I" and "Main Title."
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The HunterTrapper Cezar is one of the more colorful henchmen while seeming a bit confused and shocked at how sinister the Bishop can be. It would have been nice to see him have more moral complexity than the other {{Mook}}s and use his tracking and trapping skills against Navarre's wolf form for most of the movie instead of just one scene, which he spends as a SoftSpokenSadist rather than the PunchClockVillain he's initially hinted to be.
* TheWoobie: Navarre and Isabeau are deeply in love and have been cursed so that they can only spend a few seconds together every day in their human forms. And if that's not bad enough, they are unjustly branded as traitors and chased across the kingdom. They might seem like {{Stoic Woobie}}s at times, but the façade sometimes slips to show how miserable they feel about the situation.
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