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killed on set Baldwin style

posted 3 months ago by unlockingfreedom (245)
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4.6 imdb rating is not fair, the film is a 9 out of 10

The original is a classic. Brandon Lee said himself in interviews it would be his best film before being killed on set Baldwin style. The music of the original from the cure, to the imagery, the plot, It is Bruce Lee's son "a western looking" martial artist with emotion.

Of course the new film has big shoes to fill. The dingy darkness was there, the music, at least Bill Skarsgård bothered to work out for it. Once the film got of the ground, getting lost in woods to restart their drug addiction, the film was brilliant. Just the names Eric and Shelley, then just Eric. Once Eric went to the middle world and found his purpose the film kinda jumped into the next scenes. I love the scene where Eric had began "doubt", unable to heal, dead in a dirty bath tub. Once the exchange of life was agreed, rising out the bloody bath water from death was epic, killing the man who killed him. Eric putting the tattoo ink for make up to "Enya ~ Boadicea" was genius. Trouble was the CGI blood and lack of action to the end. The film moved along but needed a couple more special moments to tie it all together. I thought the film was quite touching and kept the essence of afterlife, death and darkness.

[–] [deleted] 2 months ago

I agree, I wrote a summary like this a couple of days ago.

[–] unlockingfreedom (245) 2 months ago

@ newguy33 yeah we thought pretty much the same of the Crow

[–] CarterBlunt (1396) 2 months ago

I didn't hate it, but I never saw the original. It seems like a movie I would have liked in my mid-teens, but it's fairly lacking in substance. The only part that made me think a bit was the "opposite of love is doubt" line, but the more I dissected it, the more it just sounded forced and not actually based on anything factual about emotions.

I also felt the love story we're supposed to ship was un-earned. It basically just goes straight from a platonic relationship into the obligatory first date sex that is so common in modern films, and we're supposed to interpret it as love, but they barely know each other or connect on anything besides superficial traits. She won't even tell him the information that she thinks will make him doubt her, so he finds out the information on his own and does doubt her, which supposedly means he doesn't love her, but that is nonsense. Love doesn't encompass a single emotion, and doubt has nothing to do with it. You can doubt someone and still accept and care about them.

Overall, it's a cliche action movie. I guess it's fine from an entertainment perspective, but doesn't really break any new ground, and is ultimately meaningless, with the psychological depth of a kids fairytale.

[–] unlockingfreedom (245) 2 months ago

CarterBlunt you did not see the original Crow (which was superior). The original has "the system" as really corrupt, society do crap jobs, exploiting mobs rule, then there was the rulers as "spell casting".

At that time George Bush Senior had Iraq War 1 for oil. Not bad way of explaining our corrupt leaders, illegal wars, bias media, with society just told to work.

The original Crow had great music; a real goth film, with the hero wearing a long length gothic black coat fighting his way through rapists to find the the corrupt at the top