Well if you technically look at it John Wick took shelly and replaced it with a puppy it was and always has been a revenge/love story. the crow did it first
This is guesswork but I think they met in rehab or a sanitarium instead? I don’t know many coed prisons. And I think Shelly said she ‘saw things’, so she might’ve witnessed something that got both of them killed. If that’s the case, there’s still the injustice of two lost, broken people finding each other and healing each other and having that love cut short. It’s still a strong story but it isn’t Eric & Shelly’s story.
This is my thoughts also. They both had hard lives but trying to get better. And she accidently saw somethings she should not have. So in that case both are innocent victims.
And if that’s the case, I’ll be more open to giving it a chance. Tonally I’m not fully sold though. I’m not getting the gothic vibes that are associated with The Crow, but it was only 2 minutes of footage, so maybe a second trailer will show that?🤷♂️
I think they are supposed to be out of rehab and going straight, the killing might be an attempt to silence Shelly for something she witnessed, which doesn't immediately make her a bad person since she might just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, the first movie's killing wasn't a random act of violence either, Top Dollar specifically asked T Bird and his posse to teach them a lesson. Personally I wouldn't have a problem if they were two druggies trying to lead a better life, I think it would add to the tragedy, two stray souls who manage to make a better life for themselves thanks to their love yet they are tragically killed due to circumstances out of their control by some very bad people, I would be fine with it really.
Imagine going to an expensive restaurant and ordering a sumptuous meal. The waiter tells you the dinner starts with a garden salad made with the most perfectly ripe vegetables. This is followed by a deliciously marinated and seared steak, served with a loaded baked potato and steamed savory greens. To top it off, you'll have a banana split for dessert, made with hand-churned ice cream, fresh-picked strawberries and Swiss chocolate. Now imagine they bring this all to your table, and you discover this amazing meal is actually very expertly-airbrushed piles of unflavored rice cake. That's how angry this trailer makes me. This movie has no soul, it has no heart. Hell, it has no ACTING. Everyone is mumbling. Everyone sounds bored. The reason people love the original film so much is because it is a love story, first and foremost. Eric is devastated by the loss of Shelly. He is desperate to regain connections to her, from painting his face with the mask that made her smile, to recovering the engagement ring, to playing his music, to reconnecting with Sarah. It's all to cling to his connection to his love. Eric, Shelly, Sarah & Albrecht are the last shining beacons of goodness & hope in the city, and the evil -- which is not supernatural in the first film -- wants to devour them all. This film is trying to shoehorn in a supernatural angle, it looks like...I guess Danny Huston is playing some sort of cult leader, and Eric & Shelly met as members of the cult, maybe? Everyone feels like they're half-asleep through the entire thing. Eric -- the Eric we remember -- doesn't mumble, he doesn't drift, he doesn't brood. He rages. He laughs. He smiles. He comforts. He loves. This isn't that. This is just an excuse to Wickify something that absolutely should not be Wick'd.
@@surunitemiakanni-oye4346 I really don't think you get it. The original film isn't just a movie. It also serves as an incredibly poignant monument to the loss of Brandon Lee. It is one of the most groundbreaking cinematic achievements of the 1990s, and the origin point for the cinematic superhero renaissance of the 2000s. The original film is incredibly special to a lot of people, including me, as I myself was going through a personal tragedy at the time I saw it. The terrible sequels and TV series are forgotten today for a very good reason: the original can't be topped, it can't be reinterpreted, it can't be reconstituted. This is a lesson Hollywood STILL hasn't learned after trying to remake Robocop, Total Recall, Point Break, Halloween, The Wicker Man, Rollerball, The Fog, Psycho, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Footloose, and The Karate Kid. It's not "only a movie interpretation." It's a shameless cash-in on the reputation of a haunting masterpiece of cinema. It cheapens the name and jettisons the themes -- the **CORE** -- of the original.
@@fusionaddict I'm a fan of the original too but I think that the problem here was using the character of Eric Draven, they could have gone with an entirely new character or use one from the comics.
I gotta agree that changing the character names would have avoided a lot of ill will. Many of us would have just shrugged it off like any other of the bad sequels.
@@OneProtagonist like a lot of people, minds are susceptible to being changed once they actually see the quality of the movie! So much passion already - with sight of only a trailer! Good news?
If you wanna be technical, the real crow had a mullet and the crow in the movie with the long hair was just Bruce Lee son so technically he’s going off based off the comic not the movie !! 😏
