Comment on 5 Reasons Why Bill Skarsgard's The Crow Remake Bombed At The Box Office

• mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There are different types of bad movies. There are those that find an unintended audience after the fact, reframing them as sources of amusement to be ridiculed, those that are simply too dull to be thought of ever again and then there are those that are made with such staggering incompetence that they barely even exist. The latter category is the one that I find hardest to endure, films such as The Snowman (a head-scratchingly awful thriller that was technically unfinished yet still released) veering from bad to refund-level unwatchable.

  It was no real surprise that a tortured update of 1994’s cursed goth revenge thriller The Crow would be a misfire – it’s been in development since 2008 with multiple directors and actors attached ever since – but it’s genuinely startling just how utterly wretched the finished product is and how unfit it is for a wide release. Filmed two years ago and dumped on a low-expectation late summer weekend, The Crow 2.0 is a total, head-in-hands disaster, incoherently plotted and sloppily made, destined to join the annals of the very worst and most pointless remakes ever made.

  -The Guardian

  I have no idea; I haven't seen it. But the initial reports aren't great.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s genuinely startling just how utterly wretched the finished product is and how unfit it is for a wide release […] incoherently plotted and sloppily made

    I have seen it, and can tell you this review is sensationalized for views.
    It’s not remotely that bad. In fact I’d say it’s the opposite of incoherently plotted. The plot is overly coherent, I think it would benefit for some more ambiguity.
    And it’s not at all sloppily made. The cinematography, set design, and general production, are easily average. Even quite good at times.

    The story is it’s biggest weakness. It’s not an adaptation. It’s more like “Inspired By”. And none of the story changes improve anything. Some hurt things quite a bit.

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    • Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bro I think you have either exceptionally bad taste, or an almost inhuman tolerance for the putrescent. Probably both actually.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude I think you have exceptionally binary taste, or unrealistic expectations for most works of art. Almost certainly both actually.

        I’d recommend you watch the The Room (2003), to re-calibrate your perception of what a bad movie is.

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