This movie is not good

Disagree with almost everything you said. The parts that didnt make sense to you do make sense, maybe you should watch it again. The effects are bad though and they were bad when the movie came out too, but that's not making or breaking anything. The crow really is a great and legendary movie and I personally hope a remake never happens.

There's plenty of dumb action movies for you.

-- The effects have aged pretty badly, -
Why because you can't see the painfully obvious CG in films of today?

-- The cop just believes that Eric was invincible because he told him he was and I'm pretty sure he saw no proof of this until the end of the movie. --
The cop, knew Eric was dead, so therefore having somewhat of an upper hand in things. That scene could not have been any more obvious. Remember in the station??

-- The plot has simply been done before and after and better. He kills a bunch of guys and eventually fights the main bad guy. --
As it is in most movies.

-- but then the crow isn't really dead... and he kinda still has his powers, but also doesn't have them...? What? --
The Crow is wounded, so to then is Eric.

No there is no reason for a remake with, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just the thought of the tacky CG effects makes me feel faint. I can only imagine in a nightmare what the music will be.

If a remake happens, -- -- The plot has simply been done before and after and better. He kills a bunch of guys and eventually fights the main bad guy.--
You didn't like it in the original but wish to see it in a remake.





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None of these replies really challenge anything I said. None of them change my mind. None of you guys actually replied to the important things I brought up like character development and good writing. You only responded to my little plot point issues and my CG comment (which as I said, doesn't ACTUALLY bother me).

So my opinion still stands and I feel no need to give the movie another try.

To the Op, I agree with you.

I had always heard of this movie, and it's iconography is neigh inescapable but I never saw it and felt I was missing out. I liked Dark Cirty, I think Poyas is under rated, so I gave The Crow a shot.

And like you said the effects don't bother me, as in Dark City, the fact that they used models is pretty cool and gives it an interesting look, as far as acting, story, dialogue, action and music were concerned I felt the movie plain stunk.

It's way too cliche to be interesting and it's way too over the top to be believable. Plenty of movies use going over the top well but this movie just felt too cheesy.

I can see that everyone was on Coke when this was made, and what a piece of *beep* movie to die while making.

I could understand if people loved it as one of those it's so bad it's good, but it's not even that.

I'm not trying to *beep* on anyone's opinion, to each their own, but don't act like this movie is Citizen Kane, it can barely hold a candle to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Honestly, I think it's just that you didn't watch it soon enough in life. This movie, for 1994, was nothing like what anyone had seen before: An independent comic book movie, with hard rated-R violence and spectacular visuals (again, for its time), backed by an amazing soundtrack and score, with a tragic real life story of an iconic legends son dying while making it.

I don't agree with the OP's criticisms of the movie as they're stated, but at least admitting to the combination of all the facts I mentioned happening near twenty-five years ago as being absolutely the right recipe to make this a cult classic today is something that should never be disputed. Plus, you gotta kinda give the movie some space with its failures since Brandon dying did make it near impossible to finish correctly. For instance, if you look at the trivia section there's a newer entry talking about the main characters powers being different in the original cut of the movie than what ended up on screen (your specific "crow being injured somehow affecting the hero's powers" point). Alterations like these were all post-Brandon passing away, and all done more than a year since he had passed on because of the movie being stuck in limbo before its release.

I have no problems with movie watchers not liking this (it's personally one of my all time favorites), and all I can comment on is that it's not a movie that can compete with what has been filmed since 1994 - mainstream or independent. BUT, to deny its influence and game changing effect on Hollywood is a bit asinine (which the OP never stated, but others in the replies that followed have). There are plenty of great examples of proper story telling, art direction, acting, early cg effects, music, etc that this movie gives, but admittedly it's a movie of its time.

I do recommend that if anyone who doesn't get this film or understand why it's popular who wants to try and learn about it, that they should listen to Alex Proyas' bluray commentary for the film. There are so many interesting little ideas and decisions he made that carried over in to other movies that many directors overuse today, probably not even knowing that it came from The Crow to begin with.

i agree that there's nothing special about this movie. it's pretty cheesey and cliche. i have an impression that opinion which says that this movie is extraordinary or something like that, was somehow carved in pop culture and in our minds and some ppl just go with it wihtout second thought. like i said, there nothing special about this movie. and if it wasn't for tragic death of brandon lee, this movie would be simply forgotten and without reruns on tv. his tragic death on the set was something could not happen and some ppl mix his death, the real drama that happened during filming with quality of this movie. life wrote darker and more bankable scrip than screenwriters.

The fact that the girl who played Sarah couldn't act her way out of a paper bag ruined it for me...

Every time she appeared on screen, the whole film just sputtered to a halt...

Ernie Hudson didn't help either... badly miscast...

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