YMMV / Ladyhawke

• Award Snub: 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.
• Awesome Music: The Main Title music. It later became the logo music for The Donners' Company, Richard Donner and his partner Lauren Shuler-Donner's company^note Formerly Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions (note the logo is a Shout-Out to Ladyhawke itself.
• Base-Breaking Character: Some viewers have mixed feelings about Phillipe, which is based mostly around Matthew Broderick and whether or not his performance fits the character or the film.
  • 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.
• Broken Base: Go to any retrospective discussion on this movie and half the comments below it will consist of complaints about The Alan Parsons Project 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.
• Cult Classic: It's not the most well-known film of the 80s, but it's very well-loved by most people who've seen it.
• Signature Scene:
  • The transformation scene, both for the Visual Effects of Awesome and how it emphasizes The Woobie 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 Big Damn Heroes Establishing Character Moment.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: 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."
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The Hunter Trapper 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 Mooks 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 Soft-Spoken Sadist rather than the Punch-Clock Villain he's initially hinted to be.
• The Woobie: 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 Woobies at times, but the façade sometimes slips to show how miserable they feel about the situation.

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