Does anyone else HATE the score to this film?

I have never seen Ladyhawke, but I do recall a past discussion where it's awful music was the topic. Not every lick of North's music was bad, but the overall score had enough problems to be a huge distraction for me, the absolute worst being the way the film wraps up. It was terrible sounding music that left an overall bad taste in the viewer's mouth when walking away from the experience. You are right that Goldsmith's music helped keep Star Trek The Motion Picture in our minds. I wonder what he would have done if he were attached to Dragonslayer? Or Jamer Horner early in his career? Who else would have been a good choice from the early 1980s for a fantasy film like this?

In the end, I think I would have preferred Dragonslayer to have simply not had a score as opposed to the one it got, but that's just me.

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It was unique -- and that's OK.

Better North's score than something vapid and forgettable.

I love the score, although I find the forest trek music an awkward way to end the film. Alex North wrote different music for the ending (you can hear the second half of it fade in during the credits). I guess the producers wanted something "happier" and tracking the forest music.

The deep brass and dark chords really set the tone of this medieval world. Ulrich's resurrection on the water and the clouds gathering at the peak are incredible highlights. The Love theme is beautiful too.

Alex North wrote different music for the ending (you can hear the second half of it fade in during the credits). I guess the producers wanted something "happier" and tracking the forest music.

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Actually the end title music is "Space Station Docking", taken from Alex North's rejected score for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don't know why they chose to use that to be used in this type of film as it feels a little odd and out of place. >>> Interesting. Based on this and the earlier comment from another user who posted before you, I guess I can't blame North for the awful closing credits. It would seem that this was a decision not in his hands.

Alex North was a brilliant composer and Dragonslayer is one of his best scores. The notion of using 20th century techniques like polytonality and dissonance for a period film like this is a stroke of brilliance. I can't imagine how much less effective this film would have been with a more traditional consonant score. This film needed weight and menace, and North's score delivered that in spades. >>> I won't argue with you in regards to the rest of North's career, but his work in Dragonslayer was overall pretty ineffective. As I said, not bad all the way through, but nothing that actually enhanced the film in any way. The film is hardly perfect piece of work, but the score was a tool that should only have served to enhance it. Instead, it distracted and got in the way of the experience. I don't see any weight or menace added, except in small does here or there, doses that would have been much greater had a better score been created.

The movie felt ruff around the edges anyhow, and the music only served to enhance this unpolished effect.

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