History YMMV / TheCrow

** Creator/BrandonLee, holy shit. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. ''The Crow'', on the other hand, shows him PlayingAgainstType as the deeply hurt and revenge-driven Eric Draven and not only is it successful, '''it is scary''', making Eric simultaneously very likable and sympathetic and terrifying and makes full use of his incredible magnetism and charisma. The fact that he died in the making of this movie makes his performance more haunting.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Moreso a behind the scenes example. The stunt double that filled in for Brandon Lee after his death in many scenes (including the iconic scene Eric suits on and puts on the make-up) is Creator/ChadStahelski, who would later gain fame of his own as the main director of the ''Film/JohnWick'' franchise.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Moreso a behind the scenes example. The stunt double that filled in for Brandon Lee after his death in many scenes (including the iconic scene Eric suits on and puts on the make-up) is Chad Stahelski, who would later gain fame of his own as the main director of the ''Film/JohnWick'' franchise.

* EvilIsCool: [[BigBad Top Dollar]] is very well-regarded by fans due to his hilarious lines, [[EvilSoundsDeep awesome]] [[GutturalGrowler voice]], memorable appearance, and general badassery. He even has an impressive sword collection to showcase his coolness.

** Creator/BrandonLee, holy shit. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. ''The Crow'', on the other hand, shows him PlayingAgainstType as the deeply hurt and revenge-driven Eric Draven and not only is it successful, '''it is scary''', making Eric simultaneously very likable and sympathetic and terrifying. The fact that he died in the making of this movie makes his performance more haunting.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The movie is about a guy who returned to life after being shot dead, starring a guy who was accidentally shot dead during filming. Not that this is funny, but Eric's occasional flippancy about being dead and people intending to kill him definitely qualify for this. One particularly jarring line, "Take your shot, Funboy - you got me dead bang" is spoken to the character whose actor pulled the trigger.

* HarsherInHindsight: It's ''really'' hard to watch behind-the-scenes interviews of Creator/BrandonLee in which he's talking so reflexively about his character coming back from the dead, complete with lines like how "we should live life to the fullest, because it could end at any moment".

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Eric's Jesus joke, not helped by the fact that he's saying it to Funboy while the latter is high on morphine and shooting at him to no effect as Eric moves in for the kill.

** The compositing of Creator/BrandonLee's face over his double after his death is not ''that'' noticeable, unless you are paying attention. But you gotta cut them slack under the circumstances - no one had ever done the effect before.

** Brandon Lee and Michael Massee. The former for being tragically killed at a young age because of an accident, and the latter for being indirectly responsible for said accident and having nightmares from, and haunted by it, until his own untimely death in 2016.

* CompleteMonster: [[ChaosIsEvil Top Dollar]], a Detroit crime boss who established himself as [[TheDon the supreme ruler of all criminal activity in the city]], is a chaotic [[PyroManiac arsonist]] who enjoys destruction and murder [[ForTheEvulz purely for its own sake]]. He organizes Devil's Night, in which buildings are burned down all throughout the city. He orders people terrorized out of their homes, and one such couple includes Eric Draven and his fiancée Shelley, who are both violently murdered by his goons, with Shelley also being raped. After Eric attacks Top Dollar's associate Gideon, Top Dollar shows Gideon the eyes of one of his previous victims before killing him. He eventually becomes tired of the profit reaped from the arson and other activities, and announces his plans at a criminal convention to burn down everything. After Eric attacks the convention, Top Dollar captures his [[WouldHurtAChild young friend Sarah]] in order to lead him into a confrontation where he tries to throw Sarah off a roof before taunting Eric about his and Shelly's deaths.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: The romanticized flashbacks of Eric and Shelly's love. But it ''works'', [[NarmCharm oh so well]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards and can be considered a gothic answer to Music/EnnioMorricone's and Stelvio Cipriani's SpaghettiWestern and PsychedelicRock {{Giallo}} scores and Morricone's score to ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The film famously quotes the line "Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is" from Creator/JohnMilton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. Director Creator/AlexProyas is currently (As of 2012) working on a film adaption of the epic poem.
** Michael Wincott plays BigBad Top Dollar in this movie. 18 years later he would go on to play ''another'' [[Videogame/DarksidersII raven-haired anti-hero with a crow companion]].

** Creator/BrandonLee, holy shit. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. ''The Crow'', on the other hand, shows him PlayingAgainstType as the deeply hurt and revenge-driven Eric Draven and not only is it successful, '''it is scary''', making Eric simultaneously likable, sympathetic and terrifying. The fact that he died in the making of this movie makes his performance more haunting.

** Creator/BrandonLee, holy shit. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. ''The Crow'', on the other hand, shows him PlayingAgainstType as the deeply hurt and revenge-driven Eric Draven and not only is it successful, '''it is scary'''. The fact that he died in the making of this movie makes his performance more haunting.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards and can be considered a gothic answer to Music/EnnioMorricone's and Stelvio Cipriani's SpaghettiWestern and PsychedelicRock {{Giallo}} scores, and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards and can be considered a gothic answer to Music/EnnioMorricone's SpaghettiWestern and PsychedelicRock {{Giallo}} scores, and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards and can be considered a gothic answer to Music/EnnioMorricone's SpaghettiWestern scores, and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards and a gothic answer to Music/EnnioMorricone's SpaghettiWestern scores, and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Both Music/GraemeRevell's score, which won awards, and the soundtrack, which featured notable bands as Music/MyLifeWithTheThrillKillKult, Music/TheCure, a Music/JoyDivision cover by Music/NineInchNails, among others. Mostly James O'Barr's favorite bands at the time he created the comic and whose songs were frequently referenced and used thematically in the comic.

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* TastesLikeDiabetes: The romanticized flashbacks of Eric and Shelly's love. [[NarmCharm But it ''works'', oh so well]].