Eh? If you're watching movies like The Crow for the dialogue you're probably doing something wrong. The dialogue in the Crow isn't particularly awful anyway. There's a few bits that are even good, I always liked the bit with the Milton quote. Oh, and pretty much everything Top Dollar says, because he's so fucking over the top. Which is really the point of The Crow. It's very over the top. It revels in being completely fucking over the top. That's one of the major changes from the comic (the other being that Eric isn't quite so utterly, frothingly insane in the film*), which was quite gritty and realistic. But I rather think the studios balked out at the idea of a guy in pure white make-up slaughtering a load of black crack dealers, which is why they re-invented Top Dollar and his gang as some sort of insane goth mafia. Then they made Eric a rock musician (He's some sort of not that well off white collar worker in the comic). Then they turned everything up a few more notches, and it works. If you don't get it, that's fine, but to blame the movies popularity on 'Hot Topic' is ridiculous. I've never even seen a Hot Topic store in my life, and you don't have to wear black to like it. It's a solid action flick with bucketloads of style.
*I kinda wish they'd had some of that sort of dialogue in the film though "I AM PILOT ERROR! I AM FOETAL DISTRESS! I AM MORPHINE FOR A WOODEN LEG!"
You seem to be taking a lot of offense at this. I am very glad you've never been to a Hot Topic, take solace in that, but the young, gothy pre-teens are probably the largest majority of people who've ever even heard of that trash. I don't doubt that you could have possibly heard of The Crow otherwise, I'm saying it's popularity is almost entirely based on how many T-shirts Hot Topic managed to sell.
By the way, I never said you have to wear black to like it. I'm saying the kids that think it's totally cool to wear lots of black and too much eyeliner LOVE it because of Eric Draven's tragic love, and goofy make-up.
I don't want to be crucified.
I just thought it was an awful movie. Half-assed dialogue, half-assed actors, half-assed action, half-assed plot.
That's my opinion, not a personal attack on anyone here.
Would I have done good if I threw out Spice World?
Spice World, sucks, right? We hate the Spice Girls cause they can't act...or sing?
Or is that just another superficial explanation for why the movie got popular because I have piss poor taste in movies, or something to that extent...? =P