Since it was free (with ads) on YouTube and I'd heard some good things about it, I started watching Ladyhawke (1985). I meant to watch about ten minutes, to see if I thought it was worth watching. When I got to the hour mark, I was like, "Okay, I have to watch this with @kobolds-keep.net" - ThreadSky

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animatrix1490.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Since it was free (with ads) on YouTube and I'd heard some good things about it, I started watching Ladyhawke (1985). I meant to watch about ten minutes, to see if I thought it was worth watching. When I got to the hour mark, I was like, "Okay, I have to watch this with @kobolds-keep.net"

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animatrix1490.bsky.social•36 days ago

"It's so cool!" I thought. "Why doesn't this have the same kind of cult following that The Princess Bride has? Sure, they front-loaded the awkward part of the soundtrack in the first 10 minutes, but was the first impression really so bad that it turned most people away?"

animatrix1490.bsky.social•36 days ago

Well, two days ago I watched the whole thing (yes, with @kobolds-keep.net among others) and it turns out, no, it was not the soundtrack. After the first hour, the pacing kinda goes out the window, especially for the action scenes.

animatrix1490.bsky.social•36 days ago

The third act is a terrible mess; some plot threads conclude way too early, others are just never adequately resolved, and still others are just kind of disappointingly executed. The final, climactic fight scene sucks, . Everything takes about 5 times longer than it should.

animatrix1490.bsky.social•36 days ago

I'd recommend that first hour to literally anyone. The costumes are good; the cinematography is fantastic; it's filmed at these amazing, gorgeous locations in Italy with real castles. As a whole, though, I can really only recommend it to big fantasy fans, and even then only as "Worth seeing once."

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