Anything But Doom - The Crow Remake

[00:00:01] Looks like there's some turbulence up ahead. It's a good thing you found us. Good morning, PBN family. I'm unveiling just by executive order here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network. A-B-D Anything But Doom.

[00:00:31] And I'm gonna open this up to everybody, all the hosts here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network. You know when we started doing Prepper content, we were sort of mining out the doom. We were sort of looking across the bow at the horizon to see what was coming and

[00:00:50] It wasn't so in your face. It wasn't every single day of your life. The mainstream media hadn't figured out yet. Oh, we can make a lot of money by putting scary articles up about the end of the world. Well those days have long passed.

[00:01:03] And I find myself from time to time thinking I want to talk about anything but doom. I want to hear about anything but doom. You know and we have serious personality and serious amounts of people here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network who coiled themselves up

[00:01:21] in the name of preparedness in order to create a show that's built around this kind of stuff, but they have you know other interests also and other things to say that are worth saying that add nuance to the overall conversation in God

[00:01:36] Do we ever need a focus on nuance? I mean really that what we have going on with lack of nuance in the world is terrifying really. It's actually I never thought a lack of new nuance could lead to a terrifying time, but Thus

[00:01:56] We are here now. I wanted to talk today on anything but doom about the lack of nuance and and sort of the swing and miss in Hollywood particularly around the crow remake

[00:02:15] Now for fans of the crow you might really enjoy this for those of you who are not I'd probably still stick around and listen because This is a deep deep thing. There and depth is what we are so lacking in our society anymore

[00:02:31] You know a deep understanding and understanding of nuance like There's a level of audacity to duplicate a movie like the crow Not to create a sequel but to duplicate the movie and to re-it make it that is It's a breathtaking level of Audacity and ignorance, you know

[00:02:57] Now I don't know the director. I didn't do any research. I don't really care The the child in me wanted this for those of you don't know they're remaking the 1993 classic the crow

[00:03:14] Featuring Bill Skarsgård and whoever FKA twigs is I don't know if she's a model. I don't know what she is I've never heard of her in all honesty, so I mean, I've heard of her but I like I've heard her name in news headlines

[00:03:30] I have no idea what she's famous for I never you know, whatever irrelevant I mean all all of the things about the new movie are pretty much irrelevant except for the fact that they've kind of Gone so far against the grain

[00:03:46] With the and I haven't seen the movie so I can't you know, but this is such a situation I wouldn't pick on a movie like this Without watching it, you know what I mean if it wasn't this deep But you have to understand how deep this is

[00:04:03] the crow was a Social movement Okay, it wasn't a movie It was a movie, but it was it was such an incredible Movement in movie making There were so many incredible things about that movie the soundtrack of the crow

[00:04:30] You know then one of the things that categorized the 1990s and And I think the generation alive now is suffering so much because of it Was in credit just amazing music Amazing diverse music tribal music, you know like you had a team

[00:04:47] It with your music in the 90s, right? You were team grunge you were team heavy metal You were team gangster rap like you had a team might have been West Coast East Coast like you had a team in music

[00:04:59] Most people did not a lot of people were like I just listen to every you know people are nowadays I listen to everything like yeah, not really you like you listen to what you listen to all your friends listen to that

[00:05:10] You know what I mean? It was a cult and it was because the music was so powerful And so all encompassing that all these all these different types of music new metal grunge

[00:05:21] All this stuff was coming out and people were like this is for me, and then you know, you know what I mean? but the 90s 90s movies were also propelled By incredible these incredible Collaborative soundtracks. Okay like like Clueless comes to mind they had an amazing soundtrack

[00:05:45] There were there were some great movies that came out and had such amazing soundtracks. It was unbelievable I mean like these soundtracks themselves are iconic And the first movie To ever really do that

[00:05:59] To ever really capture a movie in the soundtrack form with the best artists of the time all working together Was the crow soundtrack and the crow soundtrack is I mean it It it is one of the great albums in my opinion because of that

[00:06:19] Like the sort of like the titular Song of the movie was written by the cure the cures burn And it was written just for the movie like days before or something like that or or

[00:06:32] Maybe not days before but it took like two days or something very close to the time that had to be turned in They sat down and wrote it and wrote just a I mean, it's the it's the song you know So This cannot be reproduced today

[00:06:50] Music is too broken, you know, so this fundamental like this is how iconic you want to know how I can't see I saw the crow when it came out in 1993 which was a big mistake

[00:07:00] My mother had just got out of the hospital. She had an atopic pregnancy and almost died And one of the first things she wanted to do is get get out with her son, you know And I said oh and she'd been in the hospital bit

[00:07:11] And and for a week or something weeks, maybe I was too little to remember really And she wanted to do something with her kid and uh The media was representing the crow to be like dark and

[00:07:27] superhero like batman right and never forget like we're all on the heels of 1989 batman Which was another massive change In superhero action films like this dark Weird gritty take on the superhero film

[00:07:45] Was new it was brand was this new sort of genre and and the crow was going to take it on From the indie or yeah from the indie side essentially And so so again you've got this once one of a kind soundtrack

[00:08:00] You've got this one of a kind movie movement, right? And the soundtrack was so iconic that the the Nine-inch nails song Was so beaten into my head from watching this movie that when I would run home for my friend kyle's House I would sing it out loud and

[00:08:21] Run and jump through the cracks in this over the cracks in the sidewalk like eric draven over the rooftops um I mean it was just you know, it was that kind of a of a thing I'm like these aren't just backwards wasn't background noise. You know what?

[00:08:36] I mean these were epic songs some of them were covers by p bands who loved the bands they were covering and it so my mother took me to see this movie 1993 and She basically like gripped onto her seat

[00:08:55] I kind of commend her for not taking me out of there to be honest because it really became a huge part of my life growing up I really loved it But I was only 86 to 93. What's that three six? No four seven Seven eight something like that

[00:09:12] Way too young to be watching the krill But man, you know All of that aside right so you're dealing with this with this incredible soundtrack this iconic, you know beginning of a trend of massive bands

[00:09:31] Gathering together to create a soundtrack to become a part of the movie that just you know, it was a game changer You were dealing with these cultures and these subcultures on the back end who are looking to this character eric draven as

[00:09:47] As their hero. Oh my god. We have a hero like i'm not a billionaire. I'm not an alien I'm not super strong We've got this skinny pale guitar player In eric draven who is kicking ass and taking names, right? And he's sort of like this

[00:10:04] heavy metal goth the Hero that no one ever had before Right. So with all that music was this sort of idolatry of this dude and it and don't forget like It it wasn't just some dude, you know, like the guy playing him was bruce lee's son

[00:10:24] Do you know what I mean? Like it was It wasn't just some run of the mill actor This was bruce lee's son. This was the greatest the most revolutionary martial artist in all history

[00:10:35] His son is playing this character. It wasn't michael keaton. You know what? I mean, it wasn't christopher reeve This was a legitimate martial artist And it was just one of the you know, this is pre ufc or you know before ufc really took off

[00:10:47] So you were still in like this mind frame of like oh kung fu wins fights like yeah And uh, you know that played to the validity of what you're watching you're you're watching

[00:10:59] This guy take on guys with knives and guns and yeah, he has the ability to heal But you're also thinking to yourself like well, he's also got the you know, he's got the moves So I'm back loading all this so that you can understand how you can't take

[00:11:17] Like the guy wrote a great comic book. You know what I mean? He wrote a great comic book a dark and terrifying situation And revenge story And that was the crow to begin But the movie became enormous because of all these things

[00:11:36] You know the movie became enormous because of all these things. I always tell you about the the importance of villains You know, this was a movie Built on villains You know, it was built around the henchmen And they're crazy acts right

[00:11:52] Um, it was built around sort of this Hierarchy of bad guys that that eric draven has to work his way through Up until you know the main bad guy and What's his name cash something I should know these things

[00:12:13] But it was built the point is it was built around these villains that really created I don't know what what a hero movie needs. You know what I mean? So many superhero movies have come out as of late with crap villains or no villains And they do horribly

[00:12:29] and they do horribly because uh You need to have a big bad villain who's capable of taking on And and the audience has to know why he's capable of it, you know, they have to know why they can't just say like

[00:12:41] Oh, this is a character from the comic book world and he's very strong So he can beat iron man Or you're like why explain to me why he's so strong, you know, like the avengers did that really well by introducing Thanos Uh

[00:12:56] In a in in in devastating fashion right Thanos hops on the ship and beats the Hulk up like oh, okay Thanos is a bad dude. I get it cool, you know Um You know On the back of the movie like before the movie came out

[00:13:19] Uh, Brandon Lee gets shot and killed in the filming of it Right and this was such an incredible event. This was such a mind-boggling event that the soundtrack was The big empty by the stone temple pilots was not even supposed to be on the soundtrack

[00:13:37] But after Eric Draven died they swapped it out You know They swapped they literally were like okay, we got a you know, this is a serious turn of events So now you have a film that is you know built into the subculture this incredible

[00:13:52] story this heart wrenching and you know, probably one of the most terrifying and terrible things that could happen to A couple in love Um, which which to me it looks like and I don't know this to be true, but it looks like that part of

[00:14:08] The rape and the murder Of shelly webster Looks to be removed from the new movie altogether and I know it's weird to say out to say this but it you You have to have that You know, this guy climbs out of the grave for vengeance

[00:14:28] Do you understand what i'm saying? like The deed must be comparable right to the outcome And it's horrible. I mean in the book it's the Comic books even worse. You know what I mean? so This is this is an aspect of the story too, but

[00:14:50] Then you have the whole memorial of brandon lee you have the movie now becomes brandon lee's last movie Right, it becomes his last piece of work his last contribution to the world at large the son of bruce lee is dead now to

[00:15:04] dead died at a young age just like dad and All this stuff starts swirling around You wind up with with a movie that even before it hits the theaters Is so much larger than life It's incomparable, you know

[00:15:26] And then it you know and then it comes out and everybody sees it and everybody's like oh this is you know It becomes a thing that moves an entire generation um And and hollywood has somehow decided to try and replicate that by

[00:15:45] Making a shoot them up beat them up film with a guy Who looks nothing like the main character acts nothing like the main character, you know The crow Like so many remakes, but this one in particular most importantly is not a formula

[00:16:06] Do you know what i mean? It's not a formula. It was never a formula. It was An intersection of culture and timing and and Crazy events that happen in our world That can never be replicated, you know what i mean it can never be replicated

[00:16:28] The timing of that movie the way, you know, right after 1989 batman that big transformation the soundtrack The the the the lead actor being the prince of martial arts dying on set The subculture surrounding and swirling around this dark hero who looked like them To to

[00:16:53] Try to like photocopy that and spit it out in the movie theaters Is I don't know. It's just so blind, you know what i mean? It's so weird. It's so deaf to The impact and and what the crow was like it i can't imagine sitting down myself personally

[00:17:12] I can't imagine sitting down And saying to myself i'm gonna remake the crow And then coming away with this storyline that they're selling us now and going I feel really good about this So this has been anything but doom I hope you enjoyed my Whatever that was

[00:17:36] Because i enjoyed it i'll talk to you guys soon