“The Crow” turns 30 today

I remember the mythology around this movie when it came out.

No internet, chat rooms, celebrity gossip shows, etc. just small mentions for a few days in the mainstream media.

MTV, Rolling Stone and a few other rags had the only reporting on the movie. There was such a visceral feeling that you were about to see something!

Just a great opening night memory at Acadiana Mall cinema.

The reboot will be arse, but I don't care cuz I aint never gonna see it.

This movie is the most atmospheric movie I've ever seen, and the biggest reason why is that soundtrack....Holy Sheeeeit! What a fricking album!

i just watched it for the 1st time the other day. will be a yearly watch for halloween from now on and the soundtrack has to be top 10 all time.

I've posted this here before. But every time The Crow comes up, I think about the stripper named Shelly Webster:

I had read the comic as a young teen and was obsessed with the movie. I had a Crow poster on my wall, and a few Crow t-shirts. I bought the movie on VHS when it came out and would watch it often.

Many years later it was my bachelor party and we wound up at Visions - as bachelor parties often do.

Visions has a thing where you can pay to have someone pulled on stage by the strippers, and they pull your clothes off and basically beat the shite out of you.

My friends did that to me. I was so drunk that I didn't care.

After being beaten by a bunch of strippers, they pulled me back stage so I can put my clothes back on. The girls all signed a Visions shirt. But signed it with their stripper names like "Sparkle" and "Gem Stone' or whatever it is strippers call themselves.

One of the girls, who had a goth theme going on, signed the shirt "True Love Always, Shelly Webster"

She said "You probably don't even know who Shelly Webster is."

As drunk as I was, I looked her dead in the eye and said "Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children."

She basically melted on the spot. I'm pretty sure I could have taken her home that night.

Was ordering some other CDs. After seeing this thread, I added to my order.

It was insane how many great movies came out in 1994. Arguably the greatest movie year ever.

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The Crow was released in theaters on May 13th 1994.
I recently rewatched and it holds up very well IMO.

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The Crow is one of the better comic book movies. The crazy part was it wasn't "woke," and didn't have $300 million CGI baked into the film that Hollywood is convinced that is what makes a movie great.

It just had a solid story, solid cast, and as yall noted, a great soundtrack, and herioc characters people could adore with villains we could despise.

Hell of a movie from an era when Hollywood could produce good movies.

Watched it finally. Love the visuals. The setting felt a lot like Gotham. I wasn’t sure if I liked it after the first 45 min but I liked it more and more after that.