Imagine if the first John Wick movie started with John and his wife’s backstory and then you don’t see John shooting bad guys until an hour into the film
This movie really gives insight as to why filmmaking is no longer an art in Hollywood, these unwanted cash grabs with familar/established IP's created with no care for the source material or end product and then the producers and higher-ups are confused when the movies bombs...
Try supporting independent artists. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
This, Fant4stic, and Rise of Skywalker are all good examples of movies that are pretty just made out of obligation and to appease fans, they're pretty much just fancy power point presentations on why you are supposed to like the movie, like the pointing soyjack
@viktorvaughn7341 Would it be appropriate for me to say they were ‘Doomed’ from the start, eh Viktor? Jokes aside, you forgot that having established actors in movies with crappy scripts and where the artist is clearly looking for a payday don’t help either. How the heck does Billy Sarsgard terrify us as Pennywise and then become a plank of wood as Eric Draven?
Absolutely. A lot of Modern movies just suck and have no soul or identity to them. It’s sad that they have no originality so they have to remake classics and F over the legacy of the original with how bad the remakes or “sequels”. Smh Hollywood is washed. It’s wash rinse and repeat.
Remakes are all Hollywon't can attempt. Otherwise, it isn't as though they'd take a chance (which is IRONIC) on something new which is unknown but contains proper storytelling basics, amazing character arcs, powerful thematic underpinnings, and the potential to take the world by storm. It's too risky. No one wants that. Risks on new things is bad. Old yet already known IPs, franchises and brands are "safer". Terminator, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, Lord of the Rings, Snow White... they're all doing GREAT right now! 💪😎✌️ #winning #success #profits 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
@@chrisbarnett5303that’s what people have been calling it recently in the last like decade. However what the 13th Step originally was coined to mean was just Relapse in general. Hence the title being used for A Perfect Circle’s 2003 Album. But since early sobriety “love”, sexual conduct and relationships are one of the most common factors that lead to relapse if not approached from a healthy place.. it would make sense that people have narrowed the 13th Step meaning down to just that.
@LoveEachDay94 I'm an alcoholic and drug abuser in recovery, and I don't feel bad for these people. I've never celebrated my addictions or ever based an entire intimate relationship with a woman with that in common. The story is lame.
@epep50 congrats on your recovery! And yeah, it's hard to like people when they're messing up, especially when they know better (the whole reason my hubby and I stopped watching Sons of Anarchy). They took the Madonna (Catholic imagery) out of The Crow and made her The Whore instead. From there, her and his romance is tainted and not a bright spot of innocence in a corrupt world, where The Crow comes to mete out justice. Do NOT know how they could have missed these plot points!!
The original crow movie only needed not even a total of 4mins screen time with Eric and Shelly, to show how strong the relationship between the 2 couple were .. The new one took 40mins trying and still could not portray to audience how important the lovers were 😂😂😂
So what you're saying is that this whole movie was romantic bullshit and backstory instead of getting to the point? They did the same thing the CW did to the last two seasons of Nancy Drew. Which destroyed the show.
Yea it was like reverse the whole movie was the backstory part and only a little of action but the old was a little bit of the backstory and the rest action
Omg yess after the first season of Nancy drew I just knew it was going to be rough I couldn’t watch anymore after the first. CW has a way with ruining series
The director of this went from made the best Halo commercial (Halo 3 ODST trailer) to okay Snow White and Huntsman, shitty Ghost in the Shell and shitty Crow.
@@ms-abominable I mean it kinda is, or at least top 3, and the thing is that it's a genuinely great piece of filmmaking despite being a commercial... maybe Sanders should have stayed on that lane though
See the difference is that at least The Ghost in the Shell keeps/recreates a lot of the gothic art of the original, and could serve as a rough telling of the story for people who have no intention of watching the Anime (like it’s a lesser experience, but it’s at least in the ballpark). This remake has NONE of the same visual identity.
big trouble in little china, jack will be a black woman do everything solve anything and be the driving force of the movie, they take out the asian elements too
Hollywood has run out of ideas on making movies that are original and generation defining. These reboot films take away instead of compliment. How many "Carrie" reboots have been released and yet not one of them come close to the original.
Films fail when one, many, or all of the following are missing: dramatic structure, character arcs, thematic underpinnings, cinematic techniques, world-building, and relevant color palettes (yup). These aren't the *only* six things, but if they're missing, it's definitely bad news. Unfortunately, you'll be seeing A LOT of this (missing foundations). Like a bike without tires or a car with no engine. 🤮
“Sanitized the grit.” That was one of the things that jumped out at me from the trailer. Everything looked so sterile. That’s completely the wrong vibe.
This crow looks like the only thing he'd come back from the other side for would be an unguarded catalytic convertor. And this Shelly looks like Darla before she gets clean. Morphine's bad for you, Shelly!
"Do you think angsty teens would build little shrines for us?" Way to completely and fundamentally annihilate the character of Shelly. Bruh. In the original, after having been beaten, stabbed and gang raped, the first thing Shelly does as they take her away in the ambulance is to ask where Eric is. The second thing she does is asking about Sarah. Even after all she went through she was more worried about the man she loved and the child she had all but adopted off the street. Bruh.
That was a another fundamental failing of The Crow (2024). The character of Shelly just comes across as a self regarding rich kid drop out. Not only do you not care about her, you actively feel antagonistic to such a boring drip.
Damn, here I was actually excited to watch the movie only to hear that it was cold garbage. It made me think it was gonna be a mix between john wick and blade but now it just sounds like a movie you watch to punish yourself.
If I were a studio executive with sway in the project, the last thing I would do is remake The Crow. A remake invites almost exclusive comparison to the original, while a sequel or spinoff, especially the fifth movie in a long dormant series with only two watchable entries, is afforded the blessings of far lower audience/critic expectations. They ended up canning most of the source material in an attempt to be different anyway, so why not just make a different movie altogether? I would have pushed for a faithful adaptation of The Crow: Flesh & Blood. The bar immediately lowers to City of Angels, which is a much more realistic hurdle. Clear that, and people would be more forgiving when it inevitably falls short of the original. I find it baffling that the studio opted to trample The Crow's potent nostalgia, rather than nurturing or even capitalizing on it.
I guess I won't have to much of a problem if they'd made these characters not eric and shelly, made it it's on story. But the original was so much better, storywise, visually, actors, etc.
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This film was unwanted. It's shameful. Why it's such a monumental failure. I think the filmmakers and actors realized this before finishing. Why it's so lack luster and devoid of passion. Honest emotion. The original film stayed close to James Barrs story. The original is Alex Proyas's best film. The original will forever show the world the tremendous talent of Brandon Lee. A great movie at the right time. What luck...huh. Should never of been revisited.
The original movie had the idea of showing the actual love two characters have in this one you get two drug addicts who only have sex and that’s what’s supposed to convince us that they love each other
One is rarely going to see a movie made these days (a movie aimed at a younger audience, in any case) in which a character is made the victim of sexual or intimate violence. "The Crow" was, quite simply, a movie that was bound to fail, never to find an audience among the younger generation today, as they (for the most part) can't bear anything so harsh as the original...and those of us who saw the OG in theaters back in the early 90s don't need a remake, no matter how well made it could've been.
The sanitation of this movie wasn’t for them, it was a studio decision. I know plenty of people my age would consume pretty dark stuff on the daily, if anything kids today are forced to confront darker aspects of life all the time due to the internet leaving nothing to the imagination.
Total nonsense. Have you actually seen what kids can see on the internet? The idea that younger Millennials or Gen Z are too squeamish for The Crow (1994) is really silly. The sanitisation of The Crow (2024) has more to do with Hollywood execs attempting to get the film the lowest rating they can and hence the widest potential audience, than it does any sensibilities over violence.
@@mrbeast85 gen z isn’t too squeamish for the crow lol have you seen midsommar, hereditary, terrifier series, saw? We’re maybe de sensitized to it. Nothing may be as captivating and ‘scary’ as it was when the movies the exorcist first came out. The problem is that everything now is predictable and just a bunch of people in hollywood trying to make profit by making shitty remakes of classic movies
Bill Skarsgard could’ve genuinely worked, and the theatre fight choreography is well executed (and hilarious). It’s EVERYTHING else. The characters are annoying. The pacing is beyond slow, and the villain is boring.
The 1994 film was right to depict the Draven/Webster relationship in brief flashbacks. Real-life romances are not fairytale-like, and can be - and usually are - boring and awkward. If you turn THE CROW into some kind of dark and edgy rom-com, what you're left with is a sort of bathos in reverse, because all the blood and thunder that comes later almost fails at being justified by the banality that preceded it. I can already imagine a realistic adaptation of THE CROW: an on-again, off-again courtship in a bustling and impersonal urban environment. The lovers bicker and struggle to understand each other, but manage to remain together because it's so hard to find a soulmate in the big city. Then the girl is slain in a gang crossfire. The boy buys a gun, tracks the gang members to an alley, and shoots them all dead. The end. Almost like a parody, isn't it? The "hero" became a mass murderer for pretty much no reason.
might have been better if they used someone else who has donned the mantle of The Crow instead of using Eric Draven and Shelly Webster who was played and beloved by Brandon Lee.
I’m really not surprised it’s being called an absolutely failure. I mean the original had a sort of mysterious plot following the death of the lead they give us a remake to a movie we absolutely don’t ever and will not ever need. What’s with the remakes why won’t people just make something new instead
Hey man, i know you probably won't see this. But could you make a video about succession it's an absolutely amazing series & i think you would enjoy watching and reviewing it
Anybody who likes this film is clearly not of sound mind or any other type of non-physical thing because this is why you don't do a media adaptation or remake in general of a pre-existing thing if you're going to so drastically change the large majority of it that you would have done better to just create your own original work
Your right in fact if they should at the beginning that he tries to defend himself but even though he’s physically strong he’s not a skilled fighter and gets beaten up, it would show how him being unkillable actually puts him at an advantage as he just takes the beating but that’s doesn’t stop him. Unlike other hero’s who have healing factors like wolverine who has other abilities outside of his healing. The Crows main power is his ability to heal so showing how OP it is would only make him more badass. It’s honestly such a shame that they couldn’t do that until the end. Also I feel like this wasn’t supposed to be a remake. I feel Like the names Eric and Shelly were not the original name.
The fact the original crow over doubled the profit from this one says it all. Without adjusting for inflation 😂 Btw, the original tripled it's production cost. City of angels only.tracked domestic box office and only barely made less than this.
I really, really, wanted to give this remake a chance when the production said that they were doing "a retelling of the original comic" (its why Stairway to Heaven has a place in my heart) but it failed so hard in a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material: The Crow, at its heart, is a fairytale which is where it's timelessness comes from. Weather it's Grimm's Fairytales, Wuxia stories, or an number of bedtime stories, revenge of a lost love is not something that needs 45 minutes of establishment or a bunch of rules or doubts thrown onto the love that is the motivation of the story.
first of all, it is an insult to Brandon Lee, it's shameful, because the movie was almost done before the accident. idk about you but as a guy born in 91, the crow to me IS Brandon Lee, it's campy and everything but so was all the films from that era. not this pure emo sucker, brandon was scary, skarsgard looks like an emo clown. and for what ? a movie that isn't even average
I somehow just encountered your video and watch it and remembered "The Shadow" of 1994 the same year "The Crow" was released. I hope that other movie won't get remade too, since the source material of "The Shadow" is believed to be the first popular antihero in the media of 1930's.
I called it since the first teaser trailer. Brandon lees crow is damn near perfect. They need to remake shit movies instead of ruining the legacy of good ones.
I was watching a breakdown of the two compared to one another. The video stated how Shelly was introduced to the movie, thats what gave the Crow his drive to do what he did. Then further along in the movie we get to see flashbacks that truly signify how important she was to him. How pure the love was between them. This new one is just 😐
I agree with most of what your saying with the exception of the "bullying scene". I've seen a couple of reviewers talk about this and say he was an outcast or weak but I don't. I saw it as a group therapy session. It showed them all in therapy right afterwards sitting in a semi-circle. I took it as an exercise in either anger management where he was supposed to learn to control his anger when he couldn't control the outside or as a rehab to confront him with a shitty world but he had to find a way to get past it without drugs. I know this was long and if you made it this far, thanks! But also the movie was horrible on almost every level. Even if it was called the pianist instead of the crow it'd still be awful.
Her bad acting and lispsssss is bloody annoying..im glad this filmed failed.👍🏻 How dare they try and remake this film.. calling them Eric and Shelly. Change their names ans it still would have suxed. They should have made a female crow like in the comics (Iris Shaw)
His films have always been utter trash. To this day, I have no idea why everyone thought "The Sixth Sense" was anything other than a forced way to drag out one of the most predictable, storyless "twists" ever. Every scene is forced, every shot is misdirection for the SAKE of misdirection, and the film has no legitimate thematic underpinnings.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Unbreakable is a masterpiece though, all the rest is indeed utter trash. But atleast it's original trash unlike Disney and others
Having not seen it but seeing the synopsis it sounds like the film falls into the same trap most modern remakes do. Telling too much. A lot of great films, The Crow, Halloween, Friday the 13th, things like that thrive on having an air of mystery. Too many movies these days want to hand hold and explain everything which kills run time and interest in the character.
The current business model of taking IPs made lucrative by their loyal fanbase and making it into something that spits in the face of that fanbase, can't possible be financially beneficial. Therefore I have to assume, it's personal. I'd love to know what I did to incur this wrath.
I want to watch your review just to know why I knew not to waste my time to see it, I honestly think that The Crow is un remarkable. And I’m a dark/horror/thriller movie enthusiast, so The Crow has a special place for my heart. Between Brandon Lee, the setting, music and cringe bad guys that deserved everything they got. Its a 1 of 1 masterpiece and cant be remastered.Forgot to mention the first time I watched the original Crow it was vhs so that gave it a different quality.
When eric became the full version of the crow in that long ass trash movie, they didn't even give the viewers any satisfying fight choreography, the gore was satisfying and how he kills them but for me it feels repetitive, slashing here slashing there, Brandon lee even if the fighting scene was dark created a nice fight choreography . The choreography was like if Jason Voorhees went into an emo phase and just went on a rampage. Like dude the Crow doesn't only give you immortality it also gives you enhance human strength, speed, and agility, they didn't even use any of those, specially the cool looking "I see, what the crow sees" thing.
while i really appreciate the attempt to legitimize their relationship in the new one, the original one thrives through the flashbacks because they were actually married. Just helps that little extra bit to make the ogs love still feel tragic.
probably the biggest dose of salt on the wounds is that they made it a reboot instead of doing what the other films(which were also bad but not as bad) respectfully changed, the other films had different protagonists, they had different Reborns but oh no here comes a fucking reboot with a new "Eric Draven"
The original also had a whole tv show behind it before the movie so he was crow right from the start of the movie. The love story was explained more in the tv show.
Not a remake. If the source material is not the same medium as the product it is not a remake, no matter how many versions it had before. The crow, both movies are based of a comic book, so the 2024 version is not a remake. Nobody calls new versions of Batman a remake, because the source material is not in the same medium.
In general (I mean, not only THIS movie), the problem is that the industry is playing the nostalgia game (as well as the comparison game). If they promote cheap or lazy products as different products… they would still be lazy, bad, or lame, but at least the public would watch them for what they are, with fewer comparisons (maybe). But they deliberately mean to generate comparisons (or confusion, even worse), because they think nostalgia is enough to make a hit in box office.
@@vanessaprado4013 agreed but funny enough during interviews the cast was insisting that this movie is not a remake… I think that’s the only thing they got actually right about this movie 🤣
It wasn't horrible it was ok but not as good as the original but just so you know he found that guy bc he looked at the bad guys phone saying where he's at
at the very beginning of the movie when she gets the call from her friend about the video its an android phone with android OS but as she tries to Delete the video and calls another friend, Its still the same phone but now with IOS
You know its a bad film when over time it doesn't grow on you at all; you just despise it even more. The more I think about this film (and I sat through the whole thing at the cinema!) the worse and more wretched it becomes. I think it must surely mark the end of Rupert Sanders' short Hollywood directing career. His brief filmography runs to just 3 films, and while Snow White and the Huntsman did ok despite mixed reviews, his other 2 have been box office and critical duds. I will say though that the design for Ghost in the Shell (2017) was 1st class, streets ahead of the vacuous look and style of this disaster.
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I find it hilarious people are bashing on the movie because it gives you a backstory the first didn’t. I didn’t feel any connection with Eric and Shelly in the OG one. They just die right away and we get some minor flashbacks of nothing that makes you feel sad for Eric on his way to revenge. Y’all were gonna complain about the movie regardless of how good or bad it was just because of the obsession for the OG and it wasn’t even that good to begin with. It was just loved because of the tragedy of Brandon Lee which was terrible itself but that movie was far from perfect
Even if we pretend that this is not a remake, but an original movie, it's still very poorly written. You don't even know what exactly you're watching - is it edgy romance for teens? Is it horror? Drama? Superhero movie? Characters are not memorable and not likable at all, they have zero personality and no chemistry. And "Shelley's" acting is genuinely bad. Like "Bella in Twilight" bad. Atmosphere is nonexistent, the picture is just too sanitized and sharp.
Wait… they killed the main characters the same way a toddler supposedly would accidentally choke? Dawg… just poke or bite a hole in the bag! LMAOOO!!! 😂😂😂 I’m dyin over here! God what a shit movie
The trailer itself already showed no love for the IP This is basically a Wish version of John Wick with the Crow IP slapped on top. Heck, John Wick does a better job as a Crow movie than this reboot.
I thought it would be a silly, fun watch. it was actually exhausting to watch. I have nothing nice to say. least of all about the irritating dialogue from babyvoice tigs. I pray my brain suppresses the memory of suffering through this "movie"
Was the worst attempt of any movie I have ever seen and I'm so glad I didn't actually pay a cent to watch it. I feel bad for putting my poor television through such rubbish 🗑
A soulless rape of this story and characters. This has to be one of the inept screenplays/ direction for a modern "retelling" I've ever seen. There's mediocre movies/bad adaptations... this POS is a travesty!
Imagine if the first John Wick movie started with John and his wife’s backstory and then you don’t see John shooting bad guys until an hour into the film
It kinda feels like that
It’d be more like an hour and a half into the film just leaving 30 minutes of actual action
This movie really gives insight as to why filmmaking is no longer an art in Hollywood, these unwanted cash grabs with familar/established IP's created with no care for the source material or end product and then the producers and higher-ups are confused when the movies bombs...
Try supporting independent artists.
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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This, Fant4stic, and Rise of Skywalker are all good examples of movies that are pretty just made out of obligation and to appease fans, they're pretty much just fancy power point presentations on why you are supposed to like the movie, like the pointing soyjack
@@viktorvaughn7341 they've run out of ideas and now feel they need to make remakes or reboot movies and butcher them
@viktorvaughn7341 Would it be appropriate for me to say they were ‘Doomed’ from the start, eh Viktor? Jokes aside, you forgot that having established actors in movies with crappy scripts and where the artist is clearly looking for a payday don’t help either. How the heck does Billy Sarsgard terrify us as Pennywise and then become a plank of wood as Eric Draven?
Absolutely. A lot of Modern movies just suck and have no soul or identity to them. It’s sad that they have no originality so they have to remake classics and F over the legacy of the original with how bad the remakes or “sequels”. Smh Hollywood is washed. It’s wash rinse and repeat.
They never should have remade it
Exactly
Except its not a remake, its a new interpretation....
Remakes are all Hollywon't can attempt. Otherwise, it isn't as though they'd take a chance (which is IRONIC) on something new which is unknown but contains proper storytelling basics, amazing character arcs, powerful thematic underpinnings, and the potential to take the world by storm. It's too risky. No one wants that. Risks on new things is bad. Old yet already known IPs, franchises and brands are "safer". Terminator, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, Lord of the Rings, Snow White... they're all doing GREAT right now! 💪😎✌️ #winning #success #profits
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"Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
Agreed.
this is one of the worst movies I have seen this year I can't believe he went from IT to shit.
I'm shocked the director of Ghost in the Shell completely bungled an unwanted remake of a beloved film?
Ghost live action was sadly not a good movie either lol
This movie does have a good moral message about why you don't go shopping for love in rehab.
That's the 13th step!
@@chrisbarnett5303that’s what people have been calling it recently in the last like decade. However what the 13th Step originally was coined to mean was just Relapse in general. Hence the title being used for A Perfect Circle’s 2003 Album.
But since early sobriety “love”, sexual conduct and relationships are one of the most common factors that lead to relapse if not approached from a healthy place.. it would make sense that people have narrowed the 13th Step meaning down to just that.
We are really worried about the AI outbreak potentially ruining art, meanwhile this remake fever is already making bleak copies with no soul
Trust me, AI writing will be an upgrade.
100% facts AI may come to ruin art in the future but all these remakes are desecrating the original films
@@aweigh1010Do we have proof AI didn’t write this?
Shelly was angelic and the only thing pure in the original. The new Shelly was a drug addict and not very likable.
What about Sarah?
@microwave8931 a child and Shelly was only showed in post scenes. I see your point though
To be fair it's hard to like a drug addict in the first place like they don't even like themselves. Fuckin crazy ass choice.
@LoveEachDay94 I'm an alcoholic and drug abuser in recovery, and I don't feel bad for these people. I've never celebrated my addictions or ever based an entire intimate relationship with a woman with that in common. The story is lame.
@epep50 congrats on your recovery!
And yeah, it's hard to like people when they're messing up, especially when they know better (the whole reason my hubby and I stopped watching Sons of Anarchy).
They took the Madonna (Catholic imagery) out of The Crow and made her The Whore instead. From there, her and his romance is tainted and not a bright spot of innocence in a corrupt world, where The Crow comes to mete out justice.
Do NOT know how they could have missed these plot points!!
Even if there's no original 1994 The Crow to compare it too, this movie still sucks.
Man i miss the days when movies had killer soundtracks. The Crow. Singles. Judgement Night. Spawn. All killer.
The original crow movie only needed not even a total of 4mins screen time with Eric and Shelly, to show how strong the relationship between the 2 couple were .. The new one took 40mins trying and still could not portray to audience how important the lovers were 😂😂😂
So what you're saying is that this whole movie was romantic bullshit and backstory instead of getting to the point? They did the same thing the CW did to the last two seasons of Nancy Drew. Which destroyed the show.
Yea it was like reverse the whole movie was the backstory part and only a little of action but the old was a little bit of the backstory and the rest action
Worst movie I can think of in a decade.
Omg yess after the first season of Nancy drew I just knew it was going to be rough I couldn’t watch anymore after the first. CW has a way with ruining series
Y’all can’t be serious
@@xavier6391 Why?
No matter how many times you remake it, Brandon Lee is the crow and always will be, RIP Brandon Lee
The director of this went from made the best Halo commercial (Halo 3 ODST trailer) to
okay Snow White and Huntsman, shitty Ghost in the Shell and shitty Crow.
"the best Halo commercial" 💀
@@ms-abominable I mean it kinda is, or at least top 3, and the thing is that it's a genuinely great piece of filmmaking despite being a commercial... maybe Sanders should have stayed on that lane though
See the difference is that at least The Ghost in the Shell keeps/recreates a lot of the gothic art of the original, and could serve as a rough telling of the story for people who have no intention of watching the Anime (like it’s a lesser experience, but it’s at least in the ballpark). This remake has NONE of the same visual identity.
You mean the guy who slept with Kristen Stewart ruining her career in Hollywood.
Yet another remake no one asked for. What's next, Enter The Dragon?
Whyyyy did you just do that? This timeline is reckless and you go and give it ideas! Damnit Bob!
big trouble in little china, jack will be a black woman do everything solve anything and be the driving force of the movie, they take out the asian elements too
Hollywood has run out of ideas on making movies that are original and generation defining. These reboot films take away instead of compliment. How many "Carrie" reboots have been released and yet not one of them come close to the original.
Films fail when one, many, or all of the following are missing: dramatic structure, character arcs, thematic underpinnings, cinematic techniques, world-building, and relevant color palettes (yup). These aren't the *only* six things, but if they're missing, it's definitely bad news. Unfortunately, you'll be seeing A LOT of this (missing foundations). Like a bike without tires or a car with no engine. 🤮
Why are they so hellbent on remaking movies instead of new ideas?
They are uncreative lazy people who just aim for the money?
Bruce Lee's Son Brandon Lee is spinning in his grave thanks to this movie 😢... (Edit) I corrected my comment.
He has a name you know
If I was him I would haunt the directors of this god forsaken remake
“Sanitized the grit.” That was one of the things that jumped out at me from the trailer. Everything looked so sterile. That’s completely the wrong vibe.
Rip Brandon Lee the real Eric Draven!!
I saw the trailer and felt physical pain from the cringe. No further analyses needed here.
This movie definitely wasn't very good, but towards the end it has some really good moments. Maybe if the movie had another hour could've saved it
Wait. In the original the guy swallowed a bullet? Man, that must have hurt to come out.
Don't get any ideas 😆
I don't think he was around long enough for it to come out
Never trusted a fart since
the biggest problem w this movie is that it exists. It's an insult. I can't imagine anyone thinking it was a good idea.
This crow looks like the only thing he'd come back from the other side for would be an unguarded catalytic convertor. And this Shelly looks like Darla before she gets clean. Morphine's bad for you, Shelly!
"Do you think angsty teens would build little shrines for us?"
Way to completely and fundamentally annihilate the character of Shelly. Bruh.
In the original, after having been beaten, stabbed and gang raped, the first thing Shelly does as they take her away in the ambulance is to ask where Eric is. The second thing she does is asking about Sarah. Even after all she went through she was more worried about the man she loved and the child she had all but adopted off the street.
Bruh.
That was a another fundamental failing of The Crow (2024). The character of Shelly just comes across as a self regarding rich kid drop out. Not only do you not care about her, you actively feel antagonistic to such a boring drip.
Honestly, id say the Remake did do one great thing:
Made me wanna actually watch the original.
You missed the best opera supercut of them all; The Fifth Element!
Damn, here I was actually excited to watch the movie only to hear that it was cold garbage. It made me think it was gonna be a mix between john wick and blade but now it just sounds like a movie you watch to punish yourself.
Movie was really good actually
So basically they wanted to focus on the love story but wrote a shitty love story 😂
On the bright side, Skaarsgard's body looks Ammaaazing
He’s beautiful
If I were a studio executive with sway in the project, the last thing I would do is remake The Crow. A remake invites almost exclusive comparison to the original, while a sequel or spinoff, especially the fifth movie in a long dormant series with only two watchable entries, is afforded the blessings of far lower audience/critic expectations. They ended up canning most of the source material in an attempt to be different anyway, so why not just make a different movie altogether? I would have pushed for a faithful adaptation of The Crow: Flesh & Blood. The bar immediately lowers to City of Angels, which is a much more realistic hurdle. Clear that, and people would be more forgiving when it inevitably falls short of the original. I find it baffling that the studio opted to trample The Crow's potent nostalgia, rather than nurturing or even capitalizing on it.
I guess I won't have to much of a problem if they'd made these characters not eric and shelly, made it it's on story. But the original was so much better, storywise, visually, actors, etc.
Only 1 question is needed. WHO wanted this and why?
1) idiots with money and no ideas
2) cause they wanted more money
I enjoyed the movie
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Some film executive wanted this so they could get a bigger vacation home
That's 2 questions
This film was unwanted. It's shameful. Why it's such a monumental failure. I think the filmmakers and actors realized this before finishing. Why it's so lack luster and devoid of passion. Honest emotion.
The original film stayed close to James Barrs story.
The original is Alex Proyas's best film.
The original will forever show the world the tremendous talent of Brandon Lee.
A great movie at the right time.
What luck...huh.
Should never of been revisited.
The original movie had the idea of showing the actual love two characters have in this one you get two drug addicts who only have sex and that’s what’s supposed to convince us that they love each other
One is rarely going to see a movie made these days (a movie aimed at a younger audience, in any case) in which a character is made the victim of sexual or intimate violence. "The Crow" was, quite simply, a movie that was bound to fail, never to find an audience among the younger generation today, as they (for the most part) can't bear anything so harsh as the original...and those of us who saw the OG in theaters back in the early 90s don't need a remake, no matter how well made it could've been.
The Crow is still popular among Gen Z. I'm a teenager and it's one of my favorites
The sanitation of this movie wasn’t for them, it was a studio decision. I know plenty of people my age would consume pretty dark stuff on the daily, if anything kids today are forced to confront darker aspects of life all the time due to the internet leaving nothing to the imagination.
@@microwave8931the original is a classic plus with the aura of death surrounding Brandon Lee. But I don’t agree with remaking it
Total nonsense. Have you actually seen what kids can see on the internet? The idea that younger Millennials or Gen Z are too squeamish for The Crow (1994) is really silly. The sanitisation of The Crow (2024) has more to do with Hollywood execs attempting to get the film the lowest rating they can and hence the widest potential audience, than it does any sensibilities over violence.
@@mrbeast85 gen z isn’t too squeamish for the crow lol have you seen midsommar, hereditary, terrifier series, saw? We’re maybe de sensitized to it. Nothing may be as captivating and ‘scary’ as it was when the movies the exorcist first came out. The problem is that everything now is predictable and just a bunch of people in hollywood trying to make profit by making shitty remakes of classic movies
Terrible casting. It just came off as bad as the storyline.
Idk I like twigs and bill, they just had a shit plot to work with.
Bill Skarsgard could’ve genuinely worked, and the theatre fight choreography is well executed (and hilarious). It’s EVERYTHING else.
The characters are annoying. The pacing is beyond slow, and the villain is boring.
The 1994 film was right to depict the Draven/Webster relationship in brief flashbacks. Real-life romances are not fairytale-like, and can be - and usually are - boring and awkward. If you turn THE CROW into some kind of dark and edgy rom-com, what you're left with is a sort of bathos in reverse, because all the blood and thunder that comes later almost fails at being justified by the banality that preceded it. I can already imagine a realistic adaptation of THE CROW: an on-again, off-again courtship in a bustling and impersonal urban environment. The lovers bicker and struggle to understand each other, but manage to remain together because it's so hard to find a soulmate in the big city. Then the girl is slain in a gang crossfire. The boy buys a gun, tracks the gang members to an alley, and shoots them all dead. The end. Almost like a parody, isn't it? The "hero" became a mass murderer for pretty much no reason.
might have been better if they used someone else who has donned the mantle of The Crow instead of using Eric Draven and Shelly Webster who was played and beloved by Brandon Lee.
I’m really not surprised it’s being called an absolutely failure. I mean the original had a sort of mysterious plot following the death of the lead they give us a remake to a movie we absolutely don’t ever and will not ever need. What’s with the remakes why won’t people just make something new instead
Lionsgate should’ve left The Crow & Borderlands alone! Hopefully they stay away from comic book & video game movies after both these huge failures!
If I recall correctly, Lionsgate didn’t actually have anything to do with making this one. I think they only had distribution rights.
Bill stargaurds is too handsome and talented to be acting in shitty movies
One of the worst films I've ever seen even without the link to one of the best 90's films
Should have been original characters and not Eric and Shelly.
Hey man, i know you probably won't see this. But could you make a video about succession it's an absolutely amazing series & i think you would enjoy watching and reviewing it
If you think that Hollywood has lost it's way, just think that Gladiator is having a sequel
Eh, they've been pondering a Gladiator sequel since the first one came out. Same with Beetlejuice.
No one wanted this. The O.G. is so much better.
SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. I ran away with a girl from rehab and lost her soo this movie has alot of emotional connection to me and I can feel everything.
Anybody who likes this film is clearly not of sound mind or any other type of non-physical thing because this is why you don't do a media adaptation or remake in general of a pre-existing thing if you're going to so drastically change the large majority of it that you would have done better to just create your own original work
Your right in fact if they should at the beginning that he tries to defend himself but even though he’s physically strong he’s not a skilled fighter and gets beaten up, it would show how him being unkillable actually puts him at an advantage as he just takes the beating but that’s doesn’t stop him. Unlike other hero’s who have healing factors like wolverine who has other abilities outside of his healing. The Crows main power is his ability to heal so showing how OP it is would only make him more badass. It’s honestly such a shame that they couldn’t do that until the end.
Also I feel like this wasn’t supposed to be a remake. I feel
Like the names Eric and Shelly were not the original name.
Damning remake. What a perfect description.
The fact the original crow over doubled the profit from this one says it all. Without adjusting for inflation 😂
Btw, the original tripled it's production cost.
City of angels only.tracked domestic box office and only barely made less than this.
I really, really, wanted to give this remake a chance when the production said that they were doing "a retelling of the original comic" (its why Stairway to Heaven has a place in my heart) but it failed so hard in a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material: The Crow, at its heart, is a fairytale which is where it's timelessness comes from. Weather it's Grimm's Fairytales, Wuxia stories, or an number of bedtime stories, revenge of a lost love is not something that needs 45 minutes of establishment or a bunch of rules or doubts thrown onto the love that is the motivation of the story.
I'm at 1:23 and I can already see this was meant to build a franchise.
first of all, it is an insult to Brandon Lee, it's shameful, because the movie was almost done before the accident. idk about you but as a guy born in 91, the crow to me IS Brandon Lee, it's campy and everything but so was all the films from that era. not this pure emo sucker, brandon was scary, skarsgard looks like an emo clown. and for what ? a movie that isn't even average
New crow movie is bad...yeah, it's tradition at this point.
I somehow just encountered your video and watch it and remembered "The Shadow" of 1994 the same year "The Crow" was released.
I hope that other movie won't get remade too, since the source material of "The Shadow" is believed to be the first popular antihero in the media of 1930's.
People need to stop messing up with the original and leave it alone!!!!!
I called it since the first teaser trailer. Brandon lees crow is damn near perfect. They need to remake shit movies instead of ruining the legacy of good ones.
This isn't a remake. It's a re-imagining and it never should've been made. I'll never watch it, that's for sure.
I was watching a breakdown of the two compared to one another. The video stated how Shelly was introduced to the movie, thats what gave the Crow his drive to do what he did. Then further along in the movie we get to see flashbacks that truly signify how important she was to him. How pure the love was between them. This new one is just 😐
IS NO ONE GOING TO METION HOW STUPID THE NEW FACE PAINTING IS
I agree with most of what your saying with the exception of the "bullying scene". I've seen a couple of reviewers talk about this and say he was an outcast or weak but I don't.
I saw it as a group therapy session. It showed them all in therapy right afterwards sitting in a semi-circle. I took it as an exercise in either anger management where he was supposed to learn to control his anger when he couldn't control the outside or as a rehab to confront him with a shitty world but he had to find a way to get past it without drugs. I know this was long and if you made it this far, thanks! But also the movie was horrible on almost every level. Even if it was called the pianist instead of the crow it'd still be awful.
Her bad acting and lispsssss is bloody annoying..im glad this filmed failed.👍🏻 How dare they try and remake this film.. calling them Eric and Shelly. Change their names ans it still would have suxed. They should have made a female crow like in the comics (Iris Shaw)
Have you checked out M Night's latest, Trap? It's ridiculous.
His films have always been utter trash. To this day, I have no idea why everyone thought "The Sixth Sense" was anything other than a forced way to drag out one of the most predictable, storyless "twists" ever. Every scene is forced, every shot is misdirection for the SAKE of misdirection, and the film has no legitimate thematic underpinnings.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Unbreakable is a masterpiece though, all the rest is indeed utter trash. But atleast it's original trash unlike Disney and others
@@mjl11I was about to say. Unbreakable is how I wish most superhero movies were. Dark and gritty with a deep story
I liked it.. thought it was ok. I give it a IGN 7 out of 10.
The jared leto joker movie I was waiting for
Having not seen it but seeing the synopsis it sounds like the film falls into the same trap most modern remakes do. Telling too much. A lot of great films, The Crow, Halloween, Friday the 13th, things like that thrive on having an air of mystery. Too many movies these days want to hand hold and explain everything which kills run time and interest in the character.
The current business model of taking IPs made lucrative by their loyal fanbase and making it into something that spits in the face of that fanbase, can't possible be financially beneficial. Therefore I have to assume, it's personal.
I'd love to know what I did to incur this wrath.
Wow I'm stunned that people want their action movies to have action in them rather than stupid nonsense romance bs
DID THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS EVEN SEE THE ORIGINAL MOVIE , YO CHRIS NOLAN GET IN ON THIS N PLS DONT FRK WITH THE ORIGINAL FACE PAINT
The protagonist being tattooed edgy boy didnt help
I want to watch your review just to know why I knew not to waste my time to see it, I honestly think that The Crow is un remarkable. And I’m a dark/horror/thriller movie enthusiast, so The Crow has a special place for my heart. Between Brandon Lee, the setting, music and cringe bad guys that deserved everything they got. Its a
1 of 1 masterpiece and cant be remastered.Forgot to mention the first time I watched the original Crow it was vhs so that gave it a different quality.
I cant be the only one thats catching a joker harley movie, and why does he look like lil peep
This should’ve been a Netflix/CW movie. There is no need for it to have a theatrical release.
When eric became the full version of the crow in that long ass trash movie, they didn't even give the viewers any satisfying fight choreography, the gore was satisfying and how he kills them but for me it feels repetitive, slashing here slashing there, Brandon lee even if the fighting scene was dark created a nice fight choreography . The choreography was like if Jason Voorhees went into an emo phase and just went on a rampage. Like dude the Crow doesn't only give you immortality it also gives you enhance human strength, speed, and agility, they didn't even use any of those, specially the cool looking "I see,
what the crow sees" thing.
while i really appreciate the attempt to legitimize their relationship in the new one, the original one thrives through the flashbacks because they were actually married. Just helps that little extra bit to make the ogs love still feel tragic.
This movie had to have an AI generated script. So bad.
probably the biggest dose of salt on the wounds is that they made it a reboot instead of doing what the other films(which were also bad but not as bad) respectfully changed, the other films had different protagonists, they had different Reborns but oh no here comes a fucking reboot with a new "Eric Draven"
The original also had a whole tv show behind it before the movie so he was crow right from the start of the movie. The love story was explained more in the tv show.
Not a remake.
If the source material is not the same medium as the product it is not a remake, no matter how many versions it had before. The crow, both movies are based of a comic book, so the 2024 version is not a remake.
Nobody calls new versions of Batman a remake, because the source material is not in the same medium.
In general (I mean, not only THIS movie), the problem is that the industry is playing the nostalgia game (as well as the comparison game). If they promote cheap or lazy products as different products… they would still be lazy, bad, or lame, but at least the public would watch them for what they are, with fewer comparisons (maybe). But they deliberately mean to generate comparisons (or confusion, even worse), because they think nostalgia is enough to make a hit in box office.
@@vanessaprado4013 agreed but funny enough during interviews the cast was insisting that this movie is not a remake… I think that’s the only thing they got actually right about this movie 🤣
It wasn't horrible it was ok but not as good as the original but just so you know he found that guy bc he looked at the bad guys phone saying where he's at
at the very beginning of the movie when she gets the call from her friend about the video its an android phone with android OS but as she tries to Delete the video and calls another friend, Its still the same phone but now with IOS
You know its a bad film when over time it doesn't grow on you at all; you just despise it even more. The more I think about this film (and I sat through the whole thing at the cinema!) the worse and more wretched it becomes. I think it must surely mark the end of Rupert Sanders' short Hollywood directing career. His brief filmography runs to just 3 films, and while Snow White and the Huntsman did ok despite mixed reviews, his other 2 have been box office and critical duds. I will say though that the design for Ghost in the Shell (2017) was 1st class, streets ahead of the vacuous look and style of this disaster.
Great analysis. Thanks for Sharing.
Modern writers smdh
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1:00 So, it’s like The Grinch (2018), but even worse.
I find it hilarious people are bashing on the movie because it gives you a backstory the first didn’t. I didn’t feel any connection with Eric and Shelly in the OG one. They just die right away and we get some minor flashbacks of nothing that makes you feel sad for Eric on his way to revenge. Y’all were gonna complain about the movie regardless of how good or bad it was just because of the obsession for the OG and it wasn’t even that good to begin with. It was just loved because of the tragedy of Brandon Lee which was terrible itself but that movie was far from perfect
The opera scene would have been better if I hadn't checked out completely at the ~35 minute mark.
Even if we pretend that this is not a remake, but an original movie, it's still very poorly written. You don't even know what exactly you're watching - is it edgy romance for teens? Is it horror? Drama? Superhero movie? Characters are not memorable and not likable at all, they have zero personality and no chemistry. And "Shelley's" acting is genuinely bad. Like "Bella in Twilight" bad. Atmosphere is nonexistent, the picture is just too sanitized and sharp.
This movie is the worst. Worst than winnie the pooh 2 and that Mickey mouse trap, the only edge that this movie have is that it has bigger budget.
Hmm ... Well the script as the script.... However, perhaps this movie has to be watched without comparing... That is the problem and here it ends.
Is this the new 4K Master of the original showing in this video?
Just why
Wait… they killed the main characters the same way a toddler supposedly would accidentally choke?
Dawg… just poke or bite a hole in the bag! LMAOOO!!! 😂😂😂 I’m dyin over here! God what a shit movie
The trailer itself already showed no love for the IP
This is basically a Wish version of John Wick with the Crow IP slapped on top.
Heck, John Wick does a better job as a Crow movie than this reboot.
I thought it would be a silly, fun watch. it was actually exhausting to watch. I have nothing nice to say. least of all about the irritating dialogue from babyvoice tigs. I pray my brain suppresses the memory of suffering through this "movie"
Was the worst attempt of any movie I have ever seen and I'm so glad I didn't actually pay a cent to watch it. I feel bad for putting my poor television through such rubbish 🗑
A soulless rape of this story and characters. This has to be one of the inept screenplays/ direction for a modern "retelling" I've ever seen. There's mediocre movies/bad adaptations... this POS is a travesty!
The Original Movie is good but this Remake is Garbage.