Earlier this month, Borderlands arrived in theaters to horrendous reviews and bad box office numbers. At the time, many assumed it might be the biggest cinematic dud of 2024. But, that title is now held by the newly released Crow reboot.
The idea of rebooting The Crow was already a strange and controversial one. Sure, the original 1994 film was a small but profitable hit, but it is more widely known for the tragedy surrounding the death of Brandon Lee during its production. The following sequels to the OG Crow failed to find success. Most people believed it was wrong to even reboot the series. Yet, Hollywood went ahead and made a reboot anyway. And what do you know, it’s flopping hard!
The Crow reboot released on August 23 to negative reviews from critics and moviegoers. After its opening weekend, it only earned $4.6 million domestically at the box office. Yikes! In comparison, Borderlands made over $8.5 million during its first weekend.
After about five days in theaters, The Crow has made less than $10 million. Meanwhile, Borderlands—which is reportedly already getting a home release in late August—is sitting at a cool $25 million worldwide at the box office.
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day Me say day, me say day-o.
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Crowjuice
The Crowening.
Based on a ratio of box office to production budget, Borderlands is still the biggest bomb hands down.
Do we have the budget for the Crow? It definitely seems cheaper with that lame ending, but they didn’t spend no money on advertising either.
the-numbers.com has it at $50m
OK well dang, really proving that movie costs explode from digital effects.
It will be fun to see if any movie manages to beat the flop that is Borderlands then by end of the year. Doubtful.
has anyone past the 90s been able to pull off anything even remotely “goth”?
Well, the Visigothic Kingdom lasted for 30 more years after 690, so I’m inclined to say yes.
Wednesday was incredibly popular and is probably why there’s a bit of a goth revival going on.
Type O Negative had two albums in the 2000’s, and they were only OK (especially compared to their 90’s albums), but I’d say they still count as “pulling off something remotely ‘goth’”
Plus, Nine Inch Nails has some good stuff in the aughts, and Trent Reznor’s brand of industrial rock is definitely “goth-adjacent,” as are My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade (2006, I think) and AFI’s Sing the Sorrow (2003), which are both great albums.
And in more recent music, the band Creeper is really killing it. Their rock opera Sex, Death, and the Infinite Void is very goth and it’s amazingly good (especially as someone who turned his nose up at pop-punk as a kid).
In non-music media, there have been some really good comics with goth aesthetics in the last 20 years, and I can give some good recs if anyone is interested.
Wat, you mean music? Lots of good stuff. Check out:
- She Past Away, Sanrı (2012): https://shepastawayofficial.bandcamp.com/track/sanr
- Molchat Doma, Sudno (2018): https://domamolchat.bandcamp.com/track/sudno-boris-ryzhy
- Twin Tribes, Monolith (2024): https://twintribes.bandcamp.com/track/monolith
for more look here: https://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/past.php?reqYear=2023
TIL a movie exists.
This is why for the past years I download my movies.
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I feel like hardly anybody except hardcore movie fans knew this movie was coming out until the eve of its release. This is surely still a massive flop, but it ain’t surprising.
The trailers have been running for a while and it has been talked about on social media quite a bit (rarely in a good light). I also assume it would be on the radar of fans of the games but I suspect most announcements would have annoyed them (quite who the target audience was is a mystery).
Is this the lowest rated year of movies ever? Does rotten tomatoes do average ratings by year?
I don’t think they do.
More interesting would be crunching the numbers at Box Office Mojo, who have an annual overview but it would be worth taking, for example, the ten or twenty films of the year with the largest budgets and look at the returns. I smell a spreadsheet coming on!
There are 3 other Crow films that people just forget about. For some weird reason. I don’t know why this one gets so much hate. They should totally build out the Crow universe
Ooooh Eric from The Regulation Podcast will be feeling this. He spent double the points on The Crow that Andrew spent on Twisters 😂
Is The Crow this year’s Morbius?
Crowbius?
