Can we get some love for The Crow?

[SuGarRush]

I watched the movie once back in high-school, but I was at this girls house, and we were in the basement... well anyway making out is not conducive to watching a complex film like the Crow.

Can someone give me a basic plot summary. I just remember it being rather dark and grim... but pretty cool... which is surprising for me as I don't usually like dark grim films

 

[Bad Superman]

I loved The Crow and City of Angels. It's too bad the following sequels were such a mess.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I watched the movie once back in high-school, but I was at this girls house, and we were in the basement... well anyway making out is not conducive to watching a complex film like the Crow.

Can someone give me a basic plot summary. I just remember it being rather dark and grim... but pretty cool... which is surprising for me as I don't usually like dark grim films

Surely.

"Shelly and Eric were very much in love. But no one gets married on Halloween, not in Detroit. Shelly is raped and beaten by city boss Top Dollar's thugs, only to die 30 hours later in a hospital. Eric is shot and pushed out a window. A year later death is no longer what it was as Eric Draven, accompanied by a Crow and gifted with new powers and a world of grief and pain, is brought back to life to avenge his love's death. After all, love is forever. And some of us Believe in Angels." - Tara O'Shea, IMDb


It's extremely dark, but that only makes the light at the end brighter. At the end you realise it's an extremely positive film, even in the worst places on earth there is still innocence and beauty.

Amazing film. It's up there with Superman the Movie, The Matrix and Casshern as the very best superhero films.

 

[The Shape]

It's extremely dark, but that only makes the light at the end brighter. At the end you realise it's an extremely positive film, even in the worst places on earth there is still innocence and beauty.

Amazing film. It's up there with Superman the Movie, The Matrix and Casshern as the very best superhero films.

So true.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

loved the 1st film, so hip it hurts.

 

[The Shape]

Thank got this thread was brought back. Maybe we can make this overshadow the hate thread.

 

[mathhater]

It's an awesome, awesome movie. There's real emotion in the story too, and that's why that first one is so good, because the film actually translated all the feelings and emotions that were involved.

And once you know the genesis behind the story (it was the creator's means of coping after the tragic death of his fiance') it makes the movie that much more powerful and meaningful.

That's probably why all the other movies are so mediocre. They lack the genuine pain and emotion that brought the original story into exisistance.

 

[mathhater]

I just bought the Collecter's Edition of the movie.

(I had a stripped down DVD for a long time, but the movie is so good, it warranted a re-buy of the better version...something I never do.)

And I didn't really think I could hate the "Hollywood machine" any more than I already do, but O'Barr says on the dvd that some hollywood dude actually said that they could do "The Crow" as a musical....starring Michael Jackson. That's may be the most horrid thing I've ever heard in my entire life, ever.

....the hell??

 

[Chris Wallace]

What's on the CE?

 

[mathhater]

Buncha stuff...there's a deleted footage montage, extended scenes, a profile/interview with James O'Barr, a making of featurette, storyboards, production designs, poster artwork...

(through a deleted scene and some of the production art, we see a character who didn't make the movie, known as the Skull Cowboy. We don't really get to see what the character's about, but we see enough to pique my interest...he seemed to have an important role in the early stages of the film.)

definitely a better version than my other disc...that just had the movie and a french language track.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Ah.

 

[The Joker_1000]

I haven't seen the entire movie yet & I've seen scenes on Youtube & I have to say that I really liked what I saw. It's too bad that Brandon Lee never got to reprise the role.

R.I.P Brandon Lee

 

[The Shape]

Whoa. This thread is back from the dead....like The Crow!!!!!!!!!1

 

[The Joker_1000]

Hehe.....yeah, I thought I'd post a little in here, no sense in letting this thread die just yet.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I watched the movie once back in high-school, but I was at this girls house, and we were in the basement... well anyway making out is not conducive to watching a complex film like the Crow.

You were in high school, in a basement, with a girl.....that's the very viewing conditions The Crow was intended for. That's about as Crow as you can get, especially if it was a gothic basement and you were doing coke.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Hehe.....yeah, I thought I'd post a little in here, no sense in letting this thread die just yet.

The parallels between Brandon Lee as Eric Draven and Heath Ledger as the Joker are shocking.

 

[The Joker_1000]

Yeah, I know. Some guys were discussing it in TDK forum a while back. It seems like the look was somewhat based off of Brandon Lee's Crow. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Yeah, I know. Some guys were discussing it in TDK forum a while back. It seems like the look was somewhat based off of Brandon Lee's Crow. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.

Yeah, and the performances seem very similar as well.

 

[30+Dark]

I rewatched The Crow for the first time in years the other week, and in my opinion it holds up really well, it's still a great film.

 

[The Shape]

One thing about The Crow that always goes unmentioned is the musical score, which was badass and beautiful when it needed the be. The "theme" itself brings the ending of the film to another level.

 

[The Joker_1000]

Yeah, and the performances seem very similar as well.

I don't think the performances are too similar as Brandon Lee was kind of portraying an avenger & is out for revenge against bad people who wronged him whereas Heath Ledger's Joker is just a psycho who's out for blood.

 

[OctaviusINC]

I just want to say this is one of my favorite films. It introduced me to the whole "dark" and "grittiness" you could put into a film. I love it. It's classic.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I don't think the performances are too similar as Brandon Lee was kind of portraying an avenger & is out for revenge against bad people who wronged him whereas Heath Ledger's Joker is just a psycho who's out for blood.

Oh, but they are so similar....they are Generation X semi-grunge guys who apply their own white face paint and go through life doing whatever they like, regardless of the rules of society. They are eloquent, they are showmen, they laugh at their own jokes while everyone else looks at them in shock.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I rewatched The Crow for the first time in years the other week, and in my opinion it holds up really well, it's still a great film.

I would hope it does hold up, it is only 14 years old...

 

[Figs]

Loved this movie. First and I think to this day only movie I saw twice in the same damn day!

I was either still in middle school or a Freshman in High School when it came out. I went and saw it with two good friends of mine, shortly after I called another friend who just got off of work and saw it with him as well.