The new trailer for The Crow 2024 actually genuinely hurt my feelings, it was so terrible 🤣💀 I was laughing, CACKLING really, and now I need to vent.
They're doing that shit they always do with modern remakes/retellings, where they modernize the technology and look of the film. Because yeah the violence looks good and all. But where's the soul, where's the heart? The makeup looks half assed, even aesthetically. What's the tone here, 'average punk-ish action movie'?
Like they dumbed down and stomped out the actual heart and overall aesthetic of the story. The villains have been reduced to regular mob-like gangsters?? Eric and Shelly aren't even just regular average people, here they met wherever tf they did, prison in this case I guess? They're both former inmates here I guess, which I suppose might have felt significant if that tied into why the gang killed them later. Instead of Shelly just randomly walking by and seeing something she shouldn't have 💀
I feel like that takes away from Shelly as a character at this point. She doesn't do much in the original but at least she was consciously fighting against forced evictions in a scummy neighborhood. It was dangerous, but she risked it which implied that she was a person who cared and wanted to do something good. That's what that one tiny plot point told us. Now in this new remake it's just "wrong place at the wrong time".
Idk, it really all comes down to this one moment for me. In the OG 1994 movie they never had to verbally TELL us that Eric was getting revenge because of his love for Shelly. We gathered that easily on our own, they shared so much of their relationship with meaningful short little memories and flashbacks. Through the characters around them who loved and cared for/about them. We got to learn everything we needed to know about these two, we cared about them and were rooting for Eric based on so little. The core fact that two regular good people were wronged so horribly that they deserved to set things right.
And yet in this 3min trailer, they felt the need to shove that down our throats like we didn't just see this version of Eric and Shelly being all cutesy and lovey dovey before being wrongfully murdered. A character literally said the words "he's doing it for love" LIKE COME THE FUCK ON 💀
It's whatever, I just hate it 😂😂