Film: Crash (2004)

[cravNbeets]

^^care to expound on how you thought this film was manipulative?

 

[mariacallas]

Goddamn I just saw this , my sister lent me her vcd.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time, and completely blown away.
Wow.

 

[malachi305]

[btw as an old punk, circa 77 I can tell you that Henry Rollins is as much a punk as Fred Durst is a rapper]

this is the most hilarious thing i've ever read. props.

 

[L O V E L I F E]

I thought Crash was excellent and give it 3.5 stars out of 4.0 on the LL-O-Meter.

With that said . . .

. . . I saw Do The Right Thing in the theatre on Opening Night . . .

. . . Do The Right Thing was revolutionary and remains to this day one of the ten most rewatchable movies of all time . . .

. . . Do The Right Thing was a friend of mine . . .

. . . Crash . . . you're no Do The Right Thing.

 

[Banquo]

a very good movie. the snowfall seemed like a pretty big rip-off of the Magnolia frog storm. or was it an homage?

 

[mariacallas]

^^^^ lmao i highly doubt it...

 

[L O V E L I F E]

the snowfall seemed like a pretty big rip-off of the Magnolia frog storm.

Agreed.

or was it an homage?

If so, then I suppose Denis Leary's entire career is an homage.

 

[Belisarius]

I just saw it tonight on DVD, and loved it. Absolutely loved it, though I saw it at its core as relentlessly pessimistic--and realistic. There really aren't any good guys or bad guys.

For simple strength, I still think Brokeback edges out over it, but it's close, IMO.

 

[m885]

Wow, what a great movie. I didn't see it until after it won the Oscar, but now I can see why.

 

[LiveIllegal]

What the fuck? This movie is pretentious, unoriginal, corny, and cliched (Shaniqua Johnson?!). Why that dumbass kid wouldn't just tell duke what was in his pocket before he got himself shot, I don't get. Okay, the movie wasn't horrible, but it's wayyy overrated. I can't believe people find this movie so thought-provoking. I'm shelving this with American History X.

 

[Web]

All I can say is, I'm glad I didn't spend any money to see this piece of shit.

 

[L O V E L I F E]

I'm shelving this with American History X.

Perhaps you didn't quite appreciate American History X because you missed the first nine prequels.

 

[socko]

Hated it. It was pedantic and preachy. iT didn't even have a plot. Just a bunch of sketches thrown together. One of the worst moves of 2005. Even war of the worlds was better. I felt like I was watching a 2 hour "Just Say No" commercial.

 

[121]

Hated it. It was pedantic and preachy. iT didn't even have a plot. Just a bunch of sketches thrown together. One of the worst moves of 2005. Even war of the worlds was better. I felt like I was watching a 2 hour "Just Say No" commercial.

with you there. Goddamn. I didn't haaaate it, but it isn't as good as it thinks it is, or it wants to tell us it is. The whole first scene with Don Chidle narrating, what the fuck? They never came back to the car crash, and they put in that incredibly stupid fight with the asian woman for no reason. So much of the film felt like the writers thought up as many racial stereotypes they could find and threw them in the film. Like when Chidle is having a fight with the hispanic woman who points out she isn't Mexican. He says "who taught all those diverse cultures to park their cars on the lawn." What the fuck? That line felt forced and is, i'd say, the problem with the whole film.

The whole third act was awful. Accompanied by a manipulative boring sappy new age soundtrack the film sets out to shock its audience as hard as possible, no matter how incredibly unbelievable or forced these scenes feel. Instead of feeling powerful, so many of the scenes at the end feel like they're screaming "THIS IS A POWERFUL SCENE" at me. And worse than that, the scenes that are meant to be powerful and shocking were predictable. Of course Chidle was going to take his position, of course the black kid that gets killed was his brother, of course that black kid was going to get killed by Ryan Philipe (otherwise it wouldn't be ironic!), and of course Matt Dillon was going to end up saving that woman's life.

The soundtrack fucking sucks too. Listen when the mexican gives his daughter the cloak; the soundtrack is so cheap and sappy it almost ruins the whole scene

I agree with the first review in this thread tho, the first two acts were very good, and overall I don't know if I'd say the film was horrible, but it wasn't great, and it wasn't better than Brokeback. The characters weren't characters, they were stereotypes (as said earlier, shaniqua johnson?). Really, it just sounded like a rich WHITE Hollywood fuck who jerks off to how hot his intelligence and social consciousness is jizzed on a script and made a movie.

ps- serious comparisons to Do The Right Thing? Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[wizekrak]

I thought the whole idea was to take the stereotypes and show the flipside as well. That even though things appear a certain way everything is shades of grey. I also thought the "park their cars on the lawn" bit was one of the funniest lines in the movie.

I enjoyed the multiple angles and subplots, probably for the same reasons I enjoyed Syriana and Traffic.

They did come back to the car crash, wasn't that where they found Chidle's brother's body?

Guess you can't please everybody.

 

[dapurpman]

caught this shit on cable last night, i dug it. i live in the valley they talk about in the movie, ventura blvd. etc and on the real im one of the few negroids around this motherfucker! and experienced police brutality at the age of 11 by white pigs n' harrasment numerous times in the 818, so while i say it was overrated the director/writer definetly kept it real and i give it 4 stars

 

[vibr8tor]

I'm glad that there are some negative posts in this thread. I didn't much care for it either. I just saw it last night, and found it to be way too far fetched and preachy. I'm glad I didn't see it in the theatre.