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The soulless cash grab wasn't good?
A film that was routinely asked not to be made by fans is shit, suprise.
The Crow worked due to Brandon Lee, his father's legacy, and being the 90s. It was a collection of events that made an instant cult classic film.
Brandon Lee was also a good actor, and had most of the good lines in the film.
"And I say, 'I am dead, and I move.'"
Between this and Borderlands, movies being in production hell forever seems to usually be a bad sign. Now I'm getting worried about Blade...
Some productions are always trying to ice skate uphill.
Arcane was in production hell for like 6 years and according to the documentary on its making the story got scraped and rewritten at least once. Sometimes it works. Arcane is so good.
I mean yeah, they've already gone through 2 directors and it's in limbo again. Not a good sign
And The Hobbit (respect to Del Toro for giving up before it was too late). And Justice League (even if, after Dawn of the Dead and 300, Snyder never did a good one again).
Blade? Did they bring Wesley Snipes back? Haven't seen that guy since Expendables 2 and they did him dirty with the CGI Parkour.
No it's someone called Mahershala Ali. With the sunglasses on he does actually look quite a lot like a young Wesley Snipes.
the last I heard of Blade was that it was going to be a cut-rate production and that "the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons, with Blade relegated to the fourth lead" but that was apparently dropped? I don't follow Disney/MCU like at all, but I came across this story and it stuck with me because it was kinda bizarre.
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/marvel-blade-movie-budget-changes-female-led-story/
I heard that, too, but it's changed writers like 3-4 times so it's probably different now lol.
young Wesley Snipes
That’s incredibly generous. The guy’s already 50 years old. 15 years older than Snipes was in the original Blade!
I think I'm referring more to his face shape. Like Wesley Snipes' face shape changed as he got older. But I also didn't realise the new guy was 50, Hollywood is a crazy place.
I could have told them this before they started making it, and saved them the time. There is only one Crow, and his name was Brandon Lee.
It can't rain all the time.
i mean i could have told them it was going to suck based on the trailer, but they don't consult me. crow was a 90s edgelord-porn. it was only ever decent at best. to reboot it well would take some major deviations and much better writing. the trailer made it obvious it did none of that.
Lol edgelord-porn. You've given me new descriptors.
I couldn't stand even the previews for it in the 90's...it just looked awful.
i watched the original, and it was ok, but the fandom around it that i recall was similar to the people that took Joaquin Phoenix's or Heth Ledger's Joker portrayals a bit too seriously and idolized it a bit too hard.
I watched the trailer for this earlier, mostly in surprise that the remake actually happened. I had no idea it was finished and ready for release.
Anyway, while you shouldn’t really judge a movie purely by its trailer, what I will say is that a crucial element that makes The Crow (comic and original movie) work so well is that Eric and Shelley are just normal people trying to live normal lives in shitty circumstances. We can see ourselves in them, falling (no pun intended) into a bad situation through no fault of our own.
From what I can tell, in this they’ve made them angsty, drug taking edgelords, because that’s…edgier, I guess. Why should we really give a shit about Eric Wick’s revenge tour when we can’t relate to him in the slightest?
I haven't seen the original since I saw it too young as a kid. Anyone here think it's held up enough to be worth a rewatch?
It’s not a cinematic masterpiece but it had a distinctive look and vibe with a cool soundtrack, interestingly strange plot. I saw it again a few years ago and remembered why I liked it as an angsty teen.
Fantastic soundtrack. I still listen to it.
The original was a time and a place thing imo. It was a vibe that had a lot to do with the music, a lot to do with the awful circumstances surrounding Brandon’s death. You know at the time there were conspiracies a surrounding those circumstances tying into the death of Bruce Lee too so the movie had this lore to it from the start. The other thing worth mentioning is that at the time goth/industrial (dare I say it…) emo were an actual thing. I personally saw the first film in 16 up docs, my girlfriends skinny jeans and yes a touch of the old eyeliner. What I’m saying is it was relevant to a subset of the youth market. Not sure that’s true today.
Honestly, with the resurgence of the dress of goth/emo without any of the requisite music taste, a huge rewatch of the crow by gen Z could realistically give us a goth girl winter.
We always did joke that wearing all black would eventually be "normie" and dressing like a gap model would become "alternative".
Absolutely.
We watched it last ~~Devil's Night~~ Halloween. I was worried that watching it again was going to ruin yet another wonderful memory from my youth, but we still enjoyed it. It's not the same watching it outside of the darkness of the grunge era from which it was created, but it's still a good, and entertaining movie. Definitely worth a rewatch.
I'll probably give it a go this October, yeah
It’s a great installment in the grimdark genre. It won’t blow your socks off but it does the dark, brooding genre well.
I've rewatched it and still enjoyed it. This was probably a couple years ago.
That's too bad.
Keeping the legacy of terrible Crow movies alive.
Did they remember to kill the lead actor half way into production, this time?
EDIT: Too soon?
Victims, arent we all?
What a surprise!
I can't imagine there would be a remake except for the incident.
I already watched Suicide Squad once, I don't wanna see this Joker again
