The Crow (2024) - Brandon Lee is spinning in his grave

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JLongbone streamed a camrip on Twitter last night. Unsurprisingly, it was pretty ass.
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I haven't seen this remake, but having read a pretty detailed synopsis, I came away with the impression that this was a script that was originally not a remake of The Crow, but was an original script that simply lifted its main concept from The Crow (lovers are murdered, one comes back to life for revenge) but was otherwise its own thing, and it ended up getting repurposed as an actual The Crow movie. Which sounds absurd, since this movie has been in some form of development for, what, 15 years now? But that was the impression I got from the plot. Eric and Shelly's names are there, but it's otherwise a completely different story. Even the crow itself gets sidelined in favor of all the Kronos/Cronus and underworld references, as if the Greek mythology inspired stuff (instead of the crow mythology) from a previous version of the script was simply left in place.
 
Reviews are trickling in and it appears that the final product is more or less what was expected: definitively not good. But not terrible enough to make it funny-bad. It's just bad-bad.

I haven't seen it yet, and I probably won't at all, at least not until a screener or a workprint leaks online and I'm really bored and/or intoxicated. Based on what I've read/heard, the main criticisms have to do with a very weak script, terrible pacing, and a lack of chemistry between the two leads.

It's clear that the people behind this didn't know what they were making or who their intended audience was. They made a reboot, an adaption of an adaption, but meant for Modern Audiences, and they even failed at that. There was a lot of lip service, but in the end they jusr alienated fans of the OG film, of the comics, and of the otherwise reliable core fan base of the franchise itself, edgy goths. Based on what I've seen (which is admittedly very little), they were trying to grab the e-girl/e-boy zoomer demographic, but failed there too.

That's not even getting into the plot, which if the Wikipedia synopsis is correct, misses the core theme of the OG film and comic book entirely.

I don't know what they were hoping to accomplish with this. Nobody seems happy to have worked on it, Skarsgaard has apparently been critical of the film, and I haven't seen any marketing or hype around it. It's like they just put it out there knowing it was a turd, hoping to get past the blowback and wipe their hands clean as quickly as possible.

Hopefully after this they'll leave the franchise alone for another couple of decades.
 
Fellen dijo:
the casting for the entire movie is awful.
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Danny Huston is a good actor and perfectly capable of playing a good villain, but if the synopsis I read is anything to go by, his character isn't particularly fleshed out, and he isn't given much to do in the movie. It sounds like there isn't much background provided for his motives or powers.

But, yes, the casting for Eric and Shelly is bizarre. I thought Jason Momoa was a strange choice too, back when he was attached to a previous script. I thought Luke Evans was a great choice back when he was announced as playing Eric.
 
I always thought the second film's premise of The Crow as a supernatural force that hops between different people, and not necessarily Eric, was a good idea and they should just keep it for anything else they make with the IP.

I figured they wouldn't go for something nostalgic and lean hard into a Goth/Metal aesthetic but I also didn't think they'd go for a faggot mumble rap aesthetic either. I don't know who that is meant to appeal to at all. You'd think modern teenagers or gen Alpha or whatever but it's R rated so they can't get in.

It's always astonishing to see Hollywood fuck up a concept as simple as "Dude too angry to die, kills guys who killed gf."
 
Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr. dijo:
I guess growing up with it might make me biased, but even that was more "The Crow" than this back-alley abortion of a movie .
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Plus it's got that great cheesy '90s syndicated series goodness.


I'm guessing this trash was made to keep the rights or something, and will probably make its money back from the Yuropoors who lap up the latest Steven Seagal slop.
 
This had more heart and soul put into it. I wish it got a director's cut/restoration.
Anyways here's an unused song from the first film. Very fitting. Go read the first comic and then SPAWN comics (and HBO cartoon) if you like solid somber stories about dead husbands coming back as ghosts/undead.
 
Nameless One dijo:
This had more heart and soul put into it. I wish it got a director's cut/restoration.
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The Weinsteins butchered City of Angels. A real shame. It had a lot of potential, even with some obvious faults. The cinematography and atmosphere were really on point, though.
 
Samhain dijo:
The Weinsteins butchered City of Angels. A real shame. It had a lot of potential, even with some obvious faults. The cinematography and atmosphere were really on point, though.
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Yup. It had much of the same production crew as the first movie. Weinstein probably got involved so he could keep sexually harrassing Mia Kirschner. The money wasted on this Miami Joker Crow would’ve been better spent handing it & all the footage in the vaults to Tim Pope to make his COA director’s cut. Put that in theatres.

Or if they‘d just do something different with this shit. Why’s it always gotta be some artfag in this time period and this country. Make a Beast Of No Nation Crow where some kid whose family is killed by African warlords comes back & goes TND on all of them.
 
Bunny Wigglesworth dijo:
Why’s it always gotta be some artfag in this time period and this country.
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Because it's cheap to do. The same reason why we'll probably never see a Predator movie set in feudal Japan or Crusades era Europe. All those sets and costumes cost money. That's probably why they went with the whole "native Americans in the woods" setting for the last one. Doesn't cost much to set up some teepees in a forest somewhere.
 
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