Episode #753: The Crow (W❤️M)

The late John Polito, another Homicide cast member, along with Belzer. Ned Beatty, Andre Baugher, Yaphet Kotto, Giancarlo Esposito, basically everyone else also delivering great performances. Even Daniel Baldwin is OK, though he's basically playing a cop version of himself with the constant flopsweat and drug/alcohol issues. In addition to being a fun action movie, Showdown in Little Tokyo has Brandon Lee delivering the line about Dolph Lundgren having "the biggest penis I've ever seen on a man." The Crow City of Angels is entertainingly bad and is a sequel to this film because the girl here grows up to be that movie's female lead.

Billie Jackson

Man, you guys nailed it with the new Crow. They’re just bullshitting around with Eric and Shelly (who have so little chemistry that I’m not sure they met before the director called action) for the first forty five Christian minutes of that movie. I did appreciate that he fought like a guy whose move is “I don’t care about taking damage.” Like, for the people that’ll get the reference, new Crow fights like Darby Allin.

Gone

ernie was doing Congo” at the same time, sans mustache. maybe that’s why his facial hair is dodgy

Robert Clouse

great quote not mentioned on the cast: Skank: “i’m not Skank. that’s Skank over there. Skank’s dead!” Draven: “Yes, he is.”(throws him out window)

Robert Clouse

first podcast i ever teared up on. was 23 when “The Crow” came out. formative cinematic experience. this movie is perfect. Lee would have been spectacular.

Robert Clouse

This movie changed my life.

Todd Bardi

I was having fun with Ernie's wildly inconsistent mustache. From scene to scene it was either Ernie's normal neatly-trimmed 'stache or a fake caterpillar broom crawling across his lip. Someone on the reddits pointed out that Ernie had a bunch of productions that year and he was clean-shaven in the others.

Smaug

Brandon Lee has a total Deadpool vibe. If we hadn't lost him, he would have been a fantastic Joker

Keli Bolin

That sounds awesome! - Andrew

We Hate Movies

To Live and Die in LA WLM must happen.

Patrick Fowlow

I get the impression Pearl Harbor is too boring to get an episode.

profondo robbo

My parents got hitched in on Halloween-- at the registrar's office the day before my dad tried to pick "pagan" as the religion option on the form. It was a brunch service and they had eggs Benny after the vows. Super goth.

Anna Bee

Yassss The Crow 🙌🏾🖤

Jessie Drew

If I remember correctly, they used The Big Empty a lot in the TV ads for the movie which was a huge selling point that got me in the theater on opening day.

Kemper

Heh. Actors famous for playing Dwayne Wayne and Ralph Malph.

Justine Prudhomme

Hehe I really did get married on Halloween at the courthouse. We didnt NBC theme it though 😋

Robert Calvillo

I do, Kadeem Hardison was the Skull Cowboy, and Donny Most was a scientist obsessed with crow lore for some reason!

CharlesGrodin'sToupee

"Crow: City of Angels" is a dour slog, but "Salvation" is a Stay-Tuned-And-A-Half. Not only do you have a fun cast (Kirsten Dunst, Walton Goggins, Dickless from Ghostbusters), but it has the most amazing "here's how he got his Crow-face look" scene ever: *SPOILERS* The titular Crow in "Salvation" is framed for his girlfriend's murder and executed in the electric chair. The electrocution (in concert with the leather-daddy hood they put him in) burns him such that, when he's resurrected, he starts peeling the skin of his face off... and the face under it has been pre-Crowed for his convenience.

Brandon A

Anyone remember this show from 1998/99? "The Crow: Stairway to Heaven." https://youtu.be/9HbKvgsS3nw?si=vlsnLeCfimZ5gnEO

Justine Prudhomme

"I'm dead. And I move". Rewatched the movie today and that interaction still makes me smile so damn much. That delivery shows you what a great star he would have been.

John Locke

Brandon Lee died so Keanu Reeves could live.

Mike Kling

I once witnessed a man peel a banana and throw away the skin, he held the naked banana in hand and ate it

Boston Roberts

The Crow and Pulp Fiction came out in 1994. Big year for dorm room movie posters.

Craig

100% Lee gets The Matrix role if he was still alive. A great actor, great look and do the action stuff on cue, he was a leading man waiting to happen. Great ep. This is definitely peak Wincott. It still amazes me to this day how someone with such an incredible look and a once in a generation voice was never a bigger deal. I fucking punched the air when he popped up in Nope. We need more of this man.

Steven Cookson

God yes I remember now. Thank you.

Matthew Lloyd

That stretch of Transformers episodes was DIRE. I could feel the boys' exhaustion through my headphones

Chris Rose

Just fyi, she was killed by a drunk driver

Chris Rose

You put the brown mustard under the hotdog so when you bite into it, you don't mustard on your hands and or upper lip. Trust me. It will change your life.

John Locke

The Sandra Bullock power move!

Jason

Matthew Lloyd

You might say they ... didn't remember Sully.

Adam Lewis

I saw Wincott at a museum a couple of years after The Crow and his hair was long but not Top Dollar long.

Adam Lewis

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is an unstoppably amazing band. 13 Above the Night and Confessions of a Knife are chef’s kiss.

imipolexGforce

Boy Kills World is unironically one of my favorite movies of the year.

Adam

TY. Damn. That’s a lot.

Paul

Dang, so close.

Mark Ibarra

Lily Wachowski has stated that Lee was in their minds when they were putting together the first ideas for what would become The Matrix, based on his performances in Rapid Fire and Showdown in Little Tokyo. Chad Stahelski was Lee's stunt double on The Crow, and went on to be Keanu's stunt double in The Matrix, and then went on to co-create John Wick, so there's a potential universe out there where Brandon Lee and David Patrick Kelly reunited to do business under the High Table.

Ryan Corven

I believe Michael Bay holds that particular honour. • Armageddon (WHM 370) • Bad Boys (WHM 405) • Bad Boys II (WHM 115) • The Island (WHM 407) • The Rock (WHM 457) • Transformers (WHM 304) • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (WHM 305) • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (WHM 306) • Transformers: Age of Extinction (WHM 307) • Transformers: The Last Knight (WHM 310) Genuinely surprised Peal Harbor hasn't been covered.

Ryan Corven

I once witnessed a woman in Ikea get a hot dog, turn it on it’s side and eat it from the middle like a sandwich and then each end separately

Alex Fry

Polito would've been great as the clown in spawn. Wouldn'tve made that movie good just better.

J HEASLEY

I’m obsessed with reality bites/singles/The Commitments soundtracks lol! So thrilled that y’all loved this soundtrack! I’m going to see Violent Femmes again in October, the first time I saw them was decades ago and they did play their song from this soundtrack!

Jaime Lee Ezell

"This is a rubble film!" Nice pull from Eric, very niche.

Marty TC (child-sized Cardassian)

August 1st MY NEEWW FAVORITE HOLLIDDAAYY

Matt

Alex Proyas movies covered by the WHM gang: -Knowing -Gods of Egypt -I, Robot -The Crow -Dark City (future episode 🤞🏼)

Paul

I love the movie “Nope” and “The Crow”, seen them both a million times, and it took until your comment for me to realize that Wincott was in “Nope.” Dang.

LilyBean

Is Alex Proyas the most covered director in WHM? I assume they’re going to do “Dark City” on WLM someday.

Paul

The original Spider-verse soundtrack is really good. So are the Guardian of the Galaxy mix tapes. But yeah the hey day was around the 2000s. The Dracula 2000 soundtrack got a lot of play for me in my early 20s NuMetal phase

Dan sulin

WHM gang is eating crow in this episode.

Paul

Michael Wincott in this movie is one of the first times I realized I liked guys too

Vio Darc

Great episode! Absolutely love this movie and was able to pass it down to my kids this year when I took them to see the 30th Anniversary showing in theaters. I need you guys to consider doing a top 10 movie soundtracks in the next big daddy dispatch as we definitely do not get great movie soundtracks like we used to.

Ian Laidlaw

I do wonder if they would have released that last season of Better Call Saul if Bob Odenkirk died of that heart attack on set. I'm with Eric tho, I still want to see what you made good or bad out of curiosity.

Alex Murica

This is the only good thing to happen because of that wretched remake, so stoked

Andrew Helander

Thank you all for this, it helps ease the pain of the upcoming release of that rotten looking remake.

CharlesGrodin'sToupee

I will gladly defend COA with you. The botch job the Weinsteins did on the theatrical cut is one of their many, many crimes.

CharlesGrodin'sToupee

There is a deleted scene with the cowboy. The mask on him looked cool. https://youtu.be/1mkxnApKuZA?si=ABHYh5_YUor2BR5O

Adam Ray

I am literally stunned that one slipped by all four of them.

Mark Ibarra

No love for David Patrick in Commando?

James C Harris

And somewhat less enthusiastically, the summer of Proyas

Chris Rose

The summer of Wincott rolls along!

Chris Rose

The Dead Meat folks had a Crow episode and they made a really good point that this new one seems to take place in the normal real world and a guy with spooky makeup shooting people is just not that exciting divorced from the exaggerated gothic comic trappings of the original

Chris Rose

Caw! Caw! Bang fuck I’m stoked!

Chris Rose

This movie is one of my all time favorites. I saw this twice in theaters when it came out. Owned it on vhs, dvd and blu ray. Best movie villains with great villain deaths. The soundtrack is amazing. Damn near perfect film.

Matt G.

I'm mostly convinced that a living Brandon Lee gets Christian Slater's Broken Arrow role, which leads to him instead of Keanu as Neo in the Matrix. Woulda coulda. Great ep so far (20 min in)

Mark Ibarra

I could paint my face up, Mark!

DMAC

This is one I went from disliking to really enjoying over the years. Such an incredible cast across the board. A really great action film with nice flourishes and small commentaries about pissants with a little power. And the soundtrack from beginning to end is perfect (even the cornball final song works in context).

Jim Callahan

Anyone else remember this Steve seagal classic remark on Brandon's passing? https://youtu.be/k_wmwcLndu0?feature=shared ...straight delusional

Frank Grimes

Brandon Lee’s also fun in Laser Mission with Ernest Borgnine

Andrew Dean

Top comment on LionsGate youtube channel for the new Crow trailer: "why does the Crow look like Machine Gun Kelly dressed up like Florida Joker?" 🤣

Comrade Trash Panda

My favorite movie. So excited to listen. Part of the reason I love movies at all. Edit: When you inevitably do The Crow: City of Angels on main, I only ask to be the first "pay-to-play" guest so I can defend that movie on air.

FiddlersGreenDay

The simplest of stories yet so many poignant and/or profound insights: “Childhood’s over the moment you know you’re gonna die”, It can’t rain all the time”, “{Onions} make ya fart big time!” 100th+ rewatch in preparation. So stoked! And that remake can get fucked BTW!

Milan

I'm skeptical of that remake

Frank Grimes