You can do a lot with a smaller budget if you're smart. Look at how Godzilla Minus One costed LESS than $7 Mill which for a Big Special Effects Movie is CHEAP!!
@@Grim_BeardCheck out the Tom Waits-heath ledger comparison. It's really bittersweet considering Tom Waits played the devil in the imaginarium of doctor parnasas...the movie he died in mid production of.
@@vsmith6109 According to his Wiki he is still alive... are you sure? It even lists two movies he's in that haven't been released yet (Wildwood and Father, Mother, Sister, Brother).
I, like a lot of people who bought that soundtrack, memorized that song The cover of Dead Souls by Trent is, IMHO, better than the original. The cover of Ghost Rider, not so better than the original. It’s probably the most main stream exposure for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, a Chicago industrial band. Pretty cool.
It's strange just how out of touch the people making it are, they are trying to appeal through a idea of cool that doesn't really exist. What subculture do they think they are appealing to?
This movie will always be my favorite. I saw it in theaters when I was 11 with my 17 year old babysitter 😅. It changed my life 🥹🖤. I will not be seeing the "reimagining" of it. Rupert Sanders is a hack. I don't understand why he keeps getting handed films to direct.
That was great only to be topped by “the other Detroit musician with the black and white facepaint” and his groan when ICP appeared on screen. I’m sure Screen Junkies was waiting for the perfect opportunity to shoehorn an ICP reference into a video 😂
Kind of funny how similar Crow and Robocop are (a hyper violent thriller set in a stylized detroit about a man killed and then brought back to life) and yet at the same time have wildly different tones (Robocop being an over the top satire and Crow being a broody goth film). It's like they gave the same concept to two people, each of whom ran with it.
@@DarkwingDude-f8w which is a highly derivative western by clint eastwood. clint's first lead role, fistful of dollars, pretty much kicked off the whole spaghetti western genre, and is a remake of yojimbo
There's no reason this masterpiece should ever be remade, retold, sequeled. The film holds up on multiple viewings, the soundtrack absolutely rocks, and has to be the most quotable movie since "Aliens" or "The Big Lebowski."
The least Hollywood could have done was use the first female crow from the comic series instead of the same Eric and Shelly story told in a different story. I have yet to see a female crow on screen.
I was 6 when it came out right after I got exposed to alternative music like green day, the cure and Smashing pumpkins. This movie and soundtrack are both overpowered and I loved all of it from day 1🖤🔥
I too was a teenager in the 90s. *pours one out for our bros* edit: I wrote 'backs' instead of bros. What drugs was I on? 5 points for the correct answer.
Top Dollar, played by Michael Wincott, did a great job playing the sadistic warden in 'Count of Monte Cristo'. His grating voice really helps sell the hopelessness.
I love him, he plays such a great villain in all his movies! I think the only movie of his I haven't seen him play a straight-up bad guy is Alien Resurrection but that was kind of a smaller role.
I can’t put into words what it felt like to be 14 years old in 1999 and watching this at a sleepover for the first time. This is a movie that shaped so many angsty kids
Hey, give a _little_ credit to our ludicrously broken society! Can't have proper angst without wondering how many more generations we have left before the world is completely uninhabitable...
The Crow is one of my favourite films of all time so it was amazing to experience the film in cinemas for the 30th Anniversary this year. A classic. RIP Brandon Lee.
@@wtlandry2 🙄The OP literally just said that. You need to change your post to say "-said at least one person". Also, The Crow is one of my favourite films of all time. There, now at least 2 people have said it. 🤣
"Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children." Damn that hit hard. Been decades since I saw this movie but that line stuck with me.
@@jonathansessoms3507 I assumed that was a wink towards marvel about the new blade never getting traction and is now in limbo. Or maybe saying...come on .... Let him be blade in the MCU
@@michaelrodriguez2829 I was going to add Michael Wincott, but it's the OTHER 80s-90s Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Robert Addie) who bought it... Wincott is just semi-retired...
You are absolutely correct about the soundtrack being the best 90's movie soundtrack non hip hop division. I'm old enough to say that I still have that on CD and it slaps. The Rage Against the Machine song Darkness is one of my all time favorites. But really, that whole album still slaps. You just better be ready to rock out with your ...... out.
I was only able to watch The Crow once, because it depresses me too much. Not the movie itself, but the fact that I was a huge fan of Brandon Lee and his death was so unexpected, tragic and preventable that it still saddens me to this day. I especially feel sad for his mother because she suffered the double tragedy of losing both her son and her husband at young ages.
@@LunarSault23 He didn't mention her because he's only looking for sympathy for how much he suffered when Lee died. And he didn't realize there was a sister, because the mother and mother bit was enough to establish that he also felt her pain.
Conspiracy. His death was a murder not an accident... 🤷Still unexpected. We can only enjoy those few movies that he made. Maybe there is some supernatural connotation to the universe's big idea of things... Johnny, Priss, Sid, etc.
Michael Wincott (Top Dollar) is really under-appreciated. He was always fun in his movies, but he just never really got noticed despite a long career that (checks) ... wait, he was in NOPE?? Damn, I didn't even notice him in that one.
This movie is definitely one that should never have been remade. It was of it's time and perfect for the 90s. I was 16 when it came out and it was a cultural phenomenon when it did.
3:10 you say laughing at violence in clown make up wins an Oscar today but show a clip of the dark knight. The Crow is closer in time to The Dark Knight than The Dark Knight is to today.
I loved this Honest Trailer and movie. The soundtrack is a dang masterpiece. I saw The Cure last year and they played “Burn.” You don’t realize how much of a marathon the drums are in the song! 0:28 my friend, who loved The Crow, also, she got tan lines from her fishnets. She thought it was funny.
Never been goth/emo, but I'm a 90s teenage comic book nerd, so this movie is right in my wheelhouse. Kickass movie, excellent soundtrack (that I still play to this day). Fantastic flick, and one I keep going back to every few years.
This was and still is one of my favorite movies (it came out when I was a teen). I watched it so many times on DVD, had the soundtrack on CD, and can pretty much quote every scene where one of the villains is on screen. Great video, perfect description of Michael Wincott's voice. I need to go listen to the soundtrack again.
Yeah, I don't automatically share the knee-jerk conviction that the remake is absolutely going to be complete garbage that most people seem to have, but I still think it simply shouldn't have been made because living up to the original is impossible. And if a remake can't live up to its original, why even make it?
That soundtrack is everything. There are times when you just need to blast "Into the Flesh". But never while driving, because suddenly you're going 100 mph down I-5.
I don't think there will ever be anything like THE CROW. So tragic, and yet so much fun. only in the '90s. So paradoxical that 1994 was the happiest time of my life. And I'm not even a Goth!
This video is amazing. That being said - this is the best soundtrack ever. I never knew how much I would love hearing you say “mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children” but I thank you, Sir.
Yeah, I think you can draw a direct line of influence from Tim Burton's Batman -> The Crow -> Blade -> The Matrix -> everything that came after The Matrix.
He also was the guy, "Sully", Arnie drops off a cliff in "Commando". His catch phrase before killing him is: "Remember when I promised I would kill you last... I lied." 😊
"Costumes loved by every kid with a note excusing them from PE." I was in HS when this movie came out... LOL, thanks for reminding me of the Robert Smith acolytes in grey sweats and sneakers.
In the original cut of the movie, Eric meets a guy that knows what happened to him and explains the situation and that he only has a limited amount of invulnerability. That's where the duct tape came from, he was bandaging himself together. The final cut of the movie dropped the mentor character subplot, so Eric just suddenly and inexplicably shows up wrapped up in tape later in the movie.
I really don't think the movie needed the mentor. I feel it was better that we (& Eric) didn't know the whole story. I always thought this movie would be rubbish, but hired it on laser disk (Yes, really) from the only Civic Video in the ACT (Australia) that had them & drove to the other side of Canberra to watch with mates. I was blown away by every aspect of the movie, the look, the action, the story, the effects, the music,.......... A truly brilliant experience.
The invulnerability was only applicable to wounds not inflicted by the self. This is in the original graphic novel... he self-harms and those wounds don't heal... so he wraps them up.
@@JohnWestIV The original graphic novel was incredibly vague about the invulnerability - or even if he was invulnerable at all... There's multiple scenes of him shooting up heroin/morphine before he goes into battle. There was also no actual "emerging from the grave" scene in the graphic novel. It was purposefully vague if he had died and been resurrected, or just barely survived in the first place. Personally I think it was better for the lack of clarity...
I felt the line where he said you had to watch this when you were 14, because I JUST TURNED 15 when this was originally released. I felt that right in the arthritic knees. Good times 1994.
0:44 😂 he’s right, the depiction of Detroit between reality and the media is night and day, for real Detroit is a really great city that I hope to visit soon.
Fun fact: Michael Wincott (Top Dollar) was the VA for the Prophet of Truth in Halo 2 before Bungie made the baffling decision to replace him with Terence Stamp for Halo 3. Still haven't forgiven them after nearly 20 years. Wincott's Truth was excellent.
I actually met The Crow's creator, James O'Barr at South Texas Comic Con a few years back, he was a nice guy and we talked about Brandon Lee for a while.
A local cult movie cinema in the 90s had the tag line *"The Movie that Shot Brandon Lee to Stardom"* on their omnibus poster of upcoming films for the month.
"When you dont have a big budget you gotta have vibes". Solid advice to creators from Honest Trailers.
hell yeah
You can do a lot with a smaller budget if you're smart. Look at how Godzilla Minus One costed LESS than $7 Mill which for a Big Special Effects Movie is CHEAP!!
what? these videos are exactly the kind of quality i would expect from a silly funny series. wtf would they need a "big budget" for?
@@neweden1241 "TO creators FROM Honest Trailers"
"A crime lord with a voice that sounds like crushing grape nuts with a velvet steamroller."
Pure poetic accuracy.
Soundtrack still holds up 30 years later, ngl
Best soundtrack. The end.
NiN
I'm gonna listen to the soundtrack right now. 🎶
@@juanarocha8629 Dead Souls is such a good song, I made it my ringtone.
"THEY KEEP CALLING ME!"
"KEEP ON CALLING ME!"
@@ThePathStrider Whoa! That's a good idea!💡
I lost it at "A Literal Ghostbuster." Because he actually tried to arrest Eric. I love this channel.
And because he literally was in the movie Ghostbusters.
Should have used the clip of his "Are you ... a ghost?" line for that.
I didn’t get it until I read your comment 😂 thanks
😂
100% convinced Heath Ledger saw The Crow and got some inspiration in his rendering of the Joker from Lee.
So eerie yet so right. Both are ICONIC performances. Sad they would leave at 28. 😢
That was my thought too when I first saw Ledger's performance. I don't mean that negatively, Ledger made it his own and it worked beautifully.
@@Grim_BeardCheck out the Tom Waits-heath ledger comparison. It's really bittersweet considering Tom Waits played the devil in the imaginarium of doctor parnasas...the movie he died in mid production of.
@@vsmith6109 According to his Wiki he is still alive... are you sure? It even lists two movies he's in that haven't been released yet (Wildwood and Father, Mother, Sister, Brother).
@@vsmith6109fucking hell, I need to watch that again, I loved that movie, didn't find tom waits till way later
“Before you don’t see the sequel…”. Thank you Honest Trailers
I'm going to see the sequel so I can be properly mad about it. I don't care if it flops harder than Borderlands it will sell at least one ticket.
Honest Trailer of the Year for this line alone! ❤
The sequels were meh, but watchable.
The reboot can go pound itself in the a$$
'Remake'
There's like 4 sequels though
"When you order Blade on Temu" made me laugh out loud.
I remember him more from the movie Hackers.
Me too
Me too. Almost did a spit take!
😆😅😂🤣
Same. Spat out my drink honestly. 😅
Same
"Laughing at violence in Clown Makeup wins you an oscar today." 😂😂😂
Suffering from a slight case of death is one of the best lines in movie history
Love quoting that.
@@jdionio I use it way more then I should haha
I think we broke her.
the movie that singlehandedly inspired the popularity of the store chain "Hot Topic"
I said that.
Can confirm, bought a Crow watch with a big leather band and gaudy face plate from Hot Topic when I was 12.
After spray tan became a thing I thought Hot Topic should offer "Spray Pale." Sorry couldn't resist.
Yeah...now look at it :-/ ugh
@@katie7748 just so everybody knows, Abercrombie and Fitch is owned by the same people
That soundtrack quip is no joke. "Burn" by The Cure is one of my favorite songs.
100% That soundtrack, "Lost Hightway," "Romeo + Juliet" the best Rock/Alternative soundtracks of the 90s.
I, like a lot of people who bought that soundtrack, memorized that song
The cover of Dead Souls by Trent is, IMHO, better than the original. The cover of Ghost Rider, not so better than the original. It’s probably the most main stream exposure for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, a Chicago industrial band. Pretty cool.
Agreed. It's still on regular rotation in my Spotify playlist. Both "Burn" and "Golgotha Tenement Blues" are the standouts for me.
crow 2's ost is great too
It is a really good song.
"So before you don't see the remake.." is the greatest words spoken on my feelings about the remake 😂😂😂😂😂
It's strange just how out of touch the people making it are, they are trying to appeal through a idea of cool that doesn't really exist. What subculture do they think they are appealing to?
you and me both. THIS is the only The Crow for me and yes the soundtrack still hits even decades later. I refuse to watch the remake.
Brandon Lee literally died for this f*cking mpvie.
“There will never be another legend like the great one and his son,” - Fei Long
This movie will always be my favorite. I saw it in theaters when I was 11 with my 17 year old babysitter 😅. It changed my life 🥹🖤. I will not be seeing the "reimagining" of it. Rupert Sanders is a hack. I don't understand why he keeps getting handed films to direct.
Yep. the original is bad but fun. The remake is going to be worse and un-fun. Not sure why they're making it.
Wow! "The leathery one" and then cutting to Clint was probably the best joke in the history of Honest Trailers. Kudos.
Had to pause the video to enjoy myself cracking up.
I also love seeing Tim Robinson in the Detroit montage!
That was great only to be topped by “the other Detroit musician with the black and white facepaint” and his groan when ICP appeared on screen. I’m sure Screen Junkies was waiting for the perfect opportunity to shoehorn an ICP reference into a video 😂
The "no, the musician from detroit with black and white face paint" did me in :D
Agreed!
Bill Skarsgard in the remake just looks like a homeless guy in Seattle addicted to fentanyl.
Kind of funny how similar Crow and Robocop are (a hyper violent thriller set in a stylized detroit about a man killed and then brought back to life) and yet at the same time have wildly different tones (Robocop being an over the top satire and Crow being a broody goth film). It's like they gave the same concept to two people, each of whom ran with it.
Some of the oldest archetypes. Have been used a million times before and will be used a million times again.
Different players same game.
And both are among my fave movies of all time yet I never really noticed that similarity til now. :O
Right? Like it was Iron Movie Chef and those were the ingredients.
"Darkman" too. They're all just remakes of "High Plains Drifter."
@@DarkwingDude-f8w which is a highly derivative western by clint eastwood. clint's first lead role, fistful of dollars, pretty much kicked off the whole spaghetti western genre, and is a remake of yojimbo
"Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.”
That scene and quote gets me everytime.
Great movie, one of my guilty pleasures.
Guilty? This movie is epic.....writing, acting, soundtrack, cinematography
Best line ever!
written by william makepeace thackeray
I'm a heathen, and I love this line.
A Robocop reference in a crime-ridden Detroit is always appropriate. 😅
"Ow. Stop! I"m old" is now my life's catchphrase.
There's no reason this masterpiece should ever be remade, retold, sequeled. The film holds up on multiple viewings, the soundtrack absolutely rocks, and has to be the most quotable movie since "Aliens" or "The Big Lebowski."
The least Hollywood could have done was use the first female crow from the comic series instead of the same Eric and Shelly story told in a different story. I have yet to see a female crow on screen.
"Starring Bill Skarsgard playing Jared Leto"
Daaaaaaaaaamn....that was the coldest burn you guys have done in a while.
"Costumes beloved by every kid with a note excusing them from PE." Yes.
Yea I feel seen.
That one struck me in the heart lol
Bam 😂
I didn't ask to be called out like this
Had the long coat, filled with notes from my mother , no pe for 4 years, living the dream.
If you were a teenager in the 90’s, this was the greatest movie ever made. Still remember seeing it in the theater.
I was 6 when it came out right after I got exposed to alternative music like green day, the cure and Smashing pumpkins. This movie and soundtrack are both overpowered and I loved all of it from day 1🖤🔥
I was and it still is.
I saw it in the theater and was the only one out of a packed house who laughed aloud at the Jesus/Innkeeper joke
Unless you were one of us turbo-freaks who preferred Freaked and Bad Channels.
I too was a teenager in the 90s. *pours one out for our bros*
edit: I wrote 'backs' instead of bros. What drugs was I on? 5 points for the correct answer.
"Mother is the name of God on the lips of all small children" one of best lines of all time, but i was the goth target audience, lol
It's one of my all-time favourite quotes.
Its a quote from the novel Vanity Fair.
@@MusicRainfield that's cool! Never heard that bit of trivia before
"Morphine is bad for you....your daughter is out there on the streets, waiting for you."
I think it was used in Silent Hill too
Ah, Michael Wincott, from The Crow to Alien Resurrection to Prince of Thieves, your 17-pack-a-day voice never fails to entertain.
I was so happy to see him in Nope
Speaking of Alien Resurrection, I constantly think Jean-Pierre Jeunet did Dark City, confusing it with The City of Lost Children.
Also, you forgot Strange Days.
He was awesome opposite Murphy in Metro, too!
His portrayal of art critic Rene Ricard was the best thing he's ever done
The Crow is sacred, I can't even look at the movie posters for the new one.
Top Dollar, played by Michael Wincott, did a great job playing the sadistic warden in 'Count of Monte Cristo'. His grating voice really helps sell the hopelessness.
My favorite line of his in a movie is when he asks Allan Rickman, "Why a spoon?" In Robinhood. 😊
I love him, he plays such a great villain in all his movies! I think the only movie of his I haven't seen him play a straight-up bad guy is Alien Resurrection but that was kind of a smaller role.
@@jaimicottrill2831 He's died in every film I've seen him in
@@cassiusdhami9215 lmao was just coming to say this, Guy of Gizborn in Robin Hood
Michael Wincott was a great villain in pretty much every film I've seen him in. It's a shame he never became a bigger star.
I can’t put into words what it felt like to be 14 years old in 1999 and watching this at a sleepover for the first time. This is a movie that shaped so many angsty kids
Yep. 👍🏾
"Every night I BURN, every night I CAWW your name!"
I was almost 13 when it was released on Friday the 13th in '94. The angst. The feels. Goth PERFECTION! 🖤
Hey, give a _little_ credit to our ludicrously broken society! Can't have proper angst without wondering how many more generations we have left before the world is completely uninhabitable...
I was 14 in ‘94. I am the one ☝️
The Crow is one of my favourite films of all time so it was amazing to experience the film in cinemas for the 30th Anniversary this year. A classic. RIP Brandon Lee.
"The Crow is one of my favourite films of all time" -said no one ever.
@@wtlandry2 🙄The OP literally just said that. You need to change your post to say "-said at least one person". Also, The Crow is one of my favourite films of all time. There, now at least 2 people have said it. 🤣
@@wtlandry2 Uh. Said by many people. Myself included. But I guess you just wanted attention.
@@wtlandry2 It's definitely one of my favorite movies of all time.
@SecondLifeTravels1: Thank you. Glad I've got company.
i'm from detroit. the presentation in the crow is tame in comparison depending on what side of town you are.
"Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children." Damn that hit hard. Been decades since I saw this movie but that line stuck with me.
5:30 You aren't kidding. The Crow Soundtrack is really REALLY good.
Yeah it had some bangers on there!
Still a viable option 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I still listen to a lot of it lol
I still have the cd.
@@shawheenblount2685 cassette tape for me :3
“When you order Blade, on Temu…”
Oh hell, I wasn’t ready for that 😂
And im over here just going that "Lord Nikon" from Hackers!
I thought they were going to make a joke about how they kill off the coolest hench first.
Between ‘Dark City’ and ‘The Crow’, Alex Proyas created the template for ‘dark’ in modern cinema.
Tim Burton’s depiction of Gotham City would like to have a word with you.
And then Alex Proyas did God's of Egypt, which was a massive nose dive from those two.
@@erakfishfishfishBatman was dark, but also a little campy.
Dark but you could still see the scenes (I'm talking to you Game of Thrones)
Yeah, shame on what he's put out since then.
Man in some of Brandon Lee's dialog, you can really hear the cadence and speaking style of Bruce Lee, its friggin uncanny
You had me at "costumes beloved by every kid with a note excusing them from P.E."
Playing Vampire: The Masquerade. (Listen Type O Negative). Drinking wine in the cemetery. Wanting to be Eric Draven. That was living in the 1990s.
Practicing witchcraft and telling everyone it’s called “wicca”.
Dye it black
@@TheDamnburger and listen Type O Negative
@CarlosHentges
We're friends now
I want to go back. 😢
That hard jump to the shampoo conditioner bit took me OUT 😂😂
"Only ever been one Crow...only ever gonna be one Crow."
I couldn't agree more
Until Deadpool look at you and the camera oh don’t know yet huh lol
@@moviewolverine89 Nice! 🙂
Sometimes, just Sometimes a performer takes a character to a level that is truly iconic.
Brandon did so with the crow, they should leave it alone
@@jonathansessoms3507 I assumed that was a wink towards marvel about the new blade never getting traction and is now in limbo. Or maybe saying...come on .... Let him be blade in the MCU
Michael Wincott is in an Honest Trailer. Dreams do come true.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. “Is that gasoline I smell” is something I quote regularly.
"caw patrol" is genius😂😂
That was good. I always try to think of what fake title they'll make up at the end. I've only been close once. 😀
it's cawsome
@@somedudeontheinternet_ This Honest Trailers episode is award worthy! He nailed it with the Billy Madison bit too! 🤣❤️
..Theyll be there on the double....!
RIP Brandon Lee
RIP Michael Masseee
& John Pollito
@@michaelrodriguez2829 You can't even spell his name right. Man.
@@michaelrodriguez2829 I was going to add Michael Wincott, but it's the OTHER 80s-90s Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Robert Addie) who bought it... Wincott is just semi-retired...
😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️
@@josephfisher426 he was in "nope" pretty recently.
"Before you don't see the remake..." Truer words have never been spoken!
Yes!
Still watching it
You are absolutely correct about the soundtrack being the best 90's movie soundtrack non hip hop division. I'm old enough to say that I still have that on CD and it slaps. The Rage Against the Machine song Darkness is one of my all time favorites. But really, that whole album still slaps. You just better be ready to rock out with your ...... out.
Best soundtrack PERIOD.
Judgement Night is right there with this one.
Greatest soundtrack of all time
@@yannic44another classic one
I was only able to watch The Crow once, because it depresses me too much. Not the movie itself, but the fact that I was a huge fan of Brandon Lee and his death was so unexpected, tragic and preventable that it still saddens me to this day. I especially feel sad for his mother because she suffered the double tragedy of losing both her son and her husband at young ages.
Don't forget his sister too. She created wmac for her dad and brother in their honor. Shame it was canceled.
He's so good in this movie too
@@LunarSault23 He didn't mention her because he's only looking for sympathy for how much he suffered when Lee died. And he didn't realize there was a sister, because the mother and mother bit was enough to establish that he also felt her pain.
Conspiracy. His death was a murder not an accident... 🤷Still unexpected. We can only enjoy those few movies that he made. Maybe there is some supernatural connotation to the universe's big idea of things... Johnny, Priss, Sid, etc.
@@Zinjadu100 no it wasnt
"I'll go ponder my woes" is my new catch phrase.
Bought the soundtrack to this movie on CD and listened to it countless times. Classic!
"To the graveyard Mother! I must ponder my woes!" Just awesome!
Michael Wincott (Top Dollar) is really under-appreciated. He was always fun in his movies, but he just never really got noticed despite a long career that (checks) ... wait, he was in NOPE?? Damn, I didn't even notice him in that one.
His voice is incredible !Totally underated indeed
Why a spoon, cousin?
@@adventuresinAI1982 BECAUSE IT HURTS MORE, YOU TWIT
I only recognised him from Alien Resurrection. I can't think of anything else.
@@FunZies. He was good in Along Came a Spider too
This movie is definitely one that should never have been remade. It was of it's time and perfect for the 90s. I was 16 when it came out and it was a cultural phenomenon when it did.
All they had to do with the reboot is NOT make him Eric! 😡
I was 17. This was THE Date movie in high-school. Crazy and violent enough for guys, loving, and sensitive enough for the girls.
I wonder how many younger viewers watched or will watch The Crow because of this video. Awesome movie!
Hopefully at least a few! 😁
Not young anymore lol but I did in fact watched The Crow for the first time just a month ago coz I've heard of the remake project.
@@terrorazeing Lucky! or maybe unlucky since you missed out for all these years
3:10 you say laughing at violence in clown make up wins an Oscar today but show a clip of the dark knight. The Crow is closer in time to The Dark Knight than The Dark Knight is to today.
Yeah, a clip of the newer joker would have made more sense
If Batman and Joker had a goth baby...love it
Brandon Lee will always be the one true Eric Draven to me. Sting from WCW has him to thank for a lot too!
...and a bass player/songwriter from England.
Supposedly it was actually Scott Hall’s idea to have him dawn the whole crow vibe.
Imagine if The Crow was never made and Sting ended up drawing inspiration for his look from ICP. Yikes!
Brandon Lee is goated for this for sure, but Mark Dacascos did pretty good on Stairway to Heaven
@@amccall88 Thank I thought I was the only one who thought he did for a tv series
I loved this Honest Trailer and movie. The soundtrack is a dang masterpiece. I saw The Cure last year and they played “Burn.” You don’t realize how much of a marathon the drums are in the song!
0:28 my friend, who loved The Crow, also, she got tan lines from her fishnets. She thought it was funny.
4:38 "Have you tried WII Sports?" A much better distraction than eyeball smoking, though it will technically still fry your eyeballs.
7:34 ok I was NOT expecting that. Laughed so hard 10/10 joke (the dark Brandon one)
"Stuipd asshead" and "play this back in slow motion" are comments I still use to this day.
The PE note comment called me out 100% and I wasn't emotionally ready for the flashbacks haha
After all these years how dare you tease me with TANK GIRL!?! For the love of all that's good please do TANK GIRL!
I second this motion!
@@jenmaguire636 THIRD!
FOURTH!!!!!!!
FIFTH! Motion passes. It is decided then 😂
Lori Petty for the WIN!
I spit out my drink when it went into Billy Madison shampoo vs conditioner lol
"You kiss your brother with that mouth?"
Captain America understood that reference.
Never been goth/emo, but I'm a 90s teenage comic book nerd, so this movie is right in my wheelhouse. Kickass movie, excellent soundtrack (that I still play to this day). Fantastic flick, and one I keep going back to every few years.
This was and still is one of my favorite movies (it came out when I was a teen). I watched it so many times on DVD, had the soundtrack on CD, and can pretty much quote every scene where one of the villains is on screen.
Great video, perfect description of Michael Wincott's voice.
I need to go listen to the soundtrack again.
Finally! The trailer about the true OG. Nothing and no one can ever replace it.
Spent a lot of time at the mall, did you?
I'm still gonna watch the reboot lol...
Birds 🦢
Saw a poster for the new one the other day, find the whole concept distasteful and disrespectful
@@jonahfalcon1970 Dude. I was only at home.
Some films are just too iconic to remake. This is one of them
^ This!
Absolutely!
@@kazuhirala 🎯
Yup. If they wanted to do a new Crow movie, they should have either adapted another one of the comics or tried something original again.
Yeah, I don't automatically share the knee-jerk conviction that the remake is absolutely going to be complete garbage that most people seem to have, but I still think it simply shouldn't have been made because living up to the original is impossible. And if a remake can't live up to its original, why even make it?
Michael Wincott is under-rated. He’s always fun to see.
Agree, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Count of Monte Christo also.
Basquiat?
@@foadxxx not seen that... Yet. Thanks for the recommendation!
That soundtrack is everything. There are times when you just need to blast "Into the Flesh". But never while driving, because suddenly you're going 100 mph down I-5.
"No existential angst before nine", words to live by
I don't think there will ever be anything like THE CROW. So tragic, and yet so much fun. only in the '90s. So paradoxical that 1994 was the happiest time of my life. And I'm not even a Goth!
LOL. I lost it when you did that Adam Sandler impression during the credits.
No mention of how Sting turned this into his whole gimmick in WCW!? Phwoah!
"Ow, stop I'm old" cracked me up :-)
This video is amazing.
That being said - this is the best soundtrack ever.
I never knew how much I would love hearing you say “mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children” but I thank you, Sir.
I think technically Batman 89 influenced The Crow.
When Brandon loudly proclaims “GENTLEMEN” he sound like joker and Top says “nice outfit”
Thought the same thing. 89's Batman and 94's The Crow are HIGHLY influential! Great soundtracks too! 😁
That said, the darker takes on the Joker owe a LOT to James O'Barr's graphic novel. Both influenced each other a lot during that period.
Yeah, I think you can draw a direct line of influence from Tim Burton's Batman -> The Crow -> Blade -> The Matrix -> everything that came after The Matrix.
The Joker also said "nice suit" if I remember correctly...
@@soccerojdoj so did Lecter.
Damn this was great, 4 horsemen of the bropacalypse lol
Grape nuts getting crushed by a velvet steamroller. Pure art sir.
That was one of the most accurate honest trailers ever.
I was literally 13 yo when I saw The Crow for the first time. It was the coolest movie ever.
I was *not* expecting "Caw Patrol" to be the Honest Title but I love it. 🤭🐦
“The Warriors” is a great call out! Though, I doubt many people will recognize it.
That actor was also in Twin Peaks!
Agreed.
He also was the guy, "Sully", Arnie drops off a cliff in "Commando".
His catch phrase before killing him is: "Remember when I promised I would kill you last... I lied."
😊
And since they namedropped John Wick... he was in that too.
@@cassiusdhami9215 Haha, yea and my favorite part is when she asked: "What did you do with Sully"? I let him go" :D
Supposedly, The Crow's crow-y humor knocked everyone in the cemetery dead.
“Laughing at violence in clown makeup earns you an Oscar today.”
Damn. Heath Ledger catching strays.
This may have been the best “starring” section I’ve seen from y’all. Calling out The Warriors, Blade, and John Wick all in one go is amazing 😂
"Costumes loved by every kid with a note excusing them from PE." I was in HS when this movie came out... LOL, thanks for reminding me of the Robert Smith acolytes in grey sweats and sneakers.
In the original cut of the movie, Eric meets a guy that knows what happened to him and explains the situation and that he only has a limited amount of invulnerability. That's where the duct tape came from, he was bandaging himself together. The final cut of the movie dropped the mentor character subplot, so Eric just suddenly and inexplicably shows up wrapped up in tape later in the movie.
I really don't think the movie needed the mentor. I feel it was better that we (& Eric) didn't know the whole story. I always thought this movie would be rubbish, but hired it on laser disk (Yes, really) from the only Civic Video in the ACT (Australia) that had them & drove to the other side of Canberra to watch with mates. I was blown away by every aspect of the movie, the look, the action, the story, the effects, the music,.......... A truly brilliant experience.
Skull Cowboy...such a missed opportunity
The invulnerability was only applicable to wounds not inflicted by the self. This is in the original graphic novel... he self-harms and those wounds don't heal... so he wraps them up.
@@JohnWestIV The original graphic novel was incredibly vague about the invulnerability - or even if he was invulnerable at all... There's multiple scenes of him shooting up heroin/morphine before he goes into battle. There was also no actual "emerging from the grave" scene in the graphic novel. It was purposefully vague if he had died and been resurrected, or just barely survived in the first place. Personally I think it was better for the lack of clarity...
There's a really old PC CD-rom documentary/game about the Crow that has a few scenes of the Skull Cowboy that were cut.
I felt the line where he said you had to watch this when you were 14, because I JUST TURNED 15 when this was originally released. I felt that right in the arthritic knees. Good times 1994.
One of my top 10 movies of all time. Thank you Honest Trailers.
I love how I was talking with a buddy of mine last weekend about this movie then I saw this video. Well played.
I eagerly await the honest trailer of Beetlejuice before the sequel comes out on my birthday.
I second this
"Nice f**kin model! (Honk honk)"
There's a sequel?!!!
@@FunZies. It comes out in September! Tim Burton has been trying for thirty years to get it made
@@My_Naginta And someone gave him money to make Mars Attacks! instead?
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED and INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Honest Trailer!!!
YES! Where Interview with the Vampire is concerned, Honest Trailers for both the movie and the show. 🦇
@@danavixen6274yes!!!
I watched The Crow at 10 years old with an older cousin. Still my favourite film of all time.
The character names at the end were the absolute top of your game and any game
0:44 😂 he’s right, the depiction of Detroit between reality and the media is night and day, for real Detroit is a really great city that I hope to visit soon.
Fun fact: Michael Wincott (Top Dollar) was the VA for the Prophet of Truth in Halo 2 before Bungie made the baffling decision to replace him with Terence Stamp for Halo 3. Still haven't forgiven them after nearly 20 years. Wincott's Truth was excellent.
Eh. They both work. I just wonder what the point of recasting was, period.
"So before you don't see the remake..."
I actually met The Crow's creator, James O'Barr at South Texas Comic Con a few years back, he was a nice guy and we talked about Brandon Lee for a while.
I remember seeing him at a convention and him talking about how good Brandon was in the movie. And then about a week later, Brandon died.
Sure pal
@@goldenfiberwheat238 It's true
@@goldenfiberwheat238I saw him and talked to him at cons too, and he was very kind. It’s totally feasible.
@@drudelmonico sure pal
A local cult movie cinema in the 90s had the tag line *"The Movie that Shot Brandon Lee to Stardom"* on their omnibus poster of upcoming films for the month.
"Oww! Stop, I'm old!"
Just yes!
I totally lost my S*** at "Shampoo is better" Than I died when u kept on going with the conditioner line. R.I.P me, excellent work!
Just like Highlander. "There can be only one".