Suggested by: Jon Slater
TITO Rating: 8.5
My interpretation of the plot: An acclaimed poet and critic of poetic pieces inspires a serial killer to plot out his murders exactly how they are published. While the plot of the film is fictional, the writers based it on some accounts of real situations surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death
Back story/Fun Fact: The film holds a rating of 22% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 123 reviews. The Raven barely broke even at the box office by grossing $26.05 million worldwide on a budget of $26 million.
Now for the review....Now my tranny score might be a bit elevated (yes I just said elevated trannies...ha!) But I love the old British-type style and I think this movie keeps in this feel all the way throughout. The movie held it's story throughout and it was clear where it was going, but one complaint about this movie is that it played all of it's cards at the beginning and kind of left nothing to play off in the middle of the film.
Some other notes. This movie taught me that quoting poetry in the bar will get you punched! But my main point that I wanted to make with this movie is, that this movie is about a writer and a critic that inspires to act on what he writes...hey that sounds like me. I hope I haven't inspired anyone to do anything bad? Also, I hope my run on Geek IO doesn't get bumped for a Longfellow. That would make me very angry!
​If you have any feedback or suggestions, you can email them directly to me at thechefwonder @ gmail . com (remove the spaces) or tweet them to me twitter.com/TheDaleCampbell and huge thanks to CJ and the Geek IO crew for letting me release the trannies each and every week!
Keep calm and tranny on!
Dale!