Anya ,'Get It Done'
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I liked the first Crow. And got all caught up in the tragedy of the Lee family prophesy. Plus, Michael Wincott is creepy-fun. But the rest were, indeed, crap.
Yet another example of terrific potential squandered.
Hmph. My dog has fallen heavily asleep on my foot, which has, in turn, fallen asleep. I take this as a sign that the rest of me should follow.
::comeon Bartleby, let's go chase squirrels in our dreams...::
That comment was just me not wanting to come off as a union basher.
Unions, like most things, need the occasional bashing. For all the good things they've done, they've also done a lot of shitty things.
Signed,
Not Bitter A Union Cost Me A Full-time Job
Boreanaz playing an undead avenger?
No, actually, he plays some murderous gang leader who wants to ascend to demonhood or something.
He's the Mayor?
The Crow was a tiny bit, um, baroque. But for all that, yeah, good movie. Imagine how much better a movie it could have been if the lead hadn't been killed a couple of weeks before the end of principal photography! Those first 20 minutes really obviously re-use the same close-ups again and again. (I mean, I don't know what else they could have done, given 1994 technology.)
One of the things I enjoyed most about the movie was Eric's sardonic sense of humor. I like the idea of dead people having a good laugh in the depths of their post-mortem depression. "Victims. Aren't we all?"
I like the idea of dead people having a good laugh in the depths of their post-mortem depression. "Victims. Aren't we all?"
Yeah, I had to rewind to catch what he said. It took me a while to get used to his speaking, actually. The look was so great, I wanted him to be this silent killer. But the talking made him sound like this ordinary dude, which, well, he was.
"If you move, you're dead!"
"Well, I say I'm dead, and I move."
And then simple, pointed statements like "Morphine is bad. "
A friend of mine had "It can't rain all the time" as her e-mail signature for years, and I'm glad I can finally appreciate it.
One of the things I enjoyed most about the movie was Eric's sardonic sense of humor. I like the idea of dead people having a good laugh in the depths of their post-mortem depression. "Victims. Aren't we all?"
It's such a shame. Brandon Lee was so good in that, and the fact that he could pull off the sick humor showed he had some range to him. Plus there was something about his voice I really liked - he didn't talk like an "action" star.
Plus there was something about his voice I really liked - he didn't talk like an "action" star.
He didn't, and that's what took some getting used to for me. I didn't like it at first. There was this cognitive dissonance between his look and his voice. I expected him to sound like Michael Wincott. I had to reconfigure my notion of the character: he wasn't this supernatural Angel of Death, he was just a rock star looking for revenge. There was something refreshing about that.
Pitchfork media says that an Ian Curtis bio-pic is in production. Rumor has it that Jude Law has been cast as Ian.
I expected him to sound like Michael Wincott.
Nobody sounds like Michael Wincott. Between Strange Days, Dead Man and the Crow, he's managed three of the gnarliest (yet completely different) raspy voices I've ever heard this side of Tom Waits.
Between Strange Days, Dead Man and the Crow, he's managed three of the gnarliest (yet completely different) raspy voices I've ever heard this side of Tom Waits.
He looked really familiar, and I think I remembered him from Strange Days and Three Musketeers. But yeah, pretty gnarly voice.