The Crow (2024)

[paddy72]

Good, or a load of old toss, do we reckon?

Been in development hell since 2008 apparently, with a revolving door of names attached along the way.

I remember sort of enjoying the original, but don't think I ever watched it again after 1994.

[bomb_dog]

Either it's incredibly violent with no jeopardy because T'crow guy is already dead, or that trailer replaces the need to see the film.

Looks a bit like a late night FilmFour watch with a beer that you fall asleep just before the end then forget anything that happened in it by the next day.

Nice blood spread into a crow shape at the end though

[SteveDave]

Johan VVick

[Sebastian Cobb]

not arsed.

the original wasn't exactly bad but I doubt it would even be remembered if it wasn't for Lee's tragic accident.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Looks a bit rubbish, the comments on that video are brutal. I rewatched the original not long ago and it stands up pretty well, partly 90s nostalgia though. Good soundtrack as well

[beanheadmcginty]

Good job Alec Baldwin wasn't cast in this.

[The Culture Bunker]

Looks a bit rubbish, the comments on that video are brutal. I rewatched the original not long ago and it stands up pretty well, partly 90s nostalgia though. Good soundtrack as well

I don't think I've watched it since the 90s, when I caught it on TV by chance - I wasn't aware Brandon Lee had died during filming, and quite enjoyed it on it's own terms enough to pick up the comic book not long after.

The book is a bit more grimy/brutal and perhaps harder to film. The main thing I remember, though, was that the two police characters were called Albrecht and Hook , as the writer was a big Joy Division fan - as I was at the time. Albrecht had maybe one or two scenes in the book, but they fleshed him out for the Ernie Hudson role in the film.

[Mister Six]

I loved the original, but I was also a teenager at the time. I'll watch this because I'm gently intrigued, but it doesn't seem like something that has to be viewed at the cinema.

[Goldentony]

only somewhat familiar with the Crow soundtrack and it's melted my mind that Jane Siberry is on there

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Why have they made him look like the version of the Joker that no one likes?

[Rev+]

Cannot fucking stand the original film, it was flypaper for half-Goth leather coat wearing Vampire the Masquerade playing bellends.  Stone Temple Pilots on the soundtrack disqualifies anything from being good, anyway.  If I'd seen it even a couple of years after it'd came out I'd probably not dislike it so much, but it was so much of its time, and of the crowd it was trying to appeal to, who were all twats.

This?  Looks like splattery rubbish, which can admittedly be good if you're in the right mood.  No idea why they're bothering with a remake though.  He's barely a character, it's barely a story, and unless I'm more out of touch than I know I am, it's not exactly something the public were demanding.

[Mister Six]

Watched the trailer, and I reckon it could be quite fun, even if the dialogue is obviously pish.

[madhair60]

half-Goth leather coat wearing Vampire the Masquerade playing

these people sound far cooler than YOU

[Fambo Number Mive]

Have just started rewatching the original, might check this remake out when it comes on streaming if it isn't too much money.

[Shaky]

The deification of the original has always been laughable - it's absolutely fine for older teens and the, er, young at heart, but only the soundtrack and the death of Lee have made it more memorable than, say, The Shadow or The Phantom from the same time.

Original director Alex Proyas is NOT happy and has been firing little barbs on social media. Can't help feeling he's overreacting slightly when he didn't even create the property (and is also struggling to get his own stuff made these days).

[Catalogue Trousers]

not arsed.

the original wasn't exactly bad but I doubt it would even be remembered if it wasn't for Lee's tragic accident.

This exactly. Shallow style-over-substance made cult due to an unforeseen death.

[elliszeroed]

Original movie was great. Loved it as a teen, love it now. Sequels were shit.  One had David Angel in it, another had Edward Furlong. The second one had Mia Kirschner as a grown-up Sara, but was still crap.

TV show had a predictable but semi-interesting idea, that there was an anti-crow called a Snake, but never developed it. The show wasn't that great.

Original comic was great. All the sequels by other writers were shruggable.

I think they tried an ongoing series at Image, ran for ten issues.

[Goldentony]

Cannot fucking stand the original film, it was flypaper for half-Goth leather coat wearing Vampire the Masquerade playing bellends.  Stone Temple Pilots on the soundtrack disqualifies anything from being good, anyway.  If I'd seen it even a couple of years after it'd came out I'd probably not dislike it so much, but it was so much of its time, and of the crowd it was trying to appeal to, who were all twats.

did you have a bad encounter with Marc Morris at an Electrowerkz film fair

[Rev+]

Yes, and despite what he claims the broken nose proves that he won nothing.

[Memorex MP3]

I seem to remember Dark City being a lot more fun overall. The Crow is solid as a relic of an era but that's about it; have some fondness for one of its sequels I saw as a teen at like 4am one night though, just a really weird looking film

[elliszeroed]

Dark City was great; but I'm pretty sure the version I saw had the same problem as Predator, it revealed the "twist" in the prologue.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Dark City was great; but I'm pretty sure the version I saw had the same problem as Predator, it revealed the "twist" in the prologue.

I thunk the studio demanded the explanatory voicover at the start for the sake of stupid people, but it was removed for the director's cut. Good film anyway.

[Magnum Valentino]

Yeah my friend insisted I watched the directors cut first but wouldn't say why.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I haven't seen that one. How dark is the city exactly?

[Goldentony]

does anybody have a bigger cache of grebo points than Nine Inch Nails for having a song on both The Crow AND Natural Born Killers AND performing both songs at Woodstock 1994

[Goldentony]

I saw the Crow on Channel 4 in 1998 I believe and I remember that because everybody else in school did too and the only thing 99% of lads were talking about the day after was The Crow, even the people who hadn't seen it started lying that they had

[dissolute ocelot]

But we have Morbius. Why do we need The Crow?

There's also Venom and a bunch of other stuff chasing the same edgy comic book dollar.

I watched the original once while very stoned. Although I haven't smoked anything for a few years, I am still a goth with low standards (Morbius was OK).

[greenman]

Sanders Ghost in the Shell was I think pretty decent and Skarsgard was fun in Wick 4 so I'm somewhat interested in this although I wouldnt be supprised if the former is doing this to get out of the hollywood doghouse after ghost didnt do very well at the box office.

[Blumf]

I saw the Crow on Channel 4 in 1998 I believe ... even the people who hadn't seen it started lying that they had

[Sebastian Cobb]

This and Dusk Till Dawn did seem like something everyone in the plaground had seen for a certain generation.