Comments | amberdulen: Crowing

amberdulen

Crowing

Sep 18, 2008 20:47

You guys, I just stumbled onto The Crow on channel 22 and I am loving everything about this movie.

ETA: Everything.

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Comments 15

jd3000 September 19 2008, 01:59:36 UTC

Hrm. Roger Ebert said it was one of his favorite comic-book movies. I may have to take a look-see.

-JD

amberdulen September 19 2008, 13:33:52 UTC

When it's not being awesome, it's being awesomely ridiculous!

ketsugami September 19 2008, 02:06:39 UTC

Had you not seen it before? It's awesome!

amberdulen September 19 2008, 13:34:18 UTC

No! I was fourteen when it came out, way before I had any say in what I got to watch in theaters.

highwing September 19 2008, 03:38:51 UTC

I saw that in the theater when it came out in '94, and it stands for me as one of those rare moviegoing experiences (along with the first "Terminator" and "Matrix" flicks) where I went in expecting to like it and ended up liking it even more than I'd anticipated. It immediately became one of my favorite revenge movies, along with "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" ... and that right there should speak volumes as to how warped my cinematic sensibilities are.

Glad you've discovered a new favorite, Amber. May you enjoy it many more times in the years ahead!

amberdulen September 19 2008, 13:36:51 UTC

It ended, and I was just like "I HAVE TO OWN THIS."

jd3000 September 19 2008, 04:33:56 UTC

Plus: Ernie Hudson makes anything good.

-JD

amberdulen September 19 2008, 13:35:36 UTC

YES. It's like, it's like, Dark Knight except there's no Batman, the Joker is a zombie and the good guy, and Gordon is played by Winston the Ghostbuster!

highwing September 19 2008, 22:03:15 UTC

It's funny you say that. Late last year, when I was trolling the web for advance photos from "Dark Knight" and came across some showing Heath Ledger in his Joker makeup and hair, I thought to myself, "Gee, he actually looks more like the Crow than any version of the Joker I've ever seen. This should prove interesting."

And it was!

amberdulen September 19 2008, 23:20:49 UTC

Seriously. Anyone who tries to say that Dark Knight wasn't influenced by The Crow is lying.

roadkillroy September 19 2008, 06:34:40 UTC

Damned kids.. I know too many people who haven't seen this movie...

amberdulen September 19 2008, 13:36:29 UTC

I came across it by accident, even.

(Loved the for-TV dubbing. "You're so fouled up, man!")

roadkillroy September 20 2008, 20:43:56 UTC

Best TV dub ever was Mallrats. They couldn't even find someone who sounded relatively like Jason Mewes...