Can we get some love for The Crow?

[The Shape]

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.

QFT.

 

[Symbiotic]

I love The Crow. A couple things though: COA wasn't filmed as a piece of crap, Miramax f**ked with it in post. I still have yet to see the two-hour PPV cut. I hope to maybe see it appear on youtube someday. And watching Wicked Prayer made me realize how much I like Salvation.

 

[Ol'Canucklehead]

The Crow was and is one of the best comic adaptations of all time. I feel in love with this movie as a kid and even more so as an adult. Everything in it is so perfect and iconic that it blows my brains out every time I watch it. This is the definition of Perfection! I don't know what more to say except I wish Brandon Lee could have lived to see the greatness that this film became because of him. RIP.

 

[bullets]

I love The Crow. A couple things though: COA wasn't filmed as a piece of crap, Miramax f**ked with it in post. I still have yet to see the two-hour PPV cut. I hope to maybe see it appear on youtube someday. And watching Wicked Prayer made me realize how much I like Salvation.

I was actually quite suprised with Salvation . I think the story was better than city of angels and wicked prayer .The only problem was that it was deserving of a bigger budget and didn't get the production values .

 

[Ol'Canucklehead]

I think with a bigger budget that WP would have been second best to the original.

 

[The Shape]

I was actually quite suprised with Salvation . I think the story was better than city of angels and wicked prayer .The only problem was that it was deserving of a bigger budget and didn't get the production values .

The actor who played The Crow was pretty awful.

 

[nocomics]

Yeah, and the performances seem very similar as well.

Ya, ive stated that a few times in the other crow forum and a few others as well. Its kindof canny or fate that these two characters and actors had the same fate...
I would hope that James O'barr would take what they did with Ledger's version of the joker as a huge compliment towards him and the crow....
I loved the Crow and I would put it in the top 5 comic movies imo. I think it captured the comic version as good or better than others,though I wish it retained the more violent side...
Now I wish they would redo it in a animation style like the HBO version of Spawn..

 

[Kevin Roegele]

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I loved the Crow and I would put it in the top 5 comic movies imo. I think it captured the comic version as good or better than others,though I wish it retained the more violent side...

Do you really think any more violence would improve the movie?

 

[The Shape]

Do you really think any more violence would improve the movie?

I don't think so. Lord knows, if that film was made today, it would probably have been a lot more violent and "comic-booky".

 

[nocomics]

I don't think so. Lord knows, if that film was made today, it would probably have been a lot more violent and "comic-booky".

Dont think it would of been too comic-booky as u stated. It would of been too comic-booky if they kept the undead guy,that they edited out(if ya seen the edited sequences you'll know).I'm glad they did'nt use that character it would of made nosence imo...

 

[The Shape]

Dont think it would of been too comic-booky as u stated. It would of been too comic-booky if they kept the undead guy,that they edited out(if ya seen the edited sequences you'll know).I'm glad they did'nt use that character it would of made nosence imo...

No, I mean, now in days when movies are adapated from grapich novels and comics they purposely try to make them look comic booky. Look at 300 and Sin City for examples. The Crow comic was mostly in black and white and had a pretty different look than the movie, but I'm glad they made the movie as they did.

 

[Matt.S99]

i love the crow, one of my favorite movies

 

[nocomics]

No, I mean, now in days when movies are adapated from grapich novels and comics they purposely try to make them look comic booky. Look at 300 and Sin City for examples. The Crow comic was mostly in black and white and had a pretty different look than the movie, but I'm glad they made the movie as they did.

Ahh, I got ya now. I would love to see an animation version of the crow done like the spawn series from HBO...

 

[The Joker_1000]

I don't think so. Lord knows, if that film was made today, it would probably have been a lot more violent and "comic-booky".

Thank God the movie was made back then. Man, I really need to find this movie & buy it, everyone tells me it was a good movie & all I've seen are two scenes from Youtube.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

IMHO, The Crow is the greatest comic book movie ever made. It has more heart and emotion than any other comic book movie I've ever seen.

 

[30+Dark]

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

I wasn't trying to point out that its an old film, even though it seems like ages since I saw it at the cinema in 94, I was merely saying that 14 years later it hasn't lost any of its quality for me. For example Batman Begins is less than 3 years old and it some of its initial appeal has already worn off for me.

 

[Wolfman]

I've heard that The Crow 2 or The Crow: The City Of Angels would have been better if the studio hadn't cut it into the form of the first one. Sadly there are no plans of letting Tim Pope make a director's cut. Of course it would propably still be very similar to the first one, but not as bad as it is. It has potential. And Iggy Pop.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I've heard that The Crow 2 or The Crow: The City Of Angels would have been better if the studio hadn't cut it into the form of the first one. Sadly there are no plans of letting Tim Pope make a director's cut. Of course it would propably still be very similar to the first one, but not as bad as it is. It has potential. And Iggy Pop.

It had potential, but the end product is a load of weird garbage.

 

[The Shape]

^ I love his look from COA, except for the belly shirt...

 

[Wolfman]

It had potential, but the end product is a load of weird garbage.

Sure it was weird but I don't think it's garbage. Well maybe the bellyshirt is kinda stupid, but other then that the production design was somewhat different from the first Crow. It has totally different visual style, and I really like it. And it could have been one of the best sequals, if they had let Tim Pope cut his movie.

 

[Symbiotic]

Has anyone here seen the PPV cut of C.O.A.? Pope's preferred cut?

 

[The Shape]

Has anyone here seen the PPV cut of C.O.A.? Pope's preferred cut?

Yeah, not too many differences, and it's a lot weirder.

 

[Symbiotic]

Yeah, not too many differences, and it's a lot weirder.

Is it better overall though?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Dammit, I'm going to rewatch COA right now and re-access it.

 

[The Shape]

Is it better overall though?

I'd say so. There's just a little more to it, I guess. I don't know. As I sdaid, they aren't much different, just a few changes and deleted footage in the PPV cut.

You can read about the differences here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow:_City_of_Angels