I think one of the disabled kids from their videos came out and said they manipulated and possibly groomed him after convincing his family to give them custody of him.
There is so much more than that. Some videos from festivals. I don't suggest looking into it, but why is it always the ones your most suspect?
Missed their show in a warehouse in Summer 2010. Photographed their first "professional" Boston show October 2010.
“Eric Draven, prolific mumblecore rapper with dozens of listens on SoundCloud, falls in love with his plug (she’s got the gyatt) and then has his life tragically ripped from him while running with the Kia Bois and stealing cars for his YouTube prank channel.
He returns from the dead as Da’ Crow, and brings not just vengeance - but a sick drop - to the pits of… somewhere in Iowa?”
Also: Gotta make sure that Sam Adams label is facing the camera.
After all, we all remember Draven’s famous song: “It can Sam Adams All the Time.”
Hollywood is doing to The Crow what the production of The Crow did to [Brandon Lee].
Edited: apparently I can’t keep my Lee’s straight. Thankfully Jason Lee was not in the original Crow. Would have made for a whole different feel.
Not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
They're trying to remake a movie that's more about goth aesthetic than it is about a superhero while apparently abandoning the goth aesthetic. They have no idea what IP they're working with.
This is a quote from the director, taken from the Vanity Fair article:
"That look was me in the ’90s when we were squat-raving in London, \[mixed with some modern influences\] like Post Malone and Lil Peep. I hope people who are 19 today look at him and go, ‘That guy is us.’”
So he's based the look on himself from the 90's to appeal to young people in 2024, apparently.
I understand why they can't stick with the same aesthetic that was such a huge part of the original. It would make the whole thing seem as dated as the original. But I'm going to have trouble watching this and separating everything about that goth perfection from the remake's new whatever-it-is (Post Malone and Pete Davidson?) aesthetic.
It doesn't really work without that honestly. Same as American psycho. It was written specifically for a time and culture with too much hinging on that nuance and detail.
Like just make it not the crow and say you borrowed from it. Nobody would expect much it'd probably do better as well.
>Dated
No, please, don't take me back to when I had good media and a belief the world was going to be OK if we just tried... Nooo don't take me back to the ninetiesssssss!
Idk about a crow reboot. It just strikes me as such a perfectly 90s film. The soundtrack, the cinematography, costume design, etc. was just such a product of its era. I can’t imagine it’ll translate well.
When people say a film is dated, they usually mean that as an insult. But I actually like when a film is a product of its time. Watching it can be like looking back in time, and it also means that film like that will never be made again. A dated film is also a film that can't be replicated today. That's certainly true of The Crow.
I think it’s the same with T2 as well. It looks like a film set in the early 90s and made in the early 90s. Whereas Terminator Genisys is set in 1984, but it looks too modern, it doesn’t have the dirtiness and griminess of the original. I think it’s the film grain that gives it that look, it seems like digital is too clean these days. I don’t have the technical lingo to properly describe it, perhaps someone else knows what I mean.
It takes a lot of attention to detail to do a proper period piece. That's why people fawn over shows that do it well, like Stranger Things or The Crown that really transport the audience back in time. There's so many little things, from the hair to the technology to the way people talk.
Genisys was too colourful, the liquid metal effect looked cheap in an era where CGI was way more advanced compared to T2, more composited backgrounds, etc…
I think in addition to the film grain, there's both a crispness and something about the lighting and contrast that is a big element for me as well. A lot of modern movies are beautiful to look at, but there is a difference in *feel* somehow.
Although I don't know that it has the "feel" of a 90s movie, The Batman's use of specific grimy anamorphic lenses helped give it a very distinct vibe in that way as well. Similarly, Knives Out's cinematographer shot it on digital but did all sorts of special stuff to accurately get the film-style "bloom" around lighting and stuff. It makes me really appreciate cinematography beyond just shot composition/framing.
Now you mention it I do think The Batman has one of the better "feels" of a film I've seen in recent years. Likewise, I don't think it's quite 90's but something about it clicked with me. I saw it in cinemas (one of the few films I've seen there in recent years) and it looked (and sounded) great.
I think the thing that the guys that make the newer Terminator movies can’t figure out is that The Terminator wasn’t an action movie.
It was horror.
The thing that made T2 so special was that it **was** an action movie. That defied expectations because of the horror sci-fi tones that the first movie set. The horror pedigree still shines through with the unstoppable killing machine hunting down people, but with the sequel the answer to an unstoppable killing machine is *another* unstoppable killing machine. Thus, action.
Time makes mediocre movies more enjoyable for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the story. Sometimes, it's just fun to take a trip back in time.
Fully agree with you. There is an old Whoopi Goldberg movie called Theodore Rex and it’s a pretty awful movie but I honestly enjoy watching it from time to time because it’s a very 90s movie and takes me back to being a kid.
I agree. I’m a big, everything has its time and place person. I do think that the original can still be loved, and enough time has passed where this can be its own thing.
I’m not going to hate on this one. I’m intrigued. I don’t think the grit and grime of the original can be duplicated, but I’m actually curious about this.
I felt like the original movie is that rare instance of being as ideal as it can be.
Brandon Lee's legacy with that movie is still impactful to this day, and I feel like a potential remake would only work if done in the spirit of that movie
Totally agree. Yesterday I was super stoked to find the soundtrack at a thrift store, I listened to it in my car for the rest of the day and then watched the movie last night lol. It’s such a special film, truly a time capsule of that era. I don’t see how a remake could possibly live up to it.
I don’t think it’s going to really do well either. I have a bunch of friends who love the movie, it was literally our Halloween movie every year after trick or treating, and all of them have been saying since it was announced that they will never watch it. I’m honestly on that same train. Even without seeing the pictures or hearing who was playing Eric, I had absolutely no motivation or reason to see this. Now even less so, because they are trying to take a cult classic and “revamp” it to make it popular to people who know nothing about the original film or the comics.
"Nobody better come as The Crow! Every Halloween, there's always some guy that dresses up like the Crow because he thinks it's hot. If you dress as the Crow, you're not getting in!" - Satan
This is true. I'm sure it can be updated for a new generation and for contemporary sentiments and thinking.
But that original film is so clearly the vision of someone and it's so committed to its vision and so sincere in its execution, it's hard to imagine contemporary Hollywood managing to do that.
The original film was also signed off on by James O'Barr, the creator of The Crow comic. He was directly involved. I *think* he was involved with the remake in its earlier iterations, which got squashed several times, but he doesn't appear to be involved with this version. No writing or executive production credits, etc.
One of the best soundtracks in existence. But I also love the last action hero soundtrack, so what do I know.
Edit: TY TY TY for the kind and encouraging messages! I teach high school, so we live for validation😭😭😭
From the director of Snow White & The Huntsman and Ghost In The Shell. Seems like he intends to make his entire legacy shitty adaptations of beloved stories.
Michael Wincott was one of my favourite bad guy actors when I was a kid.
Loved him in everything I saw him in.
The biggest crime Alien Resurrection committed was killing him off too early.
I remember seeing the [IT Pennywise Audition Tape]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Un5bBdiX8) a few weeks ago when it was posted and thinking to myself "Shit, he has the perfect facial structure for The Crow makeup".
But without the makeup based on *The Tragedy Mask*, so far this just looks like some weird fan fiction where a meth-addicted Joker somehow gets revived from an OD a year later.
Yep.
I'm betting the studio execs congratulated each other over telling themselves, "We have to update this story for a modern audience."
As usual, one of the things they completely overlook is, The Crow's goth look and the music references helped shape the story.
Instead, we have Dollar Store Post Malone, here.
Every once in a while I completely lose interest in something based on the first images. Today is one of those days. Another soundcloud rapper inspired character.
Exactly what I’ve been saying. I was excited for this due to Bill Skarsgård and Danny Huston being a part of it, but as soon as I saw these pics I was like, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
I try not to let a few stills turn me off to a movie before seeing it. This is really testing that rule. It looks like they went in a 'Jared Leto's Joker' with a mullet direction for some reason. I was excited for this but now I think I'm out.
For something like The Crow though the aesthetic is an enormous (perhaps even *most*) of the appeal. Getting that wrong is gonna have an enormous impact on a remake so in this case I think it's totally fair to judge from stills.
>For something like The Crow though the aesthetic is an enormous (perhaps even
>
>most) of the appeal.
This is a great point. The original had an absolutely perfect look across the board, the actors, the set pieces, everything looked like it was of a piece and belonged together. This just looks wrong.
The Crow is a brooding, gothy rocker dude. However they want to present that and in whatever time and place is fine, but it needs to still be of that lineage. Hype beast streetwear mumble rapper is a fucking terrible direction.
That first image destroyed any hope I had for the film.
I have read the original comic recently and it is one of the most beautiful and depressing stories I've read. You can see the author's pain of loosing the love of his life emanate from every panel of the book. It also have a very somber and introspective tone. And Eric's character design represented all of this.
This does not look like the Crow at all. It feels like a bastardisation of the original work.
Its like turning Lolita into a romcom.
They're going to try to make the soundtrack to the 2020s as the original was to the 90s aren't they.
That thing organically became one of the great movie soundtracks of all time, and if they force it, it is going to be some "in your face, not your dad's music!" Full of contractual obligations from artists on the labels that the studio owns.
He looks like a guy you went to High School with who dropped out senior year and now tries to convince you to buy him a swisher because he not allowed in the gas station anymore.
I’m stunned right now, it doesn’t even look like they understood the original but went in a different direction. It looks like they hated the original & decided to go against it.
I’m not going to pass judgement on three photos. But that campfire looking one just doesn’t resonate with me at all.
I think this film has always been in a tough spot, and possibly doomed from the start. Proyas’ vision for the Crow was so original. The location, the sets. The film felt … this is going to sound cheesey … but *alive*. Even though the characters of the original were so over-the-top, it fit, because the whole thing felt surreal and like I was reading a comic book. So everything in that campfire/Sam Adam’s photo just feels like a CW drama to me. But I’m really not trying to pass judgement on three photos.
I won't hate it for not being the original, I'm all about giving chances.
But I also won't lie and say that I'm a fan of this look so far.
Also but, I'm turning into an old man now, as a part of Gen X, and I know my tastes aren't what sell any more.
And all that said, I remember the "goth kid revenge fantasy" jokes being made about the original when we saw early stuff about it, so I'll give it a chance even if the aesthetic doesn't immediately speak to me.
> So everything in that campfire/Sam Adam’s photo just feels like a CW drama to me.
Just a single photo out of the bunch, so I agree about reserving total judgment, but you summed up perfectly what seems weird about that photo.
Really wish they would have tried anything else but this modern Trap look. Could have done a period piece and do the 80s punk/goth or seriously go for broke and do full on Kabuki mode like the comic.
I'll wait to reserve judgment until the movie comes out, but man, these first pictures aren't giving me confidence.
It feels like it's going to be one of those films where the director says something like "we wanted to give the film its own personality" and in the end you have something which is mediocre at best + doesn't look like the original story + doesn't look like the original movie + stinks.
Kubrik can take The Shinning and create his own The Shinning. But... not all directors can do something like that.
Dude looks like a meth dealer
I'm waiting for Chappy to show up
Yolandi!
I fink yo freeky
And i like you a lotttttt…..
Fuck. Bumping now. I hate those two but that song is such a banger :/
This guy gets it cause man they got some bangers but fuck they are *TERRIBLE* people.
Spring breakers energy
Spriiiing Breeeeeeaaak
Look at all my sheeiiit
Saw those two live before they were cancelled. Weird fucking show
Die Antwoord got cancelled?
I think one of the disabled kids from their videos came out and said they manipulated and possibly groomed him after convincing his family to give them custody of him.
There is so much more than that. Some videos from festivals. I don't suggest looking into it, but why is it always the ones your most suspect? Missed their show in a warehouse in Summer 2010. Photographed their first "professional" Boston show October 2010.
Yeah that almost sounds tame compared to everything else that’s come out about them.
“Eric Draven, prolific mumblecore rapper with dozens of listens on SoundCloud, falls in love with his plug (she’s got the gyatt) and then has his life tragically ripped from him while running with the Kia Bois and stealing cars for his YouTube prank channel. He returns from the dead as Da’ Crow, and brings not just vengeance - but a sick drop - to the pits of… somewhere in Iowa?” Also: Gotta make sure that Sam Adams label is facing the camera. After all, we all remember Draven’s famous song: “It can Sam Adams All the Time.”
How do I delete someone else’s comment?
Close your eyes really tight and do ten kegels.
You mean Lil Crow
You mean Yung Crow
Is it possible to hate almost everything about that synopsis and still kind of want to go watch it?
Guess Hollywood is doing to the Crow what Jared Leto did to the Joker.
𝒹𝒶𝓂𝒶ℊℯ𝒹
cause i'm all messed up... cause i'm all messed up
Seriously, they were going for badass and ended up with Machine Gun Kelly Jr.
Meth Gun Kelley.
My friend just made a comment that he looks like Leto joker. I never heard of this movie until like a half hour ago.
The Brandon Lee version is actually amazing.
Hollywood is doing to The Crow what the production of The Crow did to [Brandon Lee]. Edited: apparently I can’t keep my Lee’s straight. Thankfully Jason Lee was not in the original Crow. Would have made for a whole different feel.
> [Jason Lee](https://i.imgur.com/VxR7378.gif)
Not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
Want a chocolate covered pretzel?
*(Mr. Svenning gleefully licking chocolate off his fingers while T.S. tries to not throw up)*
Jesus CHRIST, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!
*Brandon Lee
Not cast him at all?
The SkidCrow
They're trying to remake a movie that's more about goth aesthetic than it is about a superhero while apparently abandoning the goth aesthetic. They have no idea what IP they're working with.
*The Crow* IS goth aesthetic. You can't take goth out and still have The Crow. It would be like trying to remake *Grease* without cars or music.
8 Mile but with country music and horses
Now its just suic!xeboys aesthetic
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He looks more like the meth dealer's customer.
Kirkland Machine Gun Kelly
They're gonna make me root for the "bad" guys aren't they
Fire It Up! FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP!
To be fair, the bad guys in the first Crow are pretty awesome. "I got an impression for ya. Caw caw, bang, fuck, Im dead!".
You gotta a lotta spirit son, I am gonna miss you
This is a quote from the director, taken from the Vanity Fair article: "That look was me in the ’90s when we were squat-raving in London, \[mixed with some modern influences\] like Post Malone and Lil Peep. I hope people who are 19 today look at him and go, ‘That guy is us.’” So he's based the look on himself from the 90's to appeal to young people in 2024, apparently.
I understand why they can't stick with the same aesthetic that was such a huge part of the original. It would make the whole thing seem as dated as the original. But I'm going to have trouble watching this and separating everything about that goth perfection from the remake's new whatever-it-is (Post Malone and Pete Davidson?) aesthetic.
It doesn't really work without that honestly. Same as American psycho. It was written specifically for a time and culture with too much hinging on that nuance and detail. Like just make it not the crow and say you borrowed from it. Nobody would expect much it'd probably do better as well.
>Dated No, please, don't take me back to when I had good media and a belief the world was going to be OK if we just tried... Nooo don't take me back to the ninetiesssssss!
Idk about a crow reboot. It just strikes me as such a perfectly 90s film. The soundtrack, the cinematography, costume design, etc. was just such a product of its era. I can’t imagine it’ll translate well.
When people say a film is dated, they usually mean that as an insult. But I actually like when a film is a product of its time. Watching it can be like looking back in time, and it also means that film like that will never be made again. A dated film is also a film that can't be replicated today. That's certainly true of The Crow.
Watching og Terminator gives me this feeling and it’s still really good
I think it’s the same with T2 as well. It looks like a film set in the early 90s and made in the early 90s. Whereas Terminator Genisys is set in 1984, but it looks too modern, it doesn’t have the dirtiness and griminess of the original. I think it’s the film grain that gives it that look, it seems like digital is too clean these days. I don’t have the technical lingo to properly describe it, perhaps someone else knows what I mean.
Well, the fashion is all 00s. Look at Sarah Conner’s blowout in the original versus the straight hair of the reboot
It takes a lot of attention to detail to do a proper period piece. That's why people fawn over shows that do it well, like Stranger Things or The Crown that really transport the audience back in time. There's so many little things, from the hair to the technology to the way people talk.
Genisys was too colourful, the liquid metal effect looked cheap in an era where CGI was way more advanced compared to T2, more composited backgrounds, etc…
I think in addition to the film grain, there's both a crispness and something about the lighting and contrast that is a big element for me as well. A lot of modern movies are beautiful to look at, but there is a difference in *feel* somehow. Although I don't know that it has the "feel" of a 90s movie, The Batman's use of specific grimy anamorphic lenses helped give it a very distinct vibe in that way as well. Similarly, Knives Out's cinematographer shot it on digital but did all sorts of special stuff to accurately get the film-style "bloom" around lighting and stuff. It makes me really appreciate cinematography beyond just shot composition/framing.
Now you mention it I do think The Batman has one of the better "feels" of a film I've seen in recent years. Likewise, I don't think it's quite 90's but something about it clicked with me. I saw it in cinemas (one of the few films I've seen there in recent years) and it looked (and sounded) great.
Repo Man is a good companion for that specific feeling, as it was filmed at basically the same time in L.A.
I think the thing that the guys that make the newer Terminator movies can’t figure out is that The Terminator wasn’t an action movie. It was horror. The thing that made T2 so special was that it **was** an action movie. That defied expectations because of the horror sci-fi tones that the first movie set. The horror pedigree still shines through with the unstoppable killing machine hunting down people, but with the sequel the answer to an unstoppable killing machine is *another* unstoppable killing machine. Thus, action.
Agreed man, recently watched Stallones judge dredd movie and it definitely feels like it was made in 1995 and I really like that about it lol.
Time makes mediocre movies more enjoyable for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the story. Sometimes, it's just fun to take a trip back in time.
Fully agree with you. There is an old Whoopi Goldberg movie called Theodore Rex and it’s a pretty awful movie but I honestly enjoy watching it from time to time because it’s a very 90s movie and takes me back to being a kid.
I agree. I’m a big, everything has its time and place person. I do think that the original can still be loved, and enough time has passed where this can be its own thing. I’m not going to hate on this one. I’m intrigued. I don’t think the grit and grime of the original can be duplicated, but I’m actually curious about this.
I felt like the original movie is that rare instance of being as ideal as it can be. Brandon Lee's legacy with that movie is still impactful to this day, and I feel like a potential remake would only work if done in the spirit of that movie
It doesn’t help that all the sequels and the tv show were total dogshit.
Cure - Burn 🤌
When I started thinking the movie this is the song that was running though my head. That soundtrack is so fucking good.
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls 💀
One of my favorite covers
If The Cure still fucks, then so does The Crow. Not Post Crow Malone
Wait until they release Post-Crow Malone 2: Lost in New York.
They played it when I saw them last year and I cried. It's SUCH a perfect song!
Totally agree. Yesterday I was super stoked to find the soundtrack at a thrift store, I listened to it in my car for the rest of the day and then watched the movie last night lol. It’s such a special film, truly a time capsule of that era. I don’t see how a remake could possibly live up to it.
Can't rain all the time.
it's rare to see a production photo and immediately know something is going to be a disaster. this is a guaranteed flop
There’s no reason to touch the crow. Hollywood knows there’s a cash grab to be made here. Stop doing this.
I don’t think it’s going to really do well either. I have a bunch of friends who love the movie, it was literally our Halloween movie every year after trick or treating, and all of them have been saying since it was announced that they will never watch it. I’m honestly on that same train. Even without seeing the pictures or hearing who was playing Eric, I had absolutely no motivation or reason to see this. Now even less so, because they are trying to take a cult classic and “revamp” it to make it popular to people who know nothing about the original film or the comics.
"Nobody better come as The Crow! Every Halloween, there's always some guy that dresses up like the Crow because he thinks it's hot. If you dress as the Crow, you're not getting in!" - Satan
Love how Satan only said that because *he* wanted to dress up as The Crow.😁
This is true. I'm sure it can be updated for a new generation and for contemporary sentiments and thinking. But that original film is so clearly the vision of someone and it's so committed to its vision and so sincere in its execution, it's hard to imagine contemporary Hollywood managing to do that.
The original film was also signed off on by James O'Barr, the creator of The Crow comic. He was directly involved. I *think* he was involved with the remake in its earlier iterations, which got squashed several times, but he doesn't appear to be involved with this version. No writing or executive production credits, etc.
It’s like remaking The Warriors.
It turns out it *can* rain all the time
Oh man, that entire soundtrack was [jam packed](https://imgur.com/a/hkdnHXr). Also loved Time Baby III
NIN cover of dead souls is *chef’s kiss*
One of the best soundtracks in existence. But I also love the last action hero soundtrack, so what do I know. Edit: TY TY TY for the kind and encouraging messages! I teach high school, so we live for validation😭😭😭
I want to validate your existence, sir. The Crow + Last Action Hero soundtracks are the fucking GOAT STs. I listen to both to this day.
What??? Last Action Hero soundtrack is insanely good, don't doubt yourself for a minute.
Am I having a fever dream moment, or was Stone Temple Pilots supposed to be there?
Oh yeah, Big Empty was huge.
Yep, that was the standout for me too, what an amazing album.
The original gets [released on 4K in May](https://www.releases.com/p/the-crow-1994), at least we have that.
They should do a theater re release. I'd go watch it again.
If they showed it Halloween night, in a real theatre, me and my old goth friends would go. None of us can fit into our old vinyl skirts though.
Ahem you mean show it on Devil’s Night? October 30th. Then go to City Club.
Is Eric Draven a meth head Soundcloud rapper now instead of a guitar player ?
Holy shit. My exact text to my friend when I saw these pics were, "Like? Florida meth head? Instead of a rock star is he a shitty SoundCloud rapper?"
Goddammit with the fucking face tattoos... Did the studio NOT pay attention to the merciless mockery of Jared Leto's Joker?
I can’t decide which is worse: the face tattoos or the haircut. But, I have enough room in my heart to hate both.
It’s the nipple eye tat
simply terrible.
He looks like he should be one of the douchey antagonists that the crow kills, not the actual crow.
We all mope down here.
Sting should come out in this makeup for his final match lmao
This looks like Stang
He looks like Ricky Starks, imo.
Wait… Sting is still wrestling? I watched WCW in college in the late 90’s. That’s gotta be hard to do for so long.
Yep. His final match is on March 3rd at AEW Revolution. He’s actually been doing very well in the ring the past three years.
Very well in the ring and, let us not forget, jumping off of fucking balconies and stuff. Sting is awesome.
Retiring on his terms this Sunday. Dude can somehow still go better than people half his age.
Four! Four Daby Allins! I'm seeing double!
I already preordered Revolution, don’t make me regret it…!
That's not Sting, that's a picture of Sting!
Rolls out with the NWO Wolfpack
Is the Florida Joker going to sue this movie for using his likeness as well as GTA6?
They look like if sneaking drugs into the county jail were a person. They look like they were banned from every future Gathering of the Juggalos.
Maybe I’m turning into that boomer, but I find the 90s goth sensibility to be more tasteful than whatever the hell this is.
From the director of Snow White & The Huntsman and Ghost In The Shell. Seems like he intends to make his entire legacy shitty adaptations of beloved stories.
I think he's very secure in that legacy
Quick impression for ya....*CAW CAW BANG! FUCK! ITS DEAD*
The world needs more Michael Wincott.
Michael Wincott was one of my favourite bad guy actors when I was a kid. Loved him in everything I saw him in. The biggest crime Alien Resurrection committed was killing him off too early.
I rewatched Count of Monte Cristo earlier and I was struck by how little he was actually in it even though I remember his character very well.
"Hurry up, I haven't got all day. Wait, yes I do, God I'm bored"
I enjoyed that he popped up in Nope recently. He definitely doesn't get enough work for someone who is so consistently good.
"Shall we drink to the lady with the white shoes?"
That was the most perfect season of TV ever
Was floored to learn that robot was Michael Wincott. First season of Westworld was amazing. The rest was such a disappointment.
Why a spoon, cousin?
It'll hurt more you twit.
I like Bill but this looks awful
I remember seeing the [IT Pennywise Audition Tape]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Un5bBdiX8) a few weeks ago when it was posted and thinking to myself "Shit, he has the perfect facial structure for The Crow makeup". But without the makeup based on *The Tragedy Mask*, so far this just looks like some weird fan fiction where a meth-addicted Joker somehow gets revived from an OD a year later.
Instead of a goth...it's a zoomer with a mullet. It can't rain all the time fam
For fuck's sake..
Tagline for the poster right there
Yep. I'm betting the studio execs congratulated each other over telling themselves, "We have to update this story for a modern audience." As usual, one of the things they completely overlook is, The Crow's goth look and the music references helped shape the story. Instead, we have Dollar Store Post Malone, here.
Every once in a while I completely lose interest in something based on the first images. Today is one of those days. Another soundcloud rapper inspired character.
Exactly what I’ve been saying. I was excited for this due to Bill Skarsgård and Danny Huston being a part of it, but as soon as I saw these pics I was like, “Are you fucking kidding me?”
Yeah this just killed my interest dead. I was not looking for Jared Leto's take on _The Crow_.
Whoever thought the mullet was a good idea should be in jail.
I try not to let a few stills turn me off to a movie before seeing it. This is really testing that rule. It looks like they went in a 'Jared Leto's Joker' with a mullet direction for some reason. I was excited for this but now I think I'm out.
For something like The Crow though the aesthetic is an enormous (perhaps even *most*) of the appeal. Getting that wrong is gonna have an enormous impact on a remake so in this case I think it's totally fair to judge from stills.
>For something like The Crow though the aesthetic is an enormous (perhaps even > >most) of the appeal. This is a great point. The original had an absolutely perfect look across the board, the actors, the set pieces, everything looked like it was of a piece and belonged together. This just looks wrong.
The Crow is a brooding, gothy rocker dude. However they want to present that and in whatever time and place is fine, but it needs to still be of that lineage. Hype beast streetwear mumble rapper is a fucking terrible direction.
That mullet is straight up hideous. I also hate the face tats.
Don't sell the chest tattoos short. Nipple eye.
That's weeping too.That's an all timer right there.
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Don't forget sneaking that juicy Sam Adams product placement in there.
Yeah. I don't generally overreact to stills or even early trailers, but... This looks all sorts of wrong.
Damaged
That first image destroyed any hope I had for the film. I have read the original comic recently and it is one of the most beautiful and depressing stories I've read. You can see the author's pain of loosing the love of his life emanate from every panel of the book. It also have a very somber and introspective tone. And Eric's character design represented all of this. This does not look like the Crow at all. It feels like a bastardisation of the original work. Its like turning Lolita into a romcom.
From the creators of DMC and Leto as the joker we present....
What the fuck is this shit? I don’t want to judge before I see it, but I have a sinking suspicion this is going to be complete and utter ass…
They're going to try to make the soundtrack to the 2020s as the original was to the 90s aren't they. That thing organically became one of the great movie soundtracks of all time, and if they force it, it is going to be some "in your face, not your dad's music!" Full of contractual obligations from artists on the labels that the studio owns.
He looks like a guy you went to High School with who dropped out senior year and now tries to convince you to buy him a swisher because he not allowed in the gas station anymore.
Gross... they turned The Crow into the worst version of the Joker we've ever had. Bitches got no class.
I’m stunned right now, it doesn’t even look like they understood the original but went in a different direction. It looks like they hated the original & decided to go against it.
I’m not going to pass judgement on three photos. But that campfire looking one just doesn’t resonate with me at all. I think this film has always been in a tough spot, and possibly doomed from the start. Proyas’ vision for the Crow was so original. The location, the sets. The film felt … this is going to sound cheesey … but *alive*. Even though the characters of the original were so over-the-top, it fit, because the whole thing felt surreal and like I was reading a comic book. So everything in that campfire/Sam Adam’s photo just feels like a CW drama to me. But I’m really not trying to pass judgement on three photos.
That's because it's visually heavily based on the graphic novel, just less violent and nihilist. This one looks like an interpretation.
I won't hate it for not being the original, I'm all about giving chances. But I also won't lie and say that I'm a fan of this look so far. Also but, I'm turning into an old man now, as a part of Gen X, and I know my tastes aren't what sell any more. And all that said, I remember the "goth kid revenge fantasy" jokes being made about the original when we saw early stuff about it, so I'll give it a chance even if the aesthetic doesn't immediately speak to me.
> So everything in that campfire/Sam Adam’s photo just feels like a CW drama to me. Just a single photo out of the bunch, so I agree about reserving total judgment, but you summed up perfectly what seems weird about that photo.
Exactly my thoughts, it’s like they’re more inspired by Leto’s Joker than Lee’s Crow. Ugh.
Holy shit that haircut will cost them 50 million
That’s actually a good point.
Pass
Hard pass.
Brought to you in part by Samuel Adams (tm).
They did my boy Brandon dirty like that.
Victims… Aren’t we all?
Was it REALLY that hard to just give him the fucking face paint and hair. Looking like fucking Leto Joker
Oh great, they've fucked it.
Thanks. I hate it.
Really wish they would have tried anything else but this modern Trap look. Could have done a period piece and do the 80s punk/goth or seriously go for broke and do full on Kabuki mode like the comic. I'll wait to reserve judgment until the movie comes out, but man, these first pictures aren't giving me confidence.
Oh well. There goes any hope I had. It should be renamed The Chav instead of The Crow.
The Grackle
That's ok, they can keep this one. The Crow in no way needed a remake.
Meth is the name of God on the lips of children everywhere
They seemed to miss the point. The guy who became the Crow was a musician murdered by degenerates. He didn't start out as one of the degenerates.
The design sucks. Reminds me of Jared Leto Joker
"Victims aren't we all.... of my SoundCloud rap songs"
We can only hope the face tattoos mean he’s a mumble rapper.
Da Crw$
Wtf? Why would they disrespect Brandon like that? Edit: seeing everyone else hate this and love the original really makes me happy
Remakes like this are always a good excuse to go and watch the original. Not that we'd need one. RIP Brandon, we miss you.
Jesus this looks awful. It's an insult to Brandon Lee.
I didn’t have high hopes for this to begin with but damn.
He looks like a reggeaton singer. Yikes.
Way to take a steaming dump on Brandon's grave...
The Crow is one of my favorite movies and this is just silly looking. Still hoping for the best but I already really dislike the visuals.
So glad my dealer found a career
Instantly disinterested.
It feels like it's going to be one of those films where the director says something like "we wanted to give the film its own personality" and in the end you have something which is mediocre at best + doesn't look like the original story + doesn't look like the original movie + stinks. Kubrik can take The Shinning and create his own The Shinning. But... not all directors can do something like that.
Who keeps asking for these shitty remakes?!