The Crow
True love never dies.
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
Wokeness: 10%
Overall Score: 50%
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Ben
Enjoyed it.
I've seen complaints about this online, first I can't compare it to the original movies. I'm sure I seen them when I was a kid but I can't remember, so i'm going fresh into watching this.
I really enjoyed most if it, impactful, cinematic, no wokeness. The impact was let down by the ending and what you could say the 'meaning of it all' that I won't expand on as it'll give it away.
But still well worth a watch.
Created: 09-25-2024
NoWo
Not the Crow, should have been it's own bland 2020s drivel
The original Proyas movie was not exempt of imperfections. But it did ooze style. Styles, really: goth, grunge, whatever. The Cure's Burn was written for this movie. It has RATM, NiN, J&MC, 90s shot pure straight through the skull.
And it did have charisma, by the truckload. Lee was charismatic. Top Dollar was charismatic. Even the minor villain who's whole spiel is to be stoopeed was charismatic.
This movie is emo, all the main characters look like they have pronouns, and I'm probably too old for this shite.
The cinematography is actually excellent, but the pacing is all wrong. The movie wastes the best part of an hour on Shelley, who's supposed to be an ideal, an incarnation of regret, but not a person. And it's not even worth it. Neither Shelley nor Eric come off as real characters.
The idea of a villain who's corruption and despair incarnate is fine, if somewhat out of place (ie: it's not the Crow, make your own movie with its own brand). But Draven, being its polar opposite, becomes some sort of unstoppable zombie, tanking through action scenes like a bloody terminator (pun intended). It bleeds, but you can't kill it.
It's a slog, it's a grind, and it's tedious.
Actually, Draven is not the opposite of his enemy here. He's just a force for destruction, whereas the original was motivated to kill also to save future victims.
And it has forced diversity, white man bad, perfect woman of colour, and obviously male lead sacrificed for the female happy ending
Created: 09-26-2024
