As my brother drove us all back from Arp, Texas, earlier this week in his van, I was dozing off while my two nephews sat behind me watching DVDs in the portable DVD player.
They loaded up another movie and cheeseball keyboardy 80's music filled the van. As I was wondering what sort of children's movie had such an awful, dated soundtrack, my 6-year-old nephew Kristian exclaimed, "Oh I looooove this music!"
Turns out they were watching Ladyhawke, a film I must have seen back around '85 when it came out. So it wasn't a kids' movie, exactly, and the fact that it was released 20 years ago made the music make a little more sense. But the credits revealed something even more disturbing:
The score was written by Alan Parsons!
I love me some "Eye In The Sky," but the synthesizer-and-drum-machine explosion that Parsons pasted onto this film about magic and romance in medieval times is utterly inappropriate. Instead of swordfights and sorcery, I kept expecting to see an '85 Camaro speeding around the corner of the mall parking lot, or a pack of mulletted teens engaging in some bawdy hijinks.
You can listen to some song samples on Amazon, and rent the movie if you haven't seen it.
"I believe in miracles, Marquet. It's part of my job."
