"Crash" Appreciation Thread
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Crash was ALWAYS a solid 3.5-4/5 movie. Not a classic, not some thing you wanted to see multiple times(only seen it twice) but good. That was pretty much the consensus from everyone.
It wasn't until AFTER it won best picture over Brokeback mountain Till all the revionist history started happening. Its the craziest flip ive ever seen in my life. You started people saying it sucked, worst movie to ever win best picture, terrible etc.
Acting like it was Soul plane
I couldn't give a fukk about the Oscars or Brokeback Mountain. Look, I just hate films that (a) are clearly made with the purpose of winning awards and (b) I hate 'important' films that are so 'moral' and 'serious' they are extremely self-indulgent and massively up their own arse. 'Crash' falls under both categories.
HookersandIceCream
#TeamOrange
One of the worst and most overrated movies ever
ThumpDaddy
All Star
I thought it was a good movie. Not a classic, but something that I could watch over and over again and catch little things here and there. So many different charaters interacting with each other. It was just a good film.
If you live in cali you have an even better feel of it than most other people cause its like shyt we deal with everyday.
that was a good or at least decent movie, if u say its bad ur just hatin. wtf was "bad" about it
dontreadthis
philly.
right, I don't get how you can justify calling it a bad movie.
was it non-sensical? was it poor acting? unbelievable premise? somebody tell me...
It was full of cliches and horrible scripting, but that aside, from a political standpoint, it was reactionary and stupid because the basic message was "hey, look, we're all racist and have our prejudices, and they're all the same at the end of the day, so we're all equally to blame." It completely ignored and downplayed real, structural racism and white privilege/supremacy- the primary inequalities that shape American society. This is one of the ultimate strategies of modern racist ideology.
c/s
I don't know what people see in this flick. Its so forced. A white runs into a mexican-lets have them argue. A black runs into a white- let's have them argue. A asian runs into a... You get the picture.
The film was written by two dudes from NY and really they should've filmed that shyt in NY because we don't agrue like that out here in LA. Everybody is in their cars most of the time. Plus you know I couldn't stand those c00n characters Tate & Luda played
Daniel.
BK to NJ, but always a New York Knicka
I don't understand what was "forced" or how a movie meant to touch on this kind of topic could've been more subtle. It's a good story to tell. I didn't view it as preachy or beating you over the head with some idea of everyone being racist and how we're all the same deep down, but that's just me 
We have the racist white cop, feeling up a black woman and essentially LOOKING to fukk with the black couple....while dealing with an ailing father, and ultimately SAVING that woman.
We have a black film director having to deal with being looked at as an uncle tom....and eventually snapping on a black male, touching on what some would describe as "self hate".....
We have the golden boy cop that was so disgusted by the aforementioned cop...but ultimately ended up killing someone because of the same prejudices he had, but clearly held inside.
And one of my favorite parts of the movie is having the one person that can probably be perceived as a bad person the most, just being a blue collar dude trying to get by in the key repairman.
I could see SOME parts being cliche but honestly, that didn't take away shyt for me. There were a lot of great characters and seeing them develop/regress was great.
Some of the commentary on this is just.....
We have the racist white cop, feeling up a black woman and essentially LOOKING to fukk with the black couple....while dealing with an ailing father, and ultimately SAVING that woman.
We have a black film director having to deal with being looked at as an uncle tom....and eventually snapping on a black male, touching on what some would describe as "self hate".....
We have the golden boy cop that was so disgusted by the aforementioned cop...but ultimately ended up killing someone because of the same prejudices he had, but clearly held inside.
And one of my favorite parts of the movie is having the one person that can probably be perceived as a bad person the most, just being a blue collar dude trying to get by in the key repairman.
I could see SOME parts being cliche but honestly, that didn't take away shyt for me. There were a lot of great characters and seeing them develop/regress was great.
Some of the commentary on this is just.....
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Crash was ALWAYS a solid 3.5-4/5 movie. Not a classic, not some thing you wanted to see multiple times(only seen it twice) but good. That was pretty much the consensus from everyone.
It wasn't until AFTER it won best picture over Brokeback mountain Till all the revionist history started happening. Its the craziest flip ive ever seen in my life. You started people saying it sucked, worst movie to ever win best picture, terrible etc.
Acting like it was Soul plane
Soul Plane is better because it somewhat accomplished what it set out to be, which is a goofy, Blaxploitation throwback comedy.
Crash was meant to make you go
but if you have any actual experience or knowledge of different cultures and societal norms/racial relations it should make you go 