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THE CROW Remake Has A Writer/Director Now...
Merrick here...
The occasionally rumored remake of Alex Proyas' THE CROW (based on comic material by James O'Barr) looks to be heating up.
Stephen Norrington (who directed the first BLADE movie, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, and had a close call with the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake) will write and direct a "reinvention" / re-interpretation of the CROW concept.
“Whereas Proyas’ original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style,”
...says Norrington in THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
While watching Proyas' THE CROW on its opening night, I broke out with a horrible case of the Chickenpox - which is completely irrelevant to this story.
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The Crow and Robocop, IMHO, cannot be remade well.
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...that came up with this one?
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He's a good filmmaker, but come on. Every Crow movie is a new reinterpretation of the story.
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Call it my need to know.
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then the last one with Angel and Tara Reid
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Let's hope he does not get shot with a loaded gun.....
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I just read "Blade". I brain-farted "League". I replace "good" with "sometimes good"
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I've heard they get along fabulously.
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i thought he called it quits after League!?
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...couple of years ago!...I was in college!....shit I'm getting old. When your college years get the Remake Treatment you are officially elderly.
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...the remake needs a REALLY good set armorer this time.
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"realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style." really? a guy dies; a bird brings guy's soul back; guy gets revenge. just stick to the formula, buddy... let's not try to make it something it isn't.
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Damn You Stephen Norrington
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Nuff said...
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I liked that show... never saw the end of it though. Seems like at some point I read up on plot summaries of the rest of the seasons and episodes i never saw though.
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Guy of Gisborne rules.
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Looks like Hollywood is willing to give him another chance, just like they're doing with the guy who made Golden Compass (for the 'Twilight' sequel).I guess Hollywood does have a heart. A heart made from cash and tears stolen from their cheated audiences that is!
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So sad to see the mighty fall to the level of "Iron Chef Chairman." Ah well.
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Hey Edward, get some sun fatty!
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What an overrated POS that was. Now we have to endure a remake of that shit?
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wasn't trying to steal your shine, guy... just didn't remember who posted it. good scoop?
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AHHH!!!!!!
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...girl I even know who got a tattoo on one of her breasts. Not very many people had tattoos back then. Tattooing you boob still seems like a bad idea to me......that's what I have to say about that.
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Wincott RULES
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to show the spirit of vengeance being shepherded into the land of the living by a crow. This is FERTILE GROUND, people.
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"caw? CAW? you better pump your brakes, bird!"
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You know, how in every vampire movie, with basically the exception of Interview, the vampire is suddenly this badass that can do everything and has no problem learning his powers? Cuz I thought that was great, how Draven came back and went from being a romantic guitar player to being this crazy kung-fu expert in the span of a few years of being dead. Or however long it was. Yah, good stuff, that.I can't bash the story too much, O'Barr wrote it out of grief.
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unlike the other hacks masquerading as directors these days. Hopefully the studios won't fuck around with him the way they did on LXG. Too bad he can't find better material than The Crow.
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will the crow be emo this time 'round? you know, to keep up with the times? uneven bangs, girl skinny jeans, hanging out at malls on weekends, etc?
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By the way, didn't the original come out, like, fifteen MINutes ago?
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The first film is still really good. Some of it is a little cheesy but it's god a quality to it.
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Then this movie could be very good. I wonder how James O'barr feels about this news? He has to sign off on it in order for it to go forward. Good luck finding a decent cast after what happened on the original.
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That guy has/had the best voice in Hollywood. And didn't he fuck Aguilera Christina? What's he doing now anyways? I'm going to have to IMDB him.
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no need for a remake imo.
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Remake The Crow? Go to hell fuckers!
This is a film that worked 1 time - part genius, part real life tragedy.
Next you'll be announcing a remake or Special Edition of Jaws.
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...Christina Aguilera. Obviously I was typing that from a mirror universe.
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If they can come up with a story where you actually give a fuck about any one of the characters on screen, maybe it will work this time. To be honest, the only reason people were able to empathize with Draven was because Lee died filming it. If he had lived, it wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is today. Admit it to yourself!
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...but I bet he will in this new version. I think he just became ummune to death and pain therefore he had a "god mode" switch. I bet you kick ass on video games with 'god mode' just like if you died and were brought back to the land of the living by a crow and you couldn't die or eat and didn't have to take or shit or anything. Ever. You'd be kicking guys in the chest too, you wait and see.
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horrible movie. Hate to say it because its a terrible thing to say, but the death of Brandon Lee was the best thing to happen to this movie. A grand total of fifty people NOT named Lee were destined to watch it until rumors that his accidental death had made the final cut was plastered all over the usenet.
THAAAAATS RIGHT, I SAID USENET YOU BIG DUMMY. NOW GET OFF MY PHONE. /MarkLevin. -
What the fuck does that mean? Is Norrington giving this the "Ken Burns Treatment"?!
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The original is perfect for what it is. It captures the character and atmosphere perfectly. It's a favorite Halloween movie.
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Hell Night only became a thing after this came out. When I say "a thing," I mean that more than 10 people per state knew about it. Flocks (pun intended) of douches would go out and fuck stuff up on 10/30 for the next few years because of it. At least it had a legacy. Other than the bad sequels. Shit, the second one was more famous for its soundtrack than the movie itself.
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...should not be happening.
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Is there no originality in Hollywood any more? It's becoming so inbred with it's 're-imaginings' that all it can do is drool and gibber at its own reflection.
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YOU'LL NEVER GET MY MONEY THE DARK CROW BEGINS!!!!
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Lee's premature death certainly gave the film some added emotional weight but even with his death making headlines, the film didn't make all that much money. Regardless, it's a damn good film and it's pretty respectable to the source material, especially considering the time it was made. The film also has a nice, surrealistic look about it, which was of course a precurosr to Proya's Dark City. There's no reason to remake the film and I have no doubt the remake will suck.
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Dec 15, 2008 3:55:30 PM CST
It's strange how people complain about the Crow reboot...
by derlanghaarige
...because the original came out not too long ago, but nobody came up with that argument when Batman Begins was announced.
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and abilities.
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It's a new adaption of the comic.
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Surely that was the point of the crow? Each film a new guy is brought back as the spirit of vengeance or whatever after being killed, to avenge his gf/sisters/aunties death. They're all the same plot with a different cast. Just like this one will be.
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I look forward to the Lord of Rings remakes. "It will be darker and edgier, will cast Shia in it." These people need to fuck off.
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I know, I know, it's got nostalgia value. It's still a shitty movie. Sorry. Hopefully the remake will not be so stupid.
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Think about it. It's been almost ten years. Time for a re-invention. We'll get Tim Burton to do it.
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why Hollywood why? the original is a classic. remake the towering inferno!
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yaaaaaaggh!!!!
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I am guessing that what with the spate of recent remakes of some of the Horror Genres terrific movies that I saw when I was younger...Friday The 13th (Loved the ending of the original..also as a kid love the gratuitous female nudity too!), Nightmare On Elm Street (again, the first on back in the mid-80ies was terrific!), George Romero's Day of The Dead (I won't even bother to watch the remake of THAT one!!)...someone had to take it upon themselves to re-make/re-envision a pretty good 90-ies Movie such as The Crow (A movie I loved and still love watching to THIS day!)!!
I mean it isn't enough that someone has to go and ruin the memory of a pretty decent tale about revenge from the grave, a movie that almost never saw the light of day due to Brandon Lee tragically and accidentally shooting himself in the head towards the end of the film shoot (I remember how back then...Hollywood special effects had to do some "cutting edged" them almost unknown digital work on the scence where the character paints his face to look like the crow vigilante in a broken mirror) not to mention a Movie that had a pretty fucking cool Soundtrack from a variety of great 90-ies Rock Bands (some of which are still around today).
I am guessing that the studios and writers and directors all have run out of ideas for interesting, kick-ass horror and sci fi movies to make now a days so they have to re-make movies?
Fuck YOU I say, you clueless Rat Bastards..go back to Film School/Script Writing/How to be a Movie Producer 101 Class...maybe then you won't earn the ire and venom of Moviegoers and fans of movies in general!
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The Crow doesn't need it. It had the perfect cast, visuals, and the most awesome 90's soundtrack( with NIN, STP and The Cure).
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lived long enough to make that buddy cop movie with Dolph Lundgren, Showdown in Little Tokyo. "You have the right to be dead."
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Any film or TV property must be at LEAST 25 years old to even be CONSIDERED for a remake or "reimagining". I mean, this is just assenine.
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As i was reading this, I heard a crow outside my wondow. What are the chances of that!! Just plain FUCKING WIERD.. Oh BTW just look at the list of topics on the 'cool news' either remakes, comic adaptations or some cross-bred, bastard child, spunk bubble, fanny batter combination.... Fuck it, im off to watch 'Batman and Robin' WHOS WITH ME!!!
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no need for a remake.
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Ol' chicky pox Merrick
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Both are corny, but Emos much more so. Goth's aren't necessarily depressed, though many are, they just prefer to dress silly and have a cartoonishly macabre / morbid view of the world. Emo's dress silly, but seem to be more about fetishizing / masturbating to their depression and self-obsession. Wah! It must be so hard to be an affluent suburban teen without any discernible reason to complain.
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Terrible idea by the way
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Terrible idea by the way
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They're killing me over here. Damn you, remakes.
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What? Too soon?
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Couldn't you at least HIT the fucker...
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That's typecasting of the worst kind...
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and it was a "thing" long before The Crow was made. It just served as a way to place the movie in Detroit, since everyone (except Fawst) knew Devil's Night was a Detroit tradition. And, Brandon Lee did not shoot himself in the head, he was killed when a dummy bullet came loose from an empty casing and became stuck in the barrel of the large revolver carried by Funboy actor Michael Massey. Then the prop master failed to check the gun before loading it with blanks and the powder charge from the blank and the lead bullet lodged in the barrel combined to make an actual bullet. Lee died in the scene where he enters the apartment carrying groceries and sees Shelly being raped. (the actual shooting is not in the film despite some rumors that it is).
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TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
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Dec 15, 2008 5:02:09 PM CST
Let's remake Austin Powers......................................
by crackerfarmboy
It's been almost 10 years!
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...will not stand, man!! I'm usually not overly emotional in TB cos it annoys me when people just go 'Fuck this movie' etc but for the first time ever, as a huge fan of the work of James O'Barr and a huge fan of the original movie 'The Crow' (the sequels were all vulgar distortions that need removing from history), I have now found it in my geek heart to scream 'FUCK YOU NORRINGTON!!!' I'm disgusted that this is being allowed.
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Is the same reason why people saw The Dark Knight....a dead actor.
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I mean, the original with the late Brandon Lee, was released, what...oh, crap---it was over a decade ago. Great, now I officially feel old. Thanks a lot, Hollywood. A realistic documentary style take on the Crow though? It's a ghost-revenge story featuring a guy in sad clown make-up; how realistic can you really get with it? I'm thinking Norrington meant that he's going to ape Paul Greengrass' style from the Bourne movies and United 93.
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It's only been a year... That means its fair game.
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Fuck, I thought I was out of touch.
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Doesn't a crewmember die every time they make these things?
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How's this different than any of the god forsaken Crow sequels? They all thouroughly "reinvented" it, and thats not what we want.
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Blow it out your ass, pal.
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Did my statement hit a little too close to home for you? Tell me, what was the hype for either of these films before they came out, that's right, they had actors that died in them before they came out. Do I like the fact that death is so hyped up, no. But do you think I'm going to ignore the fact that it WAS the reason why people saw either of these movies?
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Taking a media culture course in university, and the professor said something like "in post-modern culture, there won't be any new ideas. Just remake upone remake." Sadly, I guess he was right. *Sigh*
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pwned
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wasnt he supposed to be making one of these years ago?
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...if I knew that they were going back to the comic. If this is going to deviate even farther from the comic than the first one then I ain't buying.
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...honestly, fuck anyone involved in this transparent cash-grab. I'm going to start pirating DVD's just to do my part to bankrupt the people who are responsible for this shit.
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Did I miss a meeting? I thought I liked that movie. I thought I saw it five times in the theater. I guess I hate it now. Thanks, douchebag talkbackers for setting me straight.
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Dec 15, 2008 6:55:28 PM CST
As great as the 1st film was...a New version wouldn't hurt
by monkey_king
What sucks is they'll probably milk it like Pressman and New Line did the first time around, rewrite scripts, cut scenes, and drag the characters story arc to death(What the Fuck was that abortion of a 3rd film anyway? Looked like the first film mixed with BATMAN. The Rob Zombie concept was original and would've made for a great book/stand alone film). A Docu-style film by Norrington? One question comes to mind...Why? I say shoot the film-as-comic like 300 or SIN CITY and cast a near unknown as Eric Draven and pompous rocker Axl Rose as Top Dollar.
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That was funny...i'm loling
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guarantee it..its all but officially a done deal
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First time I ever considered asking for my money back. God that was fucking awful.
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"Someone stuck all his knives in his internal organs in alphabetical order." That line makes NO sense, even in a nonsensical, wannabe-cool way. That aside, it's still a solid watch, a product of the 90s if ever there was one - good level of violence, well-marketed soundtrack etc etc. As for remaking it...after living to see Indy 4 and Die Hard 4.0, I really don't give a shit what they do any more.
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Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!Fire it up!!!!
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Translation: shaky cam.
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I'm not against a remake because, contrary to popular (read: fanboy) belief, the original was a steaming pile of shite! I watched it when it came out, because all of my goth/metal friends loved it...and I thought it was shite. Watched it a few months back to see if maybe I was wrong, seeing as how so many people worshipped it - nope, still shite! Bad acting, bad script, bad bad bad bad movie, and a dead lead doesn't change that fact! So I guess any remake of it surely can't be aby worse. I'll be very unlikely to watch it though.
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Are you fucking kidding me? The original was CGI-less and pretty brutal - rape aftermath, gorged out eyes of a whore, shooting up heroin. I fucking doubt Norrington has anything remotely edgy about him. Remake something else bitch. Leave The Crow the fuck ALONE.
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i can't comment on whether it will be good or bad and it's not like the original is a masterpiece, but seriously - just why? The Crow is from the f***ing 90's. Five years from now are they going to be trying to remake the Matrix too?
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I agree completely about the Crow, but you're wrong about The Dark Knight. The hype for that movie had already begun in earnest WAY before Ledger died.
True, his death surely added to the BO, but you're trying to tell me that after Begins, and with the hype already in progress, that TDK would have bombed if not for Ledger croaking? Bullshit! Ledgers performance was being singled out for praise WAY before he died...si I'm afraid you're wrong in that case.
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Dec 15, 2008 8:09:57 PM CST
Sounds Like A Rip-Off Of Todd McFarlene's New Spawn Film???
by media messiah
Todd has been threatening to make this kind of version of Spawn for years--as almost a vengeful haunting ala The Entity meets Seven7.
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I assure you, I watched 'The Crow' not once, but twice. I know it's loved by many, but I just can't see why...it's terrible.
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..."Someone stuck all his knives in his internal organs in alphabetical order." The guys got his organs stabbed in alphabetical order...you know...first the AORTA, then the COLON, the DIAPHRAGM, next the ESOPHAGUS, the GALLBLADDER, the HEART (I would really save that for last, but never mind...), the KIDNEY and the LIVER and the LUNGS, the PANCREAS, the RECTUM, the TRACHEA, and last but not least...the URETHRA. I probably left a few out, but really, how many knives could the guy have been carrying?...
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Someone call the police cuz I'm gonna kill these muhfuckers! THE CROW with the great Brandon Lee was five fucking stars! Death to the blasphemers!
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I'm so happy to hear about Norrington working again. And so fucking sad that they want to remake one of my all time favorite movies. So sad since The Crow and Blade are the first two comic book movies to ever get it completely right. Say it aint so Steve. There's so much better material for you to do!
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What I'm saying, and you seem to be agreeing, is that a LOT of people saw this movie as "the last full performance of Heath Ledger", and that had a significant effect on how Heath's performance has been rated in this movie. I liked The Dark Knight, but not because of Ledger, he had a one-note part to play and he did a woeful impression of a crack addict, unfortunately, he was supposed to play a crazed genius super-villian. But because he died, people just don't want to knock Ledger's aping of Steven Adler in Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew. In my mind, Aaron Eckhart was MUCH better in the film, but he won't get the nominations or props because he's still alive. C'est la vie. I don't think either film would have bombed, but they would have made a lot less if the actors were living.
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Take out a celebrity insurance policy against whoever is cast as the lead
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anyway, someone mentioned he "suddenly knows kung fu" or something to that effect? have they even seen the movie? he doesnt use any martial arts at all, which was actually one of the reasons brandon lee took on the role.
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Laugh all you want pal, it's still something that sticks in my craw. How does one determine that the stabbings happened alphabetically? Does the paramedic look at the corpse and say 'Hmm, yes, the depths of the blades indicate to me that this was the work of a sadist who put the knives into him in a certain order'? Or is just one of those bad-guy-trying-to-sound-edgy lines? There's a few trying-too-hard moments in The Crow, but that line just rankles.
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You lying sack of cum-stained baby clothes, you didn't report about this on the JonDough TB...this guy did,
I fucking love this talkback!
by moody by nature Dec 15th, 2008
09:23:48 AM
Seriously it's degenerated into madness! Hell even poor MCMLXXVI is gettin' called out! Where's that Avatar dude to tell us all about the eye-ball fucking this review is gonna give us? Anyway fuck all that...From comingsoon: Stephen Norrington is "reimagining" The Crow. "Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style," Norrington said. FUCK THAT.
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Russell Crowe (as himself) beats a hotel receptionist to death with a phone. The receptionist comes back to life as The Crow and exacts vengeance upon Russell Crowe. As with 'Nottingham', Russell Crowe will play both Russell Crowe and The Crow. It will be the most confusing movie ever made.
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I could have sworn I heard that Connery called this guy a "fuck head" Does anyone else remember that or am I just making crap up in my head.
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are they going to "remake" this? I liked the first one... but then all the other "Crows" are just remakes as it is:
1. A good man dies in a horrible way.
2. He comes back from the dead with the spirit of a scavenger bird.
3. He identifies with a good cop in a corrupt world or a child so that we know, even though he is a spook, he's still that good guy only more troubled.
4. He goes after each person responsible for his death and/or the death of his loved one.
5. After lots of fighting, shooting and bad guy posturing he kills each bad guy in a unique way and is redeamed so he can RIP. THE END.
It's like trying to remake JAWS... a great movie... perhaps even one of the greatest, but the fact is it's a story about a BIG fish that eats people... you can't do much more with that - JAWS 2-4 was just JAWS with Louis Gossett Jr strutting on screen between feeding time. -
Who the hell said hell night started after the Crow! How old are you? Do you live in the sticks or the boonies? Hell night has many names including Gate Night, Goosey Night and others and has been around for decades. Where the hell did you grow up? Timbuktu kingtu?
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Dec 15, 2008 9:49:17 PM CST
Only if a crow actually resurrects Brandon Lee for the role.....
by crackerfarmboy
Now that's a film I'm going to see!
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hacky shiz
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Once again, time to unleash my sad but true slogan.
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Damn, this sounds like a horrible idea. A fucking terrible, most atrocious, cock-sucking idea. A "Crow" remake. What the fuck?
I can think of about fifty ideas off the top of my head that would make more sense and sell more tickets than this braindead shit. A "Crow" remake? What the fuck?
I'm amazed that a studio has put any resources at all into this. I'm speechless, actually. Stunned by the utter braindead lunacy of the idea.
You're better than this, Roger Norrington. Use your fucking head. Or maybe you're not better than this. Maybe you're an unimaginative, talentless wanker like the studio executive who sold it to you.
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Dec 15, 2008 10:12:36 PM CST
FFUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by bass bastardson
I hate this fucking shit. The next few years of cinema are going to suck so much regurgitated ass it makes me fucking ill. Hollywood - please fucking stop. Now.
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Yeah, it's not really the Crow if it's not gothic -.....
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The list starts with LXG.
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I was with my girlfriend and her friend. We walked in kinda late, past the crime scene and Sarah putting the flower on the grave. The scene changes to the part where the title card says "One Yeatr Later...". My girlfriends friend blurts out, "WE MISSED A HOLE YEAR!?!?" The entire theater started laughing.
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If you don't have the soundtrack of this movie at LEAST in your personal top 10 list, I will personally fistfight you in the parking lot.
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Remake of The Crow ? Really ? Man, I'm with grammaton. No imagination whatsoever.
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but this CAN'T be true, can it? Another hapless Hollywood attempt to cash in on a still warm corpse. Pathetic, really.
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Not only because this was the first movie I took a girl to, this is an awful idea. First of all, there's like 50 of those straight to video Crow movies and I'm going to go with my gut here and assume that they suck. But moreso, I'm going with the group here and thinking 'documentary' and 'gritty' means shakycam. And that's not a selling point for anybody in any movie, I don't think. Screw this idea.
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Dec 15, 2008 11:16:09 PM CST
LXG isn't bad. Its a light hearted adventure film.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Fuck off.
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please, for the love of fucking god get talented film makers involved. Taking a look at Norington's filmography I realized "I've seen better film on teeth".
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I have such a big emotional attachment to the Brandon Lee Crow movie from my days as a teenager that I really hope they don't try to recreate the Draven story. But that seems exactly what they're trying to do. Sadly enough they probably won't include My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult this time.
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Usuall remakes don't bother me. I'm a lifelong ROCKY HORROR fan--I ended up buying the theatre where my cast performs!--but THAT remake doesn't bother me. But--this? WHY? Why is it needed? The movie isn't even 15 years old, and it was absolutely perfect for what it was. I don't understand.
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I never bitch about remakes, but dammit, no!
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you know the remake craze is getting out of hand when they start to redo films that came out when you were in high school. and i can only imagine how bad they'll fuck up the soundtrack to this piece... i'm envisioning a trailer feat. my chemical romance. le sigh.
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Youre right VV but it just made me more bummed than ever. Ohhh Kids these days...
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In further irrelevance, I got chicken pox the night I saw Misery for the first time(exposure, broke out on a New Years Eve a week later at 27).
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I have a little more of an emotional attachment to the original too, and I can't believe there' s not a single fucking original idea in Hollywood these days. I really can't figure out why, unless it's because Hollywood is now run by predominantly lazy ass 20-somethings who are too busy on their fucking Blackberries and iPods and trying to be the next fake rock star and all that bullshit that they don't have the time or the fucking WILL to create something new. Bitch about Lucas all you will (even I'm in that club these days) but he created a whole 'nother universe, bottom line. I am grateful that YouTube didn't exist back then or I would've been foaming at the mouth from all the Brandon Lee/Crow impressions and "makeup tutorials" that guys would've inevitably posted. Sigh...1994...back when emo was just the name of some weird comedian. Leave The Crow alone, gwei lo!
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I get it, industry. You want proven concepts, but screw you. DO SOMETHING F-ING NEW FOR ONCE. TAKE A RISK. So, bored.
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Hell, Hollywood has remade about everything else.....eventually some brain dead executive will greenlight this "reimagining". What's next? A "WB" teen angst version of Gone With The Wind? Is there no one who has a *#%@ing original idea anymore?
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Starring Will Smith, and his son as Robin, with Brett Ratner directing.
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The problem is getting an executive to swallow them without you having to storyboard every scene. Be patient. I will make you all believers.
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Seriously, the people behind these remakes have no fucking soul. The Crow is a classic movie, it kicks ass, why the fuck touch it? God damn morons.
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I tired of all the remakes. Is the movie industry so scared of taking chances that they will only rehash idea they've already done? There is just way too much of this stuff going on. A remake should only be done if you are A-going to improve the movie because of limitations to storytelling at the time, or B-and this is only in the case of movies based on books, make them more faithful to the books. Other than that stop. The Crow does not need to be remade. Make something else up! Here's an idea, don't make movies for a year and spend that time and money brainstorming and refining ideas into quality projects. Then if you still manage to produce nothing but shit, quit you fucking job and give someone else a chance.
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I will always remember the Crow for one thing.... This is the suck ass movie Brandon Lee was killed on. Sad. Not at all like HL death that left a classic behind. This movie's ear-bleeding soundtrack, overly-loud effects, and goth, death metal suckery made me wanna run out of the theatre and kill baby seals.
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You're not paying attention. fuck the remakes! the thing, nightmare on elm street, poltergiest??? ENOUGH!
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Instant classic. People love to pay to see dead people acting for the last time. Didn't you see how big TDK was?
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Yet set in the urban decay of Detroit, Michigan instead of the desert and young, ripe and tasty Sherilyn Fenn. Sofia Shinas was hot, but where is she now?
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Shoot this thing frame for frame based off the comic book, like they did with Sin City, make it black and white but REAL black and white, and keep it as violent and heart shivering ruthless and you'll have something incredible. O'Barrs comic is genius.
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Hating on the crow? It's a classic you fucking fags! Great dialogue and characters. Some of you fucks on here are never satisfied. While I love classics from the marx bros to manns Heat, some of you fuckin dicks on here have no clus what good storytelling and cinema are.
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Fawst
ev1ldead
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dr sauch
CaptainBass
Fucking dickholes. You know SHIT about a good film. Kill yourself you fucking cocks. -
People come on here and bash a classic and have no backup. Lemmie know specifically why the film does no work besides personal interests,....dicks. (as listed (and unlisted) haters) 2 setsa quotations. Can you drop science or no you fucks?
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The Crow, along with its soundtrack, may not have aged well, but put it next to Burton's Batman and its goddamned Shakespeare. It'd be a shame to tear out its best part, the gothic fairy-tale style, and keep the basic story, which even O'Barr admits isn't the comic's strongest element. I say Let Alex Proyas recut it a bit and rerelease it... in about ten more years. When all that music is charmingly nostalgic and not just dated.
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than the original.
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I give the producers credit for finishing what was uncompleted due to lee's untimely demise. This like Bruce's enter the dragon would have propelled them to instant stardom had they both been alive. Well, atleast Bruce is already legendary.
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There was a guy working undercover for a tabloid show (Hard Copy I think.)at the set of the crow before lee's accidental death.
Anyway, with a hidden camera he discovered that one of the guns were not safe to use. he bought this to the attention of stunt coordiantor Jeff Imada (google him) and Imada said " there's nothing wrong with that gun, put it down". Well, you can guess the rest...BTW Imada was known to have been a close friend to Brandon. -
No need to say anything else...
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Why dont the idiots who thought of this idea just Cunt off... Leave Brandon Lee's swan song alone. He deserves better.
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its too dark, its like uninspired darkness. dull. depressing. cringe-inducing. its porn for goth folks thats all.
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My cleaner's nephew told me he's seen Ratner at Spago's in full Crow make-up and furiously trying to remove some very tight leather trousers from the crack of his ass.Any chance he'll cast Chris Tucker as the Crow?
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Dec 16, 2008 7:04:42 AM CST
At last the material gets the serious treatment it deserves
by david cloverfield
The story of a guy who's soul comes back with a bird to get revenge in pantomime make up needs to be told realistically! Almost documentary style!
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With a damn good soundtrack to boot. It's all those crappy sequels that dragged things down. Will the remake redo the history of Eric Draven? Orcus hopes not, they did that for the TV series and it came out half baked. C'mon a Crow series that took place in the daytime? Feh. The Should Drag out the batshit crazy Bai Ling for a cameo
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Wha? The made movies over 10 years ago? Wha?
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sergeant albrecht's gotta eat! (those damned hotdogs)
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ON A BIG FUCKIN' HOOK!!!The Crow rules. It was one of the first comic to film adaptations that was worth a damn.
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Aren't there about a million other comic books out there the studios could adapt. Or maybe they could just keep on producing direct to DVD sequels. That should have kept them busy for a while.
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while many may not believe the crow to be a cinematic masterpiece (i happen to love it, myself), surely it doesn't belong among the likes of judge dredd and tank girl!
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Please don't tell me Batman Begins was a remake of Burton's flick because it wasn't. As a point of fact, the whole crux of Batman Begins was the word Begins, which tells you from the outset that this is a complete reboot. By your logic, Donner's Superman was a "remake" of Superman and the Mole Men from the 50's.
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Love Norrington but a remake of The Crow is dumb.
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Makes as much sense as all this seriously fucked-up hating on THE CROW.
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Let's stop giving the remakers money.
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The Crow is great – it’s definitely in the top 10 comic book films of all time. Great visuals, great soundtrack, and one of the better character transformation/learn about my new powers scenes. Plus, how can you not at the very least appreciate the final product given what happened with Lee’s death? Granted, the film really drags at the end, but everything up through the attack on Top Dollar’s hideout is highly entertaining. Just ignore the fact that all of the goth dorks became obsessed with it and appreciate it for what it is – a pretty well constructed comic book film. As for a remake, who cares. Haven’t they made thirty-seven DTV sequels with Eddie Furlong etc? After enjoying the first film, I went to see the first sequel in the theater, thus leading to the second worst sequel watching experience in my life (the first being Highlander II). Vengeance (and stylized violence) will never go out of style. Bring it on.
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Sigh...yet another remake. Can't they just retool the story a bit and call it something else? Not even a shred of original thinking going on? Anyone?
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..for his impassioned attempt to lobby his fellow Talkbackers (which I quoted in my last post). For some reason, that killed me.
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Dec 16, 2008 10:13:55 AM CST
The Crow must be a realistic, hard-edged and mysterious document
by leafar the lost
What actor will they find that is willing to sacrifice his life to play the Crow? I saw the Crow 2 and it sucked. Its probably because the guy lived through the movie. The first Crow was cool, and it was because Brandon Lee died. If he had lived the movie would have bombed.
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Make that THE CROW <<<<<<<<<<<<<< ROBOCOP and/or GHOSTBUSTERS. THE CROW is, at best, okay. The best thing about it being nine inch nails' cover of Joy Division's Dead Souls.
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THE CROW is okay at best. The best part about it being the NIN cover of Dead Souls by Joy Division.
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but it's a dark, interesting movie that deserves better treatment than the man who made the monumentally bad League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sigh. Crap wins again.
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Obviously, I meant the Crow, not the Craow.
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to make a raised-from-the-dead-guy-in-mime-makeup-with-soul-bird-on-shoulder realistic. you know, because there are *so* many of those walking around...
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They use to actually write movies and come up with original material? Just wondering...
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Dec 16, 2008 11:07:23 AM CST
MY FAVORITE SONG ON THE SOUNDTRACK WAS CAN'T RAIN ALL THE TIME
by bringingsexyback
Used to play that all day and night. I hope Brandon's spirit puts a curse on Norrington.
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are about all i can remember of The Crow, really. would have sank without either trace or memory of Brandon Lee hadn't died filming it; makers of sinking in production films pay attention.
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may anyone/anything that comes within 10ft of this remake feel the full wrath of an untimely death... career wise, or physically speaking.
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Somebody needs to start seriously casting that guy in everything.
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Wow. Theyre making/made these three icons of titanic entertainment. We live in wonderous times.
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This would be it. Let The Crow rest in peace, fer fack's sake!
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The film will be told from the perspectives of the criminals The Crow is pursuing, and shot using a Cloverfield-esque "shakey-cam." Yeah, brilliant idea, isn't it?
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adaptation of that, to be honest.
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You. Fuckin. Know. it.
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It's been 4 days already....time to give it another spin!
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The movie is only 15 years old for christs sake! And it was FLAWLESS! Stupid stupid stupid! This actually pisses me off more than any other remake out there I think.
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That is all Hollywood.
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I'm doing a paper for my final on hollywood remakes and this topic just took up 2 pages alone. (The Crow remake that is)
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Dec 16, 2008 7:03:49 PM CST
I still hate the rooftop swordfight at the first films end
by monkey_king
and the fact that all references from the first film, that were in the script the second film, got cut out or changed(save for Sarah) and Vietnamese hottie Thuy Trang died in a car crash after the film wrapped.
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Same reasons as The Dark Knight, the previews made it to be a kick ass movie of epic proportion and the final product met those expectations.
P.S. Can negative reviewers give us something more than "it sucked". Same thing with "it's a classic". TELL US WHY RETARDS!
P.S.S. The fagot to said that the Joker only served one role and only acted like a crack head must have fallen asleep during the movie or is not a very bright person. I am not saying this because Heath died, I am saving that for the love of logical narrative and anti-ignorance. -
No more remakes. Please. Not Casablanca. Not The Wizard of Oz. Not Metropolis. Not nuthin. That is all.
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Ok! I call bullshit to all you fuckers that keep insisting that because of an actor’s (Heath and Brandon) death people went to go see it. True, some people did do that, but if the movie sucks, it doesn’t matter that they died, the movie will fucking flop! That’s like saying because of name recognition a movie will be successful: HALLOWEEN-sucked! INDIANA JONES AND THE CRYSTAL SKULLS-sucked! SUPERMAN RETURNS-sucked kryptonian balls! STREET FIGER-sucked! And for any one to say that THE DARK KNIGHT was as successful as it is because of Heath’s dead is the most stupid and ignorant thing I have ever read in here. And there have been some really stupid shit said here. The Joker was one of the most complex and riveting characters to come out in years! But the fact of the matter is this: THE CROW was a very touching movie that was created from real grief and anguish. Is it perfect? No. No movie will ever be perfect, hell even THE DARK KNIGHT isn’t. But does that take away from the movie? No. THE CROW was great for what it is. The crap-tastic sequals that followed just proved positive that you can’t duplicate what the THE CROW was, is. Just like remaking HALLOWEEN sucked, and every other remake will suck. You can’t duplicate or even copy lightning in a bottle. Think of something new and original Hollywood whores!!!
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I've been a fan of Batman since TAS originally aired, and a Christopher Nolan fan since Memento. Batman Begins & The Dark Knight are like the second coming to me. So as much as I'd like to say TDK's financial success is truly due to its own merits, it isn't. If you think that is the "stupidest and most ignorant thing" you've ever read, then maybe you should pull your head out of your own ass. I work at one of the busiest Blockbuster stores in Canada, and I'd say roughly 8 out of 10 people who have been renting it HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN BATMAN BEGINS. I always ask them why they're watching TDK if they haven't seen its predecessor, and their answer is "because I want to see Heath Ledger's final movie." Also, this past semester at the university I attend, I often overheard conversations about TDK. What did those conversations usually comprise of? You guessed it; Heath Ledger. Once I jumped into a conversation about the film with the two people who always seemed to sit behind me, and we exchanged thoughts about the film. I commented that the unfortunate thing about Heath Ledger's death is it's eclipsing Aaron Eckhart's wonderful performance as Harvey Dent. Which is sad, because Harvey Dent's fall really is one of the major, (and in my opinion, heart breaking) plots of the film. One of the two I was talking to said to me "who is Harvey Dent?" I rest my case.
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One, the death of Brandon Lee. They still didn't finish filming it, so they worked two more months on it, and put more money into the finished product.
Two, they had to add scenes with another actor, and use some computer animation. They also put in scenes that didn't look entirely finished. The end result added to the movie's dark and surreal setting. Three, the music in it was really good. Finally, let me say that this was not a great movie. I hated the dramatic, sword fight on the roof of the church. It just didn't seem to fit the rest of the movie. Overall, a good, watchable movie, but not great. -
So you piss and moan about people saying "it sucks" or "it's a classic" AND you piss and moan and call names to people that "TELL US WHY, RETARDS!". Yes, that's right, the Joker character in TDK was terrible, he could have been any idiot with a shitload of explosives. Ledger also decided to play him constantly licking his lips and moving his jaws....JUST LIKE A CRACK ADDICT. Hell, I can pick up any Batman comic with the Joker in it and get more characterization than TDK gave. At least Two-Face got a story arc in the movie. Joker just shows up and does shit. If I wanted that, I would just watch Romero ham it up in the old Batman TV series. It's telling that an internet fan video that shows the Joker for about one minute gets the character right more than TDK does in fuckin' two-plus hours. So take your childish, name-calling, ridiculous, wrong spelling post and stick it. Ciao.
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With the exception of the spectacular casting of the leads and supporting, it was an abortion of an adaptation. Shelley was supposed to be the victim of a random attack, not revenge by a pompous pirate gangleader.
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Seriously glad to have him back because Blade kicks ass, but we've not heard a peep since LXG. Did he really get paid that much for that? Lucky guy :)
Shame that it can't be on something new, and this thing is less than 15 years old, and although flawed, it's something of a classic in its own right. Hollywood can be an awful place. I'll watch the original over Christmas and continue to remember it fondly. -
I'm sorry, but The Crow does not need to be remade. The first movie had such a great style/look and excellent acting...yes, the script/story wasn't as good as it could be, but this is a movie that is remembered as a classic. Norrington has a nice eye for visuals, but this new "hard-edge" and "documentary" style worries me. And yeah, The Crow is not that old anyway. I dont get this. One movie that I think NEEDS to be remade again is "Godzilla", but this time, remake the original film...have it set in Japan, back in the 1950's. Do it right!!
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