I watched The Crow so you don't have to

I saw The Crow remake a few weeks ago and it is truly as bad as you've heard. The original isn't a masterpiece, but what it did do right was be a good solid movie - being simple where it needed to be and expansive of the complicated parts. The remake is however does the opposite and is a bloated mess. It wastes at least 40 minutes trying to convince us that Shelly and Eric are in love...and misses the mark entirely. The goons that murder them are forgettable, their deaths equally so.Gone is the symmetry that had (for example) Tin Tin dying from being stabbed by his own knives. They add on a whole bunch of scenes where Eric is in the afterlive to explain his powers. The crime lord in charge might have been the most interesting part of the movie, but they didn't really flesh him out enough. All in all, even some of the straight to video sequels they made of The Crow were better. Maybe that's the problem - every time they make a new one, the quality diminishes?