TBF, the first movie took out the randomness as well. They were targeted by Top Dollar blah blah blah.
In the original comic, it was totally random. Their car broke down, and the gang that killed them just happened to be passing by. I do agree, by removing the random nature of the killing, it took away part of what made the story so provocative.
But then Brandon Lee version also changed a great deal of things. Eric was a rocker musician, not a (maybe) mechanic. The Crow is an actual bird others see, and has this magical connection to, instead of some invisible figure that follows him and talks to him. No skeleton cowboy (which was filmed but cut from the movie).
In fact, I think Eric is never in any actual danger in the original comic. He straight up kills a ton of gang members then just returns to heaven in the end.
Life is but a dream
i think people need to stop thinking of the movie as a "remake" of the original film and see it as it's own adaptation of the comic. to adapt the comic to film you have to add more to the story just as the first movie did, it doesn't have to and probably shouldn't be, the same story the 90's adaptation came up with.
All that said, there is one real potential shortfall that I do see.
You take the first film?
Just about anyone could tell you who the men involved in killing Shelly and Eric are, and say "Yep, That's The Guy..." as Eric kills each one of them.
In this trailer?
I'm not even sure if he actually faces off with any one of them during the trailer.
Has any Crow remake ever been good? This doesn't look particularly worse than the priors. The pink outfits are confusing tho. Are they down with dipset? Computers, computin....