among my (many) obsessions growing up were these two movies: 'edward scissorhands', and 'the crow'. im not entirely sure why i was obsessed with them, but i was.i saw edward scissorhands when it game out on tape and i really loved it, i even got my dad to watch it! i remember many times day dreaming about what it might be like to have scissorhands, i think i might have even gone so far as to make a fake pair out of cardboard and playing around in the backyard imagining i was trimming the bushes into different animal shapes.
my fascination with the crow is a little harder to explain. the movie was rated R, so my mom refused to let me see it, but for some reason i was still obsessed with it. i think it might have stemmed from the fact that at the time it came out i was just starting to explore the world of comics beyond superheroes, and i remember paging through a few issues of 'the crow' comic book and really being entranced. im sure some of my interest in the movie was also brought on by the death of the actor brandon lee during the filming of it. i must have had some morbid curiosity to see it that i just couldnt let go of. years later mcfarlane toys made figures of these two characters, which i obviously had to buy. the figures i still have, and they came with these weird looking mini poster holders. i guess they were so that you could display them behind the figure? i dont know, but i kept them anyway...
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