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Weak source
posted by D-magicSTAFFMOD on September 16, 2024 at 4:23 AM
This movie is not as bad as it may seem from all the reactions. It is quite bad on its own, but it's still watchable for a mindless and easy forgettable 2 hours waste of time. But it's not a matter of how the movie was made, it's not a problem of the script. It's a general problem with the source material. the Crow can probably work as a comics book, I mean it is working in that medium. But when you try to translate it to a visual medium like a TV show or a movie, there isn't much of a content to do anything meaningful. It's a one trick pony, how many revenge stories can you even create on that premise? The entire world of the Crow is shallow and too simplistic. It's a cool concept for a graphic novel, but not much can be done with that type of a story. Once any writer begins to develop a script based on this material, he finds very soon that there is not much to advance there. And this movie is a good representation of exactly that understanding.
And again, the decision to make a movie was based on irrelevant data, someone gambled and lost. And that studio doesn't even realize it was so obvious it will fail. I think these studio execs need to explain every time what are their considerations when greenlighting a movie. If they do, others can know how competent or incompetent they are.
Reply by rooprect
on September 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
This is basically what I've been saying since rumbles of a remake started a decade ago. The story of The Crow is pretty vapid. If not for the graphic novel's excellent art, or Brandon Lee's perfect charisma at bringing the character off the page (in addition to Alexander Woolcott's magnetic charm as the villain) and the '94 film being the first of its kind (dark, goth, heavy soundtrack, distinctly 90s), the story is just a straightforward revenge flick.
The success of the original was lightning in a bottle: the perfect ingredients at the perfect time. Can't replicate that.
Reply by bratface
on September 17, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Do you mean Michael Wincott?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506/mediaviewer/rm850854912/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_15
Reply by rooprect
on September 17, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Haha yes. I googled his name but copy pasted the wrong one.
Reply by bratface
on September 17, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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