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15 years ago @ HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek... - Ka-Kaw! · 4 replies · +1 points

Years ago, when my wife & I were first dating, we saw "Rapid Fire" (the movie he made just prior to The Crow) as one of our date movies. My wife and I thought afterwards that Brandon would end up being a huge star. He just seemed to shine in every scene he was in in Rapid Fire. But I also remember watching him in "Showdown in Little Tokyo" and thinking the same thing.

But I also recall watching interviews with him where he really gushed about playing the character in The Crow - sort of like the way Hugh Jackman talks about loving to play Wolverine. I also remember how he wanted to get away from just simple action movies and
wanted to start delving into more serious acting roles. The Crow was going to be his launching pad to do that - which makes his eerie death all that more tragic.

On another X-men side note, I always thought he would have been a really cool Nightcrawler.

As for the musical influence of The Crow, I never associated it with Nirvana or grundge as much as I always associated it with The Cure for some reason.