Anybody seen the film CRASH?

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incidentally, among many other awards/nominations CRASH has already amassed, it got 2 golden globe noms, best screenplay, and a best supporting actor nom. for matt dillon. :D
 
I'm as hard core as they come and I have to say I enjoyed the movie. I thought the acting was terrific and the story line good. My wife liked it as well. I was NOT going to go and see it because I thought it'd be the usual Leftist crap. But I was surprised.

There is one scene in the movie that was as shocking and as moving as any I've ever seen. For this alone the movie was worth it.

Rent it. It is a worthwhile experience.
 
CentralTexas said:
not the 1996 release
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No kiddin. I Netflixed the wrong one. What a piece of trash the 1996 one is. I turned it of when the woman wanted her man to describe another mans ????.

Eww.
 
Rezin said:
No kiddin. I Netflixed the wrong one. What a piece of trash the 1996 one is. I turned it of when the woman wanted her man to describe another mans ????.

Eww.
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When you say "turned it off after" did you mean immediately or like 20 minutes later?:neener:
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I can't say I enjoyed it much, seemed like every racial cliche put to film...
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I didn't like this movie. It was supposed to be real and gritty, but there is no way people would act like that in reality.
 
Rob1035 said:
I can't say I enjoyed it much, seemed like every racial cliche put to film...
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The worst movie I've (partially) seen in a long time. When Tony Danza told the actor that he needed to act "more black" my girlfriend and I got up and left. To me, it was like a liberal fairy tale where everyone is a flaming racist.

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The worst movie I've (partially) seen in a long time. When Tony Danza told the actor that he needed to act "more black" my girlfriend and I got up and left. To me, it was like a liberal fairy tale where everyone is a flaming racist.
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Too bad you left and missed the point. The point being that it is not all black and white (pun intended). That is, there are many racial and cultural groups and each group and each person has their own mix of good and bad that brings them to react to a situation presented to them at a particular moment in time. No one is all good or all bad. We each have our flaws and the "bad" person may not be as bad as we think from our one impression of them. The serial killer may have helped an old lady cross the street the morning before. Today's victim may have victimized someone else yesterday.

Gun-wise, it was only slightly anti. I think that the daughter knew they were blanks when she bought them. She did not trust her father, and it could have gotten her father killed. But their culture did not allow her to suggest that he get some training or to teach him about the culture in which he was now living.

i thought it was one of the best I've seen in a long time. But, I don't see many movies these days (and I haven't seen Brokeback Mountain;) ).
 
Well, maybe I can catch it on PPV sometime and see the ending. I have my doubts though.

And you should check out Brokeback Mountain, it's really good.
 
lamazza said:
I thought it was total garbage on par with most movies made in the last few years. It reaked of social commentary, racial profiling, interracial affairs,etc. etc. etc. I ,for one, am sick of having of having this BS shoved down my throat every time I go to rent a movie. What happened to being entertained?
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agreed. i thought it was one of the worst movies i have ever seen, seriously. the fact that it has been nominated for best picture shows how much of a joke the academy is. if they hadn't nominated it, they prob would have been accused of being racist themselves. if you want a laugh, check out some of the reviews of it on www.imdb.com
 
I hate this movie as well. It portrays racism as a slap to the face complete with long winded racist dialogue. I don't remember much about the gun stuff because I didn't care. I was appalled at the idea that everytime two differing minorities were on the screen at one time, openly racist dialogue was spouted in some way. While racism does exist in this way, it would've been better shown in the movie the way it is more commonly seen, as a quiet, subtle gesture. It should've been a boiling kind of hatred, not an explosion of emotion. Sandra Bullock and Matt Dillon's characters were the biggest offenders.
 
I really didn't care for it. Ok, I get it: there are lots of ethnic groups who don't get along, the "melting pot" is a failure in many areas, blah blah blah. Tell me something I don't know, and for Pete's sake, don't take over two hours of melodramatic hand-wringing to do it.

I rented it for Don Cheadle and Matt Dillon, and their performances were good, but the whole thing just struck me as "made-for-Oscar social commentary self-important Hollywood celbrity group-hug." It doesn't bring any answers, it just points fingers.
 
I added it to my Netflix queue a while back but it won't be here for a while. Have to finish out the last season of Enterprise and about 9 other movies before it comes up.
 
Crash was absolutely awful. Boring, tired, cliches ridden pointless mess. The little laddie and I rented once, lost interest after the idiotic good cop/bad cop white cop/black cop garbage. Months later, on the recommendation of friends, we tried it again. A portion of life that is gone forever. Billions of electrons turned into waste heat.
 
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