IBJoel

It's also very much a time capsule of the rock scene/Detroit of the early 90s, where, exactly, it's all sort of a weird mix of grunge, goth, industrial... You can see a lot of Crow elements in anime, although I feel like some of that is recursive, since the character obviously has a hardline bishonen look.

Mondo Kane

That does sound interesting, but I remember being so bored & put-off by the look of this film (The whole thing looked more like an episode of SLIDERS or FARSCAPE) that it caused my investment to quickly die off. Which brings me to:

I'd go so far to say that, visually, it's the best-looking of the franchise. Heck, even the bad guy's Lair looks like something out of a Clive Barker painting.

I was fully convinced that the same thing happened with Starship Troopers 2. I assumed somebody had an existing script about military forces on a strange planet where one of the soldiers has premonitions about betrayal via mind-control. Then the idea was to slap killer bugs in the beginning & ending of it and call it "Starship Troopers". But the film's extras said that was the emphasis all along? Funny how that works (If it's true)
But anyway, yeah, WICKED PRAYER was definetly...Something. The scene near the end where you can spot the giggling extra smiling & laughing while participating in Danny Trejo's "Serious" tribal dance says everything about that movie.

TheBang

The franchise has been so run into the ground, they should really just start swinging for the fences. The basic premise is completely flexible, but it seems like they just keep remaking the first movie's aesthetic. How about The Crow in space. Medieval Crow. Samurai Crow. Cybernetic Crow. Aztec Crow.

Jaymole

Fox & Crow, Jim Crow...

Obi-Wanma

I saw Salvation in a theater at SDCC months before it was dumped on DVD. This should have been the one place that it could have found an audience. People were hyped to see it. James O'Barr, director Bharat Nalluri, and star Eric Mabius were in attendance for the screening. I specifically remember Mabius speaking to the audience before the screening, and he sounded like he was about to cry when he said "I really hope that you like it" at the end. I feel like he already knew that it was a stinker, but he was still hoping that we liked it.

The audience laughed loudly and repeatedly throughout the screening at scenes that were obviously not intended to be funny. I don't know if he stuck around, but I really felt back for Mabius. I really feel like that was the screening that convinced them to dump it DTV.

Sonny Corinthos

Did anyone watch the Crow TV series from the late 90's?

devilshalo

It was mid.. I thought Dacascos was almost doing his best impersonation of Lee but with more martial arts. It took the movie plot and stretched it out in a loose adaptation from what I remember.

Runaway

I watched the pilot, because back then I was a big fan of Mark Dacascos, but it was very much a 90's TV show and too tame.

I've seen all Crow movies, but I don't remember the sequels at all. So for me the franchise is still kind of fresh.

Josh-da-man

Yeah, I think that The Crow has potential as a mythology, where sequels are all their own things. Crow in space. Crow set in the Old West (maybe the Skull Cowboy was one that Crow's nineteenth century kills). Crow set during WWII where he/she is picking off Nazis.

At one point, Rob Zombie was going to direct a Crow movie set in the future; there's a script floating around out there online. (Regardless of how one might feel about Zombie's prowess as a filmmaker, I think his sensibilities would have translated into a cyberpunky incarnation of The Crow.)

Hindsight being 20/20, I sort of wish they made that Crow: Lazarus movie with DMX and Eminem. Might not have been good, but it would still probably be better than Wicked Prayer.

Josh-da-man

I watched an episode or two, and I remember it being kind of... strange. Almost like a generic 90s police procedural with The Crow character stuck in it.

I think the whole series is on Youtube, so I might try to catch an episode or two and see if it's bad as I remember it.

devilshalo

d2cheer

Oh dear...

Mike86

Even though I don’t hold the original in high regard it’s easily better than what’s shown in this trailer. The remake looks awful.

Why So Blu?

The action in this looks like it came from a John Wick movie.

I still won't see it in theaters, but will watch it on 4K home video. Seems like this is what Ghost in the Shell (2017) should have been action-wise. They've let Rupert Sanders go crazy with the violence.

Troy Stiffler

I’ll watch it because I adore the original. I didn’t think The Crow would end up like all the disappointing Predator movies. Some are less disappointing than others.

Michael Corvin

The leaked Momoa clip above oozes more style and Crow vibes than that 3 minute trailer. What a missed opportunity.

I've always maintained that the Crow as a film concept hinges on the villains and the first film has it in spades with Wincott, Tony Todd, and Michael Massee. And even in smaller roles, Bai Ling and John Polito as an antagonist were great. Plus you had other fun characters like Skank, Tin-Fin and T-bird. The plot is already thin and the "Crow" doesn't speak a ton so you need an eclectic group of villains for him to play off of.

The sequels just have lame cookie-cutter villains. City of Angels came closest to capturing the spirit and vibe of the original, but outside of Iggy Pop the rest are forgettable. Salvation and Wicked Prayer? The less said the better.

RocShemp

So, does Jared Leto cameo at the end of this Morbius spinoff?

New Lurker

That looks like a movie I will enjoy. That looks like a John Wick movie. It's violent and it's action packed. It's just not a Crow movie. I equate a Crow movie with a certain ambience. A real dark and cinematic vibe to the cinematography. It's not bright. It's dark. It's wet. It's a rain drenched limited pallet visual. It's goth. This doesn't have any of that. I get that updates for new generations need changes that add to the mythos. But the gothic dark almost black and white nature of the original is the vibe that audiences flocked to and basically THE identity of The Crow.

This looks like a well done fun action flick. But it doesn't feel like it fits in The Crow mythos at all. The dialed back face paint. The tattoos. The soundcloud rapper vibe of Eric Draven's look. They were aiming for Ledger Joker. They got Leto Joker. I expect Skarsgard to elevate it beyond the output we got from Leto. This will be well done. It will probably even be good. But this doesn't feel like The Crow. Ledger still felt like Joker... even if he was a new take on him.

Brandon Lee's appearance was almost ghost like. A methodical gothic ghost out for vengeance against the baddest the streets had to offer. This just looks like a mad Twitch streamer sticking it to corporate America.

lwhy?

I'm watching the trailer at work without the sound on. I almost thought that blonde was Jessica Chastain in it, but it's Laura Birn. This movie looks terrible.

Rival11

Really lame and laughable, but I'll probably watch it for the kills.

dex14

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...te-1235870477/

DJariya

A late summer release is probably a better idea for this.

stingermck

The 30th anniversary of the original is next month. Disappointed that so far I have not seen any theaters are going to show it.

Draven

The day after my birthday.

I'm obviously a huge fan of the original, and this looks better than all the sequels (including City of Angels, which was just way too fucked up to enjoy). This might be enough to make me use my monthly pass to the theater.