You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of the Game for a Movie podcast where
we ask, are you game for a movie? My name is
Mike. I will be your host this evening. We are
talking about, I want to say, a decently well
-known movie, but more so because the original
is well -known and because there's a reboot out
there. I don't think many people know about this
one, which was the sequel at the time. But of
course, first, we're going to talk about what
are we drinking. Today, I've got an all -day
IPA from Founders. It is a nice, easy drink on
a day like today. It is a Saturday, so I'm enjoying
the most of it before I have to go do stuff with
the rest of my day. But yeah, it's 4%, not too
bad, easy enough to drink. And yeah, it's a good
choice whenever you're just enjoying a nice Saturday
afternoon. A couple of the normal housekeeping
stuff. We have about two more episodes, this
one and then another one on Russell Crowe that
are happening. And then we kick off spooky season.
As always with spooky season, I try to release
as many as I can. I try for four. We'll see if
I get to that, especially because we will have
a newborn at that point in time. I'm trying to
crank out as much as I can before that happens
so that at least I have a little bit of time
before the baby is here and I can edit it. while
also doing deadly duties and that kind of stuff.
So I'm going to try to get as many as I can out
for spooky season. I'm looking for some of the
worst of the worst horror movies you've got.
Last year was specifically good because we got,
I think, three out. One was Friday the 13th,
Jason Takes Manhattan. We did The Haunting from
1999. We got Urban Legends. Bloody Mary. We had
a bunch of good ones last year, and so I want
to keep in that theme. We want the worst of the
worst horror movies you've got so that we can
release as many episodes as much spoopy as possible.
Speaking of spoopy and spooky, this one I don't
consider that spooky. It's got a little bit of
like a... black magic dark twist to it and this
kind of thing but the bad movie that we are going
to cover today is the crow wicked prayer uh if
you've seen the crow i knew there was a sequel
i didn't know there was three sequels and this
is the third sequel this is the fourth movie
in the crow series obviously they just rebooted
it to mixed reviews with um oh good old what's
his name why can't i think of his name i can
think of his face and his cross eye um Bill Skarsgård,
there it is. I knew it would come to me eventually.
But yes, they rebooted it with Bill Skarsgård.
I've just heard mediocre things, and I definitely
heard that nobody went and saw this thing in
the theaters. It's almost close to already being
released on digital. That's how bad this movie
was. But this is The Crow, Wicked Prayer, which
is the fourth Crow movie, the third sequel. And
we've got some big names in this one, actually.
That is part of the reason why I chose it. We
have people like Tito Ortiz, Tara Reid, David,
I'm never going to say his last name correctly,
Boreanaz, who is Angel from the Buffy series
and also in Bones, that guy. Edward Furlong,
Danny Trejo, Emmanuel Kreekwee. I know I butchered
that one as well. I'm trying not to, but you
know, it just happens sometimes. And my personal
favorite, Dennis Hopper was in this. And let
me tell you right now, we're going to have a
long conversation about Dennis Hopper when I
get to the end of this movie. But of course,
I got to tell you about all of the stuff that
happens first. Again, I'm going to butcher the
hell out of these names because I can never read
names. But I'll try my best. That's what I'll
give you on this. And we'll see what happens.
All right, so the first thing that caught me
off guard when starting this movie is during
the opening credits, it said FUBU Films. Yes,
like the fashion designers for Us By Us, FUBU.
This is not related to them. In fact, the only
movie that FUBU Films produced was this movie.
And now, for Us By Us, FUBU, the clothes designer,
is branching out into films themselves. That
was just announced in June of 2024. So, this
is not related. It is not quite the same. This
is from 2005, this movie, and it is the only
film that FUBU Films has marked as one of their
films. So we open to a polluted mining town that
is being shut down for a new resort casino. We
get this in exposition text. The problem is the
exposition text is the exact same as the cast
text that was in the opening credits. So at first,
I actually had to rewind because I didn't realize
it was telling me exposition instead of just
naming names for who's in this movie. During
the exposition, we get introduced to pestilence,
famine, and war. uh pestilence is played by yuji
okamoto war is marcus chong and famine is played
by tito ortiz truthfully these guys are just
the underlings they're the ones that are part
of the gang but they're not really like the big
names that we care about in this this is basically
especially when we get later in the film this
is your cannon fodder these are the guys you
kind of have a name to it gets a bigger deal
when they get taken out versus just like regular
Joe Schmoe guys. These actually have like a name
and a feature to them. But yes, they are the
four horsemen of the apocalypse. Pestilence,
famine, and war. Pestilence kicks a toxic waste
barrel to get it spewing. Like full roadhouse
kick. Like a roundhouse kick. Roadhouse style.
Famine. He had a truck that is poisoning the
miners that were eating at the food truck. And
war basically just straight fires a shotgun.
at the waist to catch it on fire and take out
some of these miners. We don't exactly know why
they're against the mine. We never really truly
learned that except for they just had a bunch
of people in a row and wanted to take them out.
This basically starts an all -out riot at the
mine, and at the same time, we've got Tara Reid
off in the corner. She has a sniper rifle, and
she fires at this police car that's obviously
transferring a prisoner. being David, I'm not
going to say his name right, Guy from Bones,
Angel, David Guy. He is Death, the satanic club
leader. And we also know that basically Tara
Reid and him are in love with each other. Tara
Reid's character, just to make it easier, is
Lola Byrne. Tara Reid's character, her name is
Lola Byrne. She is in love with Death, who's
also, his real name is Luke Crash. We do learn
that, Luke Crash. Yes, that is his real name.
It's an interesting name. He goes by Death for
the most part, and they're in love with each
other. They psychologically torture a priest
to prove that they mean business, and we learn
that tonight, Death and Lola are getting married.
This takes us to our main character, Jimmy Quavo.
Jimmy Quavo is played by Edward Furlong. If you
don't know who Edward Furlong is, you may recognize
that name. John Connors in T2 Terminator. That's
basically all else I can say about him. Like
he hasn't done a whole lot of other things. He's
been around, but just kind of always his background.
This is his real first like starring role. And
he wakes up in an obvious like bender stupor
and he's in his trailer and he has a scorpion
on him. This actually becomes a big deal because
he just like grabs a scorpion and is able to
catch it and takes it with him for wherever he's
going next. There's a part, so I'm going to use
language that I don't mean to be offensive or
anything like that. I'm just going to use the
language they use in the movie. This is not truly
me talking. This is just what is in the movie.
So painted on his trailer is the words engine
lover, and lover is crossed off, and then murderer
is written underneath it in graffiti. That is
our intro to Jimmy Quavo, and then it goes to
Emmanuel Criqui. Her name is Lily. She is making
a speech. She is part of the Indian tribe that
is there, and she is also the Indian shaman.
She's making a speech about how the crow takes
a person's soul to the afterlife. It's getting
ready for the raven fest they do every year.
That also confuses the hell out of me because
they do say crow, raven, like interspersed. When
they say Ravenfest, really they mean kind of
Crowfest, but also they're just talking about
the idea that the crow takes a person's soul
to the afterlife. That's the big thing. At this
point, it has been like 15 minutes in the movie,
and they still have credits going. I guess they
stopped because of the exposition and everything
like that, but they do have credits going. Jimmy
and Lily are together. They are a couple. They're
very much in love. We learn later in the movie
that they've been together for a long time. Really
didn't know that before, but we learn that later
on. And we also learn that Jimmy is off parole
at midnight. And he makes a promise to Lily that
he is going to be better. And he kisses her in
public, which is a big no -no. This is something
that was looked at because... he is an Indian
murderer and we don't get the whole story about
how he's an Indian murderer and everything like
that Indian murderer I'm going to say because
this is not the language anymore we don't get
how he's an Indian murderer we don't know that
until later in the film because you know they
obviously have to for a difference of opinion
and everything like that but this pisses off
Harold Harold is Danny Trejo he's one of the
leaders of the tribe and also Tanner which is
Lily's brother. And they're both the children
of Harold Danny Trejo. So he kind of scares Jimmy
off, but Jimmy says to Lily that he's going to,
as soon as midnight hits, he is going to find
her. They're going to get together and run away
or do whatever because now he'll be off parole.
He doesn't need to be in the same spot anymore.
And especially because he's looking for a new
start because everybody in the town knows who
he is and the fact that he has killed some Indian
person. So then it goes to midnight or just about
before midnight. He has flowers. He's dressed
up. He's very excited to see Lily and get their
new lives together started. He has a shitbox
car, which proves that he is down on his luck.
And the shitbox car kind of like crashes out
on him. So he rides a bike into town. And as
he's riding his bike into town, we learn about
the different sides of the town. There's the
Indian land and then there's the white land.
And basically, you just don't cross it. Apparently,
there's there's a difference of don't cross this
land because we're different people kind of thing.
Tanner is police, we learn, and he runs into
Jimmy and runs his bike off the road. He also
warns Jimmy to not go near Lily and to just leave
town. And for no reason, he. Just decides to
play Russian roulette with an unarmed Jimmy.
To like try to scare him. But Jimmy obviously
is like do it. Because I saw the bullet slip
into your sleeve. And Tanner's embarrassed. Well
Tanner takes his embarrassment. And walks away
with like his tail between his legs. And Jimmy
picks up his bike. Continues to go. And get to
Lily. Now he's a little late. Because he. was
run into by tanner and everything like that so
it's not quite midnight anymore it's now like
12 15 if you know anything about the crow movies
and you may not but if you do they all have some
kind of tragedy that beholds the hero and he's
kind of stuck somewhere between like life and
death obviously this is the part where it's going
to happen so he gets into the shop she runs she
runs like a kitschy shop as well as being the
shaman of the indian tribe that is there and
to his surprise Lily's not there waiting for
him and he's kind of like looking around and
then all of a sudden he sees these guys with
masks it's war pestilence and then we get death
Lola and famine all come from the back room including
dragging Lily Lily is tied up she has her mouth
shut and Jimmy is beside himself and he wants
to fight all of them but Luke slash death Luke
slash death is able to grab him and take care
of him easily he's able to tie him up and he's
also able to put a noose around his neck and
put a stool under him so he's now about to be
hung we learned that for some reason they need
Lily's eyes they need the eyes of a shaman and
so not only do they stab Lily in front of Jimmy
they also take her eyes and this gives us a flashback
which is at the weirdest time because all of
this stuff is happening and we're just going
to take a random flashback but it's to show that
Luke and Jimmy are friends they have history
and they both kind of like lusted over Lily but
Lily liked Jimmy more when you look at these
two I am very certain in my masculinity and my
attraction to women and everything like that
but if there's an attractive guy I will admit
when there's an attractive guy Luke is definitely
the better looking than Jimmy I have no clue
why she would have chosen Jimmy in the first
place I'm sorry but it's just it's it's literally
Hercules versus like a worm it's not even close
um but for whatever reason Lily likes Jimmy and
that's fine it then flashes back to the future
and Lola is holding an obvious fake eye and it's
supposed to be the eyes of a shaman. And she
does this weird ritual and just like start saying
these words and then closes her eyes and opens
them. And they're blue now and they're just they
happen to be the eyes of Lily. And they talk
about with no eyes that Lily will be lost in
the spirit world forever because she's not going
to be able to see. Obviously, Jimmy is really
hurt and he is yelling at them and screaming
at them and everything like that. He is just
beside himself. They killed Lily and they took
her eyes. And it's a big thing about the spirit
world and everything like that. And she's going
to be lost forever. And Luke is just kind of
tired of it. So he does one fell knife swoop
while he's hanging there, by the way. You could
have just pushed the stool or whatever. But he
does a knife swoop and Jimmy is dead. And death.
has his heart and this is a big deal because
they killed a loved one or something like that
and the blood that falls out of jimmy falls in
the pattern of a heart you know it's symbolism
it's nice it would be a little nicer if it wasn't
because he's dead but you know symbolism because
of the ritual this is when we learn that luke
wants to become the devil Or he wants to become
Satan, I guess, or bring Satan to the world.
And because of this thing that they did, he all
of a sudden gets 666 branded on him after. Not
like, oh, they branded him. No, it just starts
appearing on him. So we know they're doing this
ritual to kind of bring Satan back. It had nothing
to do with the mines, I don't think. It was just
the fact that they could kill all these people
just because they wanted to kill them. And they
want to bring Satan to the living world. Death
slash Luke. He tells Famine and Pestilence to
drag their bodies to the dump and get rid of
them. Famine, when they're at the dump, sees
an old freezer that his mother apparently used
to lock him in. So he's like, this is perfect.
Like, I can get my revenge. So he puts their
bodies in the freezer, pushes it off the top
of the dump into this water that's not really
water. It's some kind of something that catches
on fire. And the reason I bring that up is because
it seems like... Every single liquid that they
have so far catches on fire. It looks like it's
supposed to be water. I think it is supposed
to be water, but for whatever reason, they push
the freezer into the water, and then Pestilence
throws a cigarette at it, and it catches fire.
So, there we go. End of movie. Jimmy's dead.
Lily's dead. I mean, they technically could keep
the movie going and bring Satan, but, you know,
Jimmy's dead. So, our main character's gone.
But that's not how Crow movies work. And also,
we learn that because Lily was a shaman, Lo now
gets these visions. And she can see kind of the
future and everything like that. It's not important
right now, these visions. It'll come across later.
But basically, the thing we think we see. And
who knows, because... No offense to Tara Reid,
but she's not the best actress and she could
be totally trying to think something else, but
it shows on her face differently. I think what
I read about it was that she sees something about
the future and Luke, and she's now a little nervous
about, hey, what did I get myself into? That's
not what it deals with right then. It just goes
to the next scene where Jimmy is now in the spirit
world and he sees a crow that leads him towards
the tree. that they carve their names into and
swinging on the tree in a swing is Lily but she
has no eyes and it's like a jump scare moment
that's not really scary and then Jimmy emerges
from the freezer alive and it's just like I'm
alive and the water was actually toxic waste
um We learned that now because of the skull and
crossbones on the drums of liquid. I just wanted
to prove that because I thought it was just water
and it was catching on fire, but it's actually
toxic waste. So, you know, they actually did
okay with that, I guess. Jimmy sees the last
moments of their deaths again about when he goes
to the trading store and there are lines. So
he sees this whole scene again in his head and
we get to see it because of the audience and
everything like that. There were lines that were
said that weren't even. part of the scene like
in the flashback he sees a completely different
scene with different lines that were said and
i'm just going i'm sorry what huh um he takes
lily back to the training store because he wants
to give her like a proper burial and everything
and well really he wants to give her a proper
burial but he also doesn't want to live without
her and he knows that he can find a gun there
And so he shoots himself, but he doesn't die.
And he just sits there asking in the mirror,
what am I? This is when he decides that, okay,
he can't die. Maybe he'll just start getting
revenge or something like that. He goes to his
trailer and because he apparently doesn't need
a place to live anymore, he just sets the trailer
on fire and he does his makeup. Like, so he puts
this makeup on him to kind of like, embody the
idea of the crow better there's no reason for
it he can just be Jimmy but because for whatever
reason he thinks he's a superhero now he does
like makeup that he did in the way Lily did for
his first Ravenfest remember back in the days
when like Green Day first started out and they
wanted to appear a little more like pop punk
and everything like that and you know it's kind
of like Billy Joe Armstrong was a little more
like paler with the makeup and everything and
That kind of thing. This is essentially what
he goes for. And it's not scary. It's not, like,
good. It's just the way he looks in this. And
it's just kind of, I don't know, it's goofy the
entire time. He draws, like, inverted crosses
under his eyes. But it's just done with, like,
an eyeliner pencil that's just so thin that you
can barely see it half the time. So, yeah, that's
what he looks like now. And as he's walking away
from the flames of the trailer. A crow lands
on a shoulder like an actual crow, not like the
crow superhero. I got to differentiate that because
there are some parts that get a little confusing
with the real crow versus the superhero crow.
So I'll say like the animal crow versus hero
crow. Those are those are the words I'm going
to use to describe the differences. So he's leaving
this trailer and Tanner finds Lily's body. and
he knows that Jimmy did it. Jimmy showed up,
and he's making him pay. That's what he thought.
So he is beside himself because his sister's
dead, but he knows he needs to get the group
together to go find Jimmy. At the same time as
all this, the gang has gotten to... their hideout
essentially and they're just going to do a bunch
of drugs and celebrate and everything like that
and lola is like viciously rubbing her hands
in the sink like trying to get rid of the blood
from lily that you know she killed and everything
like that and the issue is she keeps seeing the
blood like even no matter how hard she scrubs
it keeps staying there even though there's nothing
there and death's able to talk to her and just
be like You're okay. We're all good. Everything's
fine. And trying to get them to kind of party
it up because there's going to be a wedding later
and they need to do more preparation before they
can actually go through with the wedding. After
the celebration and everything, they move out
and they go to find their first real victim.
Their first real victim is this guy, Moses. Moses
has history with Luke. Everybody in this town
seems to have history with one another. They
all know who each other is and everything like
that. Moses has turned his life around and he's
now a preacher. Apparently, not only does he
know Luke, he apparently killed Luke's father.
Death gives him a super tough decision. Moses
is now married and his wife is in the other room
and doesn't know what's happening. And mind you,
they're actually like performing a wedding right
now. I do not know what time it is at this point,
but it supposedly all takes place over like one,
two nights. So it's got to be like 3 a .m. at
this point. And they're doing a wedding in the
middle of this place. The lights are all kind
of screwy because sometimes it's dark, sometimes
it's light. Sometimes they're at a bar, sometimes
they're not. It's the weirdest thing. I don't
know exactly what time it is ever during this
movie. Well, so Moses's wife is in the other
room and he sends famine. Death sends famine
to go basically torture her. And at first you
just hear like some stuff break and a gunshot
and you hear nothing else. And death threw a
gun at Moses's feet. And he's just like, no,
I'm not doing that. I'm not part of that life
anymore. I don't kill anymore. I don't do this.
I don't do this. I don't do this. Well, the gunshot
going off was enough that he grabbed the gun.
Death turns around and was like, I knew you were
a killer. Turns around and shoots him dead. So,
Moses is dead. The wife is actually still alive.
And Death, to prove that he means business, he
lets war shoot the other witnesses. The only
one left alive is Moses' wife. And basically
to live in a world where he's gone and to leave
her to suffer. And the only reason he's doing
that is because Moses left Luke in the world
after killing his father. So it's kind of like
a reverse punishment for Moses' wife. While this
is happening, Lola is starting to feel bad. And
she's starting to question everything because...
She knew that he wanted revenge on Moses, and
that was fine. That was what it was, you know?
But when he let war shoot the witnesses, that's
when she was like, what? No, we don't kill people
like this. So, again, that's what I'm reading
into it. It's Tara Reid, so we never know. And
it's not like she's the worst actress in this
film. There's a lot worse in this film, but it's
just one of those things where she also is not
the best at conveying certain things. Pestilence.
does not actually go to the area Moses was at.
He was not there. He was busy trying to score
some more peyote at a bar. And he's alone. And
all of a sudden, a crow lands near his foot and
starts pecking towards his foot and everything
like that. So guess who's here? Jimmy! He's alive!
He grabs pestilence and goes, where's Luke? He
owes me two lifetimes and a perfect set of blue
eyes. And it's such a terrible hammy read. That's
exactly why I included it because it's just so
bad. It's so awful. Just some of these lines
are cheap as hell and everything like that. I
remember. So I don't remember exactly when this
happened, but when they went to Moses's thing.
Somebody goes, who are you? And he goes, I'll
tell you for $47 .66. I have no context for this
line. I have no clue what happened. And I really,
I screwed up that I didn't include a note on
it. But yeah, so some of these lines are just
absolutely horrible. So he owes me two lifetimes
and a perfect set of blue eyes. A slow motion
fight scene occurs. It's all in Jimmy's favor.
Pestilence didn't stand a chance. And there's
a bug zapper in the middle of the room to kill
some of the bugs. And Jimmy the crow grabs Pestilence's
head and pushes it against the bug zapper, killing
him. There we go. One down. We got one of the
group of five down. So Jimmy gets out of the
bar and the next time we see him. So there's
like a joke about the hearse driver. The hearse
driver is driving Lily's body to be buried or
to at least be taken to the funeral home and
everything like that. Jimmy commandeers the hearse
and leaves the hearse driver basically stranded
to walk home. And he takes her body to the tree
that they put their names into and he buries
her under it. This is the like final goodbye
and everything like that. Uh, Danny Trejo, Harold,
Harold wants to show that they're kind of justice
on Jimmy, the engine killer. So essentially they
get the, everybody together and they've come
up with basically mob mentality. They're going
to hunt down as the Indian tribe. They're going
to hunt down Jimmy because they're all so certain
that Jimmy is the one who killed Lily. After
Jimmy, the crow, um, buries Lily. He goes to
the place where Moses was. And our gang goes
to Ravenfest. So we've gotten to Ravenfest. I'm
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like that. All right, so we've built it up to
this point now. So Jimmy is where Moses is. The
gang is at Ravenfest and our Indian tribe is
hunting down Jimmy. Jimmy is comforting Moses's
wife. And we finally get to see the flashback
about why everyone calls Jimmy a killer. Essentially,
when they were in high school, a football player
was pretty much raping Lily. Definitely against
her will, trying to get her clothes off, everything
like that. And Jimmy, I don't remember exactly
what happened. I think he just like hit him a
little too hard and he died from that. I don't
think it was anything else. And it was just one
of those things where like he was protecting
Lily and essentially all he got was parole. He
didn't spend a lot of time in jail or anything
like that. He also was in high school, so he
may have been underage, so may have gone to juvie
or something. We have no clue. But that football
player, it turns out it was Moses and his wife's
son. So once she figures out who he is, she walks
away and grabs a gun and holds it on Jimmy. And
Jimmy's just like, you can't kill me. And even
more so, I'm going to help you here. Because
he finds that Moses has a pulse. And he is able
to, with his crow powers, which they never explain,
but somehow he's able to do it. Bring Moses back
to life. And so Moses' wife is essentially forgiving
him because she now realizes he's not as bad
as she thought he was. I don't know. Maybe not,
but you still killed their son. Like, that's
my thing is you still did it. Like, you still
killed him, even if you didn't mean to or anything
like that. I know, yes. Two wrongs don't make
a right, though. He was trying to pressure Lily
into something. But again, that shouldn't mean
kill. Yes, you should protect her. And yes, there
are. It was it looks like an accident. However,
you still did it, you know, and two wrongs again,
don't make a right. So the only way now she forgives
him because he just helps Moses come back to
life, I guess. fine um it feels a little weird
to me it feels like because she apparently had
this grudge for forever and now it's just forgotten
because oh you were able to save my husband thank
you cool we're good um then there's this fake
ass crow sequence showing they fly the crow like
the animal crow is like flying across the sky
and everything He's on his way to Ravenfest because
he finds out that's where they're going next.
That's where Moses' wife told him they were going.
So the fake -ass crow goes first. And basically,
we go to Ravenfest where the gang is hanging
out. And Luke and Lola are sitting at a table.
And they've been building up this Ravenfest.
They've been building it up, building it up,
building it up. And it really, there's like seven
people there. It's like a bad junior high dance.
Nobody's actually doing anything. They're just
kind of like around and everything. And as they
get in there, Famine starts putting on baseball
equipment. Like he's got knee pads and like a
chest protector and puts on a like mask and everything
like that. And he grabs a bat and he just starts
going crazy, smashing everything. The issue is
some of these he's wearing the catcher's mask
and sometimes he's not wearing any of the equipment
he put on. Sometimes it's just him smashing and
sometimes he has like full gear on. And it is
the weirdest thing because it literally is like
every other shot almost is equipment, no equipment,
equipment, no equipment. It just keeps switching
back and forth. Well, before he's able to do
any real, real damage, famine is the bat is grabbed
and the crow is there and they get into essentially
a baseball bat duel where the crow is grabbing
it and like hitting famine and everything like
that. And he ends up knocking him out. So famine's
knocked out. He's not killed at this point. At
least we don't think so. But he really doesn't
come back at any point. So, yeah, he's knocked
out. Which gets Jimmy the crow into a conversation
with Death slash Luke and Lola. And they're having
this whole conversation. Then all of a sudden,
Luke slash Death throws an axe and hits the animal
crow. And like wounds him. So now Jimmy can feel
pain again. And so Luke starts fighting with
him. And he is just absolutely dominating. This
is the point of the movie where... It's becoming
obvious like Jimmy would be overmatched if he
didn't have these crow abilities. He's just absolutely
getting just wasted. Also, war starts going to
town shooting innocent people, including he tried
to shoot a kid, which Lola saw in a vision. And
Jimmy was able to like get him to get the kid
out of war's path. After he saves the kid and
the gang's able to get away, the little kid's
like, where's my daddy? And the crow goes, it's
going to be okay. And it fades out on the scene.
Just, yeah, you know, he probably is definitely
dead. I'm pretty sure we actually saw him die
at the hand of war. And Jimmy's just, it's going
to be okay. No, it's not. That kid's dad is dead.
He is. gone so let's not lie to the kid and make
him feel like oh everything's gonna be fine my
daddy's good and everything like that the gang
leaves Ravenfest then we go to the hearse driver
who's walking along the street and Tanner drives
past him and he pulls over and he's just like
he recognizes that's a hearse driver and he goes
um what the hell happened and basically Jimmy
stole my hearse Stole the body. And now he's
at Ravenfest. And Tanner's like, okay, I'm on
it. And leaves the hearse driver still stranded
and goes and drives to Ravenfest. He sees all
the bloodshed and he sees that Jimmy is still
there. And basically he holds him at gunpoint.
But Jimmy, this is what he wants. He wants to
die. He wants to be with Lily. He does not want
to be on this mortal coil anymore. So while Tanner
holds him at gunpoint. He grabs Tanner and is
just kind of like, do it, but I need you to see
what happened tonight. And all of a sudden Tanner
just goes in like this trance and can see everything
that happened tonight. The death of Lily, the
death of him, his resurrection, that this gang
is doing all of this, everything like that. And
Tanner now doesn't want to shoot Jimmy. He still
doesn't trust him, but he doesn't want to shoot
him anymore. I don't know why Jimmy would do
that if he just wanted to die. All of a sudden,
you're just like, cool. Like, hey, by the way,
I do actually want to kind of live. So, like,
just see what I'm seeing and let me live. Okay?
Okay. I think it's really partially because he
knows that he's going to be the only one that
can stand up to Luke. So, I guess that's kind
of the thought there. I don't exactly know. Again,
this movie's not well, like, talked about. like
in the script and everything. There's not a good
script to protect this. So basically they're
driving to the Inequity Church, is what it's
called, the Church of Inequity. This is where
they're going to have their wedding and where
Satan is finally going to come and take over
Luke and be on the living realm. And so all they
need... before they can do this ceremony is they
need to sacrifice a virgin and wouldn't you know
it they're driving down the road and of course
they find the hearse driver this poor guy like
he's just a running gag at this point so they
grab the hearse driver and they drive the church
of inequity and the church of inequity is really
a whorehouse it's not an actual church it's run
by a bunch of prostitutes and their pimp el nino
and The first prostitute to talk to them is Macy
Gray. And she basically is kind of a little more
upset with Lola that she returned. And we learn
that Lola was essentially a prostitute before
she became Luke's main squeeze and the eventual
wife to the devil if their plan succeeds. So
she takes him to the main pimp. And the main
pimp is El Nino. And he is played by Dennis Hopper.
This is the part, guys. This is the part that
this movie broke me. Like, absolutely broke me.
This is the worst performance I have seen in
a movie ever. And it's not Dennis Hopper's fault.
Well, it kind of is that he agreed to do this.
Literally, some of the things he says are just
absolute insanity to me. Absolute insanity. He
calls people homie. He calls them shorties. He
basically wears this fur coat. He refers to himself
as El Nino in like the third person at least
six, seven times. He's saying, OG, homeboy, shorty,
these kind of things. It's just absolutely ridiculous.
It's just awful. Anybody, I want to know. What
made Dennis Hopper take this role? Because anybody
who would have read that character, I can't imagine
them ever going, yeah, this is who I want to
play. And especially somebody like Dennis Hopper.
Like, he's an easy rider. He's in Blue Velvet.
He's in Speed. He was in Waterworld. I mean,
I know we joke about that movie and everything
like that, but it's not like it was a bad idea
to be in that show. Or that movie, I mean. Because
everybody thought that was going to be the next
big thing. It's not like this is crazy to take
that. The Crow Wicked Prayer, however, is not
Waterworld. It's not Speed. It's not Blue Velvet.
It's a crazy, crazy role to me for him to take.
And I'm not saying he's perfect or anything like
that. He doesn't have the best IMDb scores. overall
or anything like that but just he's such a better
actor he's an oscar -nominated actor and he's
a pimp in this movie saying homie og like shorty
that kind of stuff it's absolutely insane it's
the worst role i think i've ever seen and for
somebody like dennis hopper it just makes no
sense to me whatsoever well so Part of the thing
we also get is a little backstory about Lola.
Lola stole the book from El Nino, the book that
gives her all of the spells to create the shaman's
eyes and her eyes, everything like that. And
so she has to give El Nino the book back so that
he can do the marriage ceremony. And basically,
he makes her kiss the book, which is just creepy.
He just it's absolute insanity. This this part
of the thing. And we also get that basically
he was the one that forced Lola into this life
of prostitution. We see a flashback where he
made her do her first time and everything like
that. Kind of creepy. And I know it's to make
us feel a little bad for Lola, but she. as much
as i say there's these moments where it seems
like she's questioning it she's starting to question
it everything like that she never changes her
mind like she still goes about and does this
she still wants to marry luke she still does
all of the things that he does and everything
like that so it's not like she ever changes her
mind or anything we're trying to feel bad for
her but at the same time there's nothing to feel
bad for she's still the one that's doing this
she still doesn't it's not like she has to go
through with this she could change her mind at
any point i mean now she might be forced a little
more but she could change her mind and we could
feel bad for her while this is happening uh tanner
is convincing the indian tribe to attack the
inequity church and war is protecting the church
it's just him and he's doing this By attaching
dynamite to his body. So a whole Indian tribe
and Jimmy the Crow versus one guy who attached
dynamite to his chest that may blow himself up.
I wonder how this is going to go. But I will
say one of the things that is in his favor, now
that the actual animal crow is hurt, Jimmy isn't
invincible. And he doesn't have as strong a connection
to his powers. War is able to get the drop on
Jimmy. But Tanner takes a shot and knocks war
down. They go through the whole ceremony and
it's literally like, dearly beloved shorties,
let's bring Satan up to the real world. Do you,
Satan, take this shorty to be your OG, your homeboy,
your whatever. It's literally like that is the
ceremony and everything that he's doing. Blood,
lust, anger, and some other deep, heavy shit
that we're going through on this world. It was
also at this moment that we learned that Luke's
name is spelled L -U -C. And it's definitely
supposed to be a play on Lucifer because Lucifer
is supposed to get up here and everything like
that. And Bone slash Angel Guy, he becomes...
He becomes the devil. He definitely has this
power now. He's a lot stronger. So when Jimmy's
able to get into the church, he's able to get
the jump on Jimmy and tie him up to the cross.
The Indian tribe is shooting at the church, trying
to kill Luke and Lola as they just walk out past
them and get to the hearse. They're driving to
the burial grounds to consummate their marriage.
I'll also say at this point, at least this guy
who played Luke was having fun. Like it is ridiculous.
It is basically he hammed up this role and Dennis
Hopper said, hold my beer, but he still hammed
up this role and made it as crazy as possible
to be the devil or this guy that wants to be
the devil and everything. So he's able to escape
with Lola. They're going to the burial grounds.
They're going to consummate the marriage. The
Indian gang. Basically, they help Jimmy get off
the cross. And he realizes that he doesn't stand
a chance unless his crow is healed. So they do
a crow dance to save the animal crow. This includes
Danny Trejo taking off his shirt and slow motion
boobs bouncing. It was insane, this whole thing.
This whole last half of the movie, the entire
writer's room must have been on crack or something
like that. Because the beginning's not great
either. Don't get me wrong on this. It's not
like I'm defending the beginning of this movie.
But the end just devolves so horribly into just
this slapstick of a Crow movie. It's like goofy
in all of the wrong ways and everything. But
the crow is fixed and he does another fake ass
crow like CGI flight. And Jimmy is getting his
way to the burial grounds. Where Luke has taken
off his pants and he wears tighty whities. And
he is pretend fucking Lola. It's not very good.
Lola also knows that you need to look him in
the eyes while doing that. The crow starts like
fighting with Luke. So like Jimmy starts fighting
with Luke. So Luke kind of has like a little
bit of an edge, but it's pretty fair at this
point. So Lola is trying to find any spell to
help. And then all of a sudden the crow, the
animal lands on a cactus and Jimmy gets all of
his powers back, pretty much everything. And
he's able to just take control of the fight.
And including this last line before he's almost
going to knock out Luke. Quote the raven, nevermore,
motherfucker. Which again, it's a crow, not a
raven. What are we doing? Do we know what a raven
and a crow are? I know they're very similar,
but they're not the exact same thing. I don't
think a raven is part of the crow family. I'm
not an expert in animal entomology or whatever
it is. I'm not an expert on that. I don't think
a raven is a crow. So saying the line, quote
the raven, nevermore, motherfucker. I think they
just screwed up on this one. I could be wrong,
but I think they just screwed up on this one.
So he knocks out Luke. The sun rises, and Lola's
eyes revert back to her old eyes. They're no
longer those piercing blue eyes or anything.
Luke decides he can make one more desperate attempt
to beat the crow, but he's able to flip him onto
a rock pile, and this rock stabs him right through
the heart. And then Jimmy, making sure that Luke...
Can't be the devil. Can't come back. Slits his
throat. So he gone. And so now the Indian tribe
gets there and Harold, Danny Trejo, almost shoots
and kills Lola. Like had the shot, but Tanner
grabbed the gun and lifted it up so he could
stop him and arrest Lola. like yes harold wanted
that revenge you killed my daughter everything
like that but we also learn tanner grew up a
little bit and he knows that the right action
is justice not killing her and having another
murderer in the world kind of thing like an eye
for an eye makes the world go blind kind of thing
tanner saves the day um from harold killing lola
arrests her luke's dead and in like a dream sequence
at the end they're at the tree and Jimmy and
Lily are reunited Lily has her eyes back and
he puts a ring on her finger they never say if
this is real or not like we don't know Jimmy
wanted to die remember and also because he's
like save the day does the crow go away does
he lose his powers what what happens with that
is this a real scene is this a fake scene is
this a dream we have no clue It just gives us
that happy ending for a second of this sequence
where they're at the tree and he puts the ring
on her finger, they kiss, and it's over. The
Crow Wicked Prayer, lovely, is done. So, let's
talk analysis. I'm pretty sure this is the worst
movie I've ever seen. I think this takes the
cake. It was not good on every standpoint. The
budget wasn't great, so I can give like bad CGI,
that kind of thing. I can give it a forgiving
pass on that. The script was terrible. The acting
was hammy. You got Dennis Hopper to do one of
the worst roles I've ever seen anybody do, let
alone an Oscar nominated actor like Edward or
Dennis Hopper. Edward Hopper. What? Edward Hopper.
I don't know who that is. You got somebody like
Dennis Hopper to do the worst role I've ever
seen anybody do. The acting was hammy, terrible,
just bad. And I mean, I don't know what I expected
from this cast. The guy who is like Angel on
Buffy and plays in Bones, like that guy, I guess
kind of can act, but he also is more of a TV
guy versus like a movie guy. Edward Furlong probably
wasn't the guy you wanted. War, pestilence, and
famine were either high all the time or just
causing chaos, so they were fine in that aspect,
but really they had no point to this. Lola's
played by Tara Reid. I've made my opinions about
her known. Macy Gray was a prostitute for all
of five seconds. Danny Trejo doesn't add anything
to the movie except for just slow -motion boob
dancing to save a crow. I wish I'd never... had
to utter that sentence in my life but you know
i did it's just it's um yeah it was a movie out
of all the movies to ever movie this was a movie
but this is this is quite possibly the worst
one i have ever seen it just all came together
awfully there's nothing about this movie that's
redeeming even some of the lines that i wrote
down that i laughed at i don't think i'm supposed
to laugh at um quote the raven nevermore motherfucker
uh who are you i'll tell you for 47 .66 whereas
luke he owes me two lifetimes and a perfect set
of blue eyes like these are just awful lines
and these are just the ones i wrote down that
i laughed at there's probably a ton more there's
there's a whole speech by dennis hopper that
could be in this quote like bad quotes section
i just i Sometimes when I put myself through
these movies, there's redeeming qualities. There's
something you can find. Usually, I definitely
like to look at the bright side and say, there's
something positive I could put and say, oh, that
was positive. I can't think of one. I can't think
of a single thing in this movie that was a positive
thing. The entire movie was just terrible and
shouldn't exist in my opinion, truthfully. I
don't think The Crow needed a sequel, let alone
three. And then a reboot doesn't make sense to
me either. But, you know, I'm not even talking
about that at this point. Normally, somebody
like Mitchell would give it to Mitchell Zero.
Like, hey, you did, you put together a movie
and you did it. You got a movie. I can't even
give it the Mitchell zero, the half star, the
whatever. I can't do it. I can't. I want to just
because I know how hard it is to make a movie.
I know how hard it is to get everything together,
to coincide, to make a movie, get it to screen,
everything like that. This movie feels like the
line from Billy Madison. I award you no points
and may God have mercy on your soul. So I'm going
to give it a zero. Crows out of five. I know
that's the easy one I could go with. I could
do zero Shaman Eyes out of five. Just gets a
zero. Just a straight zero. There's nothing redeeming
about this movie. There's nothing I can find
a positive about. And truthfully, this is the
first time I've ever felt like I wasted my time.
Usually with the bad movies, yes, you can feel
like some moments, okay, I wasted like 20 minutes
of my time, that kind of thing. I find it kind
of funny usually. because I do like watching
bad movies, but this is the first time I'm like
the entire runtime. I have wasted my time. Yeah,
I'm being harsh on this movie, but it's just,
I want to save you. If you're listening to this
and you have not seen this movie, I am saving
you. Do not watch this movie. There's plenty
of movies that I've seen that I would suggest
to watch instead of this movie that you may feel
like you've wasted a little bit of time on, but
not your entire time. And this movie was so bad,
not only did it feel like it wasted the hour
and a half that I watched this movie, it feels
really like I lost two and a half hours because
now I have to talk about it again in length.
So, yeah. That's the Crow Wicked Prayer. I don't
want to keep shitting on it, but at the same
time I feel like I need to because, again, I'm
warning you. Do not... Watch this movie. Don't
do it. Don't do it to yourself. There's no reason
to watch this movie. There's no reason at all.
I want to 100 % save you from yourself. And some
of you may say, oh, he's challenging me to watch
this. I'm not. I'm not challenging you right
now. I am telling you because I have watched
it and I want to help you that you should not
watch this film. Nobody should put themselves
through this film. I did it for you because I
love you guys and because you deserve it. i put
myself through it i'm not going to watch any
of the other crow sequels i'm not going to watch
the reboot if anything i might watch the original
again but even that i it was a fine movie there's
nothing wrong with the crow one you can enjoy
it have a good time everything like that r .i
.p brandon lee like i think he did a great job
and brought this character a little more life
and apparently too good of life because this
is like the fourth life he's had now and this
time he probably should have just stayed dead
So not Brandon Lee, obviously, but the Crow character.
I'm sorry. That's that came out really wrong.
I'm not talking about Brandon Lee on that case.
RIP Brandon Lee. That's not what I'm talking
about. He did well. He ran so that Edward Furlong
could trip over his own feet and hopefully hang
himself because, well, not the, I don't know
what I'm trying to say here. Hey, there should
be no more Crow movies. That's what I'm saying.
So. yeah that's the crow wicked prayer um if
you have thoughts about this movie please reach
out to us at came for a movie pretty much everywhere
um we're on x we're on threads we're on facebook
uh even though i don't have access to that anymore
at least jill can still see that stuff and yeah
um We're going to start doing spooky season stuff.
I've got another episode that is going to hit
about the beginning of October, end of September,
and then we're full on, full send, spoopy season.
The next episode is two bad Russell Crowe movies,
back to back. I saw The Exorcism in theaters,
as well as I watched Poker Face. It was kind
of an accident that I'm doing two, but it just
so happened to work out that, hey, Russell Crowe,
two bad movies in a row. So the Crowe... continues,
I guess, the discussion of Crows. Russell Crowe
double feature going to be at the end of the
month, beginning of October, and then we're in
spoopy season. So send me what you think are
the worst horror movies of all time. Just tweet
it at us or post it at us. Put it on our Instagram.
I don't care. Just tell me what you guys think.
I'll be sure to try to watch it because I'm getting
my own list together and I have some. I'll say
bangers, but not really bangers. Yeah, so we've
got some stuff coming for you. We're going to
try to get some friends on this too so you're
not just hearing my voice again because I know
it can be annoying sometimes to just listen to
me. But I'm still happy to watch these bad movies
for you so you don't have to and can hopefully
save you time, effort, energy, and just not watch
movies like The Crow Wicked Prayer. So yeah,
we'll see you for another Crow episode, Russell
Crow, Double Bad Movies, at the end of the month
slash beginning of October. We're getting the
spoopy season, and I want to thank you guys for
tuning in. Thank you to Doom Generation Podcast
for guessing it correctly. You guys are awesome.
We love you. And thank you guys for always tuning
in. I really appreciate it. So for Game for a
Movie, where we ask, are you game for a movie?
I am Mike. I will see you next time for another
Crow episode. Bye.