Heard Dimension got involved and ordered cuts which completely changed the film.

@@charlesdavis7285 Yeah I know, thanks to Harvey Shitstain, well karma is what he is now in Jail

Same here, I always felt there was a good movie hiding underneath.

Sadly, I doubt we'll ever see it. The closest we ever got was the PPV version that included a few extended scenes, but it's never been made available. But yeah, the cuts made by MIRAMAX drastically altered the film's structure and climax. If you want to get a taste of what would have been, the novelization by Chet Williamson is based directly off of the original screenplay, and preserves Tim Pope's intentions for the film.

There is no directors cut... but there is an extremely hard to find fan done re-cut which re-edits the film into the directors vision and it's apparently a far better film. I've never seen it and I enjoyed CoA for what it is... it's not the original or as good as it by any standard, but the use of color is fantastic.

There’s like 4 movies and a tv show that flopped

@@seanodeli7031 I rest my case.

The first 2 are cool and the show was good

It's so good that I bought it on yt

I like the third film a lot and my girl and I recently finished the series. We really enjoyed it actually. Has a strong 90s low budget vibe. Super cool.

How are going to do it if he's already not alive and dead inside real life. You should probably recast the role as a younger one.

Agree totally. Brandon is Eric, every time Hollywood tries to recast an iconic character they fail miserably. I have heard rumors that they are going to try a remake of this and I am not a fan of remakes in the least especially if the original was the equivalent of lightning in a bottle but from what I've heard they were going to cast Bill Skarsgard as Draven and to be honest that sorta peaked my curiosity bc he might actually do the role justice. But on the other hand I'm always going to be biased bc this movie was a big part of my high school years and still remains my favorite movie to this day

I was also about 16 and I still remember how fckn pumped I was going out of the theater

Thats being polite

The sequels don't hold a candle to the original, though I thought Salvation was done very well. City of Angels grew on me, and I've been hoping to see the original cut for way too long now. Wicked Prayer was an odd one, still don't know how I feel about it, but damn, what a cast!

I was around 10 and it's still one of my favorites. I own three different copies in three mediums, plus the original graphic novel. I liked that third one all right. The second was meh. Didn't even bother watching that fourth one with John Conner in it lol heard it was awful, though

I was... I don't remember, but definitely not old enough. Maybe 14-15? The theater worker asked us "are you guys 18?", we said with little squeaker voices "yes!!". The movie was at a theater all the way across town and there was nothing really around that area that we could go do if we didn't get into the theater. My dad dropped us off, and had already left. So... with our nerves on edge, we waited for the workers response. "No you're not...", he said. Damn. "...but this movie is awesome, you guys need to go see it", he continued. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yes as from the reports I've read The Crow: The Bride was going to be an adaption of one of the most popular storylines in the comics The Crow: Flesh and Blood which focused on Iris Shaw a game warden who along with her unborn child, and several innocent people including a US Marshal were brutally murdered when a group of right-wing extremist ranchers were poaching coyotes by poisoning them simply because they didn't like the government turning land into protected wildlife habitats blow up the federal building the pregnant Iris, a US Marshal, and several innocent people are in including a kind-hearted nursing home worker who died due to suffocating to death via rubble from the blown up building falling on her. And so on the anniversary of her, her unborn child and the innocent people's murders Iris is brought back as the latest Crow and after making peace with her husband/father of the unborn child Rick and painting the image of a crow on her face with black face paint instead of the usual harlequin lines she sets off on her quest of retribution, and justice and her kills are actually symbolic as she's not out for vengeance but justice as she believes that vengeance is something that anyone enraged can get and won't ease her soul and bring her peace but the only thing that will ease her soul and get her the peace she desires is justice and so she kills her targets in ways that mirror the deaths of the various innocent individuals who died in the explosion with her and her unborn child for example the first 2 of Iris's targets she doesn't kill them instead she brings to a area and digs two human sized holes in the ground and then after using the power to make the targets see the pain of their victims and makes them see the kind-hearted nursing home worker suffocate to death under the rubble of the blown up building pushes them in the holes she dug and buries them alive so they can know the fear, terror, and mental pain of dying a slowing agonizing death via suffocation. And of course partway through the FBI gets involved which actually makes sense as the building the bad guys blew up at the start was a federal building.

I still remember those rumors, that would've been so cool! I also remember articles about a possible movie about The Unholy Two, the bounty hunter team from Devil's Rejects. Danny Trejo can't do that anymore, but maybe Diamond Dallas Page can go on a solo revenge mission against the Rejects.

I think someone brought that up to him not that ago about the blob and he said something along the lines of that it was to Due to Creative Differences that his version of the film didn’t happen

Glad it didn’t work out, his movies are trash

Wha

Na

Nah I like his movies, even Lords of Salem. But then again im not an imbecile and knew to watch it as if it were an art house flick and not a horror/studio movie, and, actually understood H2

@@lutherheggs451 yes yes, the depth of Rombie’s “white trash” stereotypes is reminiscent of Fellini’s b&w films of the 60s.

@@matthewthelionheart1026 exactly, everything he makes is the Sawyer family wannabe edgelord , then add his yoko OnO wife in the film and bam! RZ movie .

Not much love for the TV series Stairway to Heaven either; a pity since Mark Dacascos was the perfect casting choice for a Crow sequel.

Wicked prayer was a cheese fest , it was so bad, my friends and I couldn’t stop laughing . Furlong was a short goth chick that was flying everywhere 🤣

"..people's knees.."

No white horses please

And please leave his wife out of it

“But with lots of profanity and incest family members that worship the devil, and my wife will play a witch etc” -RZ

Same here hahah, I was in Elementary school 😅

Agreed its just painful to hear both times.

Maybe she identifies as a Shelly? No joke

Shelly was the fiancé of Eric Draven.

Yeah! Shelly was the dead girlfriend. =)

Exactly... I was cringing Everytime he would call Sarah, Shelly.... He made an entire video and couldn't even get something so simple as a character name. geez

Like Jaws (1975), Hellraiser (1988), Robocop (1987), House (1985) or Highlander (1986), The Crow (1994) is a genre classic best enjoyed by pretending that its sequels never happened.

No doubt

Idk why but the villain reminded me of Tony Todd/Candyman

I have affection for it, but what we got was not the film that director Tim Pope intended and shot. Miramax came in and absolutely butchered it in the editing room, and changed up the film's narrative and its climax as well, and it looks like most of what was cut, save for a tiny handful of extended scenes, was disposed of. If you want to get a taste of what would have been, the novelization by Chet Williamson is based directly off of the original screenplay, and preserves Tim Pope's intentions for the film.

@@dominiquejones3805 back then I thought it was him lol

I liked the show

I wish someone would make the school teacher Crow a movie. With bombings and school shootings a US norm it would be sick, different, and poignant.

I've said for about 20 years now that the comic miniseries "The Crow - Flesh And Blood" should be adapted into a film, instead of circling the bowl with the obsessive drive to retell Eric's story. This is a franchise with a lot of potential, but it was originally squandered by Pressman and Miramax, first by rushing "City of Angels" into production and then absolutely butchering director Tim Pope's finished product, and then going increasingly cheap with "Salvation" and "Wicked Prayer".

@@philipjay2099 I loved that story

@@kevinanderson3753 if they do it, I hope they get the person who voiced Saya from yugioh arc v to play Iris Shaw.

I was there in the audience with you in 1997 and I still have my pin! My buddy asked Zombie if his movie was going to still have the theme of love transcending death and stuff like that, and Zombie replied with "This one's gonna have zombies and vampires killing vampires."

They already sequelized it. Luckily, making a new movie doesn't make the original disappear, so we'll always have that.

Oh christ!!!! 🤣

No chance. Wicked Prayer is probably the worst movie ever made.

I dunno if I'd go QUITE that far, because " Wicked Prayer" is fucking horrid.

@@corvus1970 🎯facts but wicked prayer is a good comedy movie because my friends and I couldn’t stop laughing how cheesy it turned out

Rob would put Sheri Moon to that :D

@@TJS3, fair point.

Would've been better than the other sequels

That comment didn’t age well with sequels…

@@fernie-fernandez they don't exist to me and even so they're not Eric Draven. Only Brandon Lee is Eric Draven.

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It would have been a better film if Miramax hadn't come in and completely changed it in the editing room. The film that Tim Pope shot is not the film that was released. As for a female Crow-revenant, I agree. That's why I've said for about 2 decades now that they should adapt the comic miniseries "The Crow - Flesh and Blood" into a film.

I agree his movies are horrible

That's because it doesn't exist.

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Yes because City of Angels or any of the other 10 sequels weren't god awful....It is hilarious though when people who work minimum wage jobs and have never made a movie LMFAO call others hacks....You do you, whatever gets you through the night....Im sure there will be 1500 more comic book movies for you to rush out and see.

My opinion of Zombie has soured with age.

@@lutherheggs451 Or the laughably awful TV series

I'm sorry, can you be clear on your definition of hack?

@@Easun36 That sounds right Lol

one of the worst movies I've ever seen...

@@faz1483 love most of the actors in it, but agreed. It was AWFUL.

So bad it’s actually laughable 😅

@@Ishitonyou666 agreed!

Gobstopper was a Funny or Die skit lol

@@JesseSwaney It was a good take on Willy Wonka

Same. And Salvation wasn't great by any means, but it was better than this.

@@corvus1970 Absolutely. It's nowhere near the best but I respect it that it was trying to do something different than City of Angels and the main lead was pretty good. I also love how his makeup is permanent burnt scars. That's really clever.

I actually didn't mind Salvation. I liked it more than City of Angels and Wicked Prayer.

@@JnEricsonx I thought all the sequels were terrible. I'm glad you liked them though. That's makes one of you.

@@Largentina. the sequels were cringe

Haha I was going to say the same thing and figured I would check the comments to see if anyone else saw the similarities. A D movie could be awesome but I’m not sure Zombie is the man for the job

It's a bad thing

@@johnpentiak2240 terrible

Yeah I can see it now. Edward trying to open cans of PBR sitting in his trailer park

@@faz1483 well if you see how strange and different his plans were for "the Crow"... Edward's remake would have to have Rob Zombies' touch of directorial freedom

@@EMal-mf9pc Directorial freedom? You mean like the original Edward Scissor Hands? What is this generation's obsession with remakes, don't any of you have original ideas?

@@Largentina. I usually hate remakes and I do like the original Edward scissor hands, but that's what Rob Zombie was proposing to do with the Crow,... a remake and honestly I'd rather see him do a twisted version of Edward Scissor Hands. The Crow is perfectly twisted as it is.

@@EMal-mf9pc How about he just comes up with an original idea instead?

The Crows Feet: Shitty Of Angels

Too bad he hasn't actually done that yet. Although he did salvage Halloween from the trash that was Halloween 5-6, H20, Resurrection and half of that god awful Halloween 18....Sounds like a personal problem if you were too dim to actually understand what H2 was, although it does get explained in the commentary for the people who were too dim to understand it.

He should just quit making anything altogether. Everything from his music to his writing and directing is a cringe fest.