The Crow is A Tragic Tale On And Off Screen - Talking About Tapes

This week will be the 30th anniversary of The Crow. The hit film based on the indie comic. It's a tragic tale of a man coming back to life to avenge his loved one. The tragedy is not limited to the plot. Find out all about it in this episode.
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[@CosplayingwithChad]

Fun fact, Brandon Lee thought his make looked too clean so he went home and slept in his makeup so it would look more sloppy, though out the film his makeup gets more and more faded so by the time he goes to the afterlife with Shelly his makeup has washed off in the rain, also congrats on your weight loss Tony! I’ve working out from home and I’ve lost weight too, five years ago I was morbidly obese and I could barely walk without getting winded and now I’ve lost over 200 pounds. I’m super proud of you!👍

[@Renowildfire1]

Mother is the name for god on the lips and hearts of all children

[@wstine79]

I knew some people who worked on The Crow in Wilmington. They said Brandon Lee was the nicest guy.

[@OfficialJoeyC]

Thanks for having me, i can't believe how manly we are in this episode!!!!

[@quarter_cab]

Thanks for all the skateboard mentions

[@billybeeeeeeeeee]

manliest ep ever!

[@grizzlehatchet1]

From the Omen to the Crow... What is with the Crow obsession? 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛

[@manos7469]

You're a beautiful man.

[@katiecook6006]

So much testosterone... I almost couldn't handle it

[@Hero11170]

If you listen to the new commentary on the 4k release, the director says he hated the skull cowboy from day one and never intended to use him because the effects were so bad.

[@grizzlehatchet1]

🎶 Talkin about tapes 🎶

[@mattw6705]

🎶 Talkin about grapes 🍇 🎶

[@grizzlehatchet1]

@@mattw6705 now you're just raisin hell.

[@robk.6591]

The soundtrack for this is awesome! Favorite songs: - Big Empty by STP - Burn by The Cure - Ghostrider by The Rollins Band

[@stoopkid7647]

ĢŒŤĤ

[@Renowildfire1]

Jane siberry it can't rain all the time too

[@RobbieSuede13]

PanterA, Nine inch nails, Medicine, Rage against the machine

[@mattnj211]

this movie got me into STP. loved hearing that song in the trailer.

[@MrBoyYankee]

Black Flag

[@kamenrangerzeo8251]

RIP Brandon Lee, which was a shame since he was one of the selective people that could have played Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat film if didn’t have the infamous ‘accident’ that happen to him.

[@charlesderosas5577]

Damn I can't unsee that now.

[@comablack7026]

I think the obvious blue screen effects actually give the movie a surreal look, that actually adds to the atmosphere a little bit

[@BigGahmBoss]

YES! I agree 100%

[@JCIce007]

Not a single reference to Sting?! Real manly men would have remembered. BTW, many of the body double scenes in the movie are actually Chad Shahalski of John Wick fame.

[@BigGahmBoss]

Michael Massee, who played Fun Boy, fired the infamous shot. He spent the rest of his life with regret, and never saw this movie. He passed on in 2016

[@timscheuermann2554]

gave sting another 20 plus years on his career

[@tj112286]

You should also review the 1986 classic "The Wraith". Same premise as the movie but it came out first.

[@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector]

This will be both Fun and Fine and Somber and Sad Ah well Atleast Manly Joe E Seas Sister Detroit Rock City is co hosting

[@SinistarsHunger]

Worth noting a young carpenter was also severely burned on set by downed power lines.

[@MichaelAlderton]

The OG is just simply the best this reboot is just a disrespectful take on it just stick with the OG

[@kentown8115]

it's like they didn't learn from the point break remake which was dry boring and over done to appeal to extreme sport junkies and it became more boring than the 1991 og

[@johnestrada294]

Talking about obscure references, Jon Polito voiced Gillian B. Loeb in the awesome Batman: Year One animated movie

[@Fixxxer07082]

This is definitely a special film. Saw it on opening night in 1994…I wasn’t quite 12yrs old yet and it had a profound impact on me. As I got older, I definitely moved on from it, but I completely understand how a lot of people are losing their minds over the new film. Excellent point about the garbage sequels and TV series basically being remakes themselves! 😅 As for the effects….listen, in my eyes, they had a certain sense of charm. The miniature, bluescreen, and digital composite work is great here for its budget and for being 1993/1994. The soundtrack is untouchable though. Absolutely flawless IMO.

[@Renowildfire1]

I was 5 and this has been my favorite film since.

[@bensneb360]

I love the comic, love the movie, a great adaptation by staying faithful to the feel of the sorce material

[@stevegeorge6880]

I will say that I think the movie gets entirely too much of its power from the fact that it is an imperfect but hopeful mirror version of what happened in real life, kind of like how people started watching the 1996 Kurt Russell Steven Seagal thriller Executive Decision more after 9/11 because it was the version where we won and had a happy ending. In this movie, Brandon Lee avenges the terrible Injustice that ends his life and the life he would have had with his fiance. In real life, Brandon Lee was tragically killed through negligence and callous indifference, and the only people who truly suffered were his family, including the fiancee who was widowed before she could become a bride, and the actor who pulled the trigger and had to live with the pain of being an unwitting instrument in the death of a person.

[@Hefewe1zen]

tony, bro, you mention the most random seinfeld appearances but fail to note Jon Polito as Sylvio the landlord??? 🤨

[@HackTheMovies]

My bad

[@Vonlicktenstien]

This was always one of my favorite movie apartments. My all time favorite is Edward e. Nigmas apartment from Batman forever.

[@dirkjewitt5037]

Thie Crow has undoubtedly the greatest movie soundtrack ever made. Bangers nonstop. I even hate STP but liked "Big Empty".

[@PirateKingVictor]

Great episode, all Joey C. episodes are gold no matter what the movie is.

[@crippledbazooka]

this movie turned me goth. rip brandon lee

[@gotd4m]

Did the same to Sting in WCW.

[@crippledbazooka]

@@gotd4m lol yeh it did. only thing i liked about wrestling. well, that and Kane, Kane goth AF.

[@erikarnold6853]

the fact you guys laughed throughout this kind of took me out it a bit bc this is one of my all time favorites. it's a pretty serious and dark film deep down, but I know you guys are for entertaining the people. sure it's dated but that's the lore and the charm of it. yes Lee died making it, and it was tragic, but seperating that, the film is still full of symbolism that is still relevant today.

[@sakyia1]

These dudes are so chummy n soulesss their review misses out on the heart n soul of this movie. I'm from Detroit the city was really dark in the 90s on devils night the perfect setting for this story.

[@TheBestComicKing]

The new Crow looks like your favorite wrestler, Darby Allin.

[@robk.6591]

It can't Hack all the time.

[@kylealt7960]

Where is Crystal? Crystal needs to be on The Crow panel! The Crow is right up Crystals' alley. I'm very upset that Crystal is not on The Crow panel! Hit the thumbs up button for this comment, if you believe Crystal should have been on The Crow (94) panel! Let's send Tony a message!

[@shainewhite2781]

RIP, Brendan Lee. 1965-1993.😞

[@BigGahmBoss]

Okay, here we go. Plenty of comments in here for that engagement, Tony from Hack the Movies When you mention in the beginning that the opening shot was the miniature city with the fire effect: I've always been under the impression that Motor City kinda exists in a snow globe, isolated from any kind of outside world. The only thing working against this is that the Great Lakes are mentioned when we see T Bird for the first time. But the setting of this movie always felt...I dunno ephemeral to an extent. And things like this opening shot and some of the questionable blue screen later on add to that for me The Tin Tin interrogation: I always figured that Brandon's delivery here was intentional. He went from a normal dude, a musician with a hot girlfriend in a crappy city, to a vengeance zombie whose only purpose is killing. I think he was acting out of instinct in that first kill while still being weighed down by human empathy. By the time he gets to T Bird, he's a lot more accustomed to what is expected of him The female cop who has that one scene with Albrecht where she KILLS IT? That character is Albrecht's ex wife Before going to kill Skank, which he still believes at that point is the final person he needs to kill, he smashes his guitar. Which you mention. But he also burns all the pictures of him and Shelly because he knows the limited time he was granted is almost expired. And he's trying to destroy the last traces of their lives before he goes. There's also the plot about him trying to leave without saying goodbye to Sarah. I think this is because that's how things were left between them a year before: her friends were taken away with no closure and in his mind he wasn't brought back to fix that. But after delaying his (re)death to save her and kill Top Dollar, he realizes that maybe he should give a proper goodbye and fully utilize the opportunity. Shelly would have wanted that, and only after he says it does she come to ferry him to the afterlife. Ghostbuster Afterlife. Tony's favorite movie Okay, that last thing has nothing to do with the point I'm making. Just testing to see who actually reads this monstrosity

[@KingHenryVR4]

Jon Polito was also in a episode of Seinfeld playing Silvio the landlord who suspected Newman was fooling around with his girlfriend, Kramer makes him think the fur coat belongs to Jerry cause he's a fancy boy. 😄

[@quarter_cab]

Is Bai-Ling bilingual?

[@pc_gaijin]

How high was Joey when you filmed this

[@cookiewoman8959]

Hack the movies is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

[@quarter_cab]

Lance Henriksen.. from Sasquatch, yup thats his most popular movie

[@HackTheMovies]

It'll make sense months from now when our other episode airs!

[@garf293]

You guys work out at planet fitness? WOKE!

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

Happy 30TH Anniversary 2 The Crow!!!!!!🎊🎉🥳🎞️.

[@Renowildfire1]

Read the crow shattered lives and broken dreams i believe ia the name of it

[@Roberto_Valencia]

Classic! Still bad and sad that Brandon got his life taken during this. Died even younger than his big-named dad. More than Bruce's son. R.I.P.

[@theflail]

I've never seen The Crow. Joey sure is manly though.

[@mikeadams8027]

Watch the TBIRD scene closely. You can tell there were reshoots because in some the actor has a mole (or wart) on his face and on others he does not. Took me a while to notice. You can also tell which scene was taken, reversed, and had rain added to it it you watch it many times.

[@kristacruz7262]

Omg lol, I saw one of the theater showings yesterday and noticed that too! I thought I was seeing things lol. I love how you can notice all the little things when you see it on the big screen.

[@mikeadams8027]

Never saw it on the big screen but have seen so many times, I noticed the changes.

[@kevinpalan1127]

rip brandon lee

[@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector]

Tony's fucking search history on porn sites 😂😂😂

[@wfkernea]

You mean SITES

[@wbcwinnipegbeltcollector]

@@wfkernea lol autocorrect

[@DannyOfOurTime]

Do you guys just chop wood & punch frozen meat when you’re not hacking? Does this mean we also get a Men’s month?

[@ZombieWilfred]

To clarify how Brandon was killed, what happened was they had used dummy rounds in a revolver which still had the bullets on the front because you can see them when you look at the front of the gun, but the guy who made the dummy rounds emptied the powder out, but forgot to remove or strike the primers, so the actor pulled the trigger and the force of the primer going off is what forced the bullet into the barrel, then they put a blank in the gun and when that was fired it forced the bullet out of the barrel just as if you'd fired a live round, which struck Brandon in the chest.

[@Hurtts101]

I have 5 top movies all-time and this is one of them (order changes on mood). This movie had just happen to hit at the right time in my life. Had just gotten out of a half-way house and girl I just started picked this and “So I Married an Ax Murder” out for our stay-in date. Didn’t know anything about it, but next chance had I bought the VHS (and later the DVD and later later the Blu-Ray and later later later digitally), comics, graphic novels… anything I could (I have sooo many stairs😅). My sister even found me autographed set photos for my birthday. I’ve use to do so many write-ups about this movie. In my younger days I could recite it by heart. I may not watch it as regularly any more, but it still holds a place in my heart. If I can recommend one thing for the sequels and the new reboot; watch them each as their own thing (and skip Wicked Prayer😅). The second adds to the first, though no where near did it turn out as well as the book. The third is better, but the ending just seemed to rushed. And the reboot, well, we shall see soon enough (really wish they’d gone with a female this time. You’d think in todays environment it would have been so easy🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TorontoJon]

I wonder if the remake of 'The Crow' will flop and make the studio EAT CROW? ;)

[@mrfixitishere]

One of my favorite 90s movies, i was way to young to watch when i first saw it.

[@v82mp95]

Poor breakdown of the movie here. Obvious about 10mins of research went into this, even then in the age of the Internet to miss out so much is pretty poor. The whole 2mins of skipping over the skull cowboy was weird, he is integral to everything. You even mention later in the review that it was a strange 3rd act with Top Dollar that didn't make sense... That was all tied to the skull cowboy and made perfect sense if you hadn't have skipped over it and had properly researched it. Point of the skull cowboy was to warn Eric not to deviate from his task, which was purely to find the ones responsible for him and shelly and to put the wrong things right. Getting involved with the living, Sarah and albright, is deviating and would result in him being left in limbo forever and becoming a skull cowboy himself. Thats why at the end he is shot and hurt, nothing to do with the crow being injured, it's to do with him losing his powers as he's deviated from his mission, before he enters the church he is actually warned by the skull cowboy in one of the deleted scenes that if he enters the church to save Sarah he'll be sealing his fate, lose his powers and will be in limbo forever. Thats why he's stabbed through the back and is literally dying on the roof... Until top dollar tells him that he was behind it all. At that point it then becomes part of his mission again when he discovers top dollar is behind it all, he regains his power instantly, he's then able to give top dollar all his pain and he's then able to be with shelly at the end as technically he didn't deviate from his mission at all, he completed his mission in full. Thats why the skull cowboy was integral to the story originally, it explains the entire ending and why he's able to be with shelly even though he was getting involved with the living which he wasn't supposed to be. So you did a breakdown of the movie and basically missed the most important part, or just plain got it wrong, understandable to an extent as it was cut, but still easy to find if you spent more than 10mins doing research. Pretty poor showing!

[@HackTheMovies]

K

[@markula_4040]

You wasted more time writing a comment almost no one will read (nor did I when I saw how long it was after hitting the show more button) then you claim they spent in research? Any idea how dumb that is? 🤦‍♂

[@marcoferroni4241]

Tony's Brandon Lee impression has just a tinge of Forrest Gump

[@nathanwheeler2047]

The nine inch nails playing in the background in the big fight scene really made that scene!

[@Emulous79]

"Shit on me!" always cracks me up.

[@RobbieSuede13]

I hope you guys review The Crow City of Angels , People shit on the 2nd one but i think its as good as the first one but after city of angels the other ones were shit.

[@ashscott6068]

It doesn't make much sense that Shelley was killed for fighting eviction, but the apartment still had police tape on the door a year later. If you're trying to get your tenants out, it's never cus you want their apartments to sit empty for a year. It's cus you want to do something else with the property ASAP.

[@EliteEleven11]

This is a very manly episode

[@Matt_Barkley]

My buddy and I used to watch this all the time. Whenever one of us would screw something up, lose in a videogame or something like that we would say "There ain't no coming back, this is the really real world. There ain't no coming back!" Good times.

[@user-of6fm3yf5v]

Smokes and road beers

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!

[@ElvisAlilu]

The that i thought would be mentioned that the same guy who eas body double for Brandon would became film director of John Wick

[@teeohdubbledee]

Always a fun episode with The Official Joey C!

[@ryanpowell2540]

I loved it when Joey C started cracking up laughing.

[@predrummer]

Time code for the squeak 17:06!!!!!

[@OfficialJoeyC]

LMAOOOO

[@darwinespinoza3440]

Bing bong Let’s go Knicks!

[@kristacruz7262]

I have a question for the super fans. When Eric took that guitar off the pawn shop wall on his way out - do you think that was his guitar that the goons stole when they trashed Eric and Shelley's apartment? Or did Eric just take it because he wanted it? I'd love to hear everyone's take on that.

[@mrfixitishere]

Predictions for the remake 1The witch/sisters is trans 2 multicultural stereo types and current year politics 3 shitting on the original 4 sequel bait that never happens.

[@loganskoff4554]

Have ya thought about greatest rat movies like Greate mouse detective, or American tails the many they made or ratatouille or even the rescuer's seems like rats r a very popular animal for movies

[@BigGahmBoss]

This is legit one of my favorite movies. One of my proudest moments as a father is when my son came out of my room with my DVD copy asking to watch it. That was the first DVD I bought

[@NathanTZ]

The sequels aren’t remakes. Hell, City Of Angels was a direct sequel. C’mon Tony!

[@HackTheMovies]

They're basically the same damn movies!

[@JIF882]

​@@HackTheMovies so are all the Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street movies.

[@kingcaesar3693]

@@HackTheMovies Kinda the point. It's a spirit of vengance that brings people back that were wronged. You're being a little nitpicky on this one.

[@jonathontrejo5427]

Top Dollar, T-Bird and Tin-Tin are all Black in the The Crow comic. They’re a set that runs four blocks as their Turf in Detroit. It has that trope with auto shop and when Eric and Shelley go swimming it’s open fields and maybe 15 ft tall trees.

[@PetProjects2011]

I was literally about to ask why there's TWO fictional cats in film named Gideon..

[@Renowildfire1]

My favorite film since 94. Will forever be but theres a couple close ones.

[@brendamclaughlin4868]

Top 2 comic book movies of all time are The Crow and 1990 TMNT

[@ryanmcgurk1750]

gym seems to be paying off for tony, definitely needs a fresh haircut though

[@stevegeorge6880]

My least favorite sequel was The Cow starring Chris Farley. A cow was the instrument of resurrection and the harbinger of the protagonist's arrival. But then the movie crossed paths with Twister.

[@wfkernea]

What in the hell that's not a real movie

[@stevegeorge6880]

@@wfkernea I know, but it's still not that much worse than the actual sequels

[@wfkernea]

@@stevegeorge6880 I think Crow 2 City of Angels is criminally underrated but Salvation and Wicked Prayer are terrible

[@stevegeorge6880]

@@wfkernea I also side with those who say that the TV show was surprisingly effective

[@JIF882]

​@wfkernea I like that Thuy Thang was in it. She was Trini the yellow ranger in Power Rangers

[@glaeken_molasar]

Brandon did have the scar from the comics across his nose, its a lot more subtle, but it is the same scar.

[@TheVgrey]

The only storyline I have of the crow is the one with the native American

[@ElvisAlilu]

When I feel depressed I return to this movie. It is helps me

[@themarkiscookin]

In the book only his eyes and mouth had make up

[@blankdisk5]

So my cousin and I rented The Crow when we were in highschool and when that interrogation scene came on and the guy said, "pink ass" my father yelled from the next room, "Turn that shit OFF!" I turned it off and he came out and yelled, "I don't ever want to hear any shit like that come out of the TV EVER AGAIN! That shit is TRASH for trash PEOPLE!" I've never been able to watch it again after that cuzz that's all I can think of when I see or even hear about this movie.

[@heralduk5839]

Must've chucked a right tit at Res Dogs lol 👍

[@SparkyMarkyMark23]

I was 4 when this movie. Until I saw it on television📺& since then love it.

[@ByTheLightOfABurningDonkey]

Tonnyyyy the crow comic came out in the eighties yo

[@Kamenriderbuster2022]

I actually can’t wait for the new movie to come out

[@John_Smith77]

Do yourselves a favor and DON’T watch the sequels. They’re all hot garbage. Although, the 2nd one had potential, but Harvey Weinstein fucked the whole thing up by demanding the movie be a carbon copy of the first Crow film.

[@HackTheMovies]

@@John_Smith77 I'm gonna watch ALL the sequels and do a "What is the WORST Crow movie?" Episode!

[@GAMER3Productions]

29:37 What Vince McMahon Said To Janal Grant

[@jamesv.7041]

There is one way to eat a hot dog - in the Chicago style.

[@samhouston1979]

i wonder how michael berryman got paid considering

[@char_lizard8440]

Jon Polito is the main bas guy in Blankman

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

RIP son of Bruce Lee 😢😢

[@brooksproductions9573]

Joey C is right. Rain causes rusty bearings and skate decks to de laminate. That's a big no no!

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

I'd never skate in the rain nowadays, but in the '90's we all did. It was for sure a thing. We were too cool to care.

[@brooksproductions9573]

@williamdixon-gk2sk I skated in the 90s and I never did this.

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

After 'questionable' came out, we all bought plan-b decks & made a point to skate in the rain. Maybe it was a Nor-Cal thing. Your right, it was dumb and you lost Any pop your board may have had. But dang it, we were rebels.

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

Also, in the Bay Area it'll sprinkle until noon then the sun comes out like clock work. So it's not like we skated torrential downpours.

[@brooksproductions9573]

@williamdixon-gk2sk hey, I'm not hating brother. I grew up in Ohio and I'm sure the weather was different. Also, I get it skate videos can be Hella influential l. Had to stop my friend from trying to catch his board on fire after he watched Birdhouse This is the End. Teenagers man!

[@stoopkid7647]

So goth

[@bashcrash9148]

Call him Tony. Or Big Tone.

[@nathanlemire8944]

Soundtrack still kicks ass lol

[@JIF882]

Tony, were you not loved as a child? I think that scene between Eric and Darla(Sarah's mom) is beautiful. How else would you suggest that her soul be cleansed? I love The Crow. Saw it with my friend and his cousin. I was underage. So, they sunk me in. I first came across Bi Ling from Celeb Rehab. I think that a Crow remake could work, especially if it has the scenes that were cut from this movie. Also, maybe the effects could be improved. The actress that played Darla had a cameo in True Romance. He forgot to mention the part where the owner of the bar gives Sarah a drink, and she's that he can't fire Darla. Also, i like when Top Dollar said that he was sorry for ruining Eric's plans. Also, i seriously doubt that Tony was around gangs.

[@FordWMaverick]

The Crow sequels all suck.

[@NeeNee_B.]

Have you done Puppetmaster yet?

[@darkangel3812]

Did t bird want a cool rider

[@kdusel1991]

Always heard about the tragedy on set. Never watched the movie though. Is it worth it?

[@wcoleman99]

The scene where they shoot him is at the very beginning. It's quick and dark

[@robk.6591]

It's absolutely worth it. There isn't as much martial arts in it as some might expect. It's still got a good mix of action, big scenes, and drama to make it worth your while.

[@LychgateWraith]

@@wcoleman99 Why would you tell him that? It's better to go in not knowing which scene he died in the filming of. That's what happened with me, and I still can't describe how I felt watching it knowing he died at some point but not when. I would kill to be able to experience that again, that feeling has haunted me since.

[@strifenineteen]

@@LychgateWraith I until recently always thought it was the scene where all the gang members shoot Eric when he comes to get "the last guy"

[@LychgateWraith]

@@strifenineteen When I first watched that's what I thought as well!

[@NeeNee_B.]

Tony, do the Mask next!

[@Htownblokhedz]

Every page he’s doing something cool! Like ballet…..bruh I lost my $#!+. I’ve read that comic and I was laying here listening to y’all and that mental image just bombarded it’s way into my minds eye when you said that

[@Htownblokhedz]

Yes the impression is hilarious

[@Htownblokhedz]

Punisher also had a flame logo and universal soldier ends with the bleeding gargoyle

[@BlackDonner305]

I remember Millenium.