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    19 minutes ago, Alcofribas said:

    this one kinda fucks with me.

    when the first crow movie came out in 94 it lead to my first huge step into new musical worlds. i was 12 years old and i was intensely drawn to nin's rendition of "dead souls" on the crow soundtrack and the downward spiral had just come out and nin was about to explode into fame. this nin album became an obsession and directly lead me to get into artists like mbm, coil, spacetime continuum, aphex. it was a paradigm shift, from childhood to youth. 

    anyway, the crow was this very specific little gem of a movie that moved me in a new way, sort of like an initiation into this new youth where darker themes flourished, angst developed, an aesthetic of suffering and moody musical worlds enveloped me. and of course it had this tragic allure. the comic was born out of the many years of suffering o'barr experienced after losing his girlfriend to a drunk driver. and while the film ought to have been a kind of triumph for him artistically and personally, brandon lee's death on the set just deepened the tragedy. it almost feels impossible it all went down like that, like some kind of inescapable web of suffering. i can't imagine how he must have felt. he created a story born of senseless death and loss where he could seek justice in art, only to be delivered another fateful blow like that. imo it feels senseless to approach this material for another film - what could ever be achieved? the original film is it, lee lost his life making that character. it's singular. 

    and of course, the soundtrack was a crucial part of the story. o'barr was listening to some of the original songs while he was writing the book. he personally reached out to certain artists to ask them to contribute to the film. and the artists were part of the zeitgeist, as well. growing up during this mtv/radio era, this was the music of the time if you were listening to popular "rock" or whatever. these artists were inescapable. they were in our tvs, in our cars, in our walkmen, all around us. there was a sense of a moment, like this is all happening NOW. so it was like, o'barr was listening to all this dark music while writing the crow and then a number of the most prominent artists of the time recorded new versions for the new film being made from this book. some of the og artists he was listening to while making the book made new music for the film and even covered their own songs for him. it was clearly this unique, layered event linking all this art together into something new and unique. 

    when i see this new trailer, it just seems completely senseless. it makes me feel like our culture is so degraded. there is nothing compelling about this remake, no reason for it to exist. throwing post malone or fka twigs into the mix just accentuates its emptiness compared to the original where the music was born from the book's creation. the original experience had depth and relevance. how can this remake do anything like that? it's just gonna be another reboot that can't hold a candle to the original. and our culture is awash with this kind of thing, just worse versions of experiences we've already had. so much endless reproduction, replication. it's maddening. 

    i realize this might come across as old man back in my day type stuff. i will say i do not think the 90s was some pinnacle of pop culture or anything. and i have not seen the original crow in decades so i'm not speaking to its significance as a work of art per se. more as an original pop cultural artwork with layers of comic, film, music. but i absolutely think contemporary culture is really crude and degenerate and this obsession with remakes and rebuying the same "content" that just fils space in a senseless way is quite depressing. 

    i'm sure the new one is great, 10/10

    The 70s, 80s, and 90s were amazing. My friends and I have a document with hundreds of films listed we remember hearing about, seeing at our local movie rental store when we were kids. We're slowly but surely making our way through these movies. So far we've watched 64 of these and they've all been... well... at least better than the majority of shit that comes out today. Oh, and the original The Crow is on the list as none of us have ever seen it.

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    25 minutes ago, o00o said:

    solid argument but I have the impression once you fixed yourself on this perspective you never get out if. Like an ex of mine who is working fulltime as a cutter hates the new Dune movies with passion and I can totally see where she's coming from while she is also not very much into fiction and both movies have a pretty weak storytelling but I can just ignore that and still enjoy the new Dune movies at lot. But maybe thats a gift not everybody has nor needs to have. 

    Oh no no no, I can totally see beyond my initial impression of something. But I can't deal with cwaaaaazy movies with wacky acting. I find it extremely off-putting and embarrassing.

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    17 hours ago, o00o said:

    why?

    Right from the first teaser I thought it looked like a mix between Vidocq and Children of the Lost City with the silliness of The Favourite - which is where I really turned on Yorgos Lanthimos - and that is not for me. My girlfriend was really looking forward to it and said I was being silly, so she watched it with a friend. When she came back she said she hated it and I would have hated it even more. My friend who is the constant contrarian laughed at me not wanting to watch it. He saw it and the next time I met him he spent 30 minutes explaining just how much he hated it.

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    TWIN PEAKS

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    6 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:

    My bad fellas. Thought it was a cool pic with Lynch destroying a television, did not know where else to post it. Maybe a general Lynch thread to discuss his whole oeuvre in TV, film, painting, and music? Feel like a lot of users here dig his work.

    Haha, chill. It's all good.

    Dune

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    1 hour ago, gnarlybog said:

    IMHO Hans is incapable of subtlety...

    Truer words have never been spoken.

    And he's also... pretty overrated.

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    36 minutes ago, usagi said:

    guess where else she surprisingly showed up, I was rewatching Broken Flowers and she was Bill Murray's last ex. I had completely forgotten, or maybe I'd watched it back when she hadn't really registered for me.

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    6 hours ago, usagi said:

    you joke but don't forget there is that fucking awful Bob Dylan movie where he's played by multiple actors including Cate Blanchett and a small black boy. so this kind of absurd pretension is not out of the realms of possibility for Hollywood.

    She also played three characters including the old man in the Suspiria remake. She also played mother and daughter in Eternal Daughter and siblings in Hail Caesar, Sonja, and many more. 

    ugh…

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