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“The Crow” turns 30 today

Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:13 pm
Posted by STigers
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Member since Nov 2022
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Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:13 pm
The Crow was released in theaters on May 13th 1994.
I recently rewatched and it holds up very well IMO.

Has one of the best soundtracks. It features Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Rollins Band, Rage Against the Machine, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, The Cure and many more cult classic bands to match this cult classic film.

I’m predicting the reboot is gonna suck
Posted by Prosecuted Collins
The Farm
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:38 pm to
I remember the mythology around this movie when it came out.

No internet, chat rooms, celebrity gossip shows, etc. just small mentions for a few days in the mainstream media.

MTV, Rolling Stone and a few other rags had the only reporting on the movie. There was such a visceral feeling that you were about to see something!

Just a great opening night memory at Acadiana Mall cinema.
This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 7:39 pm
Posted by SUB
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Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:39 pm to
I’ve still never seen it. I missed it during its original run because it was rated R. And I was big into Bruce Lee at the time so I really wanted to see this cool movie with his son in it. I’ll have to give it a go soon.
Posted by TideSaint
Hill Country
Member since Sep 2008
77423 posts
Posted on 5/13/24 at 9:13 pm to
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I’ve still never seen it.


What the frick?
Posted by DrDenim
By the airport
Member since Sep 2022
852 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:49 am to
The reboot will be arse, but I don't care cuz I aint never gonna see it.

This movie is the most atmospheric movie I've ever seen, and the biggest reason why is that soundtrack....Holy Sheeeeit! What a fricking album!
Posted by migui8618
Member since Nov 2023
289 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 7:59 am to
I feel like a worm on a big fricking hook
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
51979 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:14 am to
i just watched it for the 1st time the other day. will be a yearly watch for halloween from now on and the soundtrack has to be top 10 all time.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
25939 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:33 am to
Alex Proyas knocked it out of the park with this one, and he deserves more recognition for his body of work overall. Dark City is phenomenal, Knowing is highly underrated and I Robot is pretty good despite all the a-hole producers forcing him to do their stupid shite. It's a shame he doesn't get more opportunities to film.


Brandon Lee's acting is awkward in the Crow, but it actually is quite endearing. It works. There's a charm that he brings which makes the movie shine. This is still one of my alltime favorite movies, and it's crazy to think it has been 30 years. Wow. I need to fire up the theater room with this real soon.
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
23563 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:17 am to
I've posted this here before. But every time The Crow comes up, I think about the stripper named Shelly Webster:

I had read the comic as a young teen and was obsessed with the movie. I had a Crow poster on my wall, and a few Crow t-shirts. I bought the movie on VHS when it came out and would watch it often.

Many years later it was my bachelor party and we wound up at Visions - as bachelor parties often do.

Visions has a thing where you can pay to have someone pulled on stage by the strippers, and they pull your clothes off and basically beat the shite out of you.

My friends did that to me. I was so drunk that I didn't care.

After being beaten by a bunch of strippers, they pulled me back stage so I can put my clothes back on. The girls all signed a Visions shirt. But signed it with their stripper names like "Sparkle" and "Gem Stone' or whatever it is strippers call themselves.

One of the girls, who had a goth theme going on, signed the shirt "True Love Always, Shelly Webster"

She said "You probably don't even know who Shelly Webster is."

As drunk as I was, I looked her dead in the eye and said "Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children."

She basically melted on the spot. I'm pretty sure I could have taken her home that night.

Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 5/14/24 at 10:19 am to
14 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT 'THE CROW' SOUNDTRACK

1. The Cure's "Burn" was recorded by just the band's frontman Robert Smith and drummer Boris Williams

2. Machines of Loving Grace read the screenplay of The Crow before writing "Golgotha Tenement Blues" and created the song to fit the film

3. Stone Temple Pilots originally planned to contribute a different song than "Big Empty" to the soundtrack, but switched gears after Brandon Lee's death

4. Nine Inch Nails' Joy Division cover ("Dead Souls") is a Crow soundtrack standout, but according to Peter Hook, the former members of Joy Division were originally asked to cover the band

5. Rage Against the Machine's "Darkness" dates back to Zack de la Rocha's pre-RATM band Inside Out

6. Violent Femmes had written "Color Me Once" before they were asked to contribute in The Crow soundtrack, but based on what they heard about the movie, they thought it would fit

7. The song "Ghost Rider" is based on the Marvel comic-book character, but Henry Rollins was not a fan of the "motorcycle hero ... blazin' away"

8. Helmet's "Milktoast" is an alternate version of the band's "Milquetoast" recorded with Nevermind producer Butch Vig, who played a big part in the outcome of both versions

9. Pantera not only paid tribute to hardcore crew Poison Idea with their cover of "The Badge," but they also took influence from the group on Far Beyond Driven

10. For Love Not Lisa were initially reluctant to be part of The Crow soundtrack because they thought it was going to be "crappy kung-fu movie"

11. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult shot their brief but memorable cameo in The Crow, playing their song "After the Flesh" "10 thousand times" in a freezing cold abandoned cement factory over two days

12. Despite being released on the Jesus and Mary Chains' The Sound of Speed compilation months before its appearance on The Crow soundtrack, "Snakedriver" was written for the movie

13. Medicine's "Time Baby III" features the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser and is titled "III" because there are, in fact, three versions of the song

14. Jane Siberry's "It Can't Rain All the Time" was co-written by Graeme Revell, who scored the movie and was also the mainstay member of Eighties industrial outfit SPK
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
7771 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 11:25 am to
quote:

Brandon Lee's acting is awkward in the Crow, but it actually is quite endearing. It works.


Yea I think the awkwardness of the performance ended up suiting the character perfectly imo. Eric was just a nice normal dude thrust into this fricked up violent ordeal and he has to come to terms with what he is and what he must do.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 11:25 am
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31155 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 12:33 pm to
Was ordering some other CDs. After seeing this thread, I added to my order.


Posted by Cdawg
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Member since Sep 2003
60192 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:16 pm to
That soundtrack brings me back to some dark places I was at in the summer of '94.
Posted by CocomoLSU
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Member since Feb 2004
152084 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 2:47 pm to
quote:

Brandon Lee's acting is awkward in the Crow, but it actually is quite endearing. It works. There's a charm that he brings which makes the movie shine.

Agree completely on Lee. And actually, I don't think it's too greatly acted by anybody on the cast really. But it just works for whatever reason.

Also, the atmosphere they created is just fantastic. It really has that same sort of gritty vibe similar to what Nolan created in Batman Begins. Just a gritty and dark, but realistic place.

It's been a few years since I've seen it last, but I may have to change that soon.

It can't rain all the time.

quote:

boxcarbarney

Dude, I love that story every time you tell it.

Posted by Rusty_magnet
Gonzales
Member since Jul 2022
51 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 4:36 pm to
Check out the soundtrack to judgment night as well. Really good one.
The crow soundtrack is my number one soundtrack with judgment night coming in second place and third place is probably the soundtrack to spawn.
Judgment night is great because of the collabs between rock and rap music and done really well.
Posted by drizztiger
Deal With it!
Member since Mar 2007
38787 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 6:19 pm to
quote:

boxcarbarney

Dude, I love that story every time you tell it.
Same. I love that story. Truly a :csb:
Posted by Cenlabration
The Ville of Pine
Member since Apr 2021
1117 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 6:46 pm to
It was insane how many great movies came out in 1994. Arguably the greatest movie year ever.



Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
65844 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 7:15 pm to
It had an interesting act one structure.

The Crow and The Professional, as best I can remember, are the only movies I didn't care for upon first viewing that I've grown to admire more and more with each repeated viewing.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
25939 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:51 pm to
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Jane Siberry's "It Can't Rain All the Time" was co-written by Graeme Revell, who scored the movie and was also the mainstay member of Eighties industrial outfit SPK



I love this song. Is it contrived? Absolutely. I don’t care though. It’s Awesome.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
25939 posts
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:54 pm to
quote:

It was insane how many great movies came out in 1994. Arguably the greatest movie year ever.


It’s in contention for certain. I believe the 90s and the 40s are the two best decades of cinema. The 90s was loaded with original, smart, well directed movies. When you look at a list of everything that came out it’s stunning to see.
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