The Crow is A Tragic Tale On And Off Screen - Talking About Tapes
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2024
- This week will be the 30th anniversary of The Crow. The hit film based on the indie comic. It's a tragic tale of a man coming back to life to avenge his loved one. The tragedy is not limited to the plot. Find out all about it in this episode.
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Thanks for having me, i can't believe how manly we are in this episode!!!!
Thanks for all the skateboard mentions
manliest ep ever!
From the Omen to the Crow... What is with the Crow obsession? 🐦⬛ 🐦⬛
You're a beautiful man.
So much testosterone... I almost couldn't handle it
Fun fact, Brandon Lee thought his make looked too clean so he went home and slept in his makeup so it would look more sloppy, though out the film his makeup gets more and more faded so by the time he goes to the afterlife with Shelly his makeup has washed off in the rain, also congrats on your weight loss Tony! I’ve working out from home and I’ve lost weight too, five years ago I was morbidly obese and I could barely walk without getting winded and now I’ve lost over 200 pounds. I’m super proud of you!👍
I knew some people who worked on The Crow in Wilmington. They said Brandon Lee was the nicest guy.
Michael Massee, who played Fun Boy, fired the infamous shot. He spent the rest of his life with regret, and never saw this movie. He passed on in 2016
I think the obvious blue screen effects actually give the movie a surreal look, that actually adds to the atmosphere a little bit
YES! I agree 100%
The soundtrack for this is awesome!
Favorite songs:
- Big Empty by STP
- Burn by The Cure
- Ghostrider by The Rollins Band
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Jane siberry it can't rain all the time too
PanterA, Nine inch nails, Medicine, Rage against the machine
this movie got me into STP. loved hearing that song in the trailer.
Black Flag
If you listen to the new commentary on the 4k release, the director says he hated the skull cowboy from day one and never intended to use him because the effects were so bad.
Worth noting a young carpenter was also severely burned on set by downed power lines.
RIP Brandon Lee, which was a shame since he was one of the selective people that could have played Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat film if didn’t have the infamous ‘accident’ that happen to him.
Damn I can't unsee that now.
🎶 Talkin about tapes 🎶
🎶 Talkin about grapes 🍇 🎶
@@mattw6705 now you're just raisin hell.
Talking about obscure references, Jon Polito voiced Gillian B. Loeb in the awesome Batman: Year One animated movie
This is definitely a special film. Saw it on opening night in 1994…I wasn’t quite 12yrs old yet and it had a profound impact on me. As I got older, I definitely moved on from it, but I completely understand how a lot of people are losing their minds over the new film. Excellent point about the garbage sequels and TV series basically being remakes themselves! 😅
As for the effects….listen, in my eyes, they had a certain sense of charm. The miniature, bluescreen, and digital composite work is great here for its budget and for being 1993/1994.
The soundtrack is untouchable though. Absolutely flawless IMO.
I was 5 and this has been my favorite film since.
Thie Crow has undoubtedly the greatest movie soundtrack ever made. Bangers nonstop. I even hate STP but liked "Big Empty".
gave sting another 20 plus years on his career
You should also review the 1986 classic "The Wraith". Same premise as the movie but it came out first.
This was always one of my favorite movie apartments. My all time favorite is Edward e. Nigmas apartment from Batman forever.
the fact you guys laughed throughout this kind of took me out it a bit bc this is one of my all time favorites. it's a pretty serious and dark film deep down, but I know you guys are for entertaining the people. sure it's dated but that's the lore and the charm of it. yes Lee died making it, and it was tragic, but seperating that, the film is still full of symbolism that is still relevant today.
The new Crow looks like your favorite wrestler, Darby Allin.
I will say that I think the movie gets entirely too much of its power from the fact that it is an imperfect but hopeful mirror version of what happened in real life, kind of like how people started watching the 1996 Kurt Russell Steven Seagal thriller Executive Decision more after 9/11 because it was the version where we won and had a happy ending. In this movie, Brandon Lee avenges the terrible Injustice that ends his life and the life he would have had with his fiance. In real life, Brandon Lee was tragically killed through negligence and callous indifference, and the only people who truly suffered were his family, including the fiancee who was widowed before she could become a bride, and the actor who pulled the trigger and had to live with the pain of being an unwitting instrument in the death of a person.
Not a single reference to Sting?! Real manly men would have remembered.
BTW, many of the body double scenes in the movie are actually Chad Shahalski of John Wick fame.
Great episode, all Joey C. episodes are gold no matter what the movie is.
Watch the TBIRD scene closely. You can tell there were reshoots because in some the actor has a mole (or wart) on his face and on others he does not. Took me a while to notice. You can also tell which scene was taken, reversed, and had rain added to it it you watch it many times.
Omg lol, I saw one of the theater showings yesterday and noticed that too! I thought I was seeing things lol. I love how you can notice all the little things when you see it on the big screen.
Never saw it on the big screen but have seen so many times, I noticed the changes.
Jon Polito was also in a episode of Seinfeld playing Silvio the landlord who suspected Newman was fooling around with his girlfriend, Kramer makes him think the fur coat belongs to Jerry cause he's a fancy boy. 😄
To clarify how Brandon was killed, what happened was they had used dummy rounds in a revolver which still had the bullets on the front because you can see them when you look at the front of the gun, but the guy who made the dummy rounds emptied the powder out, but forgot to remove or strike the primers, so the actor pulled the trigger and the force of the primer going off is what forced the bullet into the barrel, then they put a blank in the gun and when that was fired it forced the bullet out of the barrel just as if you'd fired a live round, which struck Brandon in the chest.
Okay, here we go. Plenty of comments in here for that engagement, Tony from Hack the Movies
When you mention in the beginning that the opening shot was the miniature city with the fire effect: I've always been under the impression that Motor City kinda exists in a snow globe, isolated from any kind of outside world. The only thing working against this is that the Great Lakes are mentioned when we see T Bird for the first time. But the setting of this movie always felt...I dunno ephemeral to an extent. And things like this opening shot and some of the questionable blue screen later on add to that for me
The Tin Tin interrogation: I always figured that Brandon's delivery here was intentional. He went from a normal dude, a musician with a hot girlfriend in a crappy city, to a vengeance zombie whose only purpose is killing. I think he was acting out of instinct in that first kill while still being weighed down by human empathy. By the time he gets to T Bird, he's a lot more accustomed to what is expected of him
The female cop who has that one scene with Albrecht where she KILLS IT? That character is Albrecht's ex wife
Before going to kill Skank, which he still believes at that point is the final person he needs to kill, he smashes his guitar. Which you mention. But he also burns all the pictures of him and Shelly because he knows the limited time he was granted is almost expired. And he's trying to destroy the last traces of their lives before he goes. There's also the plot about him trying to leave without saying goodbye to Sarah. I think this is because that's how things were left between them a year before: her friends were taken away with no closure and in his mind he wasn't brought back to fix that. But after delaying his (re)death to save her and kill Top Dollar, he realizes that maybe he should give a proper goodbye and fully utilize the opportunity. Shelly would have wanted that, and only after he says it does she come to ferry him to the afterlife.
Ghostbuster Afterlife. Tony's favorite movie
Okay, that last thing has nothing to do with the point I'm making. Just testing to see who actually reads this monstrosity
Tony's Brandon Lee impression has just a tinge of Forrest Gump
I love the comic, love the movie, a great adaptation by staying faithful to the feel of the sorce material
Joeys impression of Randy Savage talking about boys month was just as good as Tony’s George Takei 😂
This is legit one of my favorite movies. One of my proudest moments as a father is when my son came out of my room with my DVD copy asking to watch it. That was the first DVD I bought
One of my favorite 90s movies, i was way to young to watch when i first saw it.
RIP, Brendan Lee. 1965-1993.😞
I have 5 top movies all-time and this is one of them (order changes on mood). This movie had just happen to hit at the right time in my life. Had just gotten out of a half-way house and girl I just started picked this and “So I Married an Ax Murder” out for our stay-in date. Didn’t know anything about it, but next chance had I bought the VHS (and later the DVD and later later the Blu-Ray and later later later digitally), comics, graphic novels… anything I could (I have sooo many stairs😅). My sister even found me autographed set photos for my birthday.
I’ve use to do so many write-ups about this movie. In my younger days I could recite it by heart. I may not watch it as regularly any more, but it still holds a place in my heart.
If I can recommend one thing for the sequels and the new reboot; watch them each as their own thing (and skip Wicked Prayer😅).
The second adds to the first, though no where near did it turn out as well as the book.
The third is better, but the ending just seemed to rushed.
And the reboot, well, we shall see soon enough (really wish they’d gone with a female this time. You’d think in todays environment it would have been so easy🤷🏻♂️
"Shit on me!" always cracks me up.
this movie turned me goth. rip brandon lee
Did the same to Sting in WCW.
@@gotd4m lol yeh it did. only thing i liked about wrestling. well, that and Kane, Kane goth AF.
I loved it when Joey C started cracking up laughing.
Classic! Still bad and sad that Brandon got his life taken during this. Died even younger than his big-named dad. More than Bruce's son. R.I.P.
Happy 30TH Anniversary 2 The Crow!!!!!!🎊🎉🥳🎞️.
tony, bro, you mention the most random seinfeld appearances but fail to note Jon Polito as Sylvio the landlord??? 🤨
My bad
The OG is just simply the best this reboot is just a disrespectful take on it just stick with the OG
it's like they didn't learn from the point break remake which was dry boring and over done to appeal to extreme sport junkies and it became more boring than the 1991 og
This will be both Fun and Fine and Somber and Sad
Ah well
Atleast Manly Joe E Seas Sister Detroit Rock City is co hosting
Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children
So I'm 37 minutes into this video. I love it, you guys are teaching me things about a movie I've been watching almost yearly since the 90’s. BUT I'm also taking notes so I can do a huge post of info I would've included. I already did that once when you guys were discussing the tragedy that happened during the filming, but I'm saving everything else for one big post
My favorite film since 94. Will forever be but theres a couple close ones.
Always a fun episode with The Official Joey C!
The nine inch nails playing in the background in the big fight scene really made that scene!
Top Dollar, T-Bird and Tin-Tin are all Black in the The Crow comic. They’re a set that runs four blocks as their Turf in Detroit. It has that trope with auto shop and when Eric and Shelley go swimming it’s open fields and maybe 15 ft tall trees.
YES FINALLY I'VE BEEN HOPING THAT YOU WOULD TALK ABOUT THE CROW ONE DAY
Originally that dive out the window was going to be him diving at the skull cowboy and grabbing the windows and swinging himself back in
At first I thought no, but now I’m looking forward to sound cloud crow
Always awesome to hear in the video when I am in the office working, make day seem shorter
Carter was the name of the guy in the lost world who got stepped on by the t-Rex and he’s also the one who didn’t hear dieter getting eaten by the compies
Brandon did have the scar from the comics across his nose, its a lot more subtle, but it is the same scar.
I have a question for the super fans. When Eric took that guitar off the pawn shop wall on his way out - do you think that was his guitar that the goons stole when they trashed Eric and Shelley's apartment? Or did Eric just take it because he wanted it? I'd love to hear everyone's take on that.
@19:42 I always thought him swinging out the window was just the reminder and motion going through when he was tossed out and killed...Also the tone from you guys commeting was taking me back some..felt to light-hearted when. While wasn't a serious movie, but had it's dark over tones.
In the original comic Eric supposed ressurection was left ambiguous, it never explicitly stated plus the crow is present as symbolism. Plus all the events involving his revenge could be in his mind. In 2011 O' Barr confirmed that Eric had been revived on the operating table had been subsisting for a year.
Because of trauma he's now insane and indifferent to pain as a result of anger, grief and drugs his taken. Explains why revenge swift and completely ruthless unlike his movie counterpart.
Mystical crow being a spirit guide who take souls to the afterlife but brings back in order avenge their brutal deaths. Coming back revenant numerous supernatural abilities was added in 1994 film. Including crow being injured or killed can drain his power worse potentially kill him.
The purpose-driven immorality lore has become a staple people assume it happens in the original comic where as it didn't.
I was 4 when this movie. Until I saw it on television📺& since then love it.
Joey C is right. Rain causes rusty bearings and skate decks to de laminate. That's a big no no!
I'd never skate in the rain nowadays, but in the '90's we all did. It was for sure a thing. We were too cool to care.
@williamdixon-gk2sk I skated in the 90s and I never did this.
After 'questionable' came out, we all bought plan-b decks & made a point to skate in the rain. Maybe it was a Nor-Cal thing. Your right, it was dumb and you lost Any pop your board may have had. But dang it, we were rebels.
Also, in the Bay Area it'll sprinkle until noon then the sun comes out like clock work. So it's not like we skated torrential downpours.
@williamdixon-gk2sk hey, I'm not hating brother. I grew up in Ohio and I'm sure the weather was different. Also, I get it skate videos can be Hella influential l. Had to stop my friend from trying to catch his board on fire after he watched Birdhouse This is the End. Teenagers man!
The sequels aren’t remakes. Hell, City Of Angels was a direct sequel. C’mon Tony!
They're basically the same damn movies!
@@HackTheMovies so are all the Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street movies.
@@HackTheMovies Kinda the point. It's a spirit of vengance that brings people back that were wronged. You're being a little nitpicky on this one.
It can't Hack all the time.
rip brandon lee
Man. I'm a big OG X-Files fan but I've never seen Millennium, and every time you bring it up it reminds me that I need to watch it. But it never streams anywhere dammit!!! 😅
Thank you Tony for the kick ass opening theme song ,'-)
The Crow in the comics is not just Eric Draven, I think they did that in the movie sequels having different characters. So not remakes.
The TV series starring Mark Dacascos as Eric Draven would be more a remake continuation of the original movie
Those were comics and novels came out after the 1994 film and original comics
Hack the movies is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
Smokes and road beers
Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!
Lance Henriksen.. from Sasquatch, yup thats his most popular movie
It'll make sense months from now when our other episode airs!
Tony, were you not loved as a child? I think that scene between Eric and Darla(Sarah's mom) is beautiful. How else would you suggest that her soul be cleansed? I love The Crow. Saw it with my friend and his cousin. I was underage. So, they sunk me in. I first came across Bi Ling from Celeb Rehab. I think that a Crow remake could work, especially if it has the scenes that were cut from this movie. Also, maybe the effects could be improved. The actress that played Darla had a cameo in True Romance. He forgot to mention the part where the owner of the bar gives Sarah a drink, and she's that he can't fire Darla. Also, i like when Top Dollar said that he was sorry for ruining Eric's plans. Also, i seriously doubt that Tony was around gangs.
How high was Joey when you filmed this
25:31 I feel like this a personal shot at me from The X-men last stand video.
Touché.
Shocked Tony didn't mention wrestler Sting changing his look in the 90's to look like The Crow. Also the body double for Brandon Lee for The Crow was Chad Stahelski the guy that directed the John Wick Movies.
That interrogation scene I thought was really good. It felt like he was giving so much angry emotion and trying to hold back. Maybe that just me
My least favorite sequel was The Cow starring Chris Farley. A cow was the instrument of resurrection and the harbinger of the protagonist's arrival. But then the movie crossed paths with Twister.
What in the hell that's not a real movie
@@wfkernea I know, but it's still not that much worse than the actual sequels
@@stevegeorge6880 I think Crow 2 City of Angels is criminally underrated but Salvation and Wicked Prayer are terrible
@@wfkernea I also side with those who say that the TV show was surprisingly effective
@wfkernea I like that Thuy Thang was in it. She was Trini the yellow ranger in Power Rangers
I actually can’t wait for the new movie to come out
I was literally about to ask why there's TWO fictional cats in film named Gideon..
Whered you get that the crow graphic novel?
Amazon
Bing bong Let’s go Knicks!
Tony's fucking search history on porn sites 😂😂😂
You mean SITES
@@wfkernea lol autocorrect
Time code for the squeak 17:06!!!!!
LMAOOOO
Graeme Revell's score is fantastic!
Ernie Hudson was in like every cheesy action movie of the 90's.
They filmed this where I live!
Do you guys just chop wood & punch frozen meat when you’re not hacking? Does this mean we also get a Men’s month?
Top 2 comic book movies of all time are The Crow and 1990 TMNT
This was my go to fancy dress for 15 years.
Much love from the U.K. 🇬🇧
There is one way to eat a hot dog - in the Chicago style.
I wonder if the remake of 'The Crow' will flop and make the studio EAT CROW? ;)
Soundtrack still kicks ass lol
also has some cool tunes in the movie too.
They should have gotten Jason Scott Lee to play the lead in a The Crow sequel back then.
I was a Brandon Lee fan. I never watched the crow. I think Keanu reeves inherited his career.
That's pretty cool that you have a graphic novel. I have that graphic novel. The art is pretty great for black and white. The movie is pretty much faithful to it. There is a theory in the comic that Eric is making up the story as a dark avenger due to him being in a coma after being attack by the villains PS watch The Boys series Tony. Sorry The Tick got cancelled. Shows get cancelled all of time whether they are great or terrible.
Crow 2: City of Angels is criminally underrated
Agreed, hopefully he talks about it at some point
@@strifenineteen He won't. He seems to dislike these films. Even said they're basically all the same. It's why he said remakes, instead of sequels.
Where is Crystal? Crystal needs to be on The Crow panel! The Crow is right up Crystals' alley. I'm very upset that Crystal is not on The Crow panel! Hit the thumbs up button for this comment, if you believe Crystal should have been on The Crow (94) panel! Let's send Tony a message!
Is Bai-Ling bilingual?
a great soundtrack
I hope you guys review The Crow City of Angels , People shit on the 2nd one but i think its as good as the first one but after city of angels the other ones were shit.
21:44 That was supposed to be Michael Berryman.
It's a shame the studio deleted his scenes. Plus I don't know if those scenes would be released in physical media.
I've never seen The Crow. Joey sure is manly though.
This is a very manly episode
It ok Joey, I remember Birds 2