The Crow

Okay, so this is actually a recent one. A really recent one actually…literally a week or so ago. I had just read the comic, and was able to see the movie like, two days later. First of all, I absolutely loved the comic. The…feelings that were there…I just…it hit me on a different level. The whole, standing by and watching someone you love being tortured and killed thing, really got to me…cause I understand it. On a lower level…a little while ago, I was notified that one of my best friends was shot and killed by her ex boyfriend. And…the helplessness and the guilt that you feel after something like that, is beyond anything. It really is. I was encouraging her to break up with him, I mean, he was terrible to her…but I was encouraging her, and I would have to assume that because she broke up with him, was why he shot her…and that took me a looong time to deal with. Then, the fact that at 2am one Saturday night, I was up laughing, being an idiot, watching movies with my friends, she was dying…alone…and I wasn’t there…and there was nothing I could do…and…yah. You know what? shit like that isn’t supposed to happen in real life :/
So. As I said. It was a different situation, but a lot of what was there…I felt really connected to. And I was not surprised at all to find out that the guy who wrote it did so after his girlfriend died.
So, comic was an A+ …now, the movie I didn’t enjoy so thoroughly.
I knew that going from something written to a film, it was probably going to lose its emotion, and it wasn’t going to be as personal…But it was even less genuine feeling than I expected.
The guy that played Eric…Brandon Lee…I just, didn’t like it very much. Everything…his hair, which in the comic had a cool David Bowie/Daniel Ash kinda spikey think going on was just, not. His voice, was very clear and very…normal? I just expected him to be less normal I guess. I wanted like a soft, deep, kinda raspy voice…he should have been more mysterious. And his fucking teeth omg :P I didn’t even get a chance to admire his chest because every time he talked I looked and his teeth and thought TIM CURRY in Rocky Horror Picture Show haha…big white teeth, black lips…yah. The soundtrack was good…and the setting…like the town, the shots where the would just kinda move around over the city, I thought those were really cool…I liked them.
And the little girl, was in the movie muchhh more than in the comic. She was in the comic for like two scenes, quite randomly…So, I liked that.
Anyway, I’m going to bed…I’m like typing on word at like 4am on a Tuesday night…I may add more later, cause I’m kind of unsatisfied with this…but I write weird things when I start to lose consciousness, so Imma stop for now.

Comic – 9.2/10
Movie – 7.1/10