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It’s been a while since I wrote an opinion piece, so I figured the news surrounding Lionsgate’s The Crow was a perfect time to dust myself off and give it the old college try. First of all, I think specific parts of this movie was doomed from the start. The first adaptation of James O’Barr’s The Crow is beloved by fans worldwide and is considered a classic for the genre. It also is the late, great Brandon Lee’s final film as we all know what happened while making the doomed pic but ever since then, the subsequent sequels and TV series have failed miserably to live up to Lee’s nostalgic and iconic work.
It also doesn’t help that a newer Crow project has been in development hell for over a decade (15 years to be exact) with a laundry list of directors, writers and stars attached to it at some point. Literally, it’s like Grand Central Station with how many times the turnstile has moved on this one, but I was intrigued to see what Jason Momoa would have done with it and I feel that it would have been a glorious dumpster fire of a movie in the best way possible. Ahhh, what could have been.
Finally, we will get to see director Rupert Sanders take on the material with Boy Kills World and It star Bill Skarsgard leading the film as a new seeker of vengeance from beyond the grave. Recently, Lionsgate informed all of us that this is not, and I repeat NOT, a remake of the Brandon Lee film but a “new adaptation of the source material.” Fair enough. I never took it as a remake because you can do so many things with the graphic novel character and even though Skarsgard’s name in it is Eric, I always felt that this was something different like the disastrous sequels that came after. I did feel that his name should have been different as to distance this movie from Lee’s but, hey, what do I know?
There are certain fans out there that have condemned the movie even before they saw an ounce of footage and when the trailer did hit, well let’s just say that it was met with mixed reviews. I was one of the ones who thought it looked decent and was digging the action design shown thus far as well as how Skarsgard was killing it in the footage. Once again…what the hell do I know?
Now comes more negative fuel to the fire as there are reports of individuals who have seen the finished product saying that it is horrible and unwatchable. Can I just repeat that I can give two shits what other people think when it comes to liking, loving or hating a movie as my opinion is the only one that matters to me. I reserve judgement for when I see footage and the finished result and there is also the fact that I love a lot of bad movies and so do you. You know you do.
Let’s consider the source of one of the people who has shared his opinion with the masses because the one who is making the most noise is Warrior scribe Cliff Dorfman who was attached at one time to write a version of the movie when director F. Javier Gutierrez was set to helm. Basically, we have what sounds like a disgruntled former employee who is looking to bash any version of the film that comes out because his vision is not the one that we will see. I mean seriously, why would he say anything right now ahead of the release with all of us knowing that he was hired to write a script at one time and was removed from the project. Check out what he had to say upon screening Sanders’ version of The Crow below.
“If hypothetically, one happened to see a screening of @TheCrow_Movie #thecrow which @Lionsgate is releasing in August, one might say, it’s horrible, it’s unwatchable, don’t waste your money, or can’t believe it’s so much worse than the original. It is. And don’t.“
Reading that quote sounds like a high schooler bitching about someone stealing his date to the senior prom. It just reeks of bitterness and resentment. Now I don’t know Dorfman, and I don’t know if that is really how he meant it to be, but I have an opinion and I’m saying it because that’s how it sounds to me. I could be wrong, and I usually am but I’m not the only one thinking it. Not by a long shot.
Did I forget to mention that Dorfman has since removed his quote from X (Twitter) where he first put it up? Yeah, there’s that too. I mean come on, if you were honest and sincere in what you said and really wanted to educate us all on how abysmal it is, leave the tweet up and stand your ground. Dorfman removing it just makes it look like he did it when he was drinking one night and now, he’s backtracking because he knows what he looks like to the public.
Now I haven’t seen the movie obviously and I am eager to, and it could very well be just as bad or worse than The Crow: Wicked Prayer that starred SEAL Team’s David Boreanaz and a massively miscast Edward Furlong. No, on second thought, no future Crow movies could be as bad as that shit show. That entry was such a colossal misfire on sooooo many levels that it almost turned me off to ever thinking of watching another Crow adaptation again and I rate it as one of the worse movies I have ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of bad movies. Bad movies I truly hated not loved that is.
Let me sum up by saying, I could care less what anyone says. I enjoyed the trailer, and I am looking forward to seeing it because Skarsgard is a sensational actor, and the cast looks great as well. Unfortunately, we have to wait longer because the release date was moved from June to August, but it will be here before we know it. It may be bad, but I don’t think that it will be the unwatchable horror show that this guy is making it out to be. All I know is that upon its release I will watch it objectively and tell you all what I think. You can choose to listen to me or not but I’m sure there will be millions of strong opinions released when it does come out but please for the love of God, don’t be one of those individuals that condemns a movie even before it hits, and definitely don’t flood my comments section with toxicity and hate because at the end of the day, it’s just a friggin’ movie folks. That’s just petty and dumb and I just delete it without an afterthought when I see it.
Oh, and one more thing…DON’T CALL IT A REMAKE!
