The Crow reboot with Bill Skarsgard

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This is tame by today's Hollywood standards. I was expecting something more, like RuPaul as the Crow and Ricky Martin as Shelly Webster. That's more inline with the Hollywood agenda.

Remakes just do not work for some films because the original was so good that it simply cannot be topped or even matched.

It also generally requires a great film to warrant a remake. The Crow is certainly one of those films imo.

So it begs the question, why bother? Is it the thought process of the studio's that "modern audiences" aren't familiar with the original and that this will introduce them to it?

I cannot imagine even younger people are strangers to the Brandon Lee version. But perhaps I'm wrong.

In any case, I just do not understand the logic behind the majority of remakes. It's pretty much always a generic, poor man's version of what came before. So again, why bother and are modern audiences clueless to this franchise?

It seems like a recipe for failure.

Skarsgard was a good choice. Everything else... wasn't. I'd love to have seen him in a more faithful adaptation.

The trailer isn't doing this version any favors. I'm more excited to see Skarsgard in Boy Kills World.

No words for how awful this looks.

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The first 20 seconds is basically an ad for a fragrance.
The rest is just meh.

The acting still seems like it's from the 90's. It's trying to be so serious and emotional but I didn't buy a single performance in the trailer, even from Skarsgard who is usually a pretty captivating actor.

This looks like they made a Deadpool movie with the X-Men Origins Wolverine version.

chrisstbh said:

I didn't buy a single performance in the trailer, even from Skarsgard who is usually a pretty captivating actor.

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See I'm with you on that but I don't find the guy that amazing as an actor in anything he's in. IT was good but he's not playing a human being.

In John Wick he wasn't particularly riveting either. Just a throw away "bad guy". Absolutely unremarkable imo.

And him playing The Crow is pretty much on brand for Hollywood considering how much of a push he's gotten over the few years he's been a mainstream star in some.. notable films of late.

I'm surprised they didn't cast John Cena for this. Their view of star power is warped, after all.

Actually guys this looks like a pretty cool movie...

Mr. Awesome said:

Remakes just do not work for some films because the original was so good that it simply cannot be topped or even matched.

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You know what I cant wait for, is some asshat deciding its time to reboot Aliens.

Ramatuelle said:

You know what I cant wait for, is some asshat deciding its time to reboot Aliens.

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Well that is inevitable. Like any other popular franchise. They're just going down the list. I have zero hope for the TV series that's supposedly coming.

The art of original filmmaking is just about gone forever because of the... ahem.. folks that run the industry today. They're talentless. And originality requires talent.

Ramatuelle said:

You know what I cant wait for, is some asshat deciding its time to reboot Aliens.

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Ridley Scott basically already did with Prometheus lol

That looks horrendous.

As someone who read the graphic novel back in the day after seeing the first film, this thing completely ignores the source material in every way.

I hope they lose a ton of money.

Ramatuelle said:

You know what I cant wait for, is some asshat deciding its time to reboot Aliens.

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They're working on the new one now. Not sure if it has been shot yet, but I was talking to the conceptual artist who is doing all the designs late last year.

Mandible said:

They're working on the new one now. Not sure if it has been shot yet, but I was talking to the conceptual artist who is doing all the designs late last year.

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Romulus? Supposedly a trailer is imminent, whatwith the film releasing later this year.

Wait, Romulus is a film? For some reason I was thinking it was a TV series. Huh. Perhaps I'm thinking of the Halloween/Michael Myers franchise.