obligatory reminder (because this is the internet) that these are my opinions and they don't need to be yours so, like...don't be offended? also, i forgot to mention the best crow sequel...catwoman (2004)
This might be odd to say but thanks for clarifying that ^-^ as someone who's spent time around film critics/reviewers that insult those who dont or can't see what they see, it's a breath of fresh air.
I remember seeing 👀 the trailer for the movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 back in Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 🇬🇳 in 1994 😮and 🇳🇬 💜 Halle Berry as Catwoman in a Crow Sequel 😀 is 🎬 Genius 💡 😅🎉❤
@Yharazayd there's so much creative stuff that could be done with an animated adaptation if in the right hands 😭 I'd like to see it done in an art style like a serious place on serious earth or Marvel Ruins where it just feels like looking at one long dream, if that makes sense? Sorry I'm not good at describing this stuff 😭
I love how we call The Crow a "hero" or anti-hero when he's just a depressed zombie who came back to kill the men who harmed him and his fiancée then die again. That's it. The movie added his deep friendship with the cop and Sara(he meets them but in passing in the comic). Without that, Eric only exists for his grief and rage at the world, which is why the comic is so sad. No matter how many he kills, Eric is still dead, Shelly is still dead, and there is no life for him
He meets them in passing, but he still has a lasting impact on both in trying to improve Sara's situation. Eric's not a hero, but he has a big heart. When he isn't consumed by rage or despair, when he has moments of quiet to feel anything else, he tries to help ease some of the pain he sees around him. Collateral justice, if you will. He didn't go looking for other people's problems to solve, but he can't ignore what's right in front of him.
doen't matter. He gets revenge and is with her in eternity. They have everlasting life now. Also, have you never watched a Korean revenge movie? they're similiar, A woman, child, family, has a great wrong done and the person left goes and gets revenge.
@@ladysnowblood Except... it's not? In the comic he just dies at the end. He kisses the black haired lady - Death, and then we get an ambiguous set of panels that imply he may have shot himself. Through the latter half of the comic you get appearances of Death as well as a skeletal, grotesque version of Shelly. Single panels of this black haired lady coming for him and his insistence on clinging to Shelly even though she's gone until he finally embraces death. There's no reunion.
The Crow means so much to me. I lost my first love on Valentine's Day, the better part of a decade ago now. I don't think a single day has truly gone by I haven't thought of her, I haven't been unable to *not* think of her. To say this work's depiction of grief resonates with me would be an understatement in the extreme.
My step grandpa made the miniatures for this movie ... my mom and stepdad told me that SO many times when I was little that I was convinced this was movie nobody knew about bc I knew my step grandpa wasn't rich and famous lol. He's not doing too hot these days. He's actually is estranged from his son now, it's sad. But I'm glad people are still enjoying his art ❤️
Ur step grandpa is part of a movie that’s so special to so many ppl including me. It was a big part of me and my father who was estranged at the time getting closer bc we wld watch it together and he gave me all the comics at the time :)
That argument of the critics talking about whether or not the story is "complicated" bothers me. A story doesn't need to be complicated to be good. Whiplash, Little Miss Sunshine, and Good Will Hunting have very simple plots, but that doesn't mean they aren't fantastic.
Agreed! And that's not even covering that the story is a bit more complex than an initial viewing shows, anyway. That the story isn't just about revenge, but about what happens to people when they're forced into bad situations. Gentle, sweet, and funny Eric Draven becomes a killer. Shelley tries to become a community leader and is tortured and killed for it. Darla (Sarah's mom) is a drug addict, while Sarah lives as a delinquent. Officer Albrecht is demoted for doing his best to solve what happened to Shelley and Eric. Meanwhile no one goes to jail or even gets arrested for their murders. And it's all because there are people in power (Top Dollar and the landlords) who work to ruin their lives for profit. The movie talks multiple times about Devil's Night actually being part of a scheme to remove people from their homes by force in order to essentially gentrify Detroit. The gang is let loose on the people, while the cops are essentially complicit. The Crow is set in a world that does not abide kindness or love. And YET! There is still kindness. There is still love. Eric and Shelley and Albrecht all help to take care of Sarah. Albrecht and Sarah help Eric. Eric both avenges Shelley *and* eliminates the forces that are plaguing the city. He even helps Darla to get clean so that she and Sarah can hopefully have a better night. There's depth to the story that too many folks tend to ignore.
Brandon Lee as The Crow hit me so hard as a teenager; growing up in the 80s and 90s, there was even less Asian American representation out there than there is now, and as a Filipina-American Goth, seeing an Asian American onscreen as the lead was so impactful to me, in ways I couldn't quite articulate at the time. I'll always hold this film close in my heart, as a result.
I believe Brandon was Wasian, if memory serves his mom was of English descent. Not to take anything away from you, but I feel it's important to mention all parts of the heritage that make that person, THAT person
@@Li_Tobler oh, absolutely, I agree with you 100% - I knew that his mom was Caucasian, and I myself have a Caucasian father. However, in the initial sentence about there being less Asian American representation in Hollywood back in the 1990s, I did mean that in the general sense of there being arguably no other real lead actors in Hollywood that were visibly mixed race AsianX ANY color of American. In this case, the fact that he was partially of Chinese parentage was the part that was more resonant to me as a young woman personally, as opposed to anything to do with his Caucasian American side. And yes, I did simplify his background to Asian American because I did feel that in this case, Chinese Caucasian American would be a little bit too clunky and when speaking about Hollywood in general, even as a Filipino Caucasian American person, (to be even more specific Filipina German, Scottish, Irish and Passimaquoddy,) again, the point really was that to me specifically as a biracial person who was born and raised in a dominant white culture, in a dominant white part of the country, the Asian part of his heritage is what stood out to me and was most important. And given that Brandon Lee was Chinese Caucasian and myself, Filipina Caucasian, again it just struck me as a lot easier to just say Asian American as that's typically a label that we in our cultural diaspora in the broad sense have gotten used to using. His Caucasian half was really not the point for me. The point for me was seeing another person with Asian mixed race features and an accent like mine and stuff like that. Didn't want to diminish his white side or anything, but I really didn't feel that his white side was the one that was relevant to my comment 🤷🏻♀️ again, as a person with ancestry that is divided down the middle between one type of island Asian, one indigenous ancestor five generations ago, and the rest three different flavors of Caucasian, and growing up in a Caucasian dominant culture, I really didn't feel the need to specify his Caucasianness when that wasn't, to me, (the Filipina Caucasian American person who was experiencing this film as a young woman,) the important part. Like, white people get representation all day, In this case, the white part of him was legit way less impactful and important to me than the Asian, specifically Chinese part. I do find it funny that you needed to point out that when I said Asian American, I should have said wasian or you know white Asian? But you didn't expect me to get specific when I said Asian instead of Chinese? Why is it okay to use the blanket statement of Asian even though there are many types/ethnicity/flavors of Asian so to speak including myself? But not okay to use the blanket statement of American as a shorthand for someone who was according to Google, born in California and raised in Seattle after spending 8 years of his childhood in Hong Kong? And like, sure his mom was of English descent but she was born in apparently according to google... Everett, Washington, and besides, last I checked, there's plenty of people of English descent who also happen to be People of color, so really even your statement of English descent is not necessarily useful because there are plenty of brown and black English folk. Representation of people in media focuses around whiteness as a default as it is, and I find it kind of funny that my statement that was really more importantly about the decentralization of whiteness and the pioneering that Brandon Lee did as an actor, where his whiteness was legit the secondary, least important part of him in this whole statement of mine, you felt the need to re-centralize that whiteness - in regards to my own personal anecdote about how his asianness impacted me, a similarly biracial Asian person, no less. And then you state that his mom is of English descent when... English should not be a blanket for Caucasian any more than American imo because trust.. colonialism really made sure that there are plenty of brown folk in England. And if it's super important to mention all the sides of that person, do I also need to bring up that Wikipedia lets me know that his mom was also of Swedish and Irish descent as well? Like... He was raised in the Pacific Northwest for the most part. As an American. Folks would think I'm extra as hell if I walk around saying that I'm Filipino, Scottish, Irish, German, and part Passamaquoddy Indigenous American, But like... Even then, culturally, I wasn't raised with all of those cultures, just Filipino and generic American cuz my dad's family was so many generations removed from their origin, but my mom's wasn't. The whiteness wasn't the important part, the American culture was. Does it make a little more sense now?
@@Anarchyinthe603 what a fascinating comment! Of course I understand what you mean, sorry if I came off as a bit rude. But I think you also understand where I was coming from (pointing out a fact that I thought was unknown or forgotten), which all is well in the end, I hope : ) As a very tall woman, I relate to importance of representation in media very well - Sigourney Weaver is literally my hero lol! It's so cool that you have the luxury of knowing your ancestry so precisely. As a Slavic person, whose country suffered from the red plague and many archives were just straight up destroyed.... A bit envious of that! What's also funny is again, as a Slavic person, I've _never_ clocked Brandon's features as partially Asian! Until I looked into him, I thought he was just white 😅 I literally had a 100% Ukrainian crush who looked almost identical to him. Funny how our perception works... How sad that his life was so tragically short :( I had a blast reading your comment, somehow I wish I would be from USA too and we could be friends 😅
@@Li_Tobler No, I absolutely understand! I wasn't upset at all mostly just like... Confused and curious, and as someone who tends to check off a lot of intersectional boxes (not only am I biracial, but I'm also neurodivergent, physically disabled, and queer,) I'm used to needing to explain a lot of things to people that they may not necessarily be aware of, or even that they may not have thought of before because it's so outside of their experience. And oh gosh, yeah, I absolutely agree with you that it is such an absolute privilege and luxury that I get to know so much of at least one side of my parentage. My dad's side of the family, sure they had to do a lot of fleeing - The Scottish branch of the family fled the Isle of Lewis during one or another highland conflict, settled on Rathlin Island in Ireland as fisherman and farmers until life got far too difficult during the Great Hunger, and then they made their way to New England. And my dad's mom, she came to the US when she was a little girl, her parents having left Germany shortly before World War I, settling also in New England. We even have one member of the family on my dad's side who has traced the family tree back generation upon generation. But my mother's side? Unfortunately, 600 years of oppression will often result in a country that has extremely sketchy recordkeeping, if any at all. Everything I know about my mother's side of the family came from stories from my mom, and my Lolo and Lola, - My grandfather and grandmother who came to the US when I was eight and lived with us until after I graduated high school. My grandfather had been a guerilla fighter against the Japanese during the second World War, and my grandmother was an orphan who had been raised in a convent orphanage by nuns, and my mother is the third eldest of 17 children, herself being born in 1943. And I know a bit about all of my aunts and uncles, but they're all either in the Philippines or working somewhere else in the world like many other Filipino people who have to travel overseas to find employment, so I've never really gotten to know them. First the Spanish came and colonized the islands, and then the Americans came after the Spanish-American War, and the Japanese did horrible things to my mother's people during that time. And it took them so long to win their freedom after becoming an American protectorate after that, and the government in the country has had its notable difficulties with establishing an equitable democracy untainted by corruption, to put it mildly. As a result, finding out anything about my mother's side of the family is largely something that I'd only be able to learn through oral history, and of course the older that I get, the less people there are around to ask. And who says we can't be friends? I have friends in Australia and Canada that are as close to my heart as my very own family, and I have yet to meet them in person despite having been very close friends for many years who know everything there is to know about one another! One of them, my Canadian friend, we've known one another for 18 years, and my 23-year-old son considers him a sort of a long distance uncle, and my Australian friend, I call him one of my adopted kids - We got to know each other when he was 19, needed someone to take him under their wing and give them moral support, and I was there for them through a lot of real hard times. Now he's 25, married, and has a beautiful baby boy who's just under a year old who knows me as his Lola, and oh you should see his little face light up whenever we get on video call together! That little baby, I haven't even had a chance to hug his dad yet, let alone his wonderful mom, but I can't wait to squeeze all three of them real hard someday when I finally get the money together to visit, and in the meantime, that little bubba knows my voice and my face and knows that he is loved very very much even though I'm far away. All that being said, I love getting to know new people and I'm always looking for a new penpal so honestly, if you're down I am! And heck, I know everyone warns folks about meeting weirdos online and all of that but I'm just eccentric little middle-aged goth grandma from New Hampshire, a work from home artist who's planning on going back to school within the next couple of years to finish out her post graduate degree in psychology, I'm about the last person that would catfish anyone and if anybody tried to catfish me they would honestly take one look at my bank account after getting my details, then feel wicked bad about how broke I am, leave me 20 bucks before shredding my information as otherwise useless 😂
It could work. A boy resurrected as a man to tale revenge on people decades later. You could have him childlike till he becomes an adult and you see him struggle between being a healed adult or an cruel evil man. But I'm not payed to think these things for them.
Man can you imagine if they reimagined the crow but Shelley is the one who comes back instead? Well, it doesn't need to be exactly Shelley, but a woman in a couple turns into the crow and avenges herself and her lover? I would love to see this in a movie actually
While there has never been a female crow in the film, there has been a female crow in the comics (an Irish crow I believe), and a female crow in the TV show The Crow; Stairway to Heaven. Fortunately the TV show is available to download for free on the internet archive. So you can definitely check out the only filmed female crow, if you like! She's not bad at all, imo
I personally would like to see James Obarr's Sequel Comic he's Slowly been working on. It's a Crow Sequel where the Inhabitant is the Bride from the story of the Bride murdered for her Engagement ring that was worth only 20 dollars. The idea of the Crow spirit Inhabiting a Wedding Dress is just so good.
I'm sure there's like a few different female "Crows" I heard of. Besides one in the TV series, there's maybe 2 or just one in the comics, while there's also a little girl who gets brought back by the Crow in a comic.
They would've ruined this version also. They didn't understand what made the grunge/ goth movie work, they're definitely not going to understand what a Hip Hop movie work.
I was trying to remember how I went from being so intrigued by the remake to not caring at all, and that flip occurred after seeing Bill's character design. Absolutely terrible in how mediocre moody sad boy it looks
That's exactly what I've been saying. Honestly, after all the backlash Leto's joker suffered I'm surprised they even went for that sort of look. They didn't have to make it exactly like Lee, but they should've kept it at least goth in style because, I'm sorry, Skardgård's version looks ugly as hell and not in an interesting way
That and as a video game fan he also negatively reminded me of reboot dante in the sad excuse for a reboot of the devil may cry series. I was so worried they would just turn Eric into a one liner spouting, post puberty horn dog edgelord.
Another reviewer called him "Emo Steve-O" and I'm like... omg he really does look like Steve-O and I can't take it seriously. It was just.. .a poor design choice, imo.
One thing that shocks me is that studios still haven't really tried cashing in on 90's nostalgia, especially the grunge and goth scenes from that time period. The movie would probably be better received if it told a brand new story, but set in the 90's with the same atmosphere as the 1994 version. This way it makes sure not to step on the toes of the original by being perceived as a remake, but can still evoke the same feel that I think would have resonated well with people.
@@pinkmazohyst I think that's the point though... subcultures aren't a thing now, but they used to be, and the only way you can resurrect them is by setting the story in the imagined past the subculture came out of.' Just like nerd cultures isn't a thing anymore, as it's just the overculture now, but it can be a thing in the postcard 1980's of stranger things... well, for one season, after that it becomes increasingly parodic.
@@consistentlystupid4726 I personally say give it another 5/10 years and we will see an influx of Nostalgia Media for the 90s and the Early 2000s. We already went through it with the 80s Nostalgia wave with Shows like Cobra Kai and Strangers things. I personally have been wanting to see an appreciation for the early 2000s era of Cartoon network and the first true wave of Anime to become Mainstream in America with shows like Sailor Moon/ Pokémon/Yugi oh and DBZ
Im glad they haven't caught on because everything else right now is so annoyingly "the 90s was the best" that it's starting to make me hate the things from the 90s i like/love. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE ATTITUDE ERA, IT WAS 4 YEARS AND EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT NON-STOP SINCE 2003
"the chemistry of a snickers bar and clove of garlic" Subscribed. This is wonderfully detailed and thorough. Kudos to focusing on Brandon and not on his death.
They should have had FKA Twigs as the Crow. With her dance training, she would have been able to pull off the physical presence better than anybody since Lee. Probably wouldn't have saved the movie, but it might have helped a little.
@@PynkSpotsYT honestly I’ve been thinking about when are we going to get a female crow. Which it does exist in one comic . But I’m afraid it will be downgraded by people calling it woke 🙄 Plus there another person whom became the crow and I think his name was Michael Corby.
I'm only 10:37 in and I wanted to pause and applaud you for focusing on Brandon's contribution to the film and the art and not only how his death influenced the industry.
It kinda felt like the people making the 2024 crow thought it was going to fail before it even started production. Its like they just half-heartly released it and didnt even try to market it because nobody had faith in it as a product.
When Skaarsgard was tapped to portray Eric, I was actually on board. Then the photos of Eric were posted, and every bit of intrigue died. There wasn’t any need for Eric to look like Machine Gun Kelly. The gothic aesthetic is mainly an 80’s-90’s one. Yet, Eric looks like Timothee Chalamet’s “Yeet Skirt” character on SNL.
No Fr. I feel like this video gives the look of Eric too much grace just because it isn’t trying to imitate Lee but my god is it bad. Like just because you want to do something different doesn’t mean it has to look like Jared letos joker😭
I was in college when the original The Crow comics came out, and something that's really captured in the comics is the despair and gothic punk that was a reaction to the world that Reagan/Thatcher had built up ad was shiny and colorful and totally empty inside, and the movie really captured the shift from punk/goth to grunge/dark city, and I'd love to see different aesthetics being applied to new Crow movies, because the series itself could take on so many timelines, looks, music, settings, etc.
A DMX crow????????? the album cover really painted the picture. now I’m thinking of a possible lost horrorcore goth movie classic, ik that wasn’t dmx or eminems genre but the imagery and themes would have hit
Listen. DMX has songs on those first 2 or 3 albums that come as close to horrorcore without actually being that. Songs like Damien are absolutely terrifying to listen to. I know a lot of folks only know him for mainstream stuff like Party Up but that doesn't scratch the surface.
i think that the rapper crow would’ve been perfect to come out during the time it was pitched bc it was pitched during the denouement of the west vs east rivalry. it’s really unfortunate it was never realized, i think it would’ve been fun.
For me some of the best moments of the 1994 movie were when Eric spoke to/spent time with Albrecht and Sarah, because we get to see another part of him; flashes of the man behind the grief, and it makes you hurt all the more knowing that someone so kind was taken from the world so cruelly and senselessly. I'm interested to see if this is something that was carried over to the 2024 movie, especially because we will get to see more of Eric and Shelly before their deaths.
I have seen the new film and in my opinion they somehow made Eric and Shelly’s relationship more shallow despite us having more time with them. I got a better sense of the love and devotion between the original couple with just a few flashbacks and amazing physical acting. The only vibe I got from this Erik and Shelly is that they have a lot of sex and smoke weed
I actually never knew river phoenix was considered. Can see him playing the part, but it was perfect for brandon. Both tragic deaths. The movie was fantastic, I'm sad what Hollywood is doing with the new Crow.
The amount of love and care you have for The Crow (1994) and the comics it was adapted from is so apparent. Thank you for positively contributing to Brandon Lee's legacy by making this beautiful video 🖤🤍❤
Imagine a 3-season The Crow series. Each season starts with a new Crow and ends with that crow getting their vengeance then dying in peace. It could air on HBO or something so there's blood and gore
That's literally how it could be, so many comics and unique ideas to adapt, I would love to see one of James O'Barr's ideas about a bride Crow. Like they have this stuff on a platter, and yet you just write a youtube comment with an idea that would work so good, and apparently none of the actual people in power have a working brain cell to do this???? Crazy.
As a goth… the 2024 design disappoints me so much. I really wish they made a more visually interesting characters and tbh I rly wish we could have gotten a female crow adaptation.
This version just looks like a school shooter, where the original was theatrical, baroque, passionate. And yeah I'd love Crows that aren't Eric, and that definitely includes women.
Speaking from my experience as a tattoo artist, I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the thoughtless approach to his tattoos. I don't hate the idea of reinterpreting Eric with more modern aesthetics, but take a close look at any of his tattoos in the 2024 movie and they clearly just scribbled out quick ideas without thinking of how the character would choose them.
Please God, no. Gender bending and race bending destroys the integrity of the original story. Why not make your own original character and your own original story without changing already established character. That's just lack of creativity and laziness.
The gasp I let out at the description of 'The Crow: Lazarus. What a wonderfully intriguing idea and DMX would've been so perfect. Another reason to smite The Weinsteins to hell
oh man that rob zombie idea of bringing the 8 year old up to avenge his mom instead of the mom being the one to avenge her son is so damn disappointing. I've had real life conversations with single guys in their 20s (and me as a mom 10+ years older) talking about the innate end result of a man actually having a biological need for protecting his family, and I was just wondering WHY they couldn't see the woman feeling the same cuz we do. Literally was made to watch a video responding to gamergate controversy - by showing the opening to the first Star Trek reboot where Kirk's dad was saying some boring heroic speech phrased as a goodbye to his family(?). It was a weird but a highly praised video which just made it worse. I guess the idea is that... you know men? They do the caring and protecting. But not needlessly - that's for the women. They just freak out and die.
I agree. I play a lot of video games and a common trope is “man avenges his wife’s/child’s death” but it’s rarely ever a woman doing the same. And supposedly women have “mama bear” energy and maternal instincts that can lift cars off their children? But also, no, women would never go avenge their families? I’m tired of women being told they simultaneously don’t have what it takes to protect their families but also that nothing can come between a mother and her child. So yeah, that Rob Zombie idea was extremely disappointing:(
I spit out my drink at 42:40 when you said deal with the devil. " I don't know why, but I feel like the villain in any Crow adaptation shouldn't have their own supernatural power. I think it's way more compelling when they're just human, whether they are criminals, corrupt businessmen, or corrupt cops they should just be normal people who have no rival superpower to the crow.
How about period settings? Is there a Crow story set in Victorian England? Can we get *that* on screen? You got the long coats, foggy gothic horror aesthetic, the grime of London rookeries (it could take place in Devil's Acre), and the industrial revolution providing both cool steampunk elements and horrifying exploitation. He could face off with a H.H. Holmes/Jack the Ripper-esque villain.
Did you ever hear about the Idea of the Crow Inhabiting a Bride who was killed on her wedding day along with her husband and her look wouldve been around her Wedding dress? I'd see that Edit:It's a James obarr sequel idea that was building off the Story of a Bride murdered for an engagement ring only worth 20 dollars. I also liked The Crow Lazarus Idea with DMX and Eminem. That actually does sound unique enough to not copy the Eric Draven story and actually add some new wrinkles like with the Anti Crows idea
My God Mother used to work in film in costuming, and worked on the DMX film he did with Steven Seagal. She always said he was the best celebrity she ever worked with. Super nice and funny, and treated everyone, from the grip to the PA, well. She was was so sad when he died. I think she liked him all the more because she has nothing nice to say about Steven Seagal. Anyways, I've always liked DMX's music, but have always thought well about him because of my God Mother's account.
You're making me think...it's actually really really weird that there was so much hesitancy by producers and some writers to have a woman as the Crow given that it either is or is adjacent to the horror genre, and the Final Girl, as well as Rape-Revenge flicks, are such deeply established tropes by that point. And especially when considering that one of the reasons final girls became a thing is that it was easier for many audiences to give themselves over to expressions of strong emotions like fear, sadness, and such that many have trouble accepting in men, and the Crow is such an emotional form of story. In a way, I have always appreciated how the characters of the Crow enabled actors to embodied emotionally expressive men, but you just got me thinking and wondering why it was so hard for them to imagine a woman Crow. Also, I now want a trans/enby crow that comes back fully as their gender to take vengeance on bigots.
Wouldn't an enby come back with a defined gender kinda miss the whole point of being non-binary? Also pretty sure casting a cis-gendered person as the "fully realized" version of a trans person would come with lots of blacklash from the trans/enby community on-top of the brain-dead bigots that'd call it woke.
If you’ve never read it, check out the novel ‘The Crow: The Lazarus Heart’ by Poppy Z. Brite. It’s the only queer Crow story as far as I can recall, (there might have been one in ‘Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams’ but I never read the whole thing) and it’s a damn good one.
Also stupid how the femme fatale badass vampire chick like Selene in Underworld is a common trope for a female fighter, like it's nothing unheard of, wtf were those people on?
I hadn't heard of "The crow" until a few weeks ago, when I went to the cinema to watch "Deadpool and Wolverine". I saw a very interesting looking poster and though: "Would you look at that, they are making a movie named after my favourite birds". (I have had a very personal connection to crows ever since I was young, so I was excited). Anyway, I go into the movie room and as always the cinema staff play the trailers for other upcoming movies. The first reaction I had upon seing the trailer for the new "The Crow" movie was: " This look like reboot Dante (a disrespectful reboot of the Devil may cry games) killing random people. Isn't revenge supposed to be calculated and intentional? ". Even I, a girl who had never seen the OG movie, was disappointed by the edgy, over the top atmosphere of the new movie's trailer. Honestly, I completely forgot that it existed. Your video randomly popped up in my recommended, but it has inspired me to watch the OG movie. I might even try to find the comic. The story definitely seems very powerful and interesting. Thank you for properly introducing me to the "The crow"!
Mark Dacascos, TV Crow, acted on a pilot for a show called Bio Man in the 80s, it was about 5 civilians who turned into suited color coded superheroes. Had it been picked up, he would have been the first Red Power Ranger.
"The Crow" is a series with great potential for an anthology series but studios seem scared of it. "Lazarus" has a fascinating concept that could work today with some rewrites. "Curare" would make for a disturbing murder mystery about missing children & a detective seeking redemption. "Flesh & Blood" is a revenge thriller with a timer set on it given that Iris is decomposing the whole time.
Damn, I didn’t realize Brandon Lee was Bruce Lee’s son. That’s so sad he also died before his big film came out! And this is the situation that should’ve reformed the gun prop mindset of the industry but the Rust set shooting still happened.
I remember one of my early comments on the new Crow was that they made him Spawn (maybe Robbie Reyes, but both are close). He's just a straight up superhero now, his opposition is equally powered and supernatural. It went from Moody to Broody, which is a FINE line, but it IS a line. And even in the trailer, the hints that somehow he was able to SAVE Shelly made it waaaaay more superheroics than supernatural tragedy.
Right? They had to make the plot and lore of the 2024 Crow more convoluted by having Eric actually make a pact/exchange with a Devil-like character as opposed to just keeping the power, purpose, and origin of THE CROW entity itself remain mystical and mysterious, and I can't comprehend why they would do that... It was completely unnecessary.
I'll always defend The Crow: City of Angels. Of all the comic movies that have been cut to bits by studios, I think the true director's cut would have genuinely won people over. As a kid, I'll never forget watching the Pay Per View version and it was ENTIRELY different than the two cuts we have regularly available. I've been obsessed with the notion of one day seeing this version again, since it's the closest we may get to Tim's original cut, but my faith in that dies as the years go by. I'll always enjoy the movie, though it makes me sad that it's not what it was meant to be (and may never be). I'll still hold faith in seeing it til the day I die, yet thankfully there are fan-edits which showcase the film in a far greater light (I even uploaded one to the Internet Archive titled "The Crow: City of Angels In Proper Order").
Back in the day, along with Maus, The Crow was my personal introduction to comics outside of Marvel and Donald Duck (don't ask, it's a Finnish thing). The original movie was my favorite for a long time.
Thanks for the effort you've put into this. You really care about the subject matter and it shows; most material I've seen previously from creators hasn't really hit the way this vid did because the people making other content don't seem to have had much of a personal connection with either the original story or the '94 film. This kinda makes sense to me now as I type it out since the average content creator was definitely not around when these things were new and fresh in the cultural conscious, but regardless this was the exact kind of essay I needed 30 years after first seeing the movie as a lonely high school kid.
I keep seeing video essays pop up in my feed and I think I only finished one about The Crow. Most of them lose me within minutes if I even click on it so this comment has me excited for the vid
I’ve seen a lot of videos about the Crow recently, what with the “remake’s” release, and I’ve watched them all cos it was one of my absolute favourites as a teenager; I watched it over and over again on VHS. This is the best video of all I’ve seen! Because it was my favourite film, I’ve seen and read a lot about it over the years, but learned a lot I hadn’t heard before from this video, it’s so well researched and put together! I did not know there was a series, I need to track that down! I introduced my 14 year old son to the original movie over the weekend, he begrudgingly agreed to sit through it for me, cos he could see it meant a lot to me, and I think the fact he ended up enjoying it so much is a testament to what a great movie it really is. So many things that could have come off dated, such as the almost camp portrayal of the bad guys that is so very 90’s (Fire it up! Fire it up!) didn’t cause my son to cringe like I kind of expected, and I think that is because they struck the comic book tone so perfectly. I just so wish they’d left it alone as a stand-alone movie, had some respect for its legacy, instead of trying to cash in by turning it into a franchise!
its a crime we never got dmx the crow. i would love to see different characters and experiences in the universe and not just slightly copy pasting eric or his story over and over. would instantly watch the 2024 one if twigs was playing the crow instead
SPOKANE MENTION (spo-can)!!!! I was so confused when you were like "It never got a theatre release" because I remember seeing it in theatres so so distinctly holy shit I had no idea we killed that moive, it was so so bad TT_TT
Chad Stahleski coming in to be Lee's double is absolutely a part of his not having any live/real firearms on the set of John Wick. Massive respect for that dedication to safety and only adding the flashes and gunshots in post. Also oh hey Mark Dacascos showed up as a character in JW2!
Man the 2024 movie has already disappointed me and now hearing how it is plot and character wise blew away any interest I had. Like goth culture may be the most visible it’s ever been today, if we could’ve at least gotten a gothic looking and tonal movie for this movie?? Like look at skarsgards face his eyes are buggish! You could make him look like such a unique gothic crow not the estranged son of suicide squad joker..and fka twigs omg like the skullet she had recently?? Like her as a whole omg!! What we could’ve had..ooh, it just makes me sad the state of gothic media in movies is barely existent. And the drought of hollywood is insufferable in late stage capitalism. Ty for such a thorough overview of the crow series Yhara, I really want to read the comics now! :)
it makes me feel crazy like do people really not see how goth culture is the most visible today!!! i keep seeing people say it doesn't exist anymore and it's like, i just saw a goth girl walking down the street casually on my way to see the crow in my small country and town in eastern europe, like?????
Wonderful choice you made in regards to talking about Brandon Lee. So much is said about his tragic passing that people forget to remember how he lived.
29:14 I was today years old when I found out that Edward Pressman (RIP), the producer for all the Crow movies (including this year's), also produced The Phantom of the Paradise (1974), *and* screenwriter James Gibson's The Crow: Lazarus idea was greatly influenced by it! Granted, yes, the connection makes so much sense, but as a POTO phan I just have to say, dude that's amazing! *silently squees* No wonder we're getting an opera house fight scene during the new one. 🥰
The Crow is a movie and graphic novel that are so personal to me. They were a huge bonding moment between me and my mom. She grew up watching Bruce Lee’s movies and was excited to see his son getting into acting. When it was announced that he died on set, she told me she broke down crying. I’ve always loved that the true beating heart of this story is love being more powerful than hate or death. That people have tried and failed over and over again to build on such a simple concept astounds me. The Crow 1994 will always be a masterpiece to me. I hold a soft spot for City of Angels because I love Vincent Perez and liked that they did something different because honestly, there are few forces more powerful than a parent’s love for their child. I watched the TV series with my mom when it came on after America’s Most Wanted. This video made me want to go back and rewatch it. Salvation and Wicked Prayer…just no. Thank you for making this video! I’m going to watch the new one today, but I’ve watched your video twice already because your analysis is always so on point and I find myself just nodding in agreement with you. 💙🐦⬛
The Crow and John Wick hold hands in that grief/softness manifesting as violence kinda thing (in more ways than one). I love misunderstood wife guys. This was a beautiful video. Thank you.
@@danavixen6274 I recommend the Korean film The Villainess if you haven't seen it. It inspired the ballet/theatre connections in John Wick and is one of the most profound revenge films I've ever seen. A cinematic experience all around. It's like four genres in one somehow.
Im not even a fan of DMX, but the HYPE i felt for him as The Crow in that album art and just the energy ive seen of him in other media, that movie would have been 😭🙌✨️💕
The Crow means a lot to me so much i got "It can't rain all the time" tattooed. This new adaptation has me on edge because I doubt it will capture the nessecary atmosphere to tell this kind of story.
One point that is worth noting is that James O'Barr did actually pitch a female Crow movie to Miramax after reading a story about a woman who was murdered at her wedding. He thought the imagery of an avenging female Crow in a wedding dress would be powerful and exemplify the melancholy of the whole concept. Needless to say, they passed and didn't have any interest in an avenging Bride... until, of course, Tarantino wrote Kill Bill.
The Crow: Skinning the wolves would be an amazing comic to adapt to film. It’s very different from the original. (It’s set in the 1940s in a concentration camp)
If I could have comic adapted into a movie, it'd be The Crow Dead Time made by the same crew who made Prey (2022). Is it realistic? ehh probably not but I can dream
I’d like to see a story about the Skull Cowboy. A Classic Western story of revenge. This time brought back by The Crow. In the end he realizes that he can do good by not going back the grave. Not being able to return to the dead , but no longer being able to heal with no Crow. This is why he is still around telling other Crows to go back to the grave.
I’m a 47 American male that likes comic books and heavy metal so when the first movie came out it hit hard. 🐦⬛ ☠️ 🎸 I have a signed postcard sized print from the comic that a friend of mine in high school got signed by Mr O’Barr🤩 I keep it in my copy of the first graphic novel. Thanks for this great research and commentary 🖤
We really could have gotten a cool as hell gothic crow rap opera movie with DMX as The Crow. But instead, we got Bland Edge lord doo doo because two crusty musty old boomers said, "No one wants to see a movie about rappers" 😔. That is my villan origin story till the end of time.
I love that Zombie thought an 8 year old avenging his Mom in an adult body was more realistic than a mother avenging her child 😂. Like people always talk about "mama bear" but can't see a woman just tearing apart her child's killer!
I don't understand why the gothic punk universe setting which is the definition of The Crow is like, some lost art? Like they completely lost the ability to execute something like that, it's like the MCU vibes overwrote it. Why can't a modern movie look grimy and goth? Even the modern SAW movies can't nail their green crusty vibe, like it dropped off the face of the earth in 2010. I see this type of art direction in fashion and photography all the time, but it's like the people who are in charge of movies and videogames got cursed with not being able to reproduce it anymore. Also I didn't know about The Crow Lazarus... oh my god, it is a loss for civilization that didn't get made, that would've been amazing 😭
wow! I had no idea there were so many Crow movies... yet I will never forget being 13 or so and seeing the OG for the first time and how it made me feel... I loved it so much, especially since my parents didn't let me see it till the end and so for many years it remained this precious unfinished thing (this was the 90s). I feel very dispassionate about the new one and had no idea it existed up until recently. thank you for your work, it was very entertaining :P
As an old man, the Crow is a flavor out of the nineties I am not sure you can recreate. That's part of the thing is I wonder if it can inspire, while doing something more atuned to this moment. Don't enough about hip hop, but that kind of story could work, as long as you have the sense to bring in people from that experience. My suspicion is that these sequels and remakes don't work in part because theres noone being talked to from the different styles and influence.
This is such a great video. Your passion for the 1994 movie is so obvious. It was the first 18-rated movie I ever got to see at the cinema and I came out… I don’t want to say “bouncing” but god it made me feel seen as a weird nerdy morbid gothy teen. The “tooling up” and rooftop running scene set to Burn by the Cure is still living rent-free in my brain. I’m really glad you highlighted how incredible Brandon Lee is in that movie, his charisma in the role is unbelievable. But I also want to mention how great Michael Wincott is as Top Dollar, he’s got his whole laconic malevolence thing going on and it’s so much fun to watch. Sorry, rambling. Anyway, yes, thank you so much for this.
33:16 Just looks like a film poster for Divergent 😭😄 I get that they wanted create "new" visuals but with it ended up looking not authentic, cheap and try hard
I believe the most important aspect in any Crow is the connection and bond between the Avenger and the victimized. If I don't buy the "true love beyond death" aspect, I don't really care. Though we got more screen time for the relationship in this 2024 version, it feels like more of a primal connection than spiritual.
I'm so glad you recognized the TV show. Honestly that was my favorite iteration of the Crow cause I watched it as a tween - really scratched that chuuni dark-but-consumable itch for me at the time. And I loved that they started to define the powers and the rules of the powers for the crow. big ups for this video
You said everything I’ve been wanting to say about this film. I was one of the fans of the og movie who was willing to give this “remake” a shot. It wasn’t until like 20-30 minutes into the movie that I realized they were doing a different story and by then the film had left a bad first impression on me because I had gone into it expecting the classic Eric and Shelley story with the gangsters. Like you said if they had given these characters completely different names or had been more clear in the marketing that it was NOT a remake but a retelling this movie likely would’ve fared better. I probably would’ve enjoyed it a tiny bit more as well if I hadnt been expecting the original story Like you said though the action was actually great and some of the music was awesome
Salvation was the first Crow I ever saw, at my mom’s boyfriend’s house when I was 8 or 9. I didn’t really know what was going on, but I loved what I did understand, and then became obsessed with the first film once I got my hands on it
Honestly, I appreciate that you went through the history as well as give an honest and fair assessment and criticisms of the recent movie. I didn't hate it, I really liked it for the most part and the fact that we're revisiting the universe. There's potential here now. I grew up with The Crow movies and TV series and I would love to see what else is in store for us all. Reimaginings and reboots be damned. We have this universe back. I've subscribed. Thank you for your honesty.
obligatory reminder (because this is the internet) that these are my opinions and they don't need to be yours so, like...don't be offended? also, i forgot to mention the best crow sequel...catwoman (2004)
@@neutraltoxic
You must be new to the internet.
So terrible that you need to remind people of this
This might be odd to say but thanks for clarifying that ^-^ as someone who's spent time around film critics/reviewers that insult those who dont or can't see what they see, it's a breath of fresh air.
......Dang it, Catwoman is a spiritual sequel to the Crow. I can't unsee that now
I remember seeing 👀 the trailer for the movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 back in Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 🇬🇳 in 1994 😮and 🇳🇬 💜 Halle Berry as Catwoman in a Crow Sequel 😀 is 🎬 Genius 💡 😅🎉❤
Personally, I'd love to see an animated adaptation of the crow
that's a great idea!
@Yharazayd there's so much creative stuff that could be done with an animated adaptation if in the right hands 😭 I'd like to see it done in an art style like a serious place on serious earth or Marvel Ruins where it just feels like looking at one long dream, if that makes sense? Sorry I'm not good at describing this stuff 😭
Same
Along the lines of HBO’s Spawn animated show…
genndy tartakovsky would be a cool choice imo
"i now pronounce you devil and his shorty" lives in my head forever now.
They kinda cooked with that line 😂
Best scene Dennis Hopper has ever been in. His delivery was just throwing the lines back in the screenwriter’s face.
😹😹 “now kiss the bride motherf*cker!!”
@@joshfennell2257what film is that?
@@bigtuss7482it’s another Crow Movie , one of the later ones
There's something especially infuriating about Harvey Weinstein producing a Crow movie.
At least it was a massive failure.
And forever owning it
Thanks person that probably comments about Dan Schneider on every nick video.
@@accidentalmadness1708lol
Agreed. Especially seeing what happens to Shelley originally. A creep like him involved in a story like this is vile.
Soooooo, what I’m getting is that The Crow should be an 8-episode anthology series where every season is about a different crow.
That would be sick.
That would be amazing!
....or they could just leave it be.
Then you've missed the point entirely or just weren't listening.
MGL if AHS can go this long with that premises, that would be a perfect type of TV show
I love how we call The Crow a "hero" or anti-hero when he's just a depressed zombie who came back to kill the men who harmed him and his fiancée then die again. That's it. The movie added his deep friendship with the cop and Sara(he meets them but in passing in the comic). Without that, Eric only exists for his grief and rage at the world, which is why the comic is so sad. No matter how many he kills, Eric is still dead, Shelly is still dead, and there is no life for him
He meets them in passing, but he still has a lasting impact on both in trying to improve Sara's situation.
Eric's not a hero, but he has a big heart. When he isn't consumed by rage or despair, when he has moments of quiet to feel anything else, he tries to help ease some of the pain he sees around him. Collateral justice, if you will. He didn't go looking for other people's problems to solve, but he can't ignore what's right in front of him.
Its implied that they would meet up in the afterlife
doen't matter. He gets revenge and is with her in eternity. They have everlasting life now. Also, have you never watched a Korean revenge movie? they're similiar, A woman, child, family, has a great wrong done and the person left goes and gets revenge.
I think the term we're looking for is "wraith"
@@ladysnowblood Except... it's not? In the comic he just dies at the end. He kisses the black haired lady - Death, and then we get an ambiguous set of panels that imply he may have shot himself.
Through the latter half of the comic you get appearances of Death as well as a skeletal, grotesque version of Shelly. Single panels of this black haired lady coming for him and his insistence on clinging to Shelly even though she's gone until he finally embraces death. There's no reunion.
18:48 The thought of The Crow having to deal with rent payments of all things trying to hinder his revenge quest made me burst out laughing. 😆
That’s what playing cultist simulator feels like
@@batsradpossum392 hell r u talking ab
He has the same problems as Happy-Time Harry: Action Bills
Capitalism will always be the enemy within
@@bigjawline9235cultist sim is a video game lol
The Crow means so much to me.
I lost my first love on Valentine's Day, the better part of a decade ago now. I don't think a single day has truly gone by I haven't thought of her, I haven't been unable to *not* think of her.
To say this work's depiction of grief resonates with me would be an understatement in the extreme.
Yo I have your profile pic as part of my tattoo
I’m so sorry for your loss. It never goes away, does it. 💔💔
My step grandpa made the miniatures for this movie ... my mom and stepdad told me that SO many times when I was little that I was convinced this was movie nobody knew about bc I knew my step grandpa wasn't rich and famous lol. He's not doing too hot these days. He's actually is estranged from his son now, it's sad. But I'm glad people are still enjoying his art ❤️
Ur step grandpa is part of a movie that’s so special to so many ppl including me. It was a big part of me and my father who was estranged at the time getting closer bc we wld watch it together and he gave me all the comics at the time :)
That argument of the critics talking about whether or not the story is "complicated" bothers me. A story doesn't need to be complicated to be good. Whiplash, Little Miss Sunshine, and Good Will Hunting have very simple plots, but that doesn't mean they aren't fantastic.
Agreed! And that's not even covering that the story is a bit more complex than an initial viewing shows, anyway. That the story isn't just about revenge, but about what happens to people when they're forced into bad situations. Gentle, sweet, and funny Eric Draven becomes a killer. Shelley tries to become a community leader and is tortured and killed for it. Darla (Sarah's mom) is a drug addict, while Sarah lives as a delinquent. Officer Albrecht is demoted for doing his best to solve what happened to Shelley and Eric. Meanwhile no one goes to jail or even gets arrested for their murders.
And it's all because there are people in power (Top Dollar and the landlords) who work to ruin their lives for profit. The movie talks multiple times about Devil's Night actually being part of a scheme to remove people from their homes by force in order to essentially gentrify Detroit. The gang is let loose on the people, while the cops are essentially complicit.
The Crow is set in a world that does not abide kindness or love. And YET! There is still kindness. There is still love. Eric and Shelley and Albrecht all help to take care of Sarah. Albrecht and Sarah help Eric. Eric both avenges Shelley *and* eliminates the forces that are plaguing the city. He even helps Darla to get clean so that she and Sarah can hopefully have a better night.
There's depth to the story that too many folks tend to ignore.
Brandon Lee as The Crow hit me so hard as a teenager; growing up in the 80s and 90s, there was even less Asian American representation out there than there is now, and as a Filipina-American Goth, seeing an Asian American onscreen as the lead was so impactful to me, in ways I couldn't quite articulate at the time. I'll always hold this film close in my heart, as a result.
I believe Brandon was Wasian, if memory serves his mom was of English descent. Not to take anything away from you, but I feel it's important to mention all parts of the heritage that make that person, THAT person
@@Li_Tobler oh, absolutely, I agree with you 100% - I knew that his mom was Caucasian, and I myself have a Caucasian father. However, in the initial sentence about there being less Asian American representation in Hollywood back in the 1990s, I did mean that in the general sense of there being arguably no other real lead actors in Hollywood that were visibly mixed race AsianX ANY color of American. In this case, the fact that he was partially of Chinese parentage was the part that was more resonant to me as a young woman personally, as opposed to anything to do with his Caucasian American side. And yes, I did simplify his background to Asian American because I did feel that in this case, Chinese Caucasian American would be a little bit too clunky and when speaking about Hollywood in general, even as a Filipino Caucasian American person, (to be even more specific Filipina German, Scottish, Irish and Passimaquoddy,) again, the point really was that to me specifically as a biracial person who was born and raised in a dominant white culture, in a dominant white part of the country, the Asian part of his heritage is what stood out to me and was most important. And given that Brandon Lee was Chinese Caucasian and myself, Filipina Caucasian, again it just struck me as a lot easier to just say Asian American as that's typically a label that we in our cultural diaspora in the broad sense have gotten used to using.
His Caucasian half was really not the point for me. The point for me was seeing another person with Asian mixed race features and an accent like mine and stuff like that.
Didn't want to diminish his white side or anything, but I really didn't feel that his white side was the one that was relevant to my comment 🤷🏻♀️ again, as a person with ancestry that is divided down the middle between one type of island Asian, one indigenous ancestor five generations ago, and the rest three different flavors of Caucasian, and growing up in a Caucasian dominant culture, I really didn't feel the need to specify his Caucasianness when that wasn't, to me, (the Filipina Caucasian American person who was experiencing this film as a young woman,) the important part.
Like, white people get representation all day, In this case, the white part of him was legit way less impactful and important to me than the Asian, specifically Chinese part. I do find it funny that you needed to point out that when I said Asian American, I should have said wasian or you know white Asian? But you didn't expect me to get specific when I said Asian instead of Chinese? Why is it okay to use the blanket statement of Asian even though there are many types/ethnicity/flavors of Asian so to speak including myself? But not okay to use the blanket statement of American as a shorthand for someone who was according to Google, born in California and raised in Seattle after spending 8 years of his childhood in Hong Kong? And like, sure his mom was of English descent but she was born in apparently according to google... Everett, Washington, and besides, last I checked, there's plenty of people of English descent who also happen to be People of color, so really even your statement of English descent is not necessarily useful because there are plenty of brown and black English folk. Representation of people in media focuses around whiteness as a default as it is, and I find it kind of funny that my statement that was really more importantly about the decentralization of whiteness and the pioneering that Brandon Lee did as an actor, where his whiteness was legit the secondary, least important part of him in this whole statement of mine, you felt the need to re-centralize that whiteness - in regards to my own personal anecdote about how his asianness impacted me, a similarly biracial Asian person, no less. And then you state that his mom is of English descent when... English should not be a blanket for Caucasian any more than American imo because trust.. colonialism really made sure that there are plenty of brown folk in England.
And if it's super important to mention all the sides of that person, do I also need to bring up that Wikipedia lets me know that his mom was also of Swedish and Irish descent as well? Like... He was raised in the Pacific Northwest for the most part. As an American. Folks would think I'm extra as hell if I walk around saying that I'm Filipino, Scottish, Irish, German, and part Passamaquoddy Indigenous American, But like... Even then, culturally, I wasn't raised with all of those cultures, just Filipino and generic American cuz my dad's family was so many generations removed from their origin, but my mom's wasn't. The whiteness wasn't the important part, the American culture was. Does it make a little more sense now?
@@Anarchyinthe603 what a fascinating comment! Of course I understand what you mean, sorry if I came off as a bit rude. But I think you also understand where I was coming from (pointing out a fact that I thought was unknown or forgotten), which all is well in the end, I hope : )
As a very tall woman, I relate to importance of representation in media very well - Sigourney Weaver is literally my hero lol!
It's so cool that you have the luxury of knowing your ancestry so precisely. As a Slavic person, whose country suffered from the red plague and many archives were just straight up destroyed.... A bit envious of that!
What's also funny is again, as a Slavic person, I've _never_ clocked Brandon's features as partially Asian! Until I looked into him, I thought he was just white 😅 I literally had a 100% Ukrainian crush who looked almost identical to him. Funny how our perception works...
How sad that his life was so tragically short :(
I had a blast reading your comment, somehow I wish I would be from USA too and we could be friends 😅
@@Li_Tobler No, I absolutely understand! I wasn't upset at all mostly just like... Confused and curious, and as someone who tends to check off a lot of intersectional boxes (not only am I biracial, but I'm also neurodivergent, physically disabled, and queer,) I'm used to needing to explain a lot of things to people that they may not necessarily be aware of, or even that they may not have thought of before because it's so outside of their experience.
And oh gosh, yeah, I absolutely agree with you that it is such an absolute privilege and luxury that I get to know so much of at least one side of my parentage. My dad's side of the family, sure they had to do a lot of fleeing - The Scottish branch of the family fled the Isle of Lewis during one or another highland conflict, settled on Rathlin Island in Ireland as fisherman and farmers until life got far too difficult during the Great Hunger, and then they made their way to New England. And my dad's mom, she came to the US when she was a little girl, her parents having left Germany shortly before World War I, settling also in New England. We even have one member of the family on my dad's side who has traced the family tree back generation upon generation.
But my mother's side? Unfortunately, 600 years of oppression will often result in a country that has extremely sketchy recordkeeping, if any at all. Everything I know about my mother's side of the family came from stories from my mom, and my Lolo and Lola, - My grandfather and grandmother who came to the US when I was eight and lived with us until after I graduated high school. My grandfather had been a guerilla fighter against the Japanese during the second World War, and my grandmother was an orphan who had been raised in a convent orphanage by nuns, and my mother is the third eldest of 17 children, herself being born in 1943. And I know a bit about all of my aunts and uncles, but they're all either in the Philippines or working somewhere else in the world like many other Filipino people who have to travel overseas to find employment, so I've never really gotten to know them. First the Spanish came and colonized the islands, and then the Americans came after the Spanish-American War, and the Japanese did horrible things to my mother's people during that time. And it took them so long to win their freedom after becoming an American protectorate after that, and the government in the country has had its notable difficulties with establishing an equitable democracy untainted by corruption, to put it mildly. As a result, finding out anything about my mother's side of the family is largely something that I'd only be able to learn through oral history, and of course the older that I get, the less people there are around to ask.
And who says we can't be friends? I have friends in Australia and Canada that are as close to my heart as my very own family, and I have yet to meet them in person despite having been very close friends for many years who know everything there is to know about one another! One of them, my Canadian friend, we've known one another for 18 years, and my 23-year-old son considers him a sort of a long distance uncle, and my Australian friend, I call him one of my adopted kids - We got to know each other when he was 19, needed someone to take him under their wing and give them moral support, and I was there for them through a lot of real hard times. Now he's 25, married, and has a beautiful baby boy who's just under a year old who knows me as his Lola, and oh you should see his little face light up whenever we get on video call together! That little baby, I haven't even had a chance to hug his dad yet, let alone his wonderful mom, but I can't wait to squeeze all three of them real hard someday when I finally get the money together to visit, and in the meantime, that little bubba knows my voice and my face and knows that he is loved very very much even though I'm far away.
All that being said, I love getting to know new people and I'm always looking for a new penpal so honestly, if you're down I am! And heck, I know everyone warns folks about meeting weirdos online and all of that but I'm just eccentric little middle-aged goth grandma from New Hampshire, a work from home artist who's planning on going back to school within the next couple of years to finish out her post graduate degree in psychology, I'm about the last person that would catfish anyone and if anybody tried to catfish me they would honestly take one look at my bank account after getting my details, then feel wicked bad about how broke I am, leave me 20 bucks before shredding my information as otherwise useless 😂
No one:
Rob Zombie: What if "The Crow" was also the Tom Hanks movie "Big"
It could work. A boy resurrected as a man to tale revenge on people decades later.
You could have him childlike till he becomes an adult and you see him struggle between being a healed adult or an cruel evil man.
But I'm not payed to think these things for them.
I feel so bad for O'Barr. He created something to deal with his grief, only to have that creation then kill one of his friends.
Man can you imagine if they reimagined the crow but Shelley is the one who comes back instead? Well, it doesn't need to be exactly Shelley, but a woman in a couple turns into the crow and avenges herself and her lover? I would love to see this in a movie actually
While there has never been a female crow in the film, there has been a female crow in the comics (an Irish crow I believe), and a female crow in the TV show The Crow; Stairway to Heaven. Fortunately the TV show is available to download for free on the internet archive. So you can definitely check out the only filmed female crow, if you like! She's not bad at all, imo
I've been saying thiiis
I personally would like to see James Obarr's Sequel Comic he's Slowly been working on.
It's a Crow Sequel where the Inhabitant is the Bride from the story of the Bride murdered for her Engagement ring that was worth only 20 dollars.
The idea of the Crow spirit Inhabiting a Wedding Dress is just so good.
Nah
I'm sure there's like a few different female "Crows" I heard of. Besides one in the TV series, there's maybe 2 or just one in the comics, while there's also a little girl who gets brought back by the Crow in a comic.
The Crow: Lazarus sounds amazing and I'm so mad that didn't happen 😭
The albino Anti Crow idea is the most unique addition to the Crow Lore next to James Obarr's idea of the Crow Bride
They would've ruined this version also. They didn't understand what made the grunge/ goth movie work, they're definitely not going to understand what a Hip Hop movie work.
@@riopato2009 What's next? A Crow movie with dubstep?
@@scottylewis8124 dubstep died like 10 years ago
@@grimnir2922 good point
Bill Skarsgård's Crow costume bothers me so much and I just realized why, he looks exactly like Jared Leto Joker.
I was trying to remember how I went from being so intrigued by the remake to not caring at all, and that flip occurred after seeing Bill's character design. Absolutely terrible in how mediocre moody sad boy it looks
I just came in here to say that lmao
That's exactly what I've been saying. Honestly, after all the backlash Leto's joker suffered I'm surprised they even went for that sort of look. They didn't have to make it exactly like Lee, but they should've kept it at least goth in style because, I'm sorry, Skardgård's version looks ugly as hell and not in an interesting way
That and as a video game fan he also negatively reminded me of reboot dante in the sad excuse for a reboot of the devil may cry series. I was so worried they would just turn Eric into a one liner spouting, post puberty horn dog edgelord.
Another reviewer called him "Emo Steve-O" and I'm like... omg he really does look like Steve-O and I can't take it seriously. It was just.. .a poor design choice, imo.
One thing that shocks me is that studios still haven't really tried cashing in on 90's nostalgia, especially the grunge and goth scenes from that time period. The movie would probably be better received if it told a brand new story, but set in the 90's with the same atmosphere as the 1994 version. This way it makes sure not to step on the toes of the original by being perceived as a remake, but can still evoke the same feel that I think would have resonated well with people.
I don’t think that they can do that, because subcultures these days are so watered down now. It won’t hit the same
@@pinkmazohystSuch a good point.
@@pinkmazohyst I think that's the point though... subcultures aren't a thing now, but they used to be, and the only way you can resurrect them is by setting the story in the imagined past the subculture came out of.'
Just like nerd cultures isn't a thing anymore, as it's just the overculture now, but it can be a thing in the postcard 1980's of stranger things... well, for one season, after that it becomes increasingly parodic.
@@consistentlystupid4726 I personally say give it another 5/10 years and we will see an influx of Nostalgia Media for the 90s and the Early 2000s. We already went through it with the 80s Nostalgia wave with Shows like Cobra Kai and Strangers things.
I personally have been wanting to see an appreciation for the early 2000s era of Cartoon network and the first true wave of Anime to become Mainstream in America with shows like Sailor Moon/ Pokémon/Yugi oh and DBZ
Im glad they haven't caught on because everything else right now is so annoyingly "the 90s was the best" that it's starting to make me hate the things from the 90s i like/love. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE ATTITUDE ERA, IT WAS 4 YEARS AND EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT NON-STOP SINCE 2003
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This is wonderfully detailed and thorough. Kudos to focusing on Brandon and not on his death.
They should have had FKA Twigs as the Crow. With her dance training, she would have been able to pull off the physical presence better than anybody since Lee. Probably wouldn't have saved the movie, but it might have helped a little.
omg this is a BRILLIANT idea!
She did some martial arts too and definitely can channel a somber presence.
The physical presence? she's a slim 5ft 2 woman.
@@PynkSpotsYT honestly I’ve been thinking about when are we going to get a female crow.
Which it does exist in one comic .
But I’m afraid it will be downgraded by people calling it woke 🙄
Plus there another person whom became the crow and I think his name was Michael Corby.
@@chriscage669I’d prefer if they used the script james o Barr script with the bride
I'm only 10:37 in and I wanted to pause and applaud you for focusing on Brandon's contribution to the film and the art and not only how his death influenced the industry.
It kinda felt like the people making the 2024 crow thought it was going to fail before it even started production. Its like they just half-heartly released it and didnt even try to market it because nobody had faith in it as a product.
It was in development hell for like 10+ years, going through so many different directors and casts, so your theory really isn't far off.
When Skaarsgard was tapped to portray Eric, I was actually on board. Then the photos of Eric were posted, and every bit of intrigue died. There wasn’t any need for Eric to look like Machine Gun Kelly. The gothic aesthetic is mainly an 80’s-90’s one. Yet, Eric looks like Timothee Chalamet’s “Yeet Skirt” character on SNL.
🤣🤣🤣bro fr looks like a mid tier SoundCloud rapper that had a past with hard drugs
No Fr. I feel like this video gives the look of Eric too much grace just because it isn’t trying to imitate Lee but my god is it bad. Like just because you want to do something different doesn’t mean it has to look like Jared letos joker😭
I was in college when the original The Crow comics came out, and something that's really captured in the comics is the despair and gothic punk that was a reaction to the world that Reagan/Thatcher had built up ad was shiny and colorful and totally empty inside, and the movie really captured the shift from punk/goth to grunge/dark city, and I'd love to see different aesthetics being applied to new Crow movies, because the series itself could take on so many timelines, looks, music, settings, etc.
A DMX crow?????????
the album cover really painted the picture. now I’m thinking of a possible lost horrorcore goth movie classic, ik that wasn’t dmx or eminems genre but the imagery and themes would have hit
Yeah, I was very sceptical until she showed the album cover. Damn you, Weinsteins.
Listen. DMX has songs on those first 2 or 3 albums that come as close to horrorcore without actually being that. Songs like Damien are absolutely terrifying to listen to. I know a lot of folks only know him for mainstream stuff like Party Up but that doesn't scratch the surface.
@@MissAlmostFineI just listen to Damien and now I’m even more mad like the vision is therreeee
@@mari98_ Absolutely!!!!
i think that the rapper crow would’ve been perfect to come out during the time it was pitched bc it was pitched during the denouement of the west vs east rivalry. it’s really unfortunate it was never realized, i think it would’ve been fun.
For me some of the best moments of the 1994 movie were when Eric spoke to/spent time with Albrecht and Sarah, because we get to see another part of him; flashes of the man behind the grief, and it makes you hurt all the more knowing that someone so kind was taken from the world so cruelly and senselessly. I'm interested to see if this is something that was carried over to the 2024 movie, especially because we will get to see more of Eric and Shelly before their deaths.
I have seen the new film and in my opinion they somehow made Eric and Shelly’s relationship more shallow despite us having more time with them. I got a better sense of the love and devotion between the original couple with just a few flashbacks and amazing physical acting.
The only vibe I got from this Erik and Shelly is that they have a lot of sex and smoke weed
"You shouldn't smoke these. They'll kill ya."
I weep, every time.
Nothing my family did got me to stop smoking until I saw that scene. He tells him that because he wants him to live long to keep helping others ❤
“I thought I’d use your front door.”
😭
@@MrImastinker Yeah.
...yeah.
I actually never knew river phoenix was considered. Can see him playing the part, but it was perfect for brandon. Both tragic deaths.
The movie was fantastic, I'm sad what Hollywood is doing with the new Crow.
UGH a female The Crow film 'The Bride' would've been so good...this was an idea O'barr wanted to see in a film! It could've been like Kill Bill!
maybe less misogynist than kill bill
The diss to the umbrella academy, so deserved.
Fr I didn’t even watch the last season every time I think about what they did to Allison I get mad
@@sigh824 don't watch it's pretty terrible
I couldn't watch the final season. They massacred so many of my faves.
The amount of love and care you have for The Crow (1994) and the comics it was adapted from is so apparent. Thank you for positively contributing to Brandon Lee's legacy by making this beautiful video 🖤🤍❤
11:06 season four fumbled so badly, Gerard way agreed to continue to graphic novel without Netflix
What happened to season 4? I thought they'd have a good idea on where to take it but no... A completely useless season
@@MegaCevapcic It was all tied up in a nice neat little package.
Imagine a 3-season The Crow series. Each season starts with a new Crow and ends with that crow getting their vengeance then dying in peace. It could air on HBO or something so there's blood and gore
That's literally how it could be, so many comics and unique ideas to adapt, I would love to see one of James O'Barr's ideas about a bride Crow. Like they have this stuff on a platter, and yet you just write a youtube comment with an idea that would work so good, and apparently none of the actual people in power have a working brain cell to do this???? Crazy.
As a goth… the 2024 design disappoints me so much. I really wish they made a more visually interesting characters and tbh I rly wish we could have gotten a female crow adaptation.
This version just looks like a school shooter, where the original was theatrical, baroque, passionate.
And yeah I'd love Crows that aren't Eric, and that definitely includes women.
Speaking from my experience as a tattoo artist, I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the thoughtless approach to his tattoos. I don't hate the idea of reinterpreting Eric with more modern aesthetics, but take a close look at any of his tattoos in the 2024 movie and they clearly just scribbled out quick ideas without thinking of how the character would choose them.
Also I wanna second the idea for a femme Crow! Iris Shaw from the comics is a great character and would be amazing to explore in film.
Please God, no. Gender bending and race bending destroys the integrity of the original story. Why not make your own original character and your own original story without changing already established character. That's just lack of creativity and laziness.
@@NunchuckPupI hope that happens
The gasp I let out at the description of 'The Crow: Lazarus. What a wonderfully intriguing idea and DMX would've been so perfect. Another reason to smite The Weinsteins to hell
The Albino Anti Crow idea is hands down the coolest Idea I've seen added to The Crow Lore next to The Crow Bride Idea
Babe wake up, new Yhara Zayd video just dropped.
oh man that rob zombie idea of bringing the 8 year old up to avenge his mom instead of the mom being the one to avenge her son is so damn disappointing. I've had real life conversations with single guys in their 20s (and me as a mom 10+ years older) talking about the innate end result of a man actually having a biological need for protecting his family, and I was just wondering WHY they couldn't see the woman feeling the same cuz we do. Literally was made to watch a video responding to gamergate controversy - by showing the opening to the first Star Trek reboot where Kirk's dad was saying some boring heroic speech phrased as a goodbye to his family(?). It was a weird but a highly praised video which just made it worse. I guess the idea is that... you know men? They do the caring and protecting. But not needlessly - that's for the women. They just freak out and die.
I agree. I play a lot of video games and a common trope is “man avenges his wife’s/child’s death” but it’s rarely ever a woman doing the same. And supposedly women have “mama bear” energy and maternal instincts that can lift cars off their children? But also, no, women would never go avenge their families? I’m tired of women being told they simultaneously don’t have what it takes to protect their families but also that nothing can come between a mother and her child. So yeah, that Rob Zombie idea was extremely disappointing:(
I spit out my drink at 42:40 when you said deal with the devil. " I don't know why, but I feel like the villain in any Crow adaptation shouldn't have their own supernatural power. I think it's way more compelling when they're just human, whether they are criminals, corrupt businessmen, or corrupt cops they should just be normal people who have no rival superpower to the crow.
How about period settings? Is there a Crow story set in Victorian England? Can we get *that* on screen?
You got the long coats, foggy gothic horror aesthetic, the grime of London rookeries (it could take place in Devil's Acre), and the industrial revolution providing both cool steampunk elements and horrifying exploitation. He could face off with a H.H. Holmes/Jack the Ripper-esque villain.
The fact that they could have adapted any of the crow characters from different novels, or just made an entirely new character for the modern era
Did you ever hear about the Idea of the Crow Inhabiting a Bride who was killed on her wedding day along with her husband and her look wouldve been around her Wedding dress? I'd see that
Edit:It's a James obarr sequel idea that was building off the Story of a Bride murdered for an engagement ring only worth 20 dollars.
I also liked The Crow Lazarus Idea with DMX and Eminem. That actually does sound unique enough to not copy the Eric Draven story and actually add some new wrinkles like with the Anti Crows idea
My God Mother used to work in film in costuming, and worked on the DMX film he did with Steven Seagal. She always said he was the best celebrity she ever worked with. Super nice and funny, and treated everyone, from the grip to the PA, well. She was was so sad when he died. I think she liked him all the more because she has nothing nice to say about Steven Seagal. Anyways, I've always liked DMX's music, but have always thought well about him because of my God Mother's account.
Goth mother
Exit Wounds was great. Rest in peace, Earl 'DMX' Simmons. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️
Rip DMX 🙏🖤
You're making me think...it's actually really really weird that there was so much hesitancy by producers and some writers to have a woman as the Crow given that it either is or is adjacent to the horror genre, and the Final Girl, as well as Rape-Revenge flicks, are such deeply established tropes by that point. And especially when considering that one of the reasons final girls became a thing is that it was easier for many audiences to give themselves over to expressions of strong emotions like fear, sadness, and such that many have trouble accepting in men, and the Crow is such an emotional form of story.
In a way, I have always appreciated how the characters of the Crow enabled actors to embodied emotionally expressive men, but you just got me thinking and wondering why it was so hard for them to imagine a woman Crow. Also, I now want a trans/enby crow that comes back fully as their gender to take vengeance on bigots.
I would love to see a female crow I know there's a female crow character name iris shaw
Wouldn't an enby come back with a defined gender kinda miss the whole point of being non-binary? Also pretty sure casting a cis-gendered person as the "fully realized" version of a trans person would come with lots of blacklash from the trans/enby community on-top of the brain-dead bigots that'd call it woke.
If you’ve never read it, check out the novel ‘The Crow: The Lazarus Heart’ by Poppy Z. Brite. It’s the only queer Crow story as far as I can recall, (there might have been one in ‘Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams’ but I never read the whole thing) and it’s a damn good one.
Also stupid how the femme fatale badass vampire chick like Selene in Underworld is a common trope for a female fighter, like it's nothing unheard of, wtf were those people on?
I hadn't heard of "The crow" until a few weeks ago, when I went to the cinema to watch "Deadpool and Wolverine". I saw a very interesting looking poster and though: "Would you look at that, they are making a movie named after my favourite birds". (I have had a very personal connection to crows ever since I was young, so I was excited). Anyway, I go into the movie room and as always the cinema staff play the trailers for other upcoming movies. The first reaction I had upon seing the trailer for the new "The Crow" movie was: " This look like reboot Dante (a disrespectful reboot of the Devil may cry games) killing random people. Isn't revenge supposed to be calculated and intentional? ". Even I, a girl who had never seen the OG movie, was disappointed by the edgy, over the top atmosphere of the new movie's trailer. Honestly, I completely forgot that it existed. Your video randomly popped up in my recommended, but it has inspired me to watch the OG movie. I might even try to find the comic. The story definitely seems very powerful and interesting. Thank you for properly introducing me to the "The crow"!
thank you for playing actual goth music during the video
Mark Dacascos, TV Crow, acted on a pilot for a show called Bio Man in the 80s, it was about 5 civilians who turned into suited color coded superheroes. Had it been picked up, he would have been the first Red Power Ranger.
"The Crow" is a series with great potential for an anthology series but studios seem scared of it. "Lazarus" has a fascinating concept that could work today with some rewrites. "Curare" would make for a disturbing murder mystery about missing children & a detective seeking redemption. "Flesh & Blood" is a revenge thriller with a timer set on it given that Iris is decomposing the whole time.
He found me crowing. He crew too. We both crowed
Damn, I didn’t realize Brandon Lee was Bruce Lee’s son. That’s so sad he also died before his big film came out! And this is the situation that should’ve reformed the gun prop mindset of the industry but the Rust set shooting still happened.
I remember one of my early comments on the new Crow was that they made him Spawn (maybe Robbie Reyes, but both are close). He's just a straight up superhero now, his opposition is equally powered and supernatural. It went from Moody to Broody, which is a FINE line, but it IS a line. And even in the trailer, the hints that somehow he was able to SAVE Shelly made it waaaaay more superheroics than supernatural tragedy.
Right? They had to make the plot and lore of the 2024 Crow more convoluted by having Eric actually make a pact/exchange with a Devil-like character as opposed to just keeping the power, purpose, and origin of THE CROW entity itself remain mystical and mysterious, and I can't comprehend why they would do that... It was completely unnecessary.
I'll always defend The Crow: City of Angels. Of all the comic movies that have been cut to bits by studios, I think the true director's cut would have genuinely won people over. As a kid, I'll never forget watching the Pay Per View version and it was ENTIRELY different than the two cuts we have regularly available. I've been obsessed with the notion of one day seeing this version again, since it's the closest we may get to Tim's original cut, but my faith in that dies as the years go by. I'll always enjoy the movie, though it makes me sad that it's not what it was meant to be (and may never be). I'll still hold faith in seeing it til the day I die, yet thankfully there are fan-edits which showcase the film in a far greater light (I even uploaded one to the Internet Archive titled "The Crow: City of Angels In Proper Order").
A lot of people don't point out how COA was butchered by the studio cause they wanted a copy/paste film of the original.
If only we could get an official director's cut of COA..
@@daniboy4153 who knows if there's even a copy.of it.
Back in the day, along with Maus, The Crow was my personal introduction to comics outside of Marvel and Donald Duck (don't ask, it's a Finnish thing). The original movie was my favorite for a long time.
Thanks for the effort you've put into this. You really care about the subject matter and it shows; most material I've seen previously from creators hasn't really hit the way this vid did because the people making other content don't seem to have had much of a personal connection with either the original story or the '94 film. This kinda makes sense to me now as I type it out since the average content creator was definitely not around when these things were new and fresh in the cultural conscious, but regardless this was the exact kind of essay I needed 30 years after first seeing the movie as a lonely high school kid.
I keep seeing video essays pop up in my feed and I think I only finished one about The Crow. Most of them lose me within minutes if I even click on it so this comment has me excited for the vid
I’ve seen a lot of videos about the Crow recently, what with the “remake’s” release, and I’ve watched them all cos it was one of my absolute favourites as a teenager; I watched it over and over again on VHS. This is the best video of all I’ve seen! Because it was my favourite film, I’ve seen and read a lot about it over the years, but learned a lot I hadn’t heard before from this video, it’s so well researched and put together! I did not know there was a series, I need to track that down!
I introduced my 14 year old son to the original movie over the weekend, he begrudgingly agreed to sit through it for me, cos he could see it meant a lot to me, and I think the fact he ended up enjoying it so much is a testament to what a great movie it really is. So many things that could have come off dated, such as the almost camp portrayal of the bad guys that is so very 90’s (Fire it up! Fire it up!) didn’t cause my son to cringe like I kind of expected, and I think that is because they struck the comic book tone so perfectly. I just so wish they’d left it alone as a stand-alone movie, had some respect for its legacy, instead of trying to cash in by turning it into a franchise!
its a crime we never got dmx the crow. i would love to see different characters and experiences in the universe and not just slightly copy pasting eric or his story over and over. would instantly watch the 2024 one if twigs was playing the crow instead
55 minutes???!!! Omg this is finna be good, I love the crow
SPOKANE MENTION (spo-can)!!!! I was so confused when you were like "It never got a theatre release" because I remember seeing it in theatres so so distinctly holy shit I had no idea we killed that moive, it was so so bad TT_TT
lol i really had no idea about the pronunciation, so big thank you for the tip!
@@Yharazayd of course, and no hard feelings folks always get it wrong! What a fantastic video btw💖
Chad Stahleski coming in to be Lee's double is absolutely a part of his not having any live/real firearms on the set of John Wick. Massive respect for that dedication to safety and only adding the flashes and gunshots in post. Also oh hey Mark Dacascos showed up as a character in JW2!
A crow movie with DMX and Eminem?!?! 😭 whatever universe got that movie, they’re lucky as hell
Man the 2024 movie has already disappointed me and now hearing how it is plot and character wise blew away any interest I had. Like goth culture may be the most visible it’s ever been today, if we could’ve at least gotten a gothic looking and tonal movie for this movie?? Like look at skarsgards face his eyes are buggish! You could make him look like such a unique gothic crow not the estranged son of suicide squad joker..and fka twigs omg like the skullet she had recently?? Like her as a whole omg!! What we could’ve had..ooh, it just makes me sad the state of gothic media in movies is barely existent. And the drought of hollywood is insufferable in late stage capitalism. Ty for such a thorough overview of the crow series Yhara, I really want to read the comics now! :)
it makes me feel crazy like do people really not see how goth culture is the most visible today!!! i keep seeing people say it doesn't exist anymore and it's like, i just saw a goth girl walking down the street casually on my way to see the crow in my small country and town in eastern europe, like?????
Wonderful choice you made in regards to talking about Brandon Lee. So much is said about his tragic passing that people forget to remember how he lived.
Agreed! Very respectful! 🙏🏾
29:14 I was today years old when I found out that Edward Pressman (RIP), the producer for all the Crow movies (including this year's), also produced The Phantom of the Paradise (1974), *and* screenwriter James Gibson's The Crow: Lazarus idea was greatly influenced by it! Granted, yes, the connection makes so much sense, but as a POTO phan I just have to say, dude that's amazing! *silently squees* No wonder we're getting an opera house fight scene during the new one. 🥰
im gonna be honest, the closer you got to talking about The Crow: Wicked Prayer, the more anxious i got.
As a native aspiring filmmaker with a wide love for the crow.... i know what i must do
The Crow is a movie and graphic novel that are so personal to me. They were a huge bonding moment between me and my mom. She grew up watching Bruce Lee’s movies and was excited to see his son getting into acting. When it was announced that he died on set, she told me she broke down crying. I’ve always loved that the true beating heart of this story is love being more powerful than hate or death. That people have tried and failed over and over again to build on such a simple concept astounds me. The Crow 1994 will always be a masterpiece to me. I hold a soft spot for City of Angels because I love Vincent Perez and liked that they did something different because honestly, there are few forces more powerful than a parent’s love for their child. I watched the TV series with my mom when it came on after America’s Most Wanted. This video made me want to go back and rewatch it. Salvation and Wicked Prayer…just no. Thank you for making this video! I’m going to watch the new one today, but I’ve watched your video twice already because your analysis is always so on point and I find myself just nodding in agreement with you. 💙🐦⬛
Love this!!!
Thank you for honouring Brandon Lee instead of retreading his death. His life and work are much more important now.
The Crow and John Wick hold hands in that grief/softness manifesting as violence kinda thing (in more ways than one). I love misunderstood wife guys. This was a beautiful video. Thank you.
The Crow and John Wick are two of my FAVORITE revenge films! 🖤
@@danavixen6274 I recommend the Korean film The Villainess if you haven't seen it. It inspired the ballet/theatre connections in John Wick and is one of the most profound revenge films I've ever seen. A cinematic experience all around. It's like four genres in one somehow.
Im not even a fan of DMX, but the HYPE i felt for him as The Crow in that album art and just the energy ive seen of him in other media, that movie would have been 😭🙌✨️💕
The Crow means a lot to me so much i got "It can't rain all the time" tattooed. This new adaptation has me on edge because I doubt it will capture the nessecary atmosphere to tell this kind of story.
Saying having a black lead would be an insult to Brandon Lees memory is buckwild considering every other adaptation cast a white lead
First ones are always special. The Crow, Blade, Underworld, Equilibrium.
One point that is worth noting is that James O'Barr did actually pitch a female Crow movie to Miramax after reading a story about a woman who was murdered at her wedding. He thought the imagery of an avenging female Crow in a wedding dress would be powerful and exemplify the melancholy of the whole concept. Needless to say, they passed and didn't have any interest in an avenging Bride... until, of course, Tarantino wrote Kill Bill.
DMX and Aaliyah are in the Crow in a glorious, parallel universe 🖤
PLEASEEEEE that would've been so perfect, we desperately need more tender black love stories
The Crow: Skinning the wolves would be an amazing comic to adapt to film. It’s very different from the original. (It’s set in the 1940s in a concentration camp)
I was just thinking about that
If I could have comic adapted into a movie, it'd be The Crow Dead Time made by the same crew who made Prey (2022). Is it realistic? ehh probably not but I can dream
I’d like to see a story about the Skull Cowboy. A Classic Western story of revenge. This time brought back by The Crow. In the end he realizes that he can do good by not going back the grave. Not being able to return to the dead , but no longer being able to heal with no Crow. This is why he is still around telling other Crows to go back to the grave.
I’m a 47 American male that likes comic books and heavy metal so when the first movie came out it hit hard. 🐦⬛ ☠️ 🎸 I have a signed postcard sized print from the comic that a friend of mine in high school got signed by Mr O’Barr🤩 I keep it in my copy of the first graphic novel. Thanks for this great research and commentary 🖤
We really could have gotten a cool as hell gothic crow rap opera movie with DMX as The Crow. But instead, we got Bland Edge lord doo doo because two crusty musty old boomers said, "No one wants to see a movie about rappers" 😔. That is my villan origin story till the end of time.
I love that Zombie thought an 8 year old avenging his Mom in an adult body was more realistic than a mother avenging her child 😂. Like people always talk about "mama bear" but can't see a woman just tearing apart her child's killer!
Like the few times I've been scared of my wife is when people mess with our children. Nothing more dangerous than a mom who loves her kids!
I guess he missed Friday the 13th, but watched the sequels
I don't understand why the gothic punk universe setting which is the definition of The Crow is like, some lost art? Like they completely lost the ability to execute something like that, it's like the MCU vibes overwrote it. Why can't a modern movie look grimy and goth? Even the modern SAW movies can't nail their green crusty vibe, like it dropped off the face of the earth in 2010. I see this type of art direction in fashion and photography all the time, but it's like the people who are in charge of movies and videogames got cursed with not being able to reproduce it anymore. Also I didn't know about The Crow Lazarus... oh my god, it is a loss for civilization that didn't get made, that would've been amazing 😭
Thank you for shining light on Brandon Lee's life instead of his death, tragic though it is.
wow! I had no idea there were so many Crow movies... yet I will never forget being 13 or so and seeing the OG for the first time and how it made me feel... I loved it so much, especially since my parents didn't let me see it till the end and so for many years it remained this precious unfinished thing (this was the 90s). I feel very dispassionate about the new one and had no idea it existed up until recently. thank you for your work, it was very entertaining :P
As an old man, the Crow is a flavor out of the nineties I am not sure you can recreate. That's part of the thing is I wonder if it can inspire, while doing something more atuned to this moment. Don't enough about hip hop, but that kind of story could work, as long as you have the sense to bring in people from that experience. My suspicion is that these sequels and remakes don't work in part because theres noone being talked to from the different styles and influence.
The Crow 1994 will forever be the peak in terms of adaptation. But that's also a sad thing due to either mistreatment or misunderstanding.
This is such a great video. Your passion for the 1994 movie is so obvious. It was the first 18-rated movie I ever got to see at the cinema and I came out… I don’t want to say “bouncing” but god it made me feel seen as a weird nerdy morbid gothy teen. The “tooling up” and rooftop running scene set to Burn by the Cure is still living rent-free in my brain. I’m really glad you highlighted how incredible Brandon Lee is in that movie, his charisma in the role is unbelievable. But I also want to mention how great Michael Wincott is as Top Dollar, he’s got his whole laconic malevolence thing going on and it’s so much fun to watch.
Sorry, rambling. Anyway, yes, thank you so much for this.
"Despite them having the chemistry of a Snickers bar and a clove of garlic"
😂😂😂
A lot of love was put into this video. Great stuff
33:16 Just looks like a film poster for Divergent 😭😄 I get that they wanted create "new" visuals but with it ended up looking not authentic, cheap and try hard
I believe the most important aspect in any Crow is the connection and bond between the Avenger and the victimized. If I don't buy the "true love beyond death" aspect, I don't really care. Though we got more screen time for the relationship in this 2024 version, it feels like more of a primal connection than spiritual.
Was excited for you to talk about the movies, absolutely STUNNED to see you cover the graphic novel too ❤❤❤
I'm so glad you recognized the TV show. Honestly that was my favorite iteration of the Crow cause I watched it as a tween - really scratched that chuuni dark-but-consumable itch for me at the time. And I loved that they started to define the powers and the rules of the powers for the crow. big ups for this video
I love how shitty the crow 2 is, it's like a guilty pleasure movie of mine though haha. It is kinda sad knowing what it could have been though :\
hey, don't feel guilty about that. it's entertaining and i may not have loved it but damn that cinematography is a thing of beauty
They really named their main character Alex Corvus
It sounds like this franchise could just be anthology.
"Wicked Prayer" is accidentally exactly Jimmy from the sitcom Raising Hope in the flashbacks of his goth phase.
You said everything I’ve been wanting to say about this film.
I was one of the fans of the og movie who was willing to give this “remake” a shot. It wasn’t until like 20-30 minutes into the movie that I realized they were doing a different story and by then the film had left a bad first impression on me because I had gone into it expecting the classic Eric and Shelley story with the gangsters.
Like you said if they had given these characters completely different names or had been more clear in the marketing that it was NOT a remake but a retelling this movie likely would’ve fared better. I probably would’ve enjoyed it a tiny bit more as well if I hadnt been expecting the original story
Like you said though the action was actually great and some of the music was awesome
DMX as the crow would of been unreal
Salvation was the first Crow I ever saw, at my mom’s boyfriend’s house when I was 8 or 9. I didn’t really know what was going on, but I loved what I did understand, and then became obsessed with the first film once I got my hands on it
Honestly, I appreciate that you went through the history as well as give an honest and fair assessment and criticisms of the recent movie. I didn't hate it, I really liked it for the most part and the fact that we're revisiting the universe. There's potential here now. I grew up with The Crow movies and TV series and I would love to see what else is in store for us all. Reimaginings and reboots be damned. We have this universe back.
I've subscribed. Thank you for your honesty.
Shame we never got The Crow Lazarus