Good Morning, Crow

Squawking at us this morning via Vanity Fair -- where they have a few more images and interview stuff, check it -- is our first look at Bill Skarsgård as The Crow in the new movie version, out on June 7th. Bill is getting a lot of use out of those new carved-in-marble abs huh? (See also here.) We don't mind. Re-use em if ya got em, that's my motto. Anyway I've never been much of a Crow person -- indeed that came up just yesterday when I mentioned on Twitter that it was the 26th anniversary of the other big 90s gothy movie directed by Alex Proyas...

I am very much Dark City > The Crow

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 27, 2024

I don't know if you can take yourself back to the 90s -- hell I don't know if half of you were alive in the 90s (SIGH) -- but superhero movies were considered real fucking goofy. Even something (maybe even especially something) that was taking itself as seriously as The Crow. Now we have to pretend they're not (although, genuine thoughts and prayers, that might be changing back?) but superhero movies were Barb Wire and the original Super Mario Brothers. And yes -- those movies have very much attained cult status now. Mostly because people can't believe there was a time when superhero movies were allowed to be so fucking weird. 

I was the right age for those movies when they were coming out, in my early teens, and I did indeed go and see them, but I was never a person who was taking them seriously. Same with The Crow. It was Hot Topic filtered through Hollywood -- it wasn't nearly as edgy as it thought it was. But I will say that the one excellent thing about it was that soundtrack. I was huge in my Nine Inch Nails phase right then and that soundtrack still rules. But I feel like I'm rambling now. So back to Bill Skarsgård and his gothic abdominals. What do we think? What is our immediate thought?

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