The Crow (1994) Love, Vengeance, and Rain-Soaked Justice

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0:43 Movie hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie aficionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert. Rolling on both also is it as what it? Uh is? What it is? That's a great way to start the show. I mean, as if it wasn't enough that I have to put a warning at the beginning that if anyone has recently watched American History X, why is it aimed to be prepared for your hair cut every.

1:28 Time I shave my head? That that's the joke? Well, first of all, I mean you answered your question with the every time because you do it, You do it enough that you know a good joke is worth remembering. Yeah, but this was kind of a mental health shave this time around. Uh do I dare? I mean I'm not going to go into it, wonder. No, I'm not going to go into it much this time. Okay, because I mean, like, in general, shaving your head for mental health is not. Man It was an episode. No, I was on, was in a manic episode. This is the first time hearing about it. No. I texted you right after it happened, when I said, am I being Have I been off to you lately? Oh? Well, no, there's that. But you didn't say I shaved my head in a manic episode?

2:11 No, because I mean I did it didn't really have a reason to say that just yet, So. You saved it for now when I was trying to politely banter about your. Haircut basically, yeah, sure. I mean if I had known that you shaved your head out of a moment of like of like a mental struggle, I probably wouldn't have made a joke about you looking like a skinhead from American history X, at least not so immediately. Yeah, I might have tried to like cushion it. I did also make a Facebook post that said, sometimes you have to shave your head and clean your apartment and then all about mental health. I know if only I, I and I should have read it. I wasn't doing anything over the weekend.

2:53 I was. I was definitely on the on the web the whole time. I mean I did see that you were cleaning your apartment. Yeah, which definitely needed it. And who doesn't, well my my situation. So basically what led what led to me getting rid of my hair was a combination of I had my six month review at work and then also on top of that too, like I had been struggling. I mean, as as I said on the show before, I'd been struggling with with what to do with my hair, and when it wasn't for anything of lack of not having solutions, it was lack of action. You you refuse to own a hair brush? Yeah, well no I own a hair brush now like I owned I own a hair brush. It's more so like it didn't didn't buy a hair dryer, didn't change my shower routine at all. I was I was in a very depressive state on and off for a bit, and it was just genuinely no guidance, like no, no, no, no path for me to go on. So I was just going loosey goosey, which when I had my six month review, that was brought up, and I was honest with my boss on that matter too, because my boss is an awesome person and she is a cancer survivor.

4:02 She's genuinely like one of the best bosses I've ever had. And she expressed concern like it wasn't even it wasn't even about work. It was it was mainly just like, hey, not even out here, not even in there, like you know, are you are you okay? I'm concerned, was like basically how she started. And I straight up told her, I was just like, you know, I just have felt very off, and I mean, there's no other easier way to say that. It was simply that. So sure, when I got out of the meeting, it was it was a combination of told her that I was going to absolutely try to do better obviously, and I mean, and she was very receiving to the information and also like had feedback for it was like giving me mental health podcasts and like some stuff that she listened to as well. So it was a really good meeting. But when I got home, I was like, what's the one thing that I could possibly do that would show her that I not only heard her, but also that I'm like taking what she said to attention, and.

4:58 You were like killing animeahborhood cat. Kill a neighborhood cat. Indeed, No, but no, no it was, and I can I can say it on on here for the first time. That like the when I took the when I took my razor to my head and did that initial just stripe down the middle, which is usually how I start. It's instantly just felt better, just instantly felt the electric razor like clipper clippers. Okay, first, not like a straight razor. I think it was a straight razor, I thought, but I was like, not like a shaving. Like electric electric clippers, And it was just that initial down the middle just immediately fell off my shoulders and then you know, ten minutes later I was looking in the mirror and I was just like, fuck, I feel so much better.

5:40 The freedom from being skunked. That's the term that like, especially like cranks. Well, but but just any shave right down the middle was cold sunk. Yeah, yeah, but no, it was when I say a manic episode, it was mainly I had texted several friends you included, and had been had you andly asked like, how have I been the last few months? I mean, honestly, most of twenty twenty five where we're you know, as we're recording this, we're rapping towards the end of April, we now, so, I mean we're almost into five months into the year, and it's been it's been a struggle. But when I took the clippers to my hair and also decided that I was going to take my Friday off and clean my apartment topp to bottom, which is what I did, and then the next day also went and got a chore like chart basically like to put on my fridge and like keep myself in a routine because that's what I need. That's what I came to the conclusion of was that if I don't have a routine and just go at it, Lucy Goosey, I will lose my fucking mind because I just don't have any balance and I will not put my feet to the fire on action if unless it unless it needs to be.

6:48 And that was kind of a wake up of just being like depression hairstyle whatever we want to call it at this point, like it was, I didn't do anything with it. I picked it out, I you know, shampooed it and everything. When I showered, didn't call barber, didn't even try until literally that day I tried to get into I called my text, had like gone through like three of them, like right or after my meeting, had gotten on the website of a couple of them and checked none of them had openings because it was good Friday. It was Easter weekend, so everybody who had appointments for. Everybody was giving their hairs up for lent. Yeah, I was giving their up for lent. But no, yeah, I mean it was just you. You've made the comment that I've shaved my head before. Yeah, I like, I I've gotten pretty damn good at it at this point, because I don't think you can really fuck it up.

7:31 Oh okay, that's what that was my look. When you said you gotten pretty good. I was like, yeah, but yeah, yeah, I can't. You can't really fuck that up unless you just miss splashes, which I did a couple, but I plucked those on the drive too, on the drive to pick one, I mean, fair enough, not like patches, Like it was just like a few stray hairs like behind my ear that I'd missed. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, no, it was I me on this show right now, has probably felt the best I have and in a couple of months. Honestly, like it's just I This past weekend has been a refresh for me looking at my apartment as a whole in regards to like cleaning it. I had been looking at dust bunnies. I had been looking at like, you know, just stuff in the corners and whatnot, and had been like, yeah, I should get to that. You and I share a similarity though that sometimes when I look at something that needs to be done cleaning wise, I'm like, that's gonna take me all day and talk myself out of it.

8:22 Yeah. Yeah, adderall helps with that, I bet. But but I mean, but instead I work all day. Yeah, uh sometime, I mean my average days could be twelve hours or more and I'll see the mess and be like Jesus, I wish I had an hour. Yeah, Like I would kill to have that hour to clean that. That's been a big change since I started ADHD treatment. Yeah, has been. I used to just completely avoid it. I just be like, ah, I forget it. Now I'm just like, ah, if only I didn't always fill my cup with work. I get that. Which, uh, It's it's hard to explain I was talking to somebody the other day. Not to steal your thunder, but I was talking to a friend. I think it was actually Michelle I was talking to about it. But I mentioned that the way I live is I wake up, I get out of bed, and then within two or three minutes, I am in my office and I'm fully in work mode. And she was just mortified. She was just kind of like, how, And I was like, I don't know how. It's it's just what you do. It's it's my thing, that's.

9:27 Your routine, that is your routine. Well, sure, sure, and and but most people, you know, they have like a little bit of a transition time from a wake to work, you know, the old cliche like reading the funny pages and drinking your cup of coffee. Do you think that you go directly to it because you just see your workload as never ending. No, it's because it is never Yeah. I mean no, no, no, I was just being silly, but no, no, I mean that's part of it. I'm obsessed. I was actually the other day I was watching Top five. I'd love that movie, the Chris Rock movie. I was rewatching it and he mentioned, you know, as an alcoholic, how he was at a restaurant and he saw a guy just leave his beer half of drink on the table, and he was like, man, how do you do that? And that made me think of the story in Stephen King's autobiography on writing about how he had to at the end of every night he had to pour all the beers left down the drain because he couldn't sleep if there were beers in the house undrank, and I was like, man, that sucks to be that addicted. And I was in the middle of an incredible battle with my printer, with my disc printer, which is really important to a major facet of my business.

10:44 Was this before or after you had run doss to get it to a. This was during during? Yeah, this was during And I had that moment where I was like, man, that would be really awful. And then I stopped dead, and I was like, could I sleep if this problem we're still going on? Maybe maybe I wouldn't. I wouldn't be willing to say I couldn't, because I've definitely had points where, like I've been working because problem solving is a massive part of my job, I've had moments where, you know, at about one thirty in the morning, I'm like, I gotta go to bed. I'm gonna hit it tomorrow. I'm not like, you know, I'm not like literally manic about work often, you know, but last week was extra crunched because the plan was for the week to be easy, and then I had the audity show get tacked on, which I'm happy about. I mean, it was a really cool experience. But because of that, then the week became normal load and then when problems persisted or joined the call, then it became you're screwed. You've got to work as hard and fast as long as you can, and that is never fun. And I promised myself I was going to step away from that, because I did that in October and November and in most of January and then leading up to Wasteland, and you know, so most of March was that as well. So I'm trying to ease up on that, sure, But it's important to keep in mind that a routine is very important, especially if you're relatively solo living. When I lived like

12:19 all on my own in Jersey, I like my weekend. I had to have like a regimented weekend or else it would just suck. And like when I first started working for myself, the routine was pretty much non existent because I didn't even know what the days would be like. Now things have grown to a point where there's so much to do and there's always something that could be done. It used to be that I would sometimes spend two or three days just generating a new project or new thing to work on. And now I do that mind set.

13:00 I do that mindset while I'm already on something else because there's so much to do. And it's a blessing and a curse, because I mean I was also like super broke all the time during that period where I could like run to the movies three days a week, Yeah, I was. I was like dead ass broke. I would literally be like pushing together quarters to see if I could get a coke at the theater because I'd be like, oh my god, like you know, so now it's like I don't have I could I get whatever I wanted the movie theater if I can find the time to go, So you know it. But my point is you suck, no, no, no, but no. My point is like, so do you feel like your routine did you feel like you had a routine going and you lost it like from I know.

13:47 I'll be I'll be perfectly honest. When when I went when my partner and I split up last year, it was it was a situation to where we we we had had a routine obviously, of course, and I've got my routines in the sense of like you know, you and I record on Tuesdays. I've got stuff that happens like usually Thursdays with another podcast or with friends or whatnot, and then Friday with you guys. So it's like, it's not that I don't necessarily have a routine. I don't have a routine for like you perfectly made like said it, my solo time, My solo time is spent a lot that was spent a lot of me sitting at my apartment or thinking about being at my apartment, being free at my apartment to do all these things, and then overthinking every single fucking thing I could do and doing nothing instead.

14:34 David, this is a family show. No, there's a thing and I'm trying to remember the name of it that I was. I learned about when I first got my diagnosis, and it was called like revenge relaxation or something along those talk about Yeah, and I think that's a thing that a lot of people deal with, where they'll have some time to themselves and then decide that they're not doing a good enough job doing something for fun. It's not uncommon for me to pull I don't want to say an all nighter, but I mean it's not uncommon for me. Like so, for example, Friday, when when the guys left my place, which is little after twelve thirty or so, I saw seven am. Geez, yeah, you have had that's been a problem in the past that we've talked about.

15:18 And that was and that was even after this, but that was mainly just the fact it was just like, had a day off, you know, took the day off and clean. The guys come over, smoked cigars, eight pizza, watch movies, and then they left, and I was just like, you know, I want to watch a couple things, and I did. But then I did realize, like after a while, I was literally pushing myself to like stay awake for this movie, and it was just like, dude, I can go to bed anytime and finish this tomorrow. Well it's even weirder today. It's even harder when you think about like you don't work Saturdays anymore. No, so you could literally get up whenever you want on Saturday and just pick up whatever you want exactly, but you kind of push yourself. Yeah, And that's something I've been really trying to fix on my end, is like I have a really hard time with deciding what I'll do with the little bit of free time I get, Yeah, and then I'll end up wasting most of it, and then I'll be mad.

16:06 Yeah. So I've been pushing myself to just like I have to watch some like I just this is what I'm doing. Yeah, there's not a debate. I basically. So along with along with the cleaning routine that I made for myself, I've also made it so that I that I make myself read a chapter of whatever book i'm reading a day, and it doesn't have to be just a chapter, meaning you know, if I'm reading and want to read more, obviously I can, but I need to have just that separation at least you get my phone out of my hands, get anything distraction wise way, and just like focus on my book because I love reading, and this this year especially, like I've been reading more than I have in the past, which has been enjoyable naturally, though this like last month, I've barely touched my Freendil one ray book and I'm in the last like fifty pages. So I mean, it's it's hard for me to pinpoint exactly, you know, what is causing it. It's just I mean, it could be a clump of things at this point. But what I sole like, what I solely realized in all of this in the past week, is just that I have to have some kind of schedule. I have to be able to have something that I can look at and be like, Okay, I need to get that done and that done, and then you know, also making progress for myself on whether keeping my apartment clean or just like you know, tasks that I need to have done. That's been the hardest thing is just kind of figuring out what's gonna get me to do that. And luckily, I am now three days into having this short chart up and I have not missed a single day of my chores.

17:29 That's good. Yeah. See, It's funny because from my perspective, I'm envious of your work schedule because that would anchor every day or five days a week to me. So it's interesting to hear you know, somebody struggle with with constructive time for just the evenings and weekends. I think it's because that combating the fact that I'm also in night out. I mean, you know, it's not hard for me to stay up, like I am nocturnal as far as I'm concerned. So I mean, it's not hard for me to stay up. It's literally harder for me to sleep, which is why I sit on the show a while back. Like you know, I've started trying to be in bed at ten, so that way, at least I'm laying down, and for the most part, that has been working out. But like when I choose to stay up, oh, I will go as long as my body will let me, or as long as I'll make my body.

18:19 Go for that matter. Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, I. Mean, because Jeff and I drank a cup of coffee, like when we started long Good Friday, and so I mean, like nine thirty we each had a cup of coffee. But that wouldn't move well. But that wouldn't that wouldn't carry me to seven am. It could carry you further than you realize though, Like you know, you know that the experts recommend you shouldn't consume caffeine after like three or four pm. What do they know. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like that's their their recommendation, So having it at like eight thirty at night, that's pretty late. Yeah, but I also wasn't planning to go sleep any times soon too. Well yeah, and there you go. Yeah, but no, I mean it was it's it's been a lot better the last few days. I genuinely am trying to stick to this because I want to, and it's like I have not had that feeling in a while, and I don't I'm if that sounds sad, it probably is.

19:11 But at the same time, it's just like I've had a really tough twenty twenty five so far, and it really hasn't even been that much of it except for me. We're almost a halfway point, like two months away from it at this point. But like, not even a lot has happened in regards of like negative stuff. It's just been changes, and I think the changes have just thrown me off. Well, you're a warrior, oh big times. I know I didn't think. I didn't think you didn't know that. I'm just saying, but oh, now, you're worried about what I meant by that. That makes sense, But but you know, just having that mentality of of everything that comes up could be a new big problem. Yeah, Well, whether they are or not, the way your mind and your body take it will be as if it is. Yeah, And that's something to consider as well, is you know, you have to try to find perspective on your problems as they come. And that sounds easy, and it kind of is, except if you over diminish your problems, then you'll just have a horrible time, yeah, because you'll be like, I'm really worried because I'm stupid and I shouldn't be worried, and then you're beating yourself up instead of having a healthier mentality towards your problem.

20:29 What's harder for me, and what really does become the biggest obstacle sometimes is that I love to help people. I love to be there for people as much as I can be and everything, and in doing so, that will make me cut pieces out of me that I should probably hang on to for my own spoons for that matter, And then I can't really hold on to helping people if I'm not well myself, and like that's that's kind of been to come to Jesus. It's just been like I don't I don't have the spoons to deal with a friend messaging me sometimes, and I hate it because it's just like I can't be like, I don't, I can't deal with this right now, even though I absolutely can, and I mean that's my right, but as as David, I can't. Like it's hard for me to tell somebody like I just can't help you right now.

21:14 Well, and it's hard if the habit has become that they come to you to ask you for things, yeah, often, Yeah, because that's kind of the catch twenty two. Luckily, I don't have really many of those. I did. I mean I did back in the day, I remember, yeah, But like I mean that that has kind of been cut out that that was more so twenties than it has been thirties, luckily, because it's gotten to a point where it's just like if you if you're in your thirties now and you're asking me for money every week or you know, every month or anything, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I mean, Jesus Christ, that was yeah, that that was That was a couple of things. Yeah, that's not okay, No, it wasn't. And I had told that person. When that person got mad at me for telling them, I was just like, we're no longer friends because this is not Yeah you're you're not You're not receiving me on this.

21:58 Hell no, No, that's like that's way the way the line. So I mean that, you know, it's it's been a really really good couple of days. I'm I'm holding onto this feeling, not in the sense of how long can I make this last? How do I make this last? Is how I'm feeling right now, because you know, normally you feel happy and you're just like, oh man, I hope this, you know, last a while. I'm feeling good to a point where it's like if I keep this going, then I can at least stay focused on this and make the progress and build off. Of that that makes sense. And just have a regiment at that point too. I mean, having something to focus on, having something to keep you on track is very important, yeah, and very valuable. Yeah, but yeah, it it sounds like, I mean, you've went through a lot of changes, especially in the later half of last year, so and it's going to make you feel a certain way. As you head into the into the anniversaries of multiple changes, you're going to feel a certain I mean, I'm going through the anniversary of both of my dog's deaths right now. Yeah, and there's that moment of just like wow, so much time already, and you have to you have to find where to put that.

23:13 You know, you have to arrange the furniture of your mind and you don't want that furniture getting knocked over. No, So it's a it's a challenging thing. I mean, I appreciate that you're talking about it candidly, little annoyed because I tried to see how you were doing earlier and you just said fine, yeah. Because so this is no offense to you. There are there's times I want to talk about it, and there's times I don't. And given you know, I'm not I'm not going to say what I was just telling you out in the in the living room about what what Well. That was very that was very yeah, yeah, no no detail. But what I'm saying is that also that kind of brought me to where it's just like, okay, like this is something that like I've done all I can with it. Now and I need to let it go. And that was just kind of the thing where it's just like me being like, Okay, you've helped the friend out, you've done what you can. Stop dwelling on it, stop thinking about it. If anything else comes of it, we'll deal with it tomorrow. Don't think it, don't say it. Don't think it, don't think it, don't say it.

24:05 Bye bye man. So, but I mean, yeah, it's no, it's no offense to you on that. I mean, And I know, I know, I'm stubborn. I know, but there's also times that I just genuinely don't want to talk about it, and then there's times where it just pops out of me. I understand that. It's just sometimes it comes with anger. I get that, and that can be frustrated. Yeah, I know, I absolutely get that. So Luckily I I first studied anger management when I was very young, and I'm pretty good at catching myself once I'm pissed, and that helps a lot with I mean, with all of my relationships in the world. Yeah, because when people I care about piss me off at first, I almost never you know, fully snam I. Mean, and to be perfectly honest with you. I thought the text had kind of given you an idea of what I was going through, but you didn't know the after of that.

24:51 Yeah, and and I think it may have not been very clear how taken away I was. And that's one of the last it is in the sense of you hadn't when I sent that text. That was Thursday, and you hadn't left yet, so that so that was you haven't. Yeah, you and I haven't really spoken much since then. Sure. Yeah, it was just a hell of a hell of a trip to pull together all at once. Oh yeah, man, I understand. No, I'm not saying you're you're denying that. But but with that all being said, you probably need Jesus, Which takes us to our movie that we just saw before we came into the studio. We finally got to catch Ryan Coogler's Sinners and overall really liked it a ton.

25:44 It feels like it's been a while since we had a vampire movie in the most in the most pure sense. Of being a of being a well of being a successful vampire movie, or I. Mean, like, it's not a Racula movie. No, it's not a sequel, it's not a it's not it's original. It's an original vampire concept. You know, it's a bunch of vampires doing vampire stuff. Yeah, you know, like from Dusk Till Dawn or Interview with the Vampire, which we're like, although I think that was based on a book, but it doesn't matter, no Interview. Of the Vampire interview. Yeah. But I mean, like, we had a lot of these vampire things in the eighties and nineties, you know, Near Dark and stuff like that, but we've had quite the drought of successful vampire movies. Doesn't mean they weren't good.

26:33 I mean, we had Abigail, although technically that's loosely tied into a Dracula universe thing, but that doesn't matter. It was really good, but it didn't do well at the box office. Yeah, and I got really curious and started pulling up info. And it's been a really long time since a non Dracula. Well, first of all, even with Dracula, Dracula Untold was twenty fourteen. That was a big hit. I was that it was not either, but I'm just saying, like, but apparently that one was considered a hit. Yeah, but then you had like No s Faratu, which is a remake but it was a hit. And but before that, like according to the research I was doing, like it was Hotel Transylvania was like the biggest vampire movie that mal and then Twilight. Yeah, so it's really cool to see Sinners right now. If it can keep the momentum going, which it really looks like it is, yeah, it's going to be a big hit.

27:19 It's got the best word of mouth that I've seen of a horror movie in a while, because I like, I had non horror friends asking me if I'd seen Centers yet, and I was just. Like, the I do you have literal like horror friends? They're just like ghouls and goblins. I mean, you know it is, but yeah, No. I had friends that normally don't go see the horror movies that I go see or in general, and it was just like, have you seen Sinners yet? And I was like, no, have you? And They're like I loved it, and it was just like, Okay, this is this is something big And for those who aren't aware, it's uh, it's basically about these two brothers that have got gotten out of Chicago. There they're little uh like not I guess they I guess they worked for capone, is that what the idea was. Well, they keep hinting that they were in organized crime, but they would horror crime. They went to war and then organized crime because this I forget the exact year was nineteen thirty.

28:04 Yeah, and they've basically come back to their town. They're buying this little mill it was a former mill, to turn into a chery, to make it into a juke joint, and then some vampires end up stumbling upon it one night. Well, and it takes place in Mississippi during Jim Crow, So there's segregation and a lot of hostility a lot and the setting was really great. We didn't really get a hint of vampire until about thirty minutes or so in. Yeah, about thirty Yeah, I think you're right, Yeah, because the first the first appearance, and then from there I just kind of even even with that first appearance, it still takes like about an hour twenty for it to really get into vampire territory. Something like that.

28:44 Yeah, Because I mean it's a it's a period piece horror movie. Musical is the best way that I could put it. I mean, I wouldn't call it a musical, but it has a few pretty big moments of a lot of music numbers do well, and the theme is music. I mean, the element the concept of like a fire starting for music is a very old concept. I mean goes way back to like mozart Era and those two brothers. They start their juke joint up and basically they have this incredible almost seance transcendent performance yeah, at their juke joint, which attracts these vampires to come and want to crash the party. Yep. And it's it's really fun and spooky.

29:27 It goes places you don't expect it to. I would say, like, not not so much like story wise, it's more so like the musical element that carried even over to the vampire side. I wasn't expected, oh like them performing to them performing. Yeah, that was That was really cool And I really wouldn't consider that a spoiler much because I mean that happens a lot. The little moments of voodoo in there, yeah, were pretty cool and interesting things really. Moving minded me. A lot of idle wild meats from us till Okay, Yeah, I can see that. I mean it definitely. It had tons of from dust till Dawn vibes. Yeah, going for me for. Sure, especially the last thirty minutes. Yeah, well, and we had like the main character is a guitar the guitar player who kind of summons everything, and he's the son of a preacher yea who's expected to become a preacher.

30:11 Yep. So you've got like a lot of those elements going for it. It was pretty creepy. It had some great jump scares. Yeah. I wouldn't consider it like super scary all the way through, but it had some great scares. It had some. It had some really good violence too, I would say, especially towards the end of the siege, like it was very violent. It was very violent at that point especially. No, but I mean like the the the blood spray, it was. It was really crazy. And I thought overall it was just it was a solid film. I wasn't a huge fan of like the last fourth but it wasn't bad. I just I just wasn't as into it as I was the rest of the film. And that's a very minor critique because also the there's a mid credit sequence that is excellent and I think really ties the film together even better. So don't be like the people sitting next to us who got up and left you know. I guess they finally decided to go talk somewhere else.

31:04 But were they talking the whole movie? Ah, A bit, a bit. And the guy seemed annoyed when I had to go through. Yeah, he was annoyed when I did too. I was like, it's not my fault, you have long legs, but no, it was. It was a damn fine film. And one thing that's really interesting is if this film becomes a huge hit, and I want to mention and I did not get this vibe from the trailers in the marketing. I did not get the vibe this was a big movie, and it is. It clearly cost ninety to one hundred million dollars. But one of the really interesting things about this film that they just started reporting about, I think in Variety is Ryan Coogler. You know, he came off of doing two Creed movies massive hits, and two Black Panther movies.

31:46 Mattered with Fruitvale Station, though with Michael B. Jordan Oh yeah, nice h But so he's had four monster hits in a very short span of time. Yeah, And when he made this film, he basically chose his own deal, and he made a deal that's really uncommon for movies this big. He gets a cut of gross profits or not profits, just gross earnings, which, for those who don't know, net means after expenses, gross means immediate. So that means that from the moment tickets starts selling, regardless of how much the movie's made, he begins to see a portion. We don't know what percentage, but he begins to see money. That is a big move. But the even more surprising one was he was able to make a deal with Warner Brothers that after twenty five years, the film is going to revert back to him like in its entirety. And that is something that filmmakers have made those deals, but not at this scale, not with a movie that costs one hundred million dollars. It's extremely unusual.

32:44 Yeah, and it's kind of made the industry panic a little bit. From what I've read in the articles too. I think that was just how they got us to read it, Yeah, because I don't see why they'd be panicked. It's like, well, you're afraid that somebody's gonna want to get. To see Ben Stiller go off on Variety by the way, Why Because Variety had put up a article basically saying you know it's a huge hit, but it's got a ninety million because it. Made sixty some million, well against ninety the. Advertising campaign and Stiller was just like, this is a really fucked up way to say, like how this movie's like a hit, Like the movie like this doesn't deserve a headline like this. Yeah, but they're trying to get you to read it. Yeah. I mean, and when I saw the first box office, I was like ah, And then when I saw the next few days, I was like, Okay, no, it looks like it's gonna upswing really great. Yeah, because I'd like this to be a very big hit because it was a really great film. Yeah, it was surprisingly packed and on a Tuesday night, So I think it'll do well.

33:35 I think if anybody is debating going to see it, it's not really a debate. This is a movie made for theaters. Oh sure, this is a movie made for movie sized screens. Ah. Well, they shot it in sixty five millimeter and seventy millimeters, so it's I'm out. I mean, we saw an XD look great. That looked really good. It was a bit dark on purpose, yeah, Like it was a bit dark, and I think that served it. I think vampires only said one time, by the way. I was surprised it was said one at all. Yeah, I thought it wouldn't be said at all. So I I really really dug Sinners, and I think I think people should go see it, support it. I think it's a it's gonna be a very interesting It's gonna be interesting to see where things go from here with Ryan Coogler, Like is he going to go back to making box office hits or is he going to insist on making original things now that are his because his four box office hits were all other ip you know, Creed was to take off of Rocky, and he did an incredible job of both of those, obviously Black Panthers Marvel. So I'd be very curious to see what's next, assuming this trends the way it is, And I do think that it's very likely the word of mouth will push this way over the top.

34:47 I would hope. So, I mean it, I mean it worked for Knives Out. Knives Out was a great film and it came back one. I'm so sorry what like I did, Glass Onning was a lot of fun and I want I want a third one already. I don't know, right, you know, right, your congressman. So but speaking of congressmen, oh, tonight's film Okay, No, I just I just was like we should probably segue. That's fair so well, and not just because you know, we should get to the movie, but because this is a you know, kind of a seminal movie for you today time. So it's it's funny because our ages aren't massively different, but but they're different enough that like, there are a lot of movies you really like that you weren't there when they first came into existence. And I was, yeah, yeah, I mean I was what year was it, ninety three, four, ninety four? Ye, so I would have been eight ish somewhere in that neighborhood. So I remember the the in the moment pop culture, noess, I remember the news pieces, I remember the commercials, and I remember the VHS releases of a lot of these as well, yea, like when they got pushed out. So tonight we're talking about nineteen ninety four's The Crow, Yes, as part of our wrapping up the April Shower Showers. Yes, because in this film, it can't rain.

36:09 All the time, but it fucking does almost. Its damn near does so and this is a film that I know you've wanted to bring onto the show. Yeah, you, and honestly, you kind of just cheated so you can get two birthday picks out of doing this. I still do't even know my actual birthday picks. Go to be it might be nothing but trouble, but we'll find out. Oh I thought it would be. Uh, I'll always know what you did last time. No, that's that's your birthday pick for me. You're right, I'll just make that my birthday pick. There we go. Yeah, but no, I mean this was this was a movie that I did not realize was going to honestly change my life. Like I mean, that's the best way I can put it. Is because I remember being aware of this movie, and I remember how, and I'll tell and I'll talk a little bit more about it when we get into how how I got a hold of this movie. But this movie and From Dusk Till Dawn ironically were bought the same day on VHS and taken home, and I watched both of them the same day, and Lo and behold got two of my favorite movies of all time. But The Crow is one that I could not tell you how many times I've seen it at this point and getting busy.

37:12 It's sick, it's not sex. It's more than six. But I mean getting to see it on the big screen last year around my birthday was is an ultimate gift, and I mean it was. It's just a movie that I have that I absolutely have a lot to say about. But also it's become a way of me to connect with a lot of people in my life too. Honestly, people have been murdered, people have been so it makes sense, makes sense. The Crow from nineteen ninety four is one hour and forty two minutes rate. It r for a great amount of strong violence and language, and for drug use in some sexuality. Well are you just gonna steamroll past? Or did you want to watch this clip? You brother? Oh no, I'm I'm gonna get there. Okay, I'm gonna get there, Storry, there's a place for it.

37:54 Oh okay, Well, it'll be nice to know since on the one has I set you everything? We kind of we kind of just rolled into it and that's my and I was literally this freaking my apologies, but anyway, i'mdd synopsis says the night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven and his fiance are brutally murdered by members of a violent gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger. That's an okay, I mean it gets all the points. Yeah, my synopsis. When he and his fiance are murdered the night before their wedding, Eric Draven rises from the grave one year later to take vengeance on those responsible, assisted by a crow with supernatural powers. Yeah that works. Yeah. Yeah. Taglines, Oh yes, yes, can't rain all the time?

38:35 Oh that was actually a literal tag It can't. Ran all the time was a tagline yet Okay, okay, nothing is trivial. Hmm, okay, that's not a good tagline. This is one that I knew like verbatim because it was on the T shirts and the poster Believe in Angels. It's on every single poster for the most part. So freaking like teenage girl cringe. In a world without justice, one man was chosen to protect the. Inn since it makes them sound like the Phantom or something real. Love is Forever No one works. Okay, And finally you'll love this one. So keep in mind ninety four what superhero movie would have just come out tail into the eighties Batman darker than the Bat, But that one works better because it would be darker than the Bat.

39:21 The Crow, Yeah, because it was like it leads into the title. Okay, uh yeah, No, I don't like very those taglines much at all. It can't read all the times the best one next to uh nothing is trivial. Yeah, I mean I think that if you're I would probably say that the best would be the loved one forever because that would get I mean, because this movie. You've got to understand, David, This movie lived and died by the teenage girls. My sister was a teenage girl when this movie came out, which is why I saw it. I have bought in Boughton Boughton, I have bought seventy five percent of my original Crow merch off of women, I would say checks out entirely. Yeah, so no, that absolutely checks out.

40:05 Yeah for sure. So it's currently available to stream on Pluto TV. You can also rent it through Prime and Fandango, and it is also available on a beautiful four K that came out a couple of years ago, or not even be a year ago now. It was about a year. Yeah. Director is Alex Proyis on the film. He gets his start as director and writer on Spirits of Air, Gremlins of the Clowns in eighty seven. Okay, yeah, Fleetwood Mac Everywhere Video in eighty seven, writer and director on Dark City in ninety eight, Garage Days in two thousand and two. But as far as his directing goes, Yes, Rhythm of Love in eighty seven, cock Robin Just around the Corner in eighty seven. These are music videos, yes, Rick Springfield, Rock of Life, Mike Oldfield, Magic Touch, Crowded House, Better Be Home Soon, Joe Jackson nineteen Forever Sting all this time. Then he directs The Crow in ninety four.

40:51 That's his first theatrical film. Okay. Then he goes on to do I Robot in four, Knowing in two thousand and nine, and Gods of Egypt in twenty sixteen. Wow. Yeah, so he's had realized he had some more movies. He's had some more movies. Yeah, writer on one of their three writers on the film, first one being James O. Barr, who is the writer of the graphic novel in nineteen ninety four. He gets his credit on that as well as characters for City of Angels, Crow, Stairway to Heaven, Crow, Salvation, Crow, Wicked, Prayer, and Crow twenty twenty four. Ah, Yes, Yes, Yes Crow twenty twenty four. Other writer is David J. Scal. He gets a start on nineteen eighty nine's Freddy's Nightmares. Writer on leather Face, Texas Chainsaw three in nineteen ninety, Creators three, he gets screenplay credit on in ninety one, Creators four, screenplay credit on in ninety two, Crow in ninety four, The Outer Limits ninety five, Perversions of Science in ninety seven, The Hunger, Texas Chainsaw The Beginning. In two thousand and six, he gets a story credit on Masters of Horror, Both Pick Me Up and We All Scream for ice Cream. Then he has a teleplay on The Hills Run Red in two thousand and nine.

41:54 Oh Yeah, for some reason they call it a teleplay. It was really a TV movie as far as I can tell. Oh been for tax reasons. Yeah, Mob City in twenty thirteen, creep show series The Finger, and Mums. In twenty nineteen. He's the writer on Well. It's worth mentioning. David Skal got his name in the world by being a splatterpunk O. Yes, yes, and that was his big his big thing. He'd written novels and novellas and things like that. A couple is I've got like Seeing Red and I've got one that he has like I think it's like four other writers because him and Nick Garris wrote together, even on a couple. Oh, okay, yeah, other writer on it is John Shirley. He gets his start as in nineteen eighty six with Defenders of the Earth, The Real Ghostbusters in eighty six, Brave Star in eighty seven, Robocops series in eighty eight, The Crow in ninety four, The Specialist, which he is the he wrote, I think The Specialist novels or something or had a credit on that. I want to say. Then he does Star Trek DS nine, al right, Poultter Guys, The Legacy, hey All Roads, Adventures of Sinbad in ninety six, Red Shoe Diaries in ninety six, Twist of Terror in ninety seven, Profit Spawn TV series, Batman Beyond the Tomb in two thousand and nine, Iron Man Armored Adventures, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in twenty sixteen.

43:05 Oh that took a turn. Yeah, and our cinematographer on It is Darius Wolfsky. He gets his start in nineteen eighty seven with Suzanne Vega's video for Luca Sting be Still My Beating Heart, shoots Van Halen when It's Love, Steve Winwood holding on the Bengals Eternal Flame video hauling Oates Downtown Love. Crosby Still is a nash American Dream, Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl, Aerosmith, Jamie's Got a Gun in eighty nine Pointer Sisters After You zz Top Give it Up. Then, in nineteen ninety three, as the cinematographer for one of the most underrated neo noirs that I've seen and also cannot recommend enough, Romeo is bleeding with Gary Oldman, Roy Schreider. Who else is in the note? But it's a really good mob story.

43:49 Are there any overrated dio noir thrillers? I mean sure, but I don't know that. I was just saying, when you say underrated dio noir thriller, my first thought is, I think that's all of them are underrated. Neodo war is also a turn that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. That's kind of my point. Then he goes the Crow in ninety four, then shoots Crimson Tide in ninety five, follows it up with The Fan in ninety six, which is the Wesley Snipes rubbed a Nero, Yeah Yeah, Perfect Murder in ninety eight, Michael Douglas Dark City in ninety eight, Alex Froyes Shocking eminem featuring Dido, the Stan music video, which was a big music video when it came. I remember the Stan Music Video. Then you had The Mexican in two thousand and one, which is one of my favorite movies. Bad Company two thousand and two, Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl, Hide and Seek in two thousand and five, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest, and six At World's End in seven Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street and seven Eagleye and eight Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, The Rum Diary, Prometheus, The Counselor, Exodus, Gods and Kings, The Martian, The Walk, Alien, Covenant, War Machine, All the Money in the World, Sakaria Day of the Sodado Wow raised by Wilson twenty twenty. News of the World, The Last Duel, House of Gucci, Napoleon, fly Me to the Moon, and most recently Mody The Three Days on the Wings of Madness in twenty twenty four.

45:09 Wow, yees, his career really picked up in the last ten years. Like crazy, You shoot. The Crow, then go to shoot Crimson Tide, which we just recently revisited, and that movie is shot beautifully. Sure. No, but but like man, I mean, I've seen a good eighty percent of that of that last bunch you were talking about, like News of the World, and although I mean they're all really new, the world was really it seems like he got pulled into that kind of Burtany Ecosystems. Shoot the Martian and the Walk back to back pretty crazy. Yeah. I wonder if the Walk was shot in three D. I know that it was released in three D. That's a good question. Actually I don't know. So moving down to our cast, we have Brandon Lee, who plays Eric Dravid in the film. He gets to start in nineteen eighty six on Kung Fu. The movie goes on to do Legacy of Rage in eighty six, CBS Summer Playhouse in eighty seven, Crime Killer in eighty seven, Laser Mission in eighty nine, show Down in Little Tokyo in ninety one, Rapid Fire in ninety two, and The Crow in ninety four. As I'm sure most of our listeners know, he was tragically taken from us on this production at age twenty eight March thirteenth, nineteen ninety three, accidental gunshot wound from a faulty prop revolver. To explain it in a little bit more basically, a scene was filmed two weeks before Lee had been called by the same gun that had been chosen for a close up in the movie.

46:20 Revolvers often used dummy cartridges fitted with bullets but no powder or primer during close ups, as they look more realistic than blank rounds, which have no bullet. Instead of purchasing commercial dummy cartridges, the film's prop crew, hampered by time and money constraints, created their own by pulling bullets from live rounds, dumping the powder charge but not the primer, than reinserting the bullets. Witnesses reported that two weeks before Lee's death, they saw an unsupervised actor pulling the trigger on the gun while it was loaded with powderless but primed round. Since the primer was still live, it could launch the bullet with enough force to push it out of the case and wedge it into the barrel in the fatal scene, which called for the revolve to be actually fired at Lee from a distance twelve to fifteen feet. The dummy cartridges were exchanged for blank rounds, which feature sure a live powder charge in primer but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. As the production company had sent the firearm specialist home early, responsibility for the guns was given to a prop assistant who was unaware of the rule inspecting all firearms before and after handling. Therefore, the barrel was not check for obstructions when the time came to load it with the blank rounds, since the bullet for the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, a condition known as squib load. This caused the forty four magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with the live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him. Basically, it went through his stomach got lodged in his spine. He did not die on impact. He made it for about twelve hours and then passed the hospital.

47:41 And it was a serious tragedy and a big wake up call. Yeah, And as we'll find out when we talk about the Crow a little bit later. Yeah, there were a lot of unsafe corners being cut yea to make this production, because it was a big, big movie with not that big of a budget in comparison. And I mean, people get hurt on movie sets more than they should, and a lot of that has to do with the homogeny of following the director's lead, of the fact that everybody wants the movie to get done, and then when you get into the nitty gritty of it, everybody wants to go home, everybody wants to make their day, everybody wants to you know, whatever goal they have, it always leads to we need to wrap up today. And when you cut corners like that, it can usually it's annoying ye at worst, but sometimes it can be deadly.

48:39 And we had that incident with rust, which although that was, as far as I can tell, such an incredible dereliction of duty on the part of the armor. The last I heard there were actual live rounds of ammunition on the set, which is completely not even but like like not just irresponsible. Yeah. But when I say like live round should not be on the set, I don't mean they shouldn't be on the set that day. I mean they should never be anywhere near the set, even on an off day, because if one live round ends up anywhere, somebody could die. Yeah, and unfortunately we've seen that firsthand.

49:21 Yeah, and that's that's something that's shocking to me that you would that you would ever think, oh, we'll take live rounds out there for fun later on. That's insanity, that's true insanity. And the idea of a bullet being lodged in the barrel and then getting shot out by a blank round is a real danger, and it's why generally after the crow firearms are usually inspected by the director and the two actors involved. Anyone who's near the gun, and anybody who's firing the gun, they all inspect them, whether they're real or not. And that's also really important.

50:01 I remember working on a movie once where somebody had to shoot themselves with a gun, and we don't use real firearms on the set unless there's no other choice. There have been a few times, but there's no live ammunition anywhere near us, and we definitely don't use blanks. And the gun was airsoft so that it recoiled when it shot, so it looked very convincing. And I remember saying, like, you can hold it to your cheek and pull it. It won't do anything other than like a little puff of air. And he was like, it makes me nervous. I was like, I totally understand. I put it into my hand and I pulled the trigger like eight times, and I was like, if you still don't want to do it, that's fine, if you want to do that to your hand and see like but I felt nothing, and he ended up doing it because it felt like nothing.

50:48 But that was a very good like. There was no rush, there was no urgency. It was just like, hey, I'd like to do it this way. I will do it well. And it's not dangerous. Pretty much on any set, you should be able to call an arm or over anytime to check a gun, no matter what. If there are real firearms capable of firing real bullets, yeah, then yes, because even a blank by itself can be dangerous if pointed in your direction. Generally speaking, I think it's up to ten feet. It's really not a danger anymore because the projectile it could shoot out it you, was basically a little tiny piece of cardboard, yeah, or wadding if it's a shotgun. So generally speaking, it can't go very far. But even so, if you actually look back at some of your favorite movies where people shoot at each other, you can actually see they're they're aiming away.

51:34 Oh. One of my all time favorites is how noticing on rewatches of Diehard they do not show you Hans Gruber's face when he fires that gun half the time. Well, they had a double loaded there, which is twice as much gunpowder as would be in a normal cartridge. Yeah, to give a big, big fireball. Yeah, they cut away a lot because he was apparently wincing when he would fire it. Yeah, because it was insanely loud and right. And that's the thing. So I'm glad that the crow that, if anything could happen from it other than showing how good branded Lee is as an actor, as tragic as it is, Yeah, it is good that it got a conversation going about like should people be in danger making movies? And the answer is no, no, never, And that's coming from somebody who like, my entire life is movies in every way. Yeah, my favorite things are movies. But I make a living on our movies. Everything is movies. But I I don't even think. I think that if you get a sprained ankle on a set, somebody should be in trouble. Yeah, you know, unless the actor is straight up like I just ran up that hill like a dumbass or whatever.

52:36 On Not Quite Hollywood, the the Ouspilitation documentary, there's that scene where they're talking about the movie Turkey Shoot and Steve Railsback is talking about how David Hemming's had the scene where Olivia Hussey was going to chop off what's his face's hands with that sword and he goes, okay, cut and she did not. Nobody instructed her about cutting. So she's about to literally take the sword and chop dude's hands and he had to come and run it and be like no, no, no, no, don't don't cut, don't cut. I mean, it's there's a lot of a that needs to be brought to those kind of things. Well and well that's a whole other thing, a whole other with actual sharp blades and stuff. I have a friend I don't know if she'd want me to talk about it, but who got very hurt by handling a blade that she was handled handed and not told that it was sharp. Yeah, Usually, unless it's a very brief sequence, we would never have a sharp knife on set at all.

53:22 We would have a knife that had been dulled, and we would maybe warned that the tip is still pretty pointy, because it's hard to get rid of a tip. But it's safety should be the number one priority. Absolutely, And now as much as it is it, you know, some people hate it because it's you know, they're purists or whatever. For the most part, I just don't see a reason to have blank firing guns on. A movie set. CG does it great, And I know that it's like but all the movies we loved watching were like that. It's like, yeah, but that's not a reason. Well, and but people did get hurt. Yeah, and you can you can watch well pieces about people getting hurt. We were just talking about it last week. How There on the Road of British episode how the Tommy gun was first introduced in nineteen thirty two Scarface, and there's rumor that they were literally firing at people and telling them to get out of the way. Yeah, given that's you know, that's thirty two.

54:15 And granted though, and if that was true, we're probably missing some detail that made it at least half as dangerous, yeah, if not more, because even in nineteen thirty two, like lawyers existed and people could still die. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that death and lawyers were invented within six years of each other. In the seventies, we didn't believe in death yet, we didn't believe it was the eighties. We didn't know kids could die yet. That's quoting my own movie yet, quoting your own moviet Yeah. Yeah, but it was the eighties, we didn't know kids could die. Also says that's so perfect. He does he had children in the eighties, so he got it. But no, So I just wanted to harp on that because I really, I so desperately care about that.

54:57 Yeah. Well, and it's not just injuries either. I heat stroke, extreme cold, frostbite. I worked on a movie last year in March, and I got my thigh and I was prepared, and my thigh got so badly frostbitten that it didn't regain full feeling for almost eight months. Jesus. I actually I didn't talk about it because what can you do. But I actually, for a little while when it would have been months and it was still kind of numb, I was actually worried that I had like a nerve disorder. Jesus. I mean, it would have been mild at that time, but I kept an eye on it because the side of your thigh is not full of nerve endings anyway, like when you scratch it, you can't feel how many nails are on it or whatever anyway, because it's just not that advanced of a feeling. But like that was, with me wearing long John's and thick pants and trying my best to stay safe, I still ended up too cold because you can only do so much. And I once got heat exhaustion on a movie set and it wasn't my I mean, it was my fault. At the end of the day. You know, the production had said multiple times, like we have water over here and stuff, and I was like, yeah, but I want to get all the stuff done. And I'm nineteen and dah dah dah, dah dah. And that's why I have a saying on set, which is remember four minutes for you to drink a bottle of water beats the hell out of forty five minutes waiting for an ambulance. Yeah, so don't be afraid to say, can I have a second just to drink a bottle of water? Because you'll never hear no.

56:21 Yeah, you just won't. I mean you might hear uh, we'll get a bottle of water to you in five minutes. You know. That's the worst you're gonna get, is like, where's a bottle of water? But usually they're never far away anyway. No, And I mean, and I remember, I'm not gonna name names, but I remember there's people that we've worked with on set, on your sets that would not seek help. And you were just like all right, I like, if you're gonna do this, you're not gonna impress me like I would rather you. I used to say, remember you don't get bonus points for suffering. Yeah, that was my favorite thing to say to people who were just kind of like, oh no, I'll just keep walking. I don't need a chair to sit in or whatever. I'm like you should. There's a chair just empty right there, sitting it for five seconds. Yeah, rest your damn feet, like you're not gonna get like, I mean, the only way gonna press me as if you crucify yourself, and even then only if you rise after three days. Sorry, Easter was just that's okay.

57:06 So yeah, moving down to our cast, we also have Michael Wincott in the film, who plays Top Dollar. Did not realize this man's resume until I was looking. Oh yeah, so he gets to start in nineteen seventy nine on a film called Title Shot. Goes on to be in An American Christmas Carol in seventy nine, The Family Man in seventy nine, Wild Horse Hank in seventy nine, Ticket to Heaven, The Littlest Hobo Curtains in eighty three. I did not know he was in that until I pulled it up the other night, because I was like, where is he? Oh some of those faces, Yeah, he absolutely is. Night Heat in eighty five, The Sicilian Crime Story, Talk Radio in eighty eight, The Equalizer series Bloodhounds on Broadway Born on the fourth of July, and eighty nine The Doors Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Romeo is bleeding, The Three Musketeers, The Crow in ninety four, then goes on to be in Panther dead Man in ninety five, Strange Days in ninety five, Strangers Metro in ninety seven with Eddie Murphy, which he plays a vicious killer in Metro, like his Ni Sholl introduction to that movie, when he stabs a cop is one of the most brutal scenes.

58:04 As opposed to how generally childlike and cute stabbing a cop as. In most movie. I mean, it's just you don't expect no, no, it's a. Really good scene. I'm just trying to bring a little eleven. Yeah, I get you. Alien Resurrection in ninety seven, Gun Shy in ninety eight, Hiddenn Agenda Along Came a Spider in two thousand and one, Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Planet, Seraphim Falls, The Diving Bell, and the Butterfly in two thousand and seven, What Just Happened in eight, Hitchcock in twenty twelve, twenty four, Live Another Day in twenty fourteen, Knights of Cups in twenty fifteen, Westworld in twenty sixteen, and most recently Nope in twenty twenty two. Which is a highly memorable character so good. He one of my favorites when he. When he basically Bill Shatner's purple flying Purple people eater.

58:44 Yeah. Is I'll never forget that sequence. Yeah, because it was one of those things that it started happening and you're just kind of like watching it. We're just kind of like and then as you in your brain goes, this is what's happening, You're like, am I witnessing this right now? It was? It was so good. I was actually just saw people on social media bitching about Nope, and I was like, yeah, you guys, really some people hated it. I mean, some people hate everything, but I really liked Nope. So I was just kind of shocked when I saw people just bitching and bitching about it. So many good moments too. The opening alone makes that movie. The opening, the opening, The opening of Nope alone makes that movie. Then opening of Ope, would you stop it? Oh sorry, sir from Ohio? I say, oh, what do you want?

59:27 So? We also have Ernie Hudson in the cast, who plays Sergent Albrecht in the film two hundred and sixty credits on his resume. That doesn't surprise me. He's incredible. It didn't surprise me, but I guess I just didn't realize how much he has been working and it's been NonStop. Yeah. No, he's always There's always worked for him because he's so authoritative and gentle at the same time. Do you know. So he gets a start in nineteen seventy six on Lead Belly. Then in seventy six he's also in The Human Tornado. Really yes, man. So then he goes on to be in The Management Atlantis in seventy seven, Fantasy Island, Last of the Good Guy Roots, The Next Generation in seventy nine, The White Shadow, The Main Event, The Octagon in nineteen eighty, Jazz Singer, Taxi, Penitentiary in eighty two, Space Hunter in eighty three, Going Berserk the eighteen. Then in eighty four he gets Ghostbusters, Joy of Sex and eighty four, super Friends in eighty five, Give Me a Break, Full House, The Wrong Guys, Leviathan in eighty nine, A Collision Course in eighty nine, Ghostbusters two in eighty nine, Cop Rock in nineteen ninety, Hell yeah in Top Rock, Hand That Rocks the Cradle in ninety two.

1:00:30 Oh yeah, which is that. Should probably be a future episode? I really liked that movie. What oh. Whenever I hear Hand That Rocks the Cradle, I think of the episode of Blossom where they make a home movie and it's hand that chokes the baby. That's why I chuckled, because they did a couple of day did an Aliens parody one time too, that was very funny. I love Blossom growing up. I'm not ashamed. The Ben Stiller Show in ninety two, Batman the animated series in ninety two, Tails from the Crip in ninety three, sugar Hill, then does the Crowd in ninety four, follows up up with No Escape in ninety four, that Rayliota movie, then The Cowboy Way in ninety four, Airheads in ninety four, Speechless in ninety four, The Basketball Diaries in ninety five, Congo in ninety five, Grace under Fire, The Substitute, The Cherokee Kid, Mister Magoo Rless. Then in ninety seven he lands a little series called Oz.

1:01:19 Which is one of his finest roles. Yeah, because Leo Glynn. He plays the warden of the prison. He's so multifaceted, he has so much going on. He's so complicated. You think you have him figured out and you never really do. Yeah, he's it's one of the best roles he's ever he's ever portrayed, and he's portrayed so many great ones. I mean his When I revisited Ghostbusters as an adult effort, not seeing it for nine ten years or something, Yeah, I was shocked how much his character was my favorite bar nune Ye, because everybody else was a cartoon and then he was just a guy. Yeah. And and now that you know, as as an adult, I'm watching it and like him saying like I'm saying, like, do you believe the parently is like I believe in whatever gets to be a paycheck. And I was like, I I identify with this man.

1:02:09 If I do have bills, I'll believe whatever you say. Yeah, I'll believe whatever you say. No, And he's but he's so earnest in it too. He's not He's not cynical. He's just very honest about the fact that his pragmatism is I got a family, Yeah, I gotta make money. I'm just I'm just happy to be here, you know. So Oz in ninety seven, then Shark Attack in ninety nine. Okay, I stand corrected, that's finest performance. The Watcher with Keanu Reeves in two thousand. I stand corrected again. Miscongeniality in two thousand, I ever would in two thousand and two with Treat Williams. Oh yeah, mis congeniality to you, Armed and Fabulous in two thousand and five, You are Hood of stoop Dog's Hood of Horror in two thousand and six, kind of like, do you remember his story?

1:02:52 It's been so they did a remake of the story and teal from the crip with the military or the military guys that are in the institution that the guy takes over completely, like takes away their blankets, takes away they're. Like the House for the Blind. Yeah, in the original talesmen cripp. Yeah, because it's that that the chick and the and the military guy move into their place and they fuck up the same thing, and that's and then they turn on them. Man, I need to revisit that. I need to watch Bones, Bones holds up. I still like Bones a lot. Hood of Horror has problems. I would I'm I'm now getting so old that things I kind of liked. Yeah, the nostalgia and age on them makes them great. So I would be really curious to revisit that one. Bones is a lot of fun. Desperate House five, two thousand and four, Bones in two thousand and eight.

1:03:35 Well, but for the record, Bones doesn't need nostalgia. Bones is just a solid fucking horror movie. Yeah, Dragonball Evolution. Torch would Hearted Dixie Scandal, Ghostbusters twenty sixteen, leave the Weapon, the series in twenty sixteen, Ghostbusters Afterlife, and most recently Firebugs in twenty twenty four, which is a TV Seriously, he does a voice on. He does a lot of voice work. Well, dude's got an incredible voice. Yeah, absolutely does. So what was your first time watching the. Well, you know, if you had told me that, or if you'd asked me that question a year and a half ago, I would have said I would guess that I watched it on tape or on TV. But when I went to see it in the theater with you when it was being revived, I realized, Well. I started to say to myself, like have I seen this in the theater before? I asked my mother, and my mother like, oh, your sister took you, And I was like, of course she did. She was like sixteen years old, she had a car. I was eight or so, and I loved movies and it was one of I'm sure it was one of those like well, take your brother. He likes that stuff. And I was obsessed with Bruce Lee, like very obsessed. My sister was obsessed with The Crow. We had the soundtrack and she was always playing it on her fucking June Your boombox in her bedroom. And I remember very little, but I remember seeing it in the theater, being startled by some of the violence because it was very like in your face, very MTV, and it obviously left an impression. Then I remember, you know, a year and a half later, renting it on tape. I remember

1:05:05 catching it on cable here and there. The Crow has always been around, and I don't know anybody who doesn't like the Crow, to the point where it is funny to me to say I don't like the Crow to you because you like it so much, because I literally don't know anybody was like, eh, the Crow's kind of overrate. I don't know anybody like that. I don't. So when I think of The Crow, I think of the fact that it was like, it was very representative of gen X, which I was looking up to being an older millennial. All my sister was gen X, all of her friends were gen X, so and that movie was just such a seminal gen X Movieah, so that's I mean, that's how I remember seeing it. And then I think I revisited it on DVD in my early twenties, like I rented it from somewhere, and I've always liked it, but it was really awesome seeing in the theater that last time. It made me realize how how much I do like the movie, but how silly it is in some ways great and in some ways just really silly.

1:06:11 Like him. I had completely forgotten until we were in the theater that he like shreds a guitar on top of the building. Yes, And I was like, oh my god. I mean it's cool, but like it's almost too much, Like it's almost too much. It's a little too much. So if you want to pull up that video, I'll explain. So, oh geez, the crow is seminal to me because this is this is one I had on VHS and the way that I'm able to figure out my movies is VHS two DVD ratio in that sense. And I had gotten my first two VHS tapes that I had ever bought in myself at the flea market, and one was Ferris Bueler's Day Off and the other was Ransom and Ransom just so happened to have this trailer on. It's on the tape which.

1:06:56 We're about to take a look at. Here goes Nothing. So this is the first time that I'm ever seeing like anything about the Crow. Really. Oh so you got Judge dread. Some bitchy stuff. Then we go into terminal velocity, only showing the scenes at the end. Well, of course, because that's where all the action. I love Tombstone, but that's where the big action is. Yeah, dimension of course, the finest of them for the Crow. So my initial look of this movie is, Okay, it's just it's it's a horror film. It does look like a horror movie. And I would say that it's debata Pillar of Night. Of Night. I would say it's debatably a horror movie.

1:07:42 I mean, it's in horror if you buy it. Meth Wade hand rocks the cradle, the hand that chokes the baby Crimson inside. Wow. Yeah, oh yeah, I remember the music and everything, the era of the music videos at the beginning of your DVDs and the residents. Yeah, again only showing the end of the robbery. Well, you'd also get really interesting combos Bad Company Company, you'd get like a really interesting combination to pulp fiction fiction because sometimes stuff would be released nowhere near each other in theaters, but they'd all come out on video at the same time, especially when DVD came out, because then it would be like, we're releasing everything from the Night.

1:08:22 Pulp fiction. Yeah, and now we're getting a recap of all these excellent releases. Man, I mean, this stuff is just is so early too. I remember the music like Verbatos continue, and what hilarious is to find that trailer to send to you. I literally just typed in the Crow Tombstone, Color of Night, Guilty of Sin and found it because it's a pitching guitar solo like Hollywood Pictures, Mirrormax, et cetera lineup basically. So so that was my initial concept of the Crow. So fast forward about a year later, maybe even half year later, and I'm at the I'm at Caesar's Creek flea market with my dad. We've actually set up to sell there, okay, and so I went there specifically to hang out with him and also sell some stuff, but also shop. And there was a booth that had a bunch of horror stuff, and I wanted to get a copy of from dustilled On. Got my copy from dustilled On.

1:09:19 I was happy. That's really all I needed. So then it was towards like midway through the day or so, and Dad's like, why don't you go like walk around, like, you know, see what else is out there? And I was like, okay. So I find myself over by this, by this booth and there's just these two rubber maid containers full of VHS tapes and two guys are talking, and I go into one and I pick up the crow right on the top, and I'm just like, I bet I would like this movie. Didn't really know anything about it at this point, just had known that trailer and had known that like it was an action movie with some horror elements and whatnot. I want to mention I feel like at a flea market, Yeah, anytime I see a rubber maid container, I'm like, that better be full of VHS tapes or baby alligators. If not both, Oh, go ahead and get one. No, they can barely take your finger yet, that's fair.

1:10:05 So funny enough. I pick up the crow and the guy is like, I was like, oh, yeah, I watched that last night. It's a great movie, you know, it's sad about the guy, which I didn't even know about Brandon Lee's death at that point, so I was like, yeah, you know, just making small talk with an adult. And so I grabbed the crow buy it from him for like a dollar, and then this guy comes and buys the entire tub of VHS tapes that he was talking to, So go home with from Dust Till Dawn and the Crow watch him both. And I remember the Crow ending and me actually being like I kind of want to watch that again. And I watched it again right after, and I don't do that often, Like that's were you exactly? I had to pretend like twelve thirteen. Oh probably yep, yep, yeah, you were, like I am Eric Craven. That's how every teenager or.

1:10:47 I mean, I may I may even been in eleven eleven, eleven, twelve thirteen, we'll say it somewhere in there, but yeah, it was. It was a it was a feeling of I want to watch that again immediately, and I hadn't really done that like that was that was not something I did often. I just imagine after the second viewing, just like walking into the doorway of your mom and dad with like a blanket round your shoulder and my mom dad, where's the hot topic? If I it's so funny story enough, If I, if I had planned the show a little bit better, I was going to try to institute a gag where the more we just kept cutting back to me, just crow makeup kept playing going on the cop if I talked about. Part of me was like, if we weren't going to the movies, I wouldn't be shocked if you had you'd done that. It was, it was, it was a thought. It's one of my favorite gags in the South Park movie.

1:11:28 Nobody dress them like the crow by the time of the movie. That's just how that's the seperwin right after his passage. Oh yeah, but yeah, So ended up loving it and naturally, you know, ended up upgrading on DVD. And it was one that I showed to a couple of friends even I think I even showed to my parents honestly, And so, I mean it was it was a seminal moment that that that when that tape hit my VCR. Sure, so it's one that I go back to. I this is a movie that I literally watch every year, if not multiple times each year. So as a teenager when you went through a breakup, did you like blare the opening theme and like put on makeup looking in the mirror at yourself. For the record, I did not get the soundtracked until like probably like two or three years of owning the VHS or even the DVD at that point. And then once I got to the soundtrack, there was no going back.

1:12:16 No, there is no that's a good soundtrack too. And I mean, and to be honest to you, I didn't watch the sequels for years. Well. I remember specifically getting City of Angels for a Christmas gift one year because I told my dad because that was back in the days of Dad doing eBay constantly, and I was like, hey, can you look for this? And sure shit, it surprised under the Christmas tree the net last year. I remember the first Crow sequel because I remember my sister when it was over, we watched it on tape. I remember when it was over her hitting the rewind button with anger. I'm serious, I believe she was pissed. Was it? It had to have been City of Angels, right. I'm assuming that was the first one, the first sequel. It was that one for sure. Yeah, yeah, she was like literally just like like I'm taking this back, but yeah, it was. It was a movie that made an impact on me.

1:12:59 And then also genuine love for Brandon Lee and sadness that he was taken from us because I think this is, you know, his absolute best performance. Well yeah, although he was actually really so I love. Him in Rapid Fire is he's really good and showdown a little Tokyo And even most recently, I just saw Legacy of Rage, which is the Hong Kong movie he did, which is done by the director of Bride of Chucky. Is escaping me around? Yeah, it's uh shit, yeah it's it's annoying. I'll look but yeah, no, I but I mean Lee Lee's performance in this movie is memorable. Ronnie, you yeah, is memorable. It is when you when I tell you who was up originally for this movie, you will ship.

1:13:48 That's all I'll say. Well, I also want to mention my sister had Rapid Fire and Laser Mission in her personal VHS car. I've never seen Laser Mission to this day. I want to pathetic. Well, it's it's public domain, so I don't know what is a good copy. How the hell did laser Mission become public dame, it's public domain. I think. I'm pretty sure because I've seen a lot of releases of it. Could be. Yeah, but yeah, I want to see that one. But yeah, legacy erasers when I knocked off the list finally. But yeah, I mean this this is just fuck it. Let's just get into it. Okay. So we open on Devil's Night. We are in a wide shot. We're seeing a lot of fires in these city scapes, and the city scapes are are miniatures, really well done miniatures for.

1:14:29 Their budget, for their budget. I mean, I'm not trying to pick on them, it's just the four K especially just really shows the limitations of what they could do with the miniatures and with the cars, with the cars, with the the compositing of the fire and stuff like that. You can, but it feeds that kind of comic bookiness, just like when he's on top of the roof and it's so clearly not real. It does feed that aesthetic quite a bit. Oh it does. But I mean, and the Gramm Ravelle score kicks in throughout this movie and starts right at the and we hear Sarah, a voiceover of Sarah say, people once believe that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right now.

1:15:17 I don't know what people, but that was my first thought when I was watching it today, is I was like, Okay, that's one of those things you do where you go people say this. Yeah, So it's a sweet opening though it is. And we're flying with the crow. The crow eventually comes up to Eric and Shelley's apartment window, where we see all brick Ernie Hudson standing out of a broken glass window, and we look down we see Eric is dead on the street, Shelley is inside being taken care of by medics, and basically we get the reporting that there's one hundred and forty three fires in the city going on right now for Devil's Night because Top Dollars gang that's their tradition. Well, and one of the cops comment says like they must have been lazy this year because last year was worse. Yeah, which tells you, well, this takes place in Detroit.

1:16:00 Right, Detroit, yes, yeah, and a ravage in a ravaged and decrepit Detroit as Wikipedia described. It, Detroit, so I said, Detroit. Yes. So we find out that Shelley has been assaulted and she's seriously wounded. The medics are attending to her. Eric was thrown out of the window or shot out of the window. We're not one hundred percent sure at that point, and that tomorrow was going to be their wedding. So they are murdered before, well, murdered an attack before their wedding. Well, and one of the haunting lines and somebody says who gets married on Halloween? Gets married on Halloween and Hudson says, no one, nobody, because they're both dead. Yeah. So Albrecht is told by the medic he's like, you know, we got to move her, and he's like, you know, go ahead and do it. So they get her outside. By this point, Sarah rolls up on her skateboard and she's like, you know, what's going on and he's like, you know, hey, you know, Shelley your sister. She's gonna be okay. And she's like, oh, you know, Shelley's not my sister. She just takes care of me, her and Eric. Yeah, and he's and she's like, you lied to her because she even asked on Eric. And he's like, oh, he's okay, Like, you know, we just got to get you taken care of.

1:16:59 They get Shelley out. He's like, you're lying to me about Shelley too. Yeah. Now that's probably the thing that I didn't recall until I rewatched it much later. Yeah, was how sad that whole element is. Yeah, because Eric and Shelley appear to be bizarrely good people living in a place where not a lot of good people live. No, and. The cruelty of that city just kind of swallows everybody up. Yeah, So it's kind of a it's not kind of it's deeply heartbreaking. It is. No. And we also meet one of the ship bag cops I'll call him, which is played by Marco Rodriguez who was Torres, and he's the superior to Albrecht and basically tells him that they shouldn't move Shelley without his authorization.

1:17:45 And this is where we kind of get a taste that him and Allbrick don't get along. Don't say. So. One year later, we see that Sarah's visiting the grave. We also see that a crow flies to the grave, lands on it, and pecks it. And shortly after that Eric rises back from the grave. Yes he does, and we don't waste a lot of time. We don't, Unlike twenty twenty four, what do you mean? You know where? Technically he is crow adjacent forty five minutes into the movie, you mean, and then the last twenty minutes he's full on crowed. But in their defense, that time was necessary for them to establish the deep depth of love. You're gonna fucking me.

1:18:26 You brought it up. You brought it up. Man, I don't know what to tell you. I'd make My favorite part of our experience of seeing Crow twenty twenty four was you just leaning over to me and realizing it was okay for you to make jokes finally, because I I sincereously want to know you wanted to be a good friend. And I was like, what if what if Dave really digs this like this movie and I just don't. I'm not gonna piss all over And I was like this is not good. And then I was like no, I know, I know, no, Because because they do such a good job in the original Crow of establishing how in love Eric and Shelley are and how deep their love goes, and how and how important they were to each other. Whereas Scars Guard and FKA Twigs are two toxic people that break out of a rehab center together.

1:19:09 They knew each other for weeks. I mean, wouldn't you rise from the dead for a when you met? You know, a week or two? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, actually you might. I think it's a week. I don't even think it's weeks. It could be that short. I think it's weak. I I don't. I don't trust your memory of such trauma. Well here, so here's the thing. I have now seen that movie unfortunately three times? What twice in theaters? Who? What? Why did you do? Why do you hate you? So? You and I saw it for the first time obviously right, And then my friend Tosh asked me because she was like, no one else will go with me? Will you go see this? And they're all correct. I mean I did say that. I was like, I'm not gonna have a good time, but yeah, I'll absolutely go see it with you. So we went to see it. At the very end, she was like, that's not very good, and I was like, I know, right then, Slice and I and our friend Melissa the day before Valentine's Day.

1:19:57 I wanted, I wanted. They had not seen it yet, and Melissa is a huge Crow fan, so I was like, So you were like, don't watch it. No. I was like, if you're gonna watch it, let's all watch it together. I will put myself through it, and we like to give you perspective. I was streaming my my laptop to my TV and we were watching it through Discord, so like I had a screen like. This big on my TV and it was too big. That was too much, too much. Yeah, so yeah, I've seen twenty twenty four and I technically own it digitally in four K, Now. I I. Don't know why, Like people say, you pick on Dave too much. Do you see like Dave treats himself. I am kind of a cinemasochist, I guess you could say, and in the sense I'm not touching that one, that's fair. Well, I mean no, I mean that's it. But yeah, anyway, back to the good movie. So by this point, yeah, he comes out of the grave. He's screaming and like the rain's coming down. At this point, and also all this is going on, we meet T Bird and fun Boy and the rest of the little party pals as he calls um, they're getting ready to blow up an arcade and uh, like you do, Yeah, just like you do.

1:20:59 So we see them set a bomb, we see them smashing machines, we see him set the bomb, and then they go out. They're driving. While this is all going on, Eric's climbing out of the hole. He's trying to figure out what's going on. And we also see that Sarah is now friends with Albrecht, who's at a hot dog stand and he's getting his hot dog. Sarah rides up and he offers to buy her dinner. Then behind them the building explodes and that gets their attention pretty quick. One quick question though, Yes, it would be fair to say that Draven climbed out of his hole just to run rock and roll. I saw where you were going with that. I love that cover her. Demo demo recording Man Behind the Mask.

1:21:39 Done to what became the song trick Bag by Alice Cooper. Title available on Constrictor. So why T Bird and his gang getting a car? They're driving They passed some cops, but the cops don't come after them. By this point, though, Eric has gone back to his original apartment building and he's gone up. There's still caution tape on the door. And keep in mind this is one year later, so the building is basically empty at this point. They were already the only people living there appeared. Yeah, yeah, So he goes in. He finds his old cat, Gabriel, who bites him. And while this is going on, while he's inside his apartment, we get flashbacks of what happened and Shelley was home alone. T Bird bust in because we find out that Shelley was fighting a viction in that building owned by Top Dollar and she was basically putting out that like the building was not safe, there was a lot of code violations and all this stuff, and so Top Dollars sent them in to deal with her.

1:22:34 So she gets attacked by them. She gets raped by them. Eric comes in, he gets stabbed as soon as he walks in the door, sees them basically assault Shelley, and then they end up putting him in front of the window, shooting him and he falls out. While all this is happening, we're seeing the flashback, and he also jumps out of the window, grabs onto this glass and swings and comes back in and we see his hands completely heal themselves. Which is a great showdown tell moment to really get across that he's some kind of supernatural being. Yeah, has his cut up hands, heel and it's a very it's a it's a classic moment of the movie. One of the most memorable images of him swinging through Yeah, it's it's all. I mean, any moment where where Brandon Lee is the crew crow is doing something physical, Yeah, became like everything to every teenage girl.

1:23:18 Well hey, and speaking of physical activities, then we cut to the pit, the local bar, yes, where we find t Bird and his party pals taking bullet shots. And no that's not just the name of the shot. They are literally swallowed swallowing bullets and taking a shot with it. Which I don't really recommend. Would that like if you farted, that would would that like blow out. Of your It would depend depend on your barrel size. Yeah, Like I just don't know, like what that would essentially do to you. I mean it wouldn't be good. You'd probably get lead poisoning. Oh yeah, depend I don't know, or it might just pass out as one whole thing. That's a horrible thing. I just imagine just going to ship that out and just like shooting.

1:24:00 Your toilet like Elvis Presley. I don't like the show, so naturally they're they're they're having a good time, swallowing their bullets and also doing their fire it up, Fire it up, Fire it Up. That draws over Darla, who is the waitress at the bar and also fun Boy's girlfriend, and that's when we meet fun Boy, Darla, the rest of the whole crew at this point. Yes, yes, and they're all just living their best incredibly shady lives. Yes, everything is so dirty and sad, yes, deeply so. Later on we also see that t Bird has to go see Top Dollar and he goes into the club and we see that the band's performing. We also meet Grange played by the late great Tony Todd, who is Top dollars right hand man, and he's like, you know, is he busy? And he's like he's having a meeting?

1:24:48 Where is He's actually just I think killed a prostitude or a young woman, I can't tell which, and they're getting ready to cut her eyes out. Well, like you do, like you do. Tony Todd's performance in this movie is really interesting. Yeah, because everybody is larger than life except him. Yeah, he's just. Like their accountant. Yeah, like he is just a. Very normal guy in a very abnormal situation. Well, I mean you've got so You've got David Patrick Kelly who plays t Bird, which is he's the guy from the Warriors. He's in k Pax, He's in Twin Peaks. I mean, he's in a bunch of stuff. You've got Lawrence Mason who plays Tin Tin, and you've got Michael Massey who plays fun Boy from Tails the Hood and a bunch of other things, and even Angel David who plays Skank, which is a hell of a character. Yeah.

1:25:33 So we meet top Dollar and his sister, who is who's played by Bi Ling, whose name is Micah, and we just get a sense that Top Dollar is a guy you don't want to fuck with. What makes you think that? Well, the deep Michael Wincott voice for one, Yeah, and the hair, and he also is looking at a snow globe, like a really gothic snow globe, and he basically says that my father told me childhood's over the moment, you know, you're gonna die. That's like how we meet top Dollar. Yeah, and then he's like, you know, make him passes at his sisters. They're also smoking that chick's eyes at one point in the next scene. To yeah, yeah, these villains are something.

1:26:13 So cutting back to Eric, he decides that he is going to uh get himself all crowed up, and he has flashbacks of what happened to Shelley. He gets Rachel, punches the mirror, puts on his makeup while the Cure plays burn which is one of my favorite songs off the soundtrack. He chooses the look of the crow based on a mask I'm assuming he was going to wear on Halloween, Yeah, which. Was a min Yeah my mask. What there's a name for it with with it's the laughter and the sad face. Well that's the drama and comedy faces. Yeah, but there isn't there another name for it? Yeah? I think there is. But yeah, he punches the mirror. We slip into Burned by the Cure and he's putting on the makeup. He's putting on his coat. Comedy and tragedy mask codan trend may Okay, So then he is just jumping from rooftops rooftop because he is now on the hunt for Tintin. And we meet Tintin, who is visiting Gideon's pawn shop because he's just robbed and or killed somebody, and Gideon is like, you know, oh, you know, well there's blood on this purse. You know, I'll give you.

1:27:12 I'll give you twenty bucks. That's the best I can give you. Him and ten Tin have a relationship of selling stuff, but he knows exactly where it comes from. Yeah. Yeah, So Gideon kicks Tintin out and he locks up, and that's when Eric eventually reaches Gideon's pawn shop, knocks on the glass and Gideon's like, we're closed. But that is not going to phase mister Draven. As he breaks through the glass, the crow flies through, and he quotes Poe as he walks in and says, suddenly there came a tapping, as is someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. That was a raven. Yeah, I'm sure, oh, speaking of ravens that wait for the trivia Oh okay, oh yeah. So he basically says, you know, I want to know where Tintin is. I'm looking for an engagement ring. And he's like, you know, you're looking for a corner. Shit for brains shoots him right in the hand and that's when he looks at it hand. He's laughing, he's acting like it's hurt, and then he shows Gideon as his hands completely just closes up and laughs more.

1:28:05 Yeah. It's a it's a pretty great like superhero moment. Yeah. So he ends up getting it out of Gideon that where the rings are, and he goes through and we see him going through the box and he finally is like, no, that's not it, that's not it, and then he finds one. Flashes back to him giving Shelley the ring, which was a really sweet proposal of her going into the attic and he had everything set up for her. So the they were together for years at this point. Yeah, versus twenty twenty four, which was a week. Again, I didn't even bring it up. No, I'm just I wanted that movie to be good so bad. I know, buddy, I know, I know, And but you know, watching it two more times did it help it made it better? Right? No? No, it didn't. Actually no, although I will say the soundtrack on that movie's not bad. It's got some It's got some pretty good songs, not not as great as the Crow soundtrack. The Crow soundtrack from ninety four is amazing.

1:28:54 Twenty twenty four soundtrack has a couple good cuts. What I feel like the best response to just look at you, just keep looking. Yeah. So he gets the ring and he confronts Gideon and he's like, you know, h Tin or oh wait, no, I'm actually getting ahead of myself. So he actually falls off a roof in front of ten ten and that's how they get into the fight. So Tin Tin is like, you know, what are you all paying up for? Crackhead? Halloween's not until tomorrow. They get into a fight. He can even Tintin confesses that, you know, he's the one that killed Shelley, and then Draven stabs him with all of Tintin's knives because tim Tin is a knife guy mostly yeah, And so he gets all his knives stabbed into him, and that's when he's like, you know, do you like the coat when you're seeing Gideon confesses that he killed Tin Tin. He can fight it to me before he ran out of breath is the line, and so that's when he tells him that fun Boy and all those guys hang out at the pit. So now his target is fun Boy and he's gonna go find fun Boy because he lives above the pit.

1:29:45 Right right. But he also by this point is pointing a shotgun at Gideon and pouring gas over the place and says, you have one chance to live, and he's like, take anything you want, and he's like, thank you. And then as he's walking out, he's like, you know you're they're gonna erase you. You're nothing but street grease, motherfucker. And he's like, is that asilen I spell? He dumps the rings into the shotgun and goes outside and blast and blows up Gideon's paunch shop. He sure does, and Gideon makes it out in time. Yes, just barely the skin of his dick. And and that's the thing. I mean, most of what this movie really is is like the hyper romantic Gothy moments. Yeah, with Draven kind of accepting his circumstance and then pretty straightforward but very creative vengeance killings. Yeah, that's pretty much the Crow. Yeah, yeah, no, it absolutely is.

1:30:30 So from this point now he goes to see fun Boy, fun Boy, and Darlar above the pit getting high in his apartment. Eric comes in and like they're high, so they don't even think he's real. And he's like, you know, you should take your burd and leave Freako. And then once again he's like, you know, take your shot, fumboy, you got me dead. Bang fun Boy shoots him in the hand. We get the whole laughing thing again, and that's when he's like, holy shit, like don't you ever fucking die, shoots him some more. And that's when I love it, because he uh, he shoots fun Boy and right in the leg and he goes, look what did to my sheets? Yeah? I remember that even from when I was a kid. I thought that was hilarious. So by this point, Darla is hiding in the bathroom. She's got a straight razor Eric bust In and she tries to swing at him. He knocks the razor from her and then he takes her arm and he's like, look, you know, mother is the name of God on the lips of children. Your daughter's out on the street. Because we find out that she's actually taking care of Sarah.

1:31:20 Yeah, well she's Sarah's mother, Sarah's mother. Yeah, And so she is taking her arm and he sucks the morphine out of her arm as he's as he's talking to her and he's like, you know, go out, your daughter's on the street. Leaves, and then fun Boy is on the ground. Eric goes to him with a syringe and he's like, you know, no, don't do it. You're wasting it. By this point, Grange has now gotten into fun Boy's apartment because Gideon has been found at the pit, and he's like, you know what's going on. Darla comes down screaming, and when he gets upstairs, he sees Eric go sh and ducks out the window, and then Funboy now has a syringe in his chest of blood of the crow symbol. Yeah, yeah, no, no, Like I said, it's it's the imagery strong. The revenge is very creative. Yeah, you know, my comment wasn't to negate the film movie or that there's a simplicity to the Crow. There is, which is fine.

1:32:13 It works very well for it. Yeah, no, what I mean, and that's I think that's what twenty twenty four is. I mean, there's a lot of things that twenty twenty four is missing, but that is one, especially where our villain is completely supernatural at this point, there's a whole storyline going on with him infecting younger people. And yeah, I could talk about that movie, but I don't want to. You don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, I'll stop bringing it up. Then it's hard for me. I know it's called trauma. David. I'm surprised that a year later, on the anniversary of the Crow remake coming out, you didn't rise from the grave and get vengeance on.

1:32:53 It's coming everybody, It's coming literally next month. Actually, yeah, because wasn't it, because it was right before my Bert. No, No, it was October, wasn't it. I don't think it was October. Fuck it. Well, now I'm curious. I'll look at it. So anyway, by this point, Allbrect has now found Tintin's body and he's like, you know, this could be a gang hit. We don't suspect anything. And also after Gideon's pawnshot blows up, all Breck pulls up and he stops Draven, and Draven immediately recognizes him and he's like, you know, stop or I'll shoot, and he's like, I thought the police always said freeze. And he's like, well, I'm the police and I'm saying stop or I'll shoot. And I'm dead, so I move. It's Draven's line. Basically, we find out that Draven still remembers all Breck, still remembers what he did, and they kind of form an alliance at this point.

1:33:38 But that's when he goes to seem in As apartment. That right now August twenty third, Okay, that's the release date of the Superior Crow. Superior Crow. I'll fucking kill you, I know. So he goes to see all Breck, and all Brek by this point has both alerted us as the audience that he has been put on the beat by Torres because he got a little too close to something back, and also he's kind of suspecting that something might be up with the anniversary of their death. He's even got a picture of Eric's band Hangman's Curse, and he's drawing on him, like the face makeup. Yeah, yeah, trying to put two and two together. So we meet all Or. We go to all rex apartment and he's got his hat on. He's looking at the picture and Eric comes in spooks him, and he's looking at the picture and he's like nice likeness, So he's figured it out.

1:34:22 This is one of my favorite scenes. Yeah, because I remember I said, like, it's funny, and then it's also funny. M hmm. It's funny because it is legitimately funny. Yeah, and then it's a little funny because it gets silly a few times. But this is one of those really great sequences, genuine where he's just talking with him. I love you know, when he takes the cigarette from himuffs it says, you should smoke these d But. My favorite, though, is when he comes in and he's like, uh, He's like, you still have your hat on because he doesn't have any pants, you still. Have your hat on. But the way he says it is so like matter of fact. My point is that that that these are the moments that make you see what a fucking movie Brandon Lee was ready to be because his levity is humanity goes right through the lens and into you, and he had it.

1:35:10 He did. And that's kind of the part that I hate about those sequences where he gets to say the funny thing here and there, because and like toward the end, you know, when he's when he has the little levity moments when he realizes he's you know, he could die again. Yeah, I love that stuff. Because but I hate it because he's so good and it's so clear even if the Crow would come out without that accident and had been like a minor hit or even a kind of a flop, I think he still would have ended up getting cast and he would have a huge movie. And I mean this, this scene in particular both builds the relationship for him in All Breck, because not only do we find out that all Brecks stayed with Shelley the entire time while she was fighting for her life, and and he gets that by great by He's like, you know, Shelley, you know, passed at this point. And by this point, Eric goes up to grab his head and he like sees his thoughts, sees or sees his vision and everything, and he passes through it and he's like, you know, can I help. He's like, don't touch me. Yeah, and he's like, you stayed with her. He's like, I saw I saw her through your eyes. You stayed with her.

1:36:13 And he's like, yeah, I was hoping she would come out of it, and like, give me something to go off of. And he basically says, you know, little things to so Shelley seems so trivial, but now I found that nothing's trivial because we also find out that all Reck and his wife are separating, Yeah, and that's kind of a moment for them to relate and everything. And my favorite point of this whole thing is he basically go he goes, so are you going to disappear now? And he's like, actually, I thought i'd use your front door. Yeah, that's another great line. Actually I thought i'd used the front door. He's so good at saying those things so matter of factly. Yeah, And honestly, you couldn't have asked for a better person for these scenes, especially for your big feature debut, your huge feature debut. Yeah. Then being in these scenes with Ernie Hudson, who is just one of the best actors of a generation. I mean, he's so good at being subtle and earnest and authoritative all at once. He could be so many things yeah at the same time. So their chemistry is just right there from the moment it starts. And I think that a lot of that has to do with Ernie Hudson's experience, because one of the best things you can do for a younger actor is put them with somebody with much more experience. Absolutely, because they'll they'll feed off each other.

1:37:21 It's very rare that somebody's so bad they make an experienced actor worse. It's usually always the experienced actor makes everybody better. Yeah, I actually so. I actually got to meet Ernie Hudson back in two thousand, probably been like twenty ten or so. It would have been at Scarefest, and I'm naturally I was a huge Crow fan at that point too, So I asked him, you know what it was like working with Brandon, and he said, Brandon was just a was just so human that he was just so fun to talk to. He had a great sense of humor, but also just loved being like there in the moment, and that's why they had such great chemistry. And even Ad lived most of that scene too. I believe that, yeah, for sure. So by this point now he knows that he's got to go after t Bird, Skank and a couple other people.

1:38:03 So t Bird has gone to top Dollar at this point told him that one of his crew got himself perished. Tintin got all his blades stuck in his organs in alphabetical order. One of my favorite line alphabetical order, and I love it because he's like, oh well, homent of silence for Poro Tintin does blow. Yeah, yeah, Top Dollar he's you know, he's he wears his heart on his sleep. Yeah. So Top Dollar reminds me and he's working for him tomorrow. But also by this point, Gideon has been brought to Top Dollar because they want to know why his pawn chop exploded, and that's when he tells him that it was His name was Draven, he had a bird. And that's when Top Dollars heard enough of him and sticks a sword right through Gideon's throat. Yep, yep. Gideon played by the Great Joe Blito. By the way, Oh yeah, yeah, Joe Alito is fantastic in this movie, but fantastic and pretty much everything he's hit and.

1:38:48 He was just that guy, yeah, like all of the nineties in the early two thousands. So by this point now he's moving on to T Bird. So T Bird and Skank have gone to T Bird's car. They're waiting on to show up, but obviously fun Boy's not gonna show up, huh. So that's when he sends Skank into the gas station for road beers and smokes. I love the line road beers, road beers, yeah. Smokes, road beers, be quick. So fun story deleted scene wise or chopped out of the movie entirely when this was in the work print. There are two kids that go into this convenience store when Skank's in there, that start robbing it. Skank gets shot. That's why he's limping when he's chasing the car.

1:39:29 Oh yeah, he is limping. Mm hmm. Yeah, he gets shot by the kids that are trying to rob the convenience store. So anyway, uh, Draven is actually in Tiebird's car and tie Bird goes to light of smoke. The wind blows and Draven pops out, points a gun on him and says, you know, you know, who the fuck are you? And he's like, I'm your passenger. Drive. So he's driving tee Bird through the city. They get the cops attention by this point. But anyway, fun Boy's chasing him and he ends up stealing a car and also chasing him, gets ran into by the cops. It's a whole fucking sequence. Fun Boy, by the way, runs in the middle of the street to see what's going on, gets hit by a car. Oh sorry, what was his name? Skank skank. Oh yes, skank skank gets hit by a car. Yeah. The guy gets out of the car and goes, what's wrong with you hit my car? Stupid ass hair, You hit my car with your body. Stupid ass hair, you hit my car. But like you're a pedestrian. He's yelling at the pedestrian you get with his car, and then he steals.

1:40:20 The seals his car, gets him in the nuts, steals his car because I love god damp Ford cars. Because then you also have the cops. So Teebird is racing because he dreams got his gun on him. They go past his alley and the cops are having their coffee and he's like, what is this creamer? I can't believe they can't even call it creamer legally. They speed past. He goes, what the crap and then the cops just get coffee dumped on them. Yeah that's going ah so, So by this point they get away from the cops and he takes a teber to the docks and he ties him up in the car. He gets a road flare and by this point, like tee Bird's like, you know, oh, you know what, what what are you talking about? Man? Like you can't be here, like we put you through the window. There ain't no coming back. There ain't no coming back. Yeah, And he's he says it so matter of factly.

1:41:01 So scared, Yeah, terrified. And t Bird through the movie quotes Paradise lost, bash the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is. He's doing this quote the whole time, like that they're attacking Shelley. And he also starts doing it here because Draven takes a road flare lights it throws it right into his crotch, So his crutch is going to be gone even before the car explodes. By the way, because those flames burn. Hot experience, I think it. It looked it up one day, right of course, so college man. So by this point Tebird is now sent down the dog. Eric's also got gasoline going, the flare is going, there's a grenade in the trunk. And also and by the time he goes off the dock, the cars already exploding before it hit the water. Yeah, And naturally, after he does his little explosion, he does a little thing with some gas on his end and lights the infamous crow in flames symbol.

1:41:51 Yeah, which is I mean, one of the most memorable images of the entire film. Yes, is that big fiery crow. So by this point, Allbrect has been brought to attention by Taurus that they found Tebird's car. They got to figure out who it is, but they don't know it's Tebird, And he's like, oh, that's te Bird. You know, I guess he should have zigged when he should have zagged. Torres is pissed. He's like, you know, who's the cartoon character with the painted face? And he's like, I don't know. You're the detective. You tell me. That ends up getting all Breck suspended. Yeah, so all Breck is now off the case. Well in theory. In theory, yes, but also we see that the next morning, Sarah wakes up and her and Darla actually reconcile because she's trying to make breakfast and she's like, you know, I don't like eggs, and she sees that Darla is trying well.

1:42:32 She also said, I don't like eggs to be a dick, yes, because it's not like her mom has ever been has been very good to her. Yeah, so she's really just kind of resistant to it because she's like, oh great, Well, because her first thing is she's like, so what did you What are you on now? Yeah? What are you making you mother of the Year? Yeah? Yeah, And she's like, oh fuck it, like I wasn't even good at this, mommy shit, and Sarah stops her. She's like, over easy, I like my eggs over easy. Which every little girl likes over easy eggs. So also by this point, she sees that something has happened to Darla, and she's curious because she's seen glimpses of Eric around the city but hasn't been able to confirm it. So she goes to the apartment and she's like, you know, we find that Eric's also burning some pictures and everything. He's also played the guitar by this point as fashioned, so he's burning pictures in the apartment. Sarah comes in and we see the apartment's desolate as it was when he walked in and everything, and she's calling to him like, you know, I care about you, and Shelly, you know, why don't you talk to me? Screw you.

1:43:23 I thought you loved me. And then he appears in the window and he's like, Sarah, I do care. They run up and embrace, So now she's confirmed that he is back for the time being, and she kind of just known, Yeah she did. Yeah. So top Dollar at this point decides that he's also going to hold a meeting because his people are dropping dead. And also now it's Devil's Night. They got to figure out what they're gonna do. Yeah, you're having a staffing issue on Devil's Night. Yeah, so they're having a staffing issue. And Eric's also playing guitar on the roof and then ends up smashing the guitar on the amp and breaking everything, and we cut to the meeting where My Life with Thrill Kill Cult is playing in the club below. By the way, of course, what the hell else would we play? And Top dollars meeting is just all his henchmen at the table loading guns, all kinds of guns.

1:44:07 Yeah. Yeah, No, it's very cartoony. I mean what I mean with the villains are cartoony. Yeah, so it's it's it fits very well. Yeah in the rest of the film. And by this point, they rounded up Skank because they know that Draven is working his way back to the speed Freak as they call him. Yeah, and so they put Skank into the meeting and he top Dollar basically says to his guys. You know, well, Devil's Nights upon us and you know this year, you know, I don't know what we're gonna do, Like, you know, I had an idea. You know it's ran. You know what they have now, Devil's Nights greeting cards. Isn't that precious? Now? I guess it is like the best time to quit. And he's like and the guys are like, well, let's no reason to quit, and he's like, no, it's the best time. But I want to have one more night. I want to light as many fires as we can. I want to look at you boys one more time and say are we having fun?

1:44:49 Or what? What a romantic? And he goes, hey, skank you are What do you feel like? I feel like a little worm on a big fucking Oh the. Way he says it to he just blurts it out. Yeah, he's like being as on this he could possibly be, Ah. Billie worm of a big fucking hook. Well, boy, your mother must be damn proud. No, it's it's a great line. So the guys are all into it, and then all of a sudden, the bird flies in and he's like, how'd that thing get in here? And then Draven walks in. He tells them that he just wants skank, and Top dollars like, well, you can't have him, and Draven goes, well, I see you've made your decision. Now let's you enforce it. Stands on the table in front of the guys, and Top Color goes, this is already boring the shit out of me. Kill him, and everybody fires into dravens. Yeah, and uh, it doesn't really matter.

1:45:30 This was rumored to be the to be the scene that they left in the movie of his of his Demise for the longest time, by the way, but that's the kind of thing, the urban legend stuff that happened all the time I found out what scene it was. Yeah, wasn't in a flashback flashback. Yeah, it's a flashback because unfortunately, and I may have kept in the tripe some of that stuff I kept out of the trivia because it's very sad in that sense. But Michael Massey, who plays fun Boy, was the one who pulled the trigger and he left acting for a long time. It haunted him and we actually lost him a couple of years back. I want to say, Yep, very tragic, but by this point so they've shot Eric. He's fallen under the table and top collar goes, well that's that. One guy goes to look and he's like he's gone, and then gets shot in the head. And then this is probably one of the most violent sequences in the film.

1:46:14 Oh yeah, yeah, I spit everywhere. Well, I mean where else. Hey, So he's just shooting people, slicing people. If you want to see the violence that was cut out of this movie on the Blu ray of the DVD, the four K is the deleted scene, and like he's chopping hands off, he's cutting people's throats with bottles, like, oh yeah, it's insane. It's and just NonStop, NonStop. So naturally the cops get called because a chair goes out a window with a guy in it into the club, so the club gets flee they're they're shooting all over the place. He catches up to Skank and he's like, you know, I guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy, is it, Skank? And he's like, I'm not Skank. That's Skank over there. Skank's dead and he's like, that's right, throws Skank out of a window as he lands right on the top of a cop car. Well, I mean perfectly placed.

1:46:54 Perfectly placed. So the cops come in, they're like, you know, that's all, it's all she wrote, move and we shoot and he does a little dance towards the window and they shoot. Now he's running on the rooftops, like all the cops in the city. You're after him. Helicopter running from the rooftops. Helicopter's going after him, and also all brecks on the street and ends up like landing right where he falls off the roof at Well. He's following him, yeah, he's he's following the helicopter, Yeah, because he figures that's how he can follow the action. Well, he even has the line where he's like, so many cops you think they're giving away free donuts. Yeah, So they're driving through the street. At one point he pulls over and Eric gets out and he looks over He's like, no, you were gonna do that. So by this point Eric is wandering the streets. The cops are looking for him elsewhere. Top dollars also driving the streets, and he's just like, look at the city. There should be a thousand fires going on right now. And Grange and Micah. Both are talking kind of about the crow and like, that's the infamous Eric Draven the crows his power.

1:47:50 Take the crow, you can take his power away. So he gets this idea of what they're gonna do. They end up driving to a cemetery or driving to the church near the cemetery and waiting because Sarah is waiting at the grave. But before we get to that, there's a really sweet scene I love where Eric is just walking the street and he's like, you know, Shelley, I'm coming home to you soon, because as he sees it, his time's almost done. Yeah, he's got the one day to basically do what he needs to do and then he's gonna be back. And so he's wanting the street and he's like, Shelley, I'll see you soon. And then right has that happen, this flashlight falls on his face and it's these kids in Halloween costumes running up to him and they circle him and make him laugh, and there's a really sweet freeze frame before they go away. Yeah, it's a nice little moment.

1:48:30 It is. It's a really good moment. He smiles. It's really sweet. So he finds Sarah at the cemetery asleep at his grave, and she's like, you know, you're gonna be mad at me, and he's like, actually, it's the safest place to be and she's like yeah, because everyone's dead. And he's like, you know, it's really late, Sarah, and she's like, I wanted to wait for you, and he's like I can't always say bye, Like this is gonna be something you're have to forgive me for. And then he ends up giving her Shelley's engagement ring and he's like, you know, Shelley, I gave this Shelley, she would want you to have it. Sends her on her way, and then Grange grabs her, pulls her into the church, and that it's when Top Dollar takes the ring off of her, and now they have their captive. And now we're heading into the very finale. Yeah, an incredible finale that I always remembered. Yeah, because of the gothic rooftops and the pouring rain. It's it's iconic, without a doubt.

1:49:19 Yeah, Sarah has been abducting the church. At this point, she's calling to Eric because the crow can actually see a vision. So Eric sees with the crow sees and he sees Sarah calling for help, so he walks into the church, the epic poster posed as he goes through the giant doors into the thing, and that's when we also see the crow fly in. Grange has a really serious rifle. Crow sits down on a perchase, on a on a a pew and Grain shoots it, and Eric's like, what the hell's going on? And then we have one of my favorite top Dollar lines as he comes out and he goes quick impression for you caw cow bang, fuck, I'm dead. I as a kid, that was like the epitome of humor. So Eric tells him give me the girl and I'll let you live. He's like, let me think about that for a second. Fuck it shoots him and by this point Eric is just like, oh, well, no big deal.

1:50:05 But then he actually sees that he's bleeding now it's not ceiling, and he goes, oh fuck. It falls over and. He realizes that this invincibility is not permanent. Not permanent. So by this point the crow is limping and Grange is like, the crow is still alive, and he's like, you know, well then kill it is what top Dollar says. Grain is getting ready to fire on it. Then all Brett comes in with his shotgun and his pistol kills Grange. They get into a firefight as Micah takes Sarah up to the to the tower and also Top Dollar flees as well. So that's when Albrett goes over to him and he's like, you know, got a great idea. You stand in front of me, let them shoot. When they run out of bullet's all rest them. And Draven's like it's a great idea except for one thing. And he's like, I thought you were invincible. He's like I was. I'm not anymore.

1:50:46 Yeah, And it's and it's a great moment of levity in this like very tense yeah showdown is where he says, yeah, it was. So he's like, I guess you're gonna be my help after all. They end up going up the steps and Micah shoots on to all Breck. He gets shot and he's like, I thought you were gonna stay behind me, and he's like, I messed up. So now Albrek's out of the picture. He goes up and faces up against Micah and she's like holding the crow and she's like this is all the power you ever had pity. Then the crow comes to life and pecks her fucking eyes. Out, which is considering her obsession with eyes, Yeah, is a delightful little turn of events. Yeah, So gets her eyes pecked out, falls down the tower, and by this point Top Dollar has Sarah out in the rain on top of the tower, on top of the cathedral, and he's like, you know, uh, this isn't about her, this is about me and you you know, and he's like, all right, if you Eric actually surrenders himself.

1:51:36 He says, you know, I'll get you can have me let her go, and he's like, I will throw Sarah to the side off and she's hanging on to the cathedral at this point, and that's when they get into a giant sword fight, except top Dollar has a sword and Eric has a lightning rod. Yeah it's a lightning catcher, but it's a it's just a oh gosh, like a weather vein weather vein. Yeah, yeah, giant weather vein. So they're fighting in a storm on top of this church and it's epic. There's lightning, there's rain, and naturally, uh, he gets the upper hand, but then Top Dollar betrays him and stabs him with a little blade, and that's when he's sitting down there. He's like, you know, well, you know, I'm sorry for spoiling your wedding plans. Friend. You know, nothing in this town happens up. I say, so, I cleared that building, you know, I will say, though you put a smile on my face. I am gonna miss you. And he's getting ready to gut Eric, and Eric looks at him and says, I have something for you. I don't want it anymore, grabs on a top Dollar's head and says, thirty hours of pain, all at once, all for you.

1:52:33 He's basically passing everything that Shelley went through onto him, and we see top Dollar taking this pain and everything. He's completely disoriented, falls off of the church below, onto a spike, on top of a cathedral, or on top of a fucking gargoyle, and. The blood starts, starts pouring out of the gargoyles. Gut her mouth, yes, and what an image, yes, but all so like one of those those moments in a movie where you're like, well that guy's dead as. Ye. So so top Dollar is now out of the picture, Mike is out of the picture, Grains out of the picture, everybody that basically wrong. Draven has been corrected at this point, I guess correct. Okay, I like that. So he rejoined Sarah.

1:53:19 They gets her off of the ledge. They walk back down to all Breck and he's like, you know, stay with stay with him until the cops arrive. And all Brick's like, give me a cigarette, takes it, lights it, and he goes, yuck, I'm quitting now if I live and. D to the record, he quit if he doesn't either, yeah, true, true, he's gonna win. Draven thanks him. He's like, you know, thank you, what you kept in here saved me. And he's like, you know, I couldn't have done it without you. And by this point they're talking at him and Sarah and then look back and Eric's gone, and he's like he does that sometimes. Well, and that's a really beautiful moment because what he gave, what he did was care about her life. Yeah, And that's what ends up saving Draven was being able to project that into somebody, project all that pain and suffering, yeah, which was caused by top dollar.

1:54:08 Yeah. And I mean, by this point, Eric is a mess. He's been stabbed, he's been shot, and he's feeling all of it now. As he's basically limping back to Shelley's grave, he gets to her gravestone, He's like, I'm coming, Shelley, and then right behind him, Shelley walks into the cemetery. The spirit of Shelley touches his head. They share a kiss, and then we see that the holes have filled themselves as they're back together, and we see also the next day, the crow is sitting on the tombstone with Shelley's wedding ring in its mouth, and Sarah comes up takes it and we hear basically Sarah say, if when some oh my god it let me get this line right, was forever? What is it? The people we love are stolen from us. The way to have them live, the way that had them live on is to never stop loving, never stop loving them.

1:54:50 Buildings burn, people die. Real love is forever, and that is nineteen ninety Four's the crow? But which I mean? Okay, Alley doesn't really hold a candle to twenty twenty four? Oh you're right, yeah, yeah, but what happened in twenty twenty four? Go ahead? Can you recall? No? Oh? I can I know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's your own fault, Like you're looking at me like I like it was me really gonna be like, well, I know because I had to watch it a Bunchet's like, dude, I only went the one time. Yeah, fair enough. So do you want to know guess what the budget was on the film? Uh? Wasn't it like forty It was lower twenty twenty three? Okay, estimated twenty three million dollars opening weekend. It takes in eleven million, which is May fifteenth, nineteen ninety four. Worldwide, it ends up grossing fifty million dollars. It was a huge, huge, huge hit on this video. No, yeah, that's what brought the numbers.

1:55:41 Well, but even back then, I mean back then that would be a hit anyway, Yeah, fifty against twenty. That was back before things got so out of hand spending wise. Yeah. Movie releases so filmed in Los Angeles, California, as well as Wilmington, North Carolina. Filming begins on February first of ninety three. First round of filming raps marts thirty first, ninety three with the death of Eric or with the death of Brittan Lee. Unfortunately, filming then resumes for reshoots May twenty six of ninety three and wraps June third of ninety three. Body count in the film is thirty one Pretty handy. James Obarr originally began writing The Crow as a means to cope with the unexpected death of his fiance, who was killed by a drunk driver. Obarr had a meeting with a major studio to adapt the comic to a film, but Obar left the meeting after that had heard the pitch of their idea as a musical with Michael Jackson as the lead. Obar eventually oversaw three different script treatments before he ended up working with the writer and producers Jeff Most and John Shirley. Shirley would end up penning the third and fourth drafts himself, earning himself the screenplay credit from the WGA. David J.

1:56:44 Scow was brought in. For rewrites that sounds right yeaheah. Producer Edward Pressman was encouraged by Jeff Most to look into music, video and commercial directors to give the film a specific look and feel. Eventually he would land on Alex Proyes, while Paramount Pictures picked up distribution rights for the film. Yeah, there was a lot going on with them. In the movie made. Paramount Pictures initially developed and finance this film, but after Brandon Lee's tragic death, which caused production to shut down with an incomplete film, they wrote the project off. Entertainment Media Investment Corporation was created for the purpose of buying the film and completing it, using the groundbreaking CGI special effects and body doubles for lease scenes. The film would return to Paramount's hands in twenty twenty after the studio bought a minority stake in Miramax, which picked up distribution rights after Paramount left.

1:57:25 Oh Yeah, River. Phoenix, Christian Slater, and Johnny deppt turned down the role of Eric Draven. Wow Yeah, How the hell did they land on Brandon Lee? Then Oh Barr wanted Depp. The studios wanted River Phoenix and Christian Slater. Were They wanted them both to play Draven. Two Dravens, Yeah, The Tale of Two Dravens. Alex Proyes originally wanted to shoot the entire film in black and white, closer to the comics and using only color in Draven's flashback scenes with high contrast theme, but the studio executives didn't allow him to experiment with the approach. This made shoot much of the movie in monochromatic color theme mixed with red and dark gray. Yeah. I I yeah, shooting things in black and white.

1:58:08 Uh, it's tough. Well, the studios are terrified of it because it because of the well, yeah, people will think it's old. They just won't go to it. Remember do you remember when when they did Young Frankenstein in black and white? They literally put in the trailers it's in black and white, which is really not a big deal. Yeah, like yeah, Freya said that Brandon Lee was unhappy with the way his face paint looked when the makeup department applied it to him before shooting. Lee and Froys then agreed that it would be best if Lee applied his own makeup every night before going to bed, so that when he woke up, his face paint would naturally look more worn out. So I feel bad for the hotel maids. Okidding, right, Yeah, they were like, wow, this horror wore some really strange makeup.

1:58:48 Brace yourself, we're here. There was a lot of cost and corner cutting on set. One of the crew recalled they were trying to make a thirty million movie for eighteen million. The film was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Because North Carolina was a right to work state. This allowed the producers to get away with pay conditions and crucially, production schedules that would have been new by unionized Hollywood. They began filming at night outdoors, but the aforementioned hurricane destroyed the sets, so they moved the production indoors without changing the schedule. As switching production from nights to day as requires a twenty four hour turnaround time, the Harry production didn't have it, and it was still so cold that camera rails had to be de iced during filming by riggers with blow torches hiding out of the shot.

1:59:28 Jeez well, and for the record, doing it non union, I mean the unions would have worked those long hours, yes, just they would have been murdered by the overtime. Yeah, by the cost of the overtime. Yeah. There were several accidents that befell production crew. The carpenter suffered serious burns on his upper body during the first day of filming. A manual worker had a screwdriver get embedded into his hand, an equipment truck burst into flames, a stunt man broke several ribs after falling through a roof, a rigger was horribly electrocuted. A disgruntled set sculptor went berserk and drove his car through the prop rooms, destroyed it, and a hurricane destroyed several of the sets. The only one in there that is not that unusual as the broken ribs. Yeah, because stunt guys break ribs a lot. Yeah, my god, dude, that's ridiculous.

2:00:11 According to Empire magazine, cocaine abuse was rampant on set, with cameraman shooting whilst high crew going into toilets, a snort between shots, and people cutting around. One crew member recalls hearing the sound of a sneeze on set one day and an annoyed Brandon Lee equipping someone just lost fifty dollars. That's funny. That's really really funny. The production didn't have money or the space to shoot a car chase sequence, so they did it with miniatures instead. I think it worked fine. Yeah, I think so too. Uh. Darius Wolsky achieved the look of the film by filming with Sepia filter and then in printing adding lots of blue to eliminate the brown. This meant that the production designer Alex McDowell. Art directors John Marshall and Simon Merton had to leave out any instance of color blue because it would get overly saturated. They had to be so strict that certain smoke machines had to be removed because the smoke producer had elements of blue in it. Blue was only used in flashbacks.

2:01:02 Wow, that would be a lot to manage. According to James Obarr, he didn't like casting Brandon Lee as the main lead for his comic book adaptation. At the time. He had only seen him in Showdown in Little Tokyo and feared it would end up like a kung Fu movie and go straight to video. But he was thrilled when he first met Brandon on the set with the makeup and the crow outfit. He was amazed by Brandon's take on the character when he spoke the exact line from the comics. I mean he owned it. There's no doubt. Brandon Lee lost forty pounds for the role. Alex Proys recalled that he and Brandon Lee had a long talk before filming began about how the main character, Eric Draven should be presented as a well oiled machine that came back from the dead already built for the sole purpose of killing. Alex specifically said that Eric should be someone who was made of nothing but muscle and bone. Brandon agreed as well, so he devoted himself to an intense regiment of diet, a regimen of diet and exercise to achieve a specific athletic look before filming began.

2:01:53 I mean, and luckily, I mean, it's not like he was a slouch anyway. He was always athletic. He was always athletic. While most of the scenes of Bran and Lee's death were digitally composed, there was in fact a mask that had been made directly from a mold of Lee's face. It had been intended for the use of stunt doubles if needed. They attempted to create the scenes using this mask. However, the cast and crew were far too unsettled by the prop that it was destroyed and digital means were used to fill in the gaps. Yeah. If you watch shutters Cursed films, they show pictures of the stunt guy in the moss. See it's very creepy. Yeah. The phrase it can't rain all the time is inspired by an encounter that James O'Barr had as a team while living in Shepard, Michigan, prior to enlisting in the Marines. Down on his lucko Bar found himself unable to pay for groceries. Frustrated, he decided to just buy rice, to which the man in line of him stated, you can't eat rice all the time while paying o'bar's groceries. The man turned out to be Lee Coughlin, the mayor of Shepherd himself, and is also the basis of the character Albricht.

2:02:47 Oh wow Yeah. One of Brandon Lee's favorite movies was The Warriors from nineteen seventy nine, which created a breakout role for classically trained actor David Patrick Kelly, who plays Tebard in the film. So naturally, Lee was overjoyed to have a great character act known for his villainis roles, starring in his own movie. I could see that. That's really cool. The latter part of the scene in Aubreck's apartment was ad lived by Brandon Lee and Ernie Hudson. The line about Shelley believe me nothing as trivial was not in the script. Wow really mm hmm. That's a hell of a thing. Even though the movie based on the comic is called the crow. None of the birds using the film were actually crows. All of them were, in fact ravens, which are much larger than crows and have longer, more impressive beaks. Oh yeah, and there from what I heard, they're easier to train. Yeah, so that's a big, big element.

2:03:30 Eric shirt is cut down the back when he first emerges from the grave. This is a common practice in funeral homes as it makes it the dead easier to dress. Yes, yes, I didn't even notice that detail. Yeah. James Obarr constantly listened to the songs of Joy Division and The Cure while shaping and creating the graphic novel of the film is based on. He was delighted when Robert Smith of The Cure agreed to write an original song for the movie. Although a hugely popular song, introducing legions of new fans to The Cure, they only performed Burn live once nineteen years after the film's release, even though it was often requested. When a fan asked if they'd play the song on a concert, bassist Simon Gallip replied, did we do that one for a soundtrack? I don't remember it. The Cure has since played the song on their twenty sixteen North American Tour. Wow Yeah. Although the tone of the film is very similar to the comic, there were many changes in the comics. Top Dollar is a member of t Bird's gang as opposed to heading up the crime in the city. Micah and Grains were also not present in the comic, and there was never any mention about the Crow being a power source. Also in the comics, Skank was not involved in the murders of Eric and Shelley. Instead, a character named Tom Tom was Sarah also served as a minor role, first meeting Eric after his death, and Albrecht as he appears in the movie is a combination of street officer named Allbreck in the comics and police captain Hook. Another major change is Eric is a mechanic in the comic and his last name was never mentioned. He was changed to him as a musician as an homage to all the music references that James Obarr had in the comic. In the comic, the murders are actually a twist of bad luck with te Bird's gang while high on drugs and bushing Eric and Shelley when their car breaks down, and in the comic, Eric is actually the one who lasts for thirty hours

2:05:01 of intensive care, with most defense implied as possibly being a revenge fantasy as he lies in a coma. Okay, I mean that all checks out. Yeah. The following scenes were completed after Brandon Lee's death, as follows. During the scene where Eric Draven first enters the apartment after digging himself out of the grave, footage of Lee walking through an alley in the rain was digitally composed. In the scenes where he walks through the doorway, computer technology added drops of water to the doorframe to make the water on his back not seem out of place. The face in the smash mirror was Lee's. It was digitally altered to fit the shards. The shot of Eric falling from the window was made by composing Lee's face, complete with simulated blood, onto a body double. The scene where Eric puts on his makeup was filmed using the double. The image of Eric walking towards the window with the crow on his shoulder was a double with Lee's face digitally added. After lightning flashes, and when Sarah visits the apartment, we never see Eric's face. It is actually a double.

2:05:51 I never realized it was that. I thought it was a lot less yea to be honest. The film was submitted to the MPAA five times before receiving an R rating. Each previous time resulted in an. It's a pretty violent movie. Yeah. The song a Grave Mistake from American metal band Eisteine Kills is based on the story of the film. The song comes from the Silver Screen, the band's fifth album. Each song on the record comes from a different horror movie. You cannot recommend both of those albums enough. And finally, The Crow was ranked thirty seventh in IGN's Top one hundred Comic Book Heroes in two thousand and five. Creator James Obarr claimed The Crow was the best selling independent black and white grack novel of all time, translated into almost a dozen languages, and has sold over a quarter million copies worldwide. The second American comic book to get its author the Storyteller Award by the Angelet International Comics Festival, held annually in Anjebe, France.

2:06:39 Wow, Okay, I don't know any of that. Yeah, what are your final thoughts on nineteen ninety four's The Crow. It's it's a hard that's a hard question for me because I don't know if it's quintessential enough to me to be a by it, but it is an important movie to watch. It. It's very it really represents the time frame very well. It became such a major part of pop culture. So I don't know if you need to own it, but you definitely it's more than worth a rental to. If you've never seen The Crows, It's a movie you should desperately see. Yeah, it's a buy it for me, simply for the fact that, unfortunately it is Lee's last performance. I think the soundtrack is unbeatable, It's got great action sequences. It's a superhero movie to the extent that we don't really get like this anymore.

2:07:34 I would say we just had one. Well, I mean I will kill you. Yeah, Yeah, but no, I mean it's it is nineties as fuck. It is. It is a It is just that I'm trying to think of how I want to say that. It is that concept of a revenge tale that we've seen a thousand times obviously, but in this sense of the way that it's executed, in the emotion that it had, as in the performances that it has. I think the movie just has a lasting power that has that has carried even to generations today. Now, Well, I think and I think you're right and having it be Lee's such a tragic story of Lee's final performance, Yeah, has given it a lot of staying power with a lot of people.

2:08:18 And I think that's rightfully so absolutely has, so we always like that in the show. With a couple of recommendations, My first one this week is nineteen ninety eight's Blade, which is currently rentable on Prime and Fandango. Half vampire, half mortal man becomes the protector of a mortal race while slaying evil vampires. If you haven't seen Blade in a while, it's definitely worth a rewatch a lot of fun. And second, I'm gonna go with nineteen nineties dark Man, currently available on AMC Plus rentable through Prime and Fandango as well. A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to Zach revenge on the people who burned him alive. Dark Man would have been my pick? Dark Man, Yeah, I have a feeling would have been my pick. I'm sorry, so I had to rack my brain.

2:08:59 Yeah, that's fair. About what would my pick be? And I think you're going to be surprised because I think my pick would probably be twenty eighteen's Mandy Solid solid because it's about love and revenge. Yeah, it's visually so striking for those who have not seen it, that's a good one. It stars Nicholas Cage. That's a good pick. The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon biker henchman, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance. That's maybe one of the best descriptions of a movie I've ever heard. That's so accurate. It's a hard movie to describe, but a fascinating movie to watch. Yeah, and yeah, I think that that would be my pick.

2:09:47 I will throw another recommendation out there that's basically a female crow called Avenged, that is about a woman, a deaf woman that is driving back from the country to meet up with her fiance. She ends up having a car break down. He gets attacked by these people and has a Native American spirit bring her back and to seek vengeance. And it's a really really good flick, very violent, very horror based, extremely violent actually the more I think about it, But yeah, Avenge really good. Flick as well. Should we check in with our buddies to see what they thought of the movie? I suppose so if I didn't I pull that up, I don't know here it is, you know what, Like you're the one who sends me this stuff, and I have to I only this is the first.

2:10:28 Time I sent you to videos that I wanted to pull up on the show. Yeah, because you realized you could be a bigger prick than ever. Hey, you know, hear him Avenger. A little bit. Brandon Lee plays the Crow in that scene, a murdered rock musician who comes back to life and vows revenge against the evil mastermind behind a gang of thugs who on the eve of their wedding wells everybody knows. Brandon Lee himself was accidentally shot dead during the filming of the Crow gun mistakenly a lethal charge in it, and that adds a special poigns to this movie, because not only does the story ironically mere real life, but Lee is so good here and the movie is so good that this could easily have been the beginning of a starring career for him. Just look at the visual mood of this scene where Lee as the Crow burst from the grave and prepares himself for his mission of vengeance.

2:11:22 Oh yeah, I'm going to talk over that son. He still might I mean. Something, something though, would have been responsible for. The two murders have. Just exclusions. Oh there you go. Yeah, there's the big Fiery Crow. The story of the Crow is a pretty straightforward revenge fantasy. The murder man comes back from the grave and goes looking for those who destroyed his life. What's special about the film is it's look, it's style, and it's energy. Director Alex Kroyis has put together sort of a cross between Blade Runner and Batman, but darker, grungier, and more threatening than either.

2:12:07 One of those pictures. And Brandon Lee, in his last performance, shows here that he clearly had the potential to become a major action star. Well. I don't compare this film favorably to either Blade Runner or Batman. I don't think it's as good as either one of those, and I think it does borrow from Blade Runner, in particular the physical look and that I think History is one of the most influential art directed pictures of all time. And I do think that the story is, as you described it, straightforward revenge fantasy. What I like I do like the comic book camera angles. I do like him. I think he is charismatic. But I can't recommend the picture because the story bored me so much. Roight wow, gene go. But this is a very daring attempt to film a comic book. I think that the whole movie is a piece.

2:12:51 For example, all the heavy metal music on the soundtrack is very effective. The look of the film is sensational when the camera is flying over that city. For example. I thought that the stories in both the pictures you named were more complicated. Both Batman another comic book story, and also uh. Is actually pretty complicated. There's a lot going on his love interest Joker. That is't the point here. You know this movie is in your It's not a story. All these stories are made. Why did you Why did you? Why did you describe it as a stay straightforward revenge And I'm using your own words. Because you know this story is that I was criticizing. Criticizing it because but all of the good looks and all the good look in the picture, it got very repetitive to.

2:13:35 See a movie like The Crow. In order to have a nice subtle. No I go to see a movie like the Crow have some complication of the story, so that all that I don't see is the raining, the rain and the visual. Damn, damn, that was brutal. That was brutal. I mean, I take back all of my review. I'm with Ciskel. I will leap over this table. No, No, but I get what he's He's coming But like I mean, I think Ebert is onto something more. Yeah, just because this I think the problem is Ciskel wasn't interested in the style. No, he was more interested in strictly the substance. And I even opened my points with saying that it's relatively simple. Ye, it's just executed in a really amazing way, and you've got a really charismatic lead.

2:14:20 Yeah. So and I do think again, like I said, time has been incredibly kind to revealing how poignant this movie would be for like all of gen X. Yeah, so I could see where Siskel's coming from. I mean, he didn't say it was a big pile of poop, although he did say he was bored. Yeah, which is damn. I just I think what I think that Ebert nails it though. Just the style of the movie in and of itself is nothing that I've seen in a good while. And I mean, and that could be the fact that the movie from ninety four and. I guess was this. I mean that well everybody was doing that for a minute. Yeah, they were a bit yeah here and there, but a dark city, no dark city especially. Yeah, but this is this is one that it's just like, every time I watch it, I'm just I'm sucked into the that this movie creates. Oh, I would have. I mean, without a doubt. I mean, the colorful characters, the not so colorful literal world. Yeah, I mean there's a lot that really pulls you in.

2:15:08 Yeah. And I do think that the story is simple, but I think that it's kind of like there's a beauty to the simplicity that it's just about love making death not really a factor. Well, and like you and I said off Mike, it's it's unfortunate to say that. I think the movie was made lasting and stronger by Lee's passing. Oh, without a doubt, because they had to cut the corners that they did and do the things that they had to do. One of which we should mention is that Michael Berryman was originally in the film as the Skull Cowboy and the Skull Cowboy in the text of the Crow is the crow Guide. Basically, he's the spirit guide to him and tells them what's going on. So there is footage out there of Michael Berryman as a skull cowboy, but when Lee unfortunately passed, they couldn't shoot the remainder of the scenes with him, so they just completely cut him out of the movie entirely.

2:15:53 Honestly, the thing that surprised me the most about watching that clip was I'm shocked that Gene Siskel didn't rise from the dead on the day the remake came out to get vengeance for the original movie. In rip, Dave is angry. Do you want me to get on a weiji board we can see what he thought of the remake. No, maybe it'll make it feel better. Okay, Okay, I just offering. It's just offering. Even let me see what the IMDb rating is on that right now, because it was low for you. It's not snow white low, but it's low. It's it's. Lord have mercy. So do we have any emails this week? I know for a fact we have one. Okay, because this feeds into something I wanted to mention on the show anyway, But before I do, I want to remind you guys, you can contact us by either sending an email to do you Even Movie pod at gmail dot com or heading to douevenmovie dot com and sending us a message. So, uh, this one came from Paul. Paul says, what's up, guys, longtime listener, first time emailer.

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2:18:41 So you can find that episode anywhere that this week and Geek is carried at. And that is where I really go off on some things. Oh wow, I. Mean thank god, you were so so dued here. Yeah goodness. No, no, I didn't start the show talking about a middle breakdown basically. Howdy no, no, no, it would only it's nothing. A spike bracelet can't fit, right. So this wraps up April showers and fuck you, this wraps up April showers. So that means we are moving into May. Would you like to know what we are talking about the month of May? And also kicking May off with sure So we unfortunately in twenty twenty five, have lost some big names that have had some great careers in great films. So we are doing a theme called May They Rest in Peace, where each week we are going to feature one of the recently past and one of their favorite movies or one of our favorite movies from them, kicking it off with the respect to the late great Michelle Trachtenberg with nineteen ninety six is Harriet the.

2:19:36 Spy, one of my first favorite movies as a kid. Currently available on Paramount Plus. Does not have a Blu ray at this time, even though I argued with him that there was. But you know, it was funny because I was so out of it because I was like, David, if there was a blue ray be on Amazon, and yeah, well it would be on my shelf. Yeah. I swear that it was announced or something. I don't know, but I got nothing for you because Good. Burger's on blue. They've got I think the Ruggar Arts movies even all blue right now too, So I mean they're going through some of their nick catalogs. So this one's gotta come soon, I would think, I especially now. Unfortunately. Yeah, but yeah, we'll be talking about Harriett the Spy from nineteen ninety six next week, currently available on Paramount Plus. So if you want to revisit and cry along with us, that's what we're talking about next week.

2:20:20 What a sales pitch. Yeah, So on that note, it's time to take off. So thank you guys so much for joining us for do you even movie? We really do appreciate it. Make sure you're subscribed, YadA YadA, et cetera, et cetera. And uh, Dave, I'm gonna let you have the final word, okay, because this is no, because this is like one of your favorite movies of all time. No, absolutely, we. Talked about Terminator too. I'd hope you just shut. That's fair once in your life. So to wrap up, I would say, if you have not seen the Crow, whether ever you've seen, if you've never seen the Crow, or if you haven't seen it in a while, it's absolutely worth the rewatch. It's a great time to check it out now with the four K transfer as well too. And I think I think the only way for me to say this and end this is it can't rain all the time, or at least not next Tuesday.