Another re-make...

[anna_wing]

This time of the Gothic classic "The Crow", first released in 1994 after the accidental death on set of its leading man Brandon Lee (son of Bruce, of holy memory). Having looked at the trailer, I am not convinced that it can remotely approach the OTT glory of the original.

I still remember watching it, in London in 1994, on a day when I didn't have anything in particular to do (I was on holiday). It was memorable in itself, but also because immediately after that I went and watched "Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould". They were both splendid in their different ways, and then I had a very good salt beef sandwich at a little cafe down the road. It was a nice day.

This was in the days when there was a whole string of cinemas in the Leicester Square, Charing Cross Road, Piccadilly Circus area, and also I was young and cognitively flexible....

Comments

[peripety]

I was young and cognitively flexible.... I love that expression!

Catching the magic of a film with a remake only rarely works, I think.

[anna_wing]

I think it would only work if the remake is a separate film that can succeed on its own terms, like "The Magnificent Seven" (or even its splendidly demented Roger Corman remake as pulp science fiction, "Battle Beyond The Stars").

I saw the live-action remake of the Disney "Beauty and the Beast" and it was inoffensive but uninteresting, which I suspect might have been the best-case scenario. I certainly had no inclination to watch any of the others.

[acelightning73]

I first saw it when it first came out, and I knew almost nothing about martial arts, but I kept wondering why there was this bird showing up all the time.

[anna_wing]

I think it was Symbolic of Something...

[andrewducker]

The trailer doesn't look nearly as interesting as the original. (Which, from memory, I also liked a fair bit less than I liked the original comic.)

[anna_wing]

I wasn't even aware at the time that there was a comic. "Starring Brandon Lee" was enough to catch my interest!