RATE or REVIEW The Last Movie You Watched.

[a-dev]

Quigley Down Under (1990) - 7/10

Haven't seen this one probably since I was a child. Tom Selleck/ Alan Rickman western. Good enough film. Starts off seeming like it might be heavy on comedy but it's surprisingly grim at points later in the film. That name I'm suddenly seeing everywhere now - Ben Mendelsohn - is also in it.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Do you just like Alien movies or do you like the whole paranormal/supernatural thing?

I'm more interested in the UFO phenomenon generally, but if something is worth checking out / reading up on, I'll delve into the murky territory of the supernatural on occasion. That said, I do find some of that subject matter a little unsettling at times - certainly not via schlocky jump scares & visuals or what have you, but more the connection to actual first hand accounts etc.

UFO stories are another thing entirely.

 

[GasparZizou]

I'm more interested in the UFO phenomenon generally, but if something is worth checking out / reading up on, I'll delve into the murky territory of the supernatural on occasion. That said, I do find some of that subject matter a little unsettling at times - certainly not via schlocky jump scares & visuals or what have you, but more the connection to actual first hand accounts etc.

UFO stories are another thing entirely.

Cool to have another tinfoil hat in here : crows is also into it a little bit.

I like all that stuff, I believe some of it must be true, but the reality is that most of the "investigation" is baloney.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Cool to have another tinfoil hat in here : crows is also into it a little bit.

I like all that stuff, I believe some of it must be true, but the reality is that most of the "investigation" is baloney.

Yeah, cool man.

As far as all the bogus anecdotal nonsense out there goes, it really is a shame that anything remotely credible gets drowned out by that stuff. I've yet to see anything myself, but a few close friends of mine swear unequivocally that they've seen some very strange things.

As I'm sure you have too, I've watched a ton of docos, & most of them are garbage. Every now then though, something pops up & gets your attention. There was a guy a few years back, that did a small series of docos that tried to restore some legitimacy to the subject & how it's treated; something "Fox" was his name. One of the most surprising things I discovered, was a video recording someone posted online of the ex Canadian defense minister giving a lengthy talk on what he's seen during his time on the job, & just how much information is being kept from public record. I think you can still look it up if it hasn't been taken down by now.

 

[Centurion]

I'm going to try finding that now.
If you remember it please post.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I just did a quick search on youtube, & there's multiple video uploads of the man on there.

It's been ages since I last looked, good stuff.

 

[Patriot666]

You guys looking for credible UFO/alien witnesses, check this s*** out. It's called The Disclosure Project.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Thor Dark World: 6/10

2nd viewing. A little worse than I remember. The stuff on Asgard and offworld is truly terrible. I really hate all the pew pew laser stuff—to me it just doesn’t suit Asgard and those worlds to have that kind of tech. And just the dialogue and the way the story was unfolding, it just felt so bland and uninteresting. I thought even the stuff with Jane on earth was a little better. The only saving grace in the movie was the final battle in Greenwich. That was great all around. Imaginative and exciting.

 

[Khev]

The Crow (1994) - 7.5/10

I *really* enjoyed revisiting this film. Saw it in the theater when it was released and then maybe two or three times on laserdisc in the 90's and just now watched it from beginning to end, unedited, since then. It's pretty much the quintessential "dark 90's" film. The trenchcoat, rainy fictional city, dual handgun wielding, the alternative rock, etc. And all before Se7en, Blade, The Matrix and John Woo becoming mainstream. It really holds up, even the obvious miniature cityscape has a great vibe to it. Definite carry-overs from the Burton Batman era with regard to production design and model work.

I hadn't really thought about how much Ledger's Joker borrowed from the Crow. The long coat, face paint, long greasy hair, even interrupting a mob meeting. And then the totally wild and coincidental parallel of both movies being a posthumous release for their respective actors.

It was a nostalgic trip to hear Stone Temple Pilots, The Cure, Violent Femmes, and Rollins Band again too. I never watched a single Crow sequel but I look forward to watching this again at least once as we enter the home stretch toward Halloween.

 

[ZaCHw117]

i love the crow, solid 8 in my book. i watch it every xmas eve.

 

[Khev]

Why Christmas Eve and not the eve of Halloween as in the film?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

The Crow (1994) - 7.5/10

I *really* enjoyed revisiting this film. Saw it in the theater when it was released and then maybe two or three times on laserdisc in the 90's and just now watched it from beginning to end, unedited, since then. It's pretty much the quintessential "dark 90's" film. The trenchcoat, rainy fictional city, dual handgun wielding, the alternative rock, etc. And all before Se7en, Blade, The Matrix and John Woo becoming mainstream. It really holds up, even the obvious miniature cityscape has a great vibe to it. Definite carry-overs from the Burton Batman era with regard to production design and model work.

I hadn't really thought about how much Ledger's Joker borrowed from the Crow. The long coat, face paint, long greasy hair, even interrupting a mob meeting. And then the totally wild and coincidental parallel of both movies being a posthumous release for their respective actors.

It was a nostalgic trip to hear Stone Temple Pilots, The Cure, Violent Femmes, and Rollins Band again too. I never watched a single Crow sequel but I look forward to watching this again at least once as we enter the home stretch toward Halloween.

I love The Crow. It even influenced my favorite wrestler, Sting.

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Could you tell which scenes it wasn't Brandon Lee?

 

[ZaCHw117]

Why Christmas Eve and not the eve of Halloween as in the film?

it was on tv as a kid one xmas eve, so i guess it just brings back nostalgia?

watched it almost every year since

 

[RIDDICK]

That's ****ed up, man...

 

[Khev]

I love The Crow. It even influenced my favorite wrestler, Sting.

Yep, it influenced Sting and started the trend of vigilantes "writing" their symbols in fire that was copied by Affleck Daredevil, Jane Punisher, and even TDKR.

Could you tell which scenes it wasn't Brandon Lee?

It appeared to be him in every scene. The only one that I knew wasn't him was where they CG'd Brandon's face onto a double for the very first scene where he approached the open window in make-up and looks out over the city. But even that I only knew because of watching a behind the scenes featurette of how they did it back in the day. If I remember correctly they had almost wrapped shooting (that feels wrong to type, no pun intended) when he died.

it was on tv as a kid one xmas eve, so i guess it just brings back nostalgia?

watched it almost every year since

I suppose that makes sense. I see LOTR as "Christmas movies" because of when they came out. And I see Gremlins and Lethal Weapon as summer movies despite the period they are set in.

 

[Khev]

Just read up on Brandon Lee's death again, apparently all of his scenes as "The Crow" were completed (except for his first walk to the window) and they were in the process of filming only the flashback scenes of his murder when he died and were just three days from being finished. So for those scenes they had a double play him and then they edited it in a pretty chaotic way (which luckily fit the moment) so that you couldn't really tell who it was. I did notice while watching the movie that you never really see Brandon's face as Draven enters the apartment and gets beat up by the thugs. His hair is always hanging down and almost every angle has his back to the camera.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

It appeared to be him in every scene. The only one that I knew wasn't him was where they CG'd Brandon's face onto a double for the very first scene where he approached the open window in make-up and looks out over the city. But even that I only knew because of watching a behind the scenes featurette of how they did it back in the day. If I remember correctly they had almost wrapped shooting (that feels wrong to type, no pun intended) when he died.

Actually, it wasn't him in more than a few of scenes, but that shows they did a good job hiding it. For example, when he enters the apartment for the first time and he's wet and trembling, that was him from a different scene but they digitally put him in the apartment. From that point on, the entire sequence in the apartment is not him. Even the flashback scene where he gets beat up and stabbed instead of getting shot like the original sequence, it was a different guy. When he's putting the make up and the outfit and walks to the window, that was Brandon's stunt double again but they put Brandon's face with cgi when he's looking out the window. The scene where Eric is playing the guitar and when the girl goes to his apartment and he hugs her, not him either. Also, when Eric kills T Bird and he's putting the tape and says goodbye and walks away, not him either. They use a few clips of Brandon's face in that sequence when T Bird is looking at him but if you look closely, the background doesn't match the scene. There might be a few other scenes, but I can't remember right now.

 

[ZaCHw117]

That's ****ed up, man...

it's a ****ed up world.

I suppose that makes sense. I see LOTR as "Christmas movies" because of when they came out. And I see Gremlins and Lethal Weapon as summer movies despite the period they are set in.

yup same here, those def aren't xmas movies, but that's around the time i binge the trill.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Just read up on Brandon Lee's death again, apparently all of his scenes as "The Crow" were completed (except for his first walk to the window) and they were in the process of filming only the flashback scenes of his murder when he died and were just three days from being finished. So for those scenes they had a double play him and then they edited it in a pretty chaotic way (which luckily fit the moment) so that you couldn't really tell who it was. I did notice while watching the movie that you never really see Brandon's face as Draven enters the apartment and gets beat up by the thugs. His hair is always hanging down and almost every angle has his back to the camera.

I don't know if the bluray or the dvds talk about it, but are you familiar with the Skull Cowboy character? You can watch some of those scenes on youtube, but anyway, apparently the original film had this dead cowboy character and he talks to Eric and tells him to just focus on killing the gang, and no one else. I'd like to see all the deleted footage.



It seems he becomes mortal again when he disobeys the Cowboy, and not because the bad guys shot the bird.

 

[Khev]

Actually, it wasn't him in more than a few of scenes, but that shows they did a good job hiding it. For example, when he enters the apartment for the first time and he's wet and trembling, that was him from a different scene but they digitally put him in the apartment. From that point on, the entire sequence in the apartment is not him. Even the flashback scene where he gets beat up and stabbed instead of getting shot like the original sequence, it was a different guy. When he's putting the make up and the outfit and walks to the window, that was Brandon's stunt double again but they put Brandon's face with cgi when he's looking out the window. The scene where Eric is playing the guitar and when the girl goes to his apartment and he hugs her, not him either. Also, when Eric kills T Bird and he's putting the tape and says goodbye and walks away, not him either. They use a few clips of Brandon's face in that sequence when T Bird is looking at him but if you look closely, the background doesn't match the scene. There might be a few other scenes, but I can't remember right now.

I see. So it sounds like a few more scenes with him as The Crow had to be shot after his death, though mostly of the traditional "pickup" variety that often feature doubles anyway. That's really sad that it wasn't him hugging the girl in the apartment. It just means that we were probably watching genuine pain on the actress' face since her friend really *was* dead in that moment.

The darkness and patchwork compositing of the entire production really lent itself to sneaking in indistinguishable doubles of him without being noticed. I see that the gal who played his wife walked away from the production and refused to film any more scenes after watching him get blown away just a few feet from her.

It's funny that T-Bird was the bad guy from The Warriors and Dreamscape. I had totally forgotten that. Just a few months back I was wondering on this very site what ever became of him.