Same. No idea it was the same director.
I appreciate the writeup in the thread by @MrTibbs to really nail down the accidental magic that made this film one of my favorites of the time period. My wife (despite looking like the exact opposite of a goth girl) was also a super fan, and was one of the early hints we were going to get along.
Trace Beaulieu will always be my favorite, but Bill Corbett wasn’t bad either.
Ha ha, you saw Knowing!
That burning guy is so rude, ignoring Nicolas Cage like that when Cage is just trying to help.
-Tom
“Hey, HEY!”
Well, Danny Huston is a pretty solid substitute.
I want this to be good, but I’m afraid it’ll be more like standard revenge porn than the weird gothic melancholy of the original.
That does look like a Blade-style bloody mayhem film. (Did the trailer leave any plot point to discover while watching the film?) This will be an overserious Deadpool complete with fridged girlfriend. Not sure I’m in for it.
I didn’t realize until just now that it’s Alex Proyas directing this one too!
Doubt it. I think the original movie’s plot was pretty simple too. The only striking bits to me (aside from the real life death and drama) were the overall aesthetic and soundtrack. “Guy whom everyone thought was dead comes back and kills bad dudes because they killed his woman” is age old.
No, it’s Rupert Sanders? Director of Snow White and the Huntsman and the Ghost in the Shell live action film.
Aw, you’re right. My IMDB skills got confused ;(.
Yeah, I’m just surprised they’re playing it totally straight. Not even really trying to put a twist in it, except to flesh out the girlfriend slightly. Even including a climbing up the stairs (literally!) of a crime conglomerate to reach the head. (See also John Wicks 1-all and every lone-hero gun video game ever made.)
The only comfort I have is that it can’t rain all the time.
Lol, indeed. There were actually some good lines in that film. “I say I’m dead… and I move.” It had it’s own grim humor: “Quick impression for you: Caw caw, bang! Fuck! I’m dead.” It also had some terrible lines: “Morphine is bad for you.”
Reading through this thread, didn’t realize so many liked the original. I remember it being terrible. The soundtrack was fantastic, I thought Brandon Lee was fine, and the look of it was cool, but the bad dialog and thin story just made the end result feel shallow. It could have made for a cool TV show pilot (back then, TV is much better these days).
I once made my wife watch it. She looked over halfway through and said it was a terrible movie. I had no idea what she was talking about. Maybe I had been swept away by everything @MrTibbs mentioned upthread. Maybe I had loved how they had to scuttle parts of the script after Lee was killed, including much of the “Skull Cowboy” mentor character. No one had to utter portentious pretentious dialogue about if dead Draven was the titular Crow, or if the Crow was just the bird that served, along with Skateboarding Girl and Ernie Hudson, as sidekicks. Maybe I had loved how I got to second base for the first time while The Crow played on the VCR. Maybe I had loved how I listened to the soundtrack about a hundred thousand times.
This looks pretty terrible to me. Hard to beat the original’s soundtrack + overall feel I think.
It was one of my favorite movies growing up and I had a friend who was obsessed with Brandon being killed on the movie and the mystique behind it. While I definitely consider it a “gothy” movie he didn’t look near as “edgelordy” as the new version. Maybe it’s irrational dislike but it just looks bad and it makes me sad they seem to be doing a bad remake of one of my favorite childhood films. Hopefully I am wrong.
FIRE IT UP!