The Crow (1994)
 

This year is the 20th anniversary to one of the best and influential comic book movies ever.

I saw this in theaters when i was 12 3 times and i loved it! i even bought the graphic novel, CD soundtrack, t-shirt, poster, mug, cards and all that. It became one of my favorite movies.

Sad that Brandon Lee died before the climax of filming the climax of the film, he really owned the role well. Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters does a good performance too as the lovable cop character who helps out with Eric and there's also David Patrick Kelly.

Who thinks this movie predates Nolan's Batman trilogy, Sin City, Watchmen etc. in terms of gritty dark comic book noirs? i mean alot of directors admire this movie like Nolan, Snyder, Rodriguez, Tarantino and others.

The movie is fantastic
 

Sad to see Both Brandon and his Father go so early.

I actually gave it a watch not too long ago when it was on Netflix and I really enjoyed it. It had a great style and atmosphere and was just all around a movie I could get into.

Who the hell swallows bullets? i mean were T-Bird and his gang high or what?

Fun boy was always high. The debate is out on Skank,Tin tin and T- bird.
This movie is fantastic, easily my favorite comic book movie.

Agreed, I wonder if the franchise would have carried on if they made sequels ? *Sarcasm*

my fav line
 

"it can't rain all the time"

I've never seen a franchise get subsequently THAT much worse with each sequel. I've seen all of them, and by the time I saw wicked prayer it looked like a bad fan movie with Angel and older ten year old John Conner.

I own the trilogy set on DVD. The first one is definitely the best, but I like Salvation better than City of Angels. I rented Wicked Prayer but didn't like it enough to own it, although I do like the song at the end.

I've only seen the first three, but I agree. I also liked Salvation better than City of Angels. But there is no comparison to the original, IMHO.

The first movie is so good, such great atmosphere, now there are some choices I wish had been a little bit different and I'd consider it as one of my top 5 favorite movies. Still damn good and pretty high on my list of movies.

They're making a reboot, I don't think it'll be anywhere near as bad as the sequels but I don't think they'll be able to match the original. I actually think it'll do somethings better like the things that bother me from the first movie but overall the atmosphere won't be as good and it won't feel with as much "heart". Who knows, I guess we'll find out soon.

As far as the sequels, I've seen them all at least once, I think two and three I've seen twice since I have the DVDs so I'm kind of going by memory and it may be a little hazy. They're all bad, and I don't know why because it's such an easy concept to come up great ideas with and not something you need a great budget. The movies actually have some decent ideas, but everything else is executed terribly. Probably if they put together the good ideas of the three sequels you'd get one good movie. I don't know in one movie the "crow" gets killed in an interesting way to set up the movie only to waste it while another of the sequels might have a good villain or motive, etc. All I remember well is that the second movie is set up pretty explicitly as a sequel to the first movie with returning character(s?) and references and yet it's the movie that basically copies and re-enact the first movie, it's almost as if it were a remake. The others which have no references at least try to go their own way.

Anyone see the series? Is it decent? What about the comic? I know the movie is different but I did like the direction the movie took the idea.

I liked it back when I was 12 er whatever. The comic is amazing (at least the first 10-12 issues that the movie was based off of). A lot was changed, but it worked.
I think I'm in the minority when I say that I enjoyed City of Angels a teensy bit more than Salvation, but then again I was probably bias because of Thomas Jane and Iggy Pop. Plus I found Kristen Dunst to be very annoying in Salvation. I did like how his "burns" in Salvation looked like face paint but not really.

The TV show i liked but i'd rather forget about the sequels.

Anyone read the graphic novel?

^^ Yeah the graphic novels are really good and super emotional. Then again I read it during a sort of dark time in my life so it got me a bit more. You could tell James O Barr was hurting when he wrote it. The first 10-12 issues at least. I've read more Crow comics, but they have been with different "Crows" and different stories that to me although well done didn't pack the same punch of the first 10-12 issues.

I haven't seen the crow, but I've always found it funny how the first one is supposed to be good, but the sequels are extremely bad.

Seems weird. Might have to watch this film sometime.

^^ That happens to a lot of Franchises though. Look at a lot of the horror movies, 1st tends to be the best (while not %100 true). Hell even the TMNT movies got progressively worse. Batman, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Jaws, Friday the 13th ect...

Let's not forget the worst offender of that, Highlander

^^ OH geez... yeah. But it was pretty terrible after the 1st one, not sure if it got progressively worse...

Believe it or not, it did in some ways. Highlander 3 added more plot holes to the already huge amount created by Highlander 2. Highlander Endgame had lower production values and was pretty sloppily made. And Highlander The Source was the worst of the bunch (even worse than the second one which is not an easy feat).

Do you agree the film predates Nolan's Batman films, Sin City, Watchmen etc. in terms of dark gritty comic films?

^^Oh hell yeah. Even Blade was a decent gritty Movie in terms of comic adaptations (not Spawn because it just wasn't that good)
It had a very dark gothic style to it and really wasn't afraid to show off Detroit while doing so.
But it was pretty accurate to its source material with few exceptions Read the book or check spoilers if you wanna know the details of a 25-30 year old Comic book

As for Highlander, I only saw bits and pieces of the Second one and Endgame. Honestly there is no reason where there are so many of these movies if Christopher Lambert (There can only be ONE) was the ONE. Also nothing can top a burned headed Clancey Brown with a sword slit across his throat as the main villain. NOTHING

The Crow and Highlander are my two favorite movies. I remember my dad taking me to the video store when I was a kid, which was awesome he would let me rent pretty much what ever I wanted.

I was 9 years old and I boom, I was struck by the cover of the VHS. I had no idea what this movie was about but I HAD to see it. I absolutely fell in love with this movie, and luckily my wife loves it too. My only critique of the movie is that is wish it was black and white like the comic, which I also love.

Brandon Lee's performance was fantastic, and its truly tragic how he died. I truly believe he would have taken off a a major leading man/action star.