Small end of 2024 update

Just popping in because life is a pain when you think you have a good plan setup. Still working on getting posts going and the shorts again. 

Once the crazy that is my life is a little less travel heavy I'm going to setup up a dinky little ASMR feed on Twitch. There will be fake candles because I like how they look and there is less chance for fire accidents. 

Also I'm gathering up songs to dance to. I had a small stretch of good luck and now I just seem to be finding the songs I do not like. So many songs that I don't like.

 

The Crow 1994 re-release by Fangoria

 

I can not begin to explain just how happy I am that I was able to see The Crow in theaters!!! I was 12 when it originally came out and I had seen all the news casts on Brandon Lees death and all the shows about the special effects used to finish the film. But again, I was 12 and my parents didn't take me.

Even though I watched the VHS the moment we got it and in my opinion had seen far worse violence wise (Highlander) and more emotionally worse (every goddamned Don Bluth kids movie).

I digress.

There were only two of us dressed up and not casual. Very happy I dressed up. The other person,  name started with a Z, was a delight to talk with! I was so thrilled when they just wandered over and said hi. :3

Surprisingly the theater was half booked but mostly empty. That was a bit strange.

The only problem I had with it was it wasn't wide screen. It was the cropped for TV version and that did hurt the quality a bit. The part that tipped me off was right in the beginning were the cop reaches down and you can see him reach out of the line of sight and interact with something. That's just something that isn't generally done. I'll have to pull out my widescreen copy to check though.

You could really see the pixelation in a few scenes. It also made the older green screen effects just a bit more obvious. It was only a handful of times each. 

But it was so, so worth it.

I'm still giddy over being able to see it.

The unfortunate The Crow Remake

 

Hello Everyone! Yes this is going to be a post about the unfortunate The Crow Remake.

 And to get to the point, if it had just been it's own Crow movie then it would have been fine. Going by the trailer it is completely different from the original the Crow.

They changed everything else so why not change the names as well? Because they thought they could get an easy audience from the people who love the original. Unfortunately they only alienated the fans instead. 

Kinda like what Mike Mingnolia did when he encouraged Guillermo del Toro and Ron Pearlman to try and get their third Hellboy movie made... only for them to loose the rights (because they expired) to make the film. Only for Mike to take all that support and made his own movie with it. All Mike had to do was let them make their movie to complete the trilogy and then Mikes movie would have had a much better response.

Yes I am still a tad bit bitter about that. Maybe he got sold on the idea to swoop in like that but there was a past article were he wasn't happy that he didn't fully understand how how the rights worked.

Is this why I feel like The Crow Remake is going to fail? Mostly.

I think it's the herald to a lot more crappy remakes to come. 

The more I think about how this movie would be so much better if it wasn't trying to force itself to be a remake with no regard to the original material? I just get angry. 

The makeup in the poster is only seen once in the trailer and then never again. 

I have also made the mistake of reading the new movies wiki and... it is a shitshow. The rights holder and producer died in 2018. The movie didn't even start real production until 2020. So they are not just using existing material they are using a dead guys name as the producer who never even touched the final product because he has a ton of big name action flicks to his name. 

They are even releasing the movie in the summer and not in October.

I'm saying this now, there is someone banking on this movie failing and failing hard. This is movie insurance fraud at it's best/worst. This bad movie idea was looked at by someone who knew it was going to fail and that person is expecting it to fail.

But i'm still not going to see it.

Not magic or tarot but have you seen the hbomberguy video because you should

 

Conveniently linked to right here.

This link right down there because it is worth the 4 hours of time to invest in watching it.

https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ

I'm still watching this as I post this because it is just that good. He did so much research on this it is amazing.

And perhaps swing by Tumblr and see all the shade going around that other people are digging up.