You know, I really wish The Crow were better. If it just had a slightly stronger script, I could upgrade my "really like" to "love." There's just something about it, the bizarre way it makes something so banal so watchable. And Ernie Hudson! Ah, Ernie Hudson. And Tony Todd.

Anyone know about the Skull Cowboy? It looks like a character that would have helped define the mythology a bit better, though after skimming a description of his scenes, I think the movie works better leaving it vague.

Heh. I looked on IMDb, and that movie is the only work the girl who played Sarah ever did.

Gah, you've just made me miss The Crow TV series terribly (I wonder if it's on DVD...) and the chick that played Sarah in that. Hopefully she'll get a good role in the next X-movie.

Gah, you've just made me miss The Crow TV series terribly (I wonder if it's on DVD...) and the chick that played Sarah in that.

So that was good? (Oh, the chick that played Sarah was Kitty. Aaah. Cool.)

I think I might quit the movies if, on my first job, the lead actor managed to get killed dead. Or my parents might make me quit the movies.

I think, as a translation of what I've read of the comics, The Crow is pretty emotionally faithful -- overwrought, baroque, somewhat extreme in its choices. I could wish it were more subtle, and that, e.g., the villains were less outré and thereby more scary. I also think Eric was a much better sass than he was a preacher.

Visually, I think the focus on the industrial style dates it a bit, but I imagine it's sort of an ur-text for many latter-day gothy types.

Was Tony Todd one of Wincott's henchmen? I completely forgot he was in it.

However, Bai Ling, David Patrick Kelly, whoever played Skank - such a good bad-guy cast.

I'm not quite sure why Mark Dacascos never made it bigger. Maybe he doesn't want to. But he's a decent actor with impressive martial arts skills. God, the cutting and chopping that's done in a fight scene today to obscure the fact the lead can only throw four good blows.

Mark doesn't need that.

I'm a huge fan of his and the Crow movie, so I'm skewed -- but have a look -- I'm not sure how they could have extended the main impetus for much longer, but what got made was fun.

As far as Mark's movie work, everyone needs to see Drive. He's got great chemistry with Kadeem Hardison (who shows up in a couple Crow eps).

Oh, I love The Crow so much. Not enough to dress up like anyone in it, but it's one of those movies that was where it needed to be when I needed it.

ION, saw Triplets of Belleville last night. My reaction was pretty much "Huh."

Not enough to dress up like anyone in it

I still need to do this, so badly. Don't tell Jilli.

I am so a Mark Dacascos fangirl. I suspect he never made it bigger because no one really knew what to do with him; he got put into perennial B-movie roles.

Not Asian enough to be Jet Li, not American enough to be the nation's own hero?

God, I love that man. But I have to try and not see his movies where he doesn't fight. So far, they tend to be worse than his fighting ones. Or at least don't have the distraction of ass-kickery.