I've seen Crash, I love Crash and if you don't like it.......

[LynneSin]

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Gaaah! Naked oompah loompahs!

:scared:

[LaurenG]

2. I liked it

what do I get?:D

[LynneSin]

3. there you go

[LaurenG]

4. Thank you!!!

:bounce: :hi: :applause:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. It definitely deserved Best Movie.

It was fantastic.

[Tsiyu]

6. Hey! one of my sons redeemed himself yesterday

He bought me Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and he got Crash to play all the way through (he turned the DVD player upside down - go figure!).

Observations: Thompson's use of the "n" word disturbs me. In '72 I was 13 and my momma STILL would have washed my mouth out with soap if I'd used that word, so no one can say that even though a little Upstate New York gal knew that was a bad word to use, he didn't know any better.

I don't see a lot of movies so I can't compare Crash to its competition, but it was in your face and fast-paced and I like that. Very memorable characters; I saw a few people I know, if you know what I mean.

The twists were rather contrived (not like in 11:14 where the strange ending seemed plausible). At the end of the film, I thought it perfect that all of the refugees are just in awe of this new America and for the moment totally free - while right across the street Americans are arguing and bickering and name-calling, unaware of their blessings yet very aware of the differences between one another.

Okay, so you wanted some butt-kissing but I just gave you my Redneck Socialist Movie Review so don't hurt me.

:hide:

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Then we're agreed.

:thumbsup:

[El Fuego]

8. I loved Crash

But it made me cry! :cry:

[Squatch]

9. Completely and utterly forgettable.

My wife swears we saw it abotu a month ago. For the life of me, I can't tell you what the movie was about, who starred in it, etc.

So, based on my recollection of the movie, it was completely and utterly worthless.

[LynneSin]

10. Here's one of the good things about it - the movie took actors and...

used them against typecast.

Example: Sandra Bullock is the queen of the romantic comedy where she usually ends up playing the 'ugly duckling' that some how metamorphosizes throughout the movie to not only become the beauty but to win the guy (see While You were Sleeping, Love Potion #9, BOTH Miss Congenialities and Two Weeks Notice). And yet Sandra came off as this cold calculated bitch dealing with the fact that she was carjacked at gun point and suddenly didn't want to trust anyone around her including her maid and the guy who changed the locks

Example: Tony Danza has a history of sitcoms playing the lovable goofy Italian cutie and yet he had a very short but memorable scene as the TV Producer who made the director (Trent Howard) redo the seen because the one actor wasn't acting "Black Enough".

Example: Trent Howard has made a history of usually playing someone who was more or less a burden on society, playing it so well he got a slew of nominations including the Oscar for his role as a pimp in "Hustle & Flow" (much deserved too). And yet Howard shined as an uppity black man who caved in to the police officer (Matt Dillon) who sexually harassed his wife on a random pullover. And then the aftermath of the incident where his wife was pissed that he wouldn't stand up and protect her pushed him over the edge to the point that when he was carjacked he just didn't give a shit anymore and stood up to his carjackers

This is why Crash won. Crash was filled with a massive cast of very well known actors who many were playing against their normal typecast and all of them excelled at what they did. Hell, who knew that Ludacris could act and yet he was amazing as the Carjacker with warped moral values (it's ok as long as you don't carjack from your own race). Since actors vote on best picture, Crash had the edge because it was such a great vehicle for actors to really strut their stuff and do a part that normally they wouldn't have done. This is why Crash won. I mean, it had the subject matter that almost rivaled Brokeback Mountain (racism vs. homophobia) but the amazing A-List cast in Crash gave it the edge over Brokeback.

Sure, the whole "Six Degrees of Separation" (actually more like 2 degrees) was kinda bizarre but overall the acting, the script and the excellent film editing of splicing all these separate stories into one smooth movie is what gave it the edge

[JohnKleeb]

11. Terrence not Trent, Lynne

but I do agree with your views on the movie, I thought it was great and definely Oscar Worthly. Hard to believe that Terrence Howard was the bad guy in Big Momma's House and yes I saw that. I felt the best scene in the movie were the ones with the locksmith and his daughter. Ludacris I think did a hell of a job too and his character's philosophy was intriguing. The "six degress of seperation" thing is how all them are linked somehow right? It was like that in Traffic too which I also enjoyed.

[LynneSin]

13. And Traffic won an Oscar too

Oscars love movies that take a wide diversity of actors and put together an interactive piece like Crash, Traffic, Magnolia and Short Cut - all Oscar favs

[JohnKleeb]

15. Traffic was fantastic

The first movie I saw Don Cheadle in actually, I thought he was Tim Meadows from SNL when I first saw the film. Traffic is a similiar film in how I saw it because Traffic like Crash has the shades of gray world with complex characters, take Douglas's character in that film, he's a hardline anti drug judge yet his own daughter is a big coke user.

[GalleryGod]

18. look at his work in "Hamburger Hill"

As Pvt. Washburn...Out-standing!

[JohnKleeb]

19. Thats a Korean War or Vietnam War film?

I like Michael Douglas, great actor who also produced one of my favorite movies, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, I believe he produced that at least, ahd some part of it. You know speaking of mixing actors up, I sometimes get Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas mixed up, funny thing is I think they were both in Wall Street.

[GalleryGod]

21. Vietnam

[JohnKleeb]

22. Then I need to see that

Ive seen Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and parts of Acolypase Now but not Hamburger Hill or the John Wanye pro war peace, Green Berets.

[GalleryGod]

35. The 2 Green Berets I know laugh their asses off at Wayne's

Defense Department propaganda piece.

[JohnKleeb]

36. Yeah I hear its one of the worst Vietnam movies

Of all the ones Ive seen, I think I liked Platoon the most, I love the war within the war and it has my favorite classical music song in it too, Adagio For Strings. Though I admit that I loved the first part of Full Metal Jacket, I identify with Gomer Pyle so much and Gunnery Sgt Hartman is just such a classic though now adays over used character.

[StaggerLee]

27. Have you seen the original UK mini-series that it was based on?

It's definitely worth a look.

[JohnKleeb]

28. No is this Traffic or Crash we're talking here?

I'd give it a look if I could find it. I like movies like that though with all the stories rolled in to one ala Pulp Fiction.

[StaggerLee]

32. Traffik

I should have spelled it correctly.

It's an 80's mini-series. Hopefully you can find a copy.

[LostinVA]

29. It's REALLY good, isn't it?

[StaggerLee]

33. I've actually only watched the first disc

But it's :thumbsup: so far.

[JohnKleeb]

12. hahahah

I too enjoyed it.

[eyesroll]

14. Did the Red Sox win again?

:shrug:

[jpgray]

16. Is there an expiration date for call-backs?

:P

[LSK]

17. CRASH SUCKS!!!

Not that I've seen it...

:hide:

[LynneSin]

20. YOU SUCK

:bounce:

[Cathyclysmic]

23. Thanks for reminding me to delete that movie from my Netflicks

[LynneSin]

24. Why not watch it and judge for yourself

:shrug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

25. I love it too.

I thought it was an awesome movie.


How ya doing today Lynne? :hi:

[LostinVA]

30. Me too

[Ekirh]

26. Can't comment on it . . yet

Rented it yesterday.. Me and my Grandma and my Uncle are going to watch it together tonight.

Uncle pre-screened it yesterday cause he was bored. . . gave me a very favorable review on it so I can't wait.

[SteppingRazor]

31. The only thing worse than that movie...

are those jiggling orange asses.

Crash was like a thesis on racism written by a high school freshman in civics class.

Top it's heavy-handed message with piss-poor screenwriting that relies on the sort of coincidences that make even a Charles Dickens novel look completely likely and realistic, and you've got one of the worst films of the past year.

But, like any other art form, to each his/her own :hi:

[barb162]

34. it's an excellent movie