Some movies should never be remade, and 'The Crow' is one of them.

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A Crow fan gives a great review of the 2024 reboot/remake, and I cannot help but agree with her.


The reboot is basically Florida Joker meets Machine Gun Kelly and does a Deja vu of John Wick. 
It is The Crow in name only, but it has nothing to do with the original storytelling that starred Brandon Lee. 
This version is just to entertain people who like gratuitous violence on the screen. 

Thoughts?

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I think some movies are difficult to top or create equal renditions of.

Yet one sees remakes of plays frequently, though plays are more of an in person experience, that varies in large part due to the variations and abilities of the producers and casts.
Reboots of comics and superhero movies, which I find draining and a bit unpleasant, perhaps just due to saturation and occurrence in popular media. Some people like it though.
Books, I don't see remakes 'so often of, though fanfiction abounds. . . . Some remakes exist, such as Pride and Prejudice with zombies, I think I saw that in a bookstore once.

There 'are sometimes small errors in movies that annoy me, camera men in shots, stumbles in choreography.
But I've developed a hatred of post editing years after a movie is produced (Thanks Lucas). Though perhaps that hatred of post editing is his (In my eyes) 'Criminal deletion of past versions. Sure make Star Wars 9.7, but leave me version 1.0.
And even though the small mistakes exist, there are movies that for 'me are special, and cannot be topped by 'new actors and slightly different scenes.

But that is the 'catch, 'for 'me.
Maybe some remakes will appeal to other people, whether they've seen them first or not.

One might argue that Lord of the Rings is an awesome movie, even though it'd been done some times before.
But then one might argue that technology and style had not advanced to the point of Jacksons LOTR yet.
Or that no rendition had managed to be pieced together, acted, set, so well as his.
. . .
Still, some people might be unsatisfied with it (Not me).
Or technology or style 'might still improve.

I finish with saying I think there 'is an appeal in One of a Kind.
Though perhaps there is also an appeal in variation.
People vary patters on clothing, have different clothing styles.
Though I 'do like the suit and hat era.
Still, I tend to delete all but one variation, of an AI art, when I use AI for art, one that I identify as the 'best.
And I 'do like certain renditions and conclusions in comics more than others.

And movies that if the movie executives asked me if I wanted another, I would say no.