I finally saw The Crow last night and I can't believe how good it is

The 30th Anniversary of The Crow is this year so theaters like Regal played it for $5 last night and today. It was so good that I saw it again today. For some reason I just never sat and watched it from beginning to end. I saw it on TV sometimes when I was a kid and remember thinking "Hey it's Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters!" but I also remember hearing about what happened on set and like other movies I heard about it sort of made me not watch.

This movie is might be one of my favorite movies now. It's so good that I'm glad I didn't watch it fully before seeing The Dark Knight because I saw that 4 times in 2008. I knew that The Dark Knight was influenced a lot by Heat which I had seen already in the 90s and loved it and still do. I know Christopher Nolan talked about it. I also knew Heath Ledger's Joker was inspired by characters like Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange and probably heard something about The Crow, but The Dark Knight took a lot more from The Crow than I realized.

Ernie Hudson is basically Morgan Freeman's Lucius Fox and Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon. Like when The Crow disappears during a conversation "He does that sometimes." There is so much more throughout. Including scenes that use the same camera angles and everything with the table and the villains. Similar quotes about chaos, disorder and anarchy. It seemed like so much more than just the hair-style and makeup.

I still like The Dark Knight but I don't think I would have seen it as many times if I had seen The Crow first. Also that soundtrack! I'm not a big grunge rock guy but if I watched this entire movie when I was a kid instead of just parts on TV I think I would have been really into it. I always liked NIN so hearing their song during a scene was awesome. The model sets I liked a lot!

What surprised me the most though was how emotional it was. Seeing it a second time today I almost cried. Brandon Lee was incredible! I really liked scenes like when Eric visits Sgt. Albrecht. It had a nice score in the background and it was just parts like that I didn't expect. Or the relationship with the mother and daughter. I like when Eric gives the girl the necklace. It just had a lot of heartwarming moments I never expected.

"Are you a ghost?" "Boo!"