I watched that last week, it got a 5/10 and 3 of those were for not butchering the original by copying it.The Crow, the new one, absolute shite 3/10, far too long with the story all over the place. Stick to the original.
names were the same but a totally different story tbhWhy do they keep remaking films. Have they literally run out of ideas?
lets face it the original isn't some kind of masterpiece like its made out to beSpent far too long on building the relationship between Eric and Shelly & then didn't have time to show Eric learning his new abilities and putting the fear into his adversaries.
Also Longlegs, Arcadian, I Saw the TV Glow, Blink Twice and Cuckoo. It’s like a throwback to 1981.~ Alien: Romulus (2024)
~ Exhuma (2024)
~ In a Violent Nature (2024)
~ Oddity (2024)
~ Strange Darling (2024)
~ The Substance (2024)
Saw it last night (there were about 6 of us in my opening night screening…which doesn’t bode well). It’s mental - no wonder Coppola couldn’t find a studio to finance it - think a two and a bit hour angry rant by an old man about how shit and risk-free modern cinema is through the medium of Roman politics and Ayn Rand. It’s so slow it can only be that way to alienate its own audience. It’s so bad it eventually becomes fascinating and by the end I was more invested in it than I have been by standard disposable Hollywood junk, of which this year has been especially bad, so at least he has a point.If anyone sees Megalopolis I'd love to read your reviews. Critics mostly hate the film.
Probably not but it's a damn site better than this version.lets face it the original isn't some kind of masterpiece like its made out to be
Yep and see it as an easy cash cow on the tails of the original. Trouble is Hollywood certainly at the cinema is dying on its arse, the superhero bubble has burst (apart from Deadpool 3) no one is going to the cinema anymore and costs are rocketing plus streaming taking lots of the audience. So they go for easy money by just regurgitating old IPs, AI could be the answer that’s why they are shitting themselves, you or I could do a film put on you tube abd make money off it for very little outlay.
I think the thing that everyone is struggling with is that films are no longer original. Stephen King films have been leeched to death now. The Shining prequel is pretty good though which is quite recent. It is called Doctor Sleep. Most of the rest are just multi million pound remakes of films with so much CGI. I watched the Roadhouse remake a few months ago and whilst the original wasn't great, the scene where the top doorman was executed was pretty shocking. The remake had laughable cgi scenes similar to stuff you would see 20 years ago along with a few cameos that could not act for shit but got paid a lot (for a cameo). I think the days of stuntmen/editing are disappearing and it is being over ruled by cgi shit.This year has been a pretty lousy one so far for big Hollywood studios but they’ve survived worse - the mid-80s had far lower ticket sales than now for many of the same reasons as now - loads of people couldn’t afford it, new technology (home video in that case) and the fact that the stuff Hollywood was making at the time, for the most part, was garbage. It was also when I started going to the cinema weekly, so I remember how empty cinemas were back then. It’s uncanny really - I came out of Deadpool and Wolverine (a film so cynical and designed by focus group it made me depressed about the future of Hollywood) and said to my mate ‘Everything about this year feels like 1986.’