It Can't Rain All The Time...

Having been blown away by the 4k UHD remaster of Constantine this weekend, I decided to rewatch the 4k remaster of the Crow tonight, after getting a copy this last summer.

I will always have mixed feelings about this movie, simply because of Brandon Lee's death. But it is such a brilliant piece of work that it cannot be ignored.

With that said, the 30th anniversary remaster of The Crow is stunning in 4k HDR on a good, large TV. Keeping true to its original intent, Director Alex Proyas chose to leave the gritty, noisy and washed-out look of the film the same, instead simply enhancing the resolution and color depth that an HDR remastering can give. I doubt it's ever looked better.

Watching these earlier interpretations of Graphic Novels such as The Crow and Constantine remind me that sometimes the massive success of movie franchises such as the Marvel Universe carry with them a downside, in that they suffocate any attempts to do something different and unique. Don't get me wrong, I love the Fiege Marvel movies (or at least the first dozen or so). But we need more Crows in our cinematic universe.