Bashing "Crash"

Wow...I loved it. Seriously, I did. It was very entertaining to see how the story twists and how the characters made their turns.

I'm not sure what those reviewers wanted from the movie.

Crash was a good movie. Its racial politics weren't perfect, but it was well written and kept my attention, which is really hard since I dislike 90% of movies. Somebody took a stab at portraying race/racism in American. They made a good movie that touched on many of the issues related to racism with some hits and misses.

Not to call people out, but part of the reason so many folks are Crash bashing is that there are so few contemporary movies that dare to go there. It is an easy target.

this was the only movie I saw all of last year that made me see the world different upon leaving the teather AND .. still stayed in my thoughts a week later ... Hate if you want but it was a good movie and deserved better than to be a also-ran.

http://songz.blogspot.com/2006/03/crash-worst-movie-of-2005.html

I think most of the criticisms levied at Crash are pretty apt, but I still thought it was a really good film - great acting, cinematography, and I liked the general drift of the script. It's difficult to argue with a gut physical reaction to a movie - sadness, shock, pride, worry. Many people seem to have felt only a cool contempt for its heavy-handedness... but I was *moved*.

I enjoyed Crash, as well. It was smart enough to give you something to think about and interesting enough to just be enjoyed.

And I thought Ludacris did well in a role that was limited enough for his lack of acting experience to not get in the way.

Clyde

I really liked the movie. It held my attention, and that's a difficult thing to do. I don't understand all of this negative energy being generated from its win.

gay is the new black, dont you know. seriously, people sick of racsim stories, its been done to death. on all the blogs you see the real america cause these fools hind behing their made up identities and spew their ral feelings without fear of being brought to task. Still, lets not act like its easy for gays. Crash was a great movie though.

I'm going to be honest here... Crash didn't do much for me, in the least. It attempted to do way too many things at once, it's a mess, totally disorganized and COMPLETELY contrived. I can't believe this movie won Best Picture.

I'm also pretty surprised that Crash won Best Picture. It said little aside from "racism exists", and that coloured people are a means by which white people can have personal revelations. I was really not impressed. I'd like to see a movie that deals with a more subtle form of racism... perhaps it's naive, but I don't believe that prejudice is usually so in your face, which makes it all the more dangerous.

To me, giving Crash Best Picture was a way for the Academy to ignore Brokeback Mountain and still feel good about themselves for picking an "issue" film. Boo.

I liked it.

But more importantly I think the critics wrongly (and purposefully) draw the wrong conclusions.

A lot of folks were mad @ the Dillon character having to save Thandie Newton's character. They seem to think that the film redeemed Dillon because after molesting her, he saved her.

To come away from that scene thinking that, says a lot more about the critic than it does about the film.

the movie was trite. its just an OK movie and i think the reason people are bashing it because although it was a "good try", good tries should not win oscars.

i finally rented this movie when it went to DVD after all the hype and people (like previous posters), saying things like, "i felt changed after i saw the movie". i felt changed alright. pissed off and $5 lighter in my wallet.

the movie had a lot of potential but seemed to go for the "safe" ending. anyone who's had to deal with in-your-face racism knows that rarely, if ever, is there a neat bow to tie everything up.

I'm kind of shocked at all of the hate toward "Crash". I found it was a good movie, even though it could have used some better character development.

What I am shocked about is "Hustle & Flow" getting all of this acclaim. I didn't think it was hot like that at all. And Three Six Mafia getting "Best Song"???

I'm one of many who didn't like the film, though my reasoning is slighty different. Not only did "Crash" not cover new ground, it did it in the most uninspiring way. There is a difference between racism and prejudice. This movie is about the latter, NOT the former, as it totally ignored the effects of white privilege and took the "hey guys, ANYONE can be racist!" approach. It's a lot deeper than random folks colliding and shouting racial epithets at each other over a soft piano.

Crash was a great movie not for the feelings it brought to the table but in the way it presented that material it was not affraid to touch on. Be it in a none meaningful way or not.

The thing about Hustle and Flow is that it was so well written and acted. It was about particular, idiosyncratic people. These were specific, flawed characters that were developed in a very specific way. I know what I'm writing reads as redundant, but I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that was about people and not archetypes or just a compsite of personality traits.

I'd be willing to bet that most folks who see Crash's carefully-constructed scenarios of racially-charged interactions as "contrived" are not people who agree that race plays a deep and central role in how Americans relate to each other.

If there are 6 degrees of separation between every person, Crash takes place within a version of this country based on only 1 degree of separation. Yes, this is a cinematic device, but should that undermine the validity of its analysis of race and how it affects the relationships people have? No, absolutely not. Race works in complex ways, and it took a movie with a cast of 76 characters whose lives are put into a bottle and shaken up vigorously to accurately depict the ways that race hurts all Americans.

And what the heck is "irrelevancy"? Nothing minimizes the impact of accusing something of "irrelevance" like bombastically adding an extra syllable to the word.

str8 banga!

embryo,

You have faded into irrelevancy by demonstrating your lack of understanding twice now.

"I'd be willing to bet that most folks who see Crash's carefully-constructed scenarios of racially-charged interactions as "contrived" are not people who agree that race plays a deep and central role in how Americans relate to each other."

So now I'm supposed to like this movie because I'm racist (or not progressive enough) if I don't? Sorry, that won't work on this guy. And anyone it would work on probably already likes this movie anyway. You can care a lot about "the deep and central role of race" without liking righteous and shallow movies about it. You sound like a Republican insinuating that his critics are "unamerican."

I didn't say you had to like it, nor did I make any assertions about anyone who did or did not like the film. I was only addressing the idea of it being contrived, suggesting that the relationships-on-hyperdrive that seem to provoke such a response are an artistic reflection of reality, not an ideological construction. I take it that you disagree.

I completely agree with the Salon.com quote and the commenters Melissa and EncyclopediaBrown. After hearing all the critical acclaim, I couldn't believe how bad and off-point this movie was when I finally saw it. I almost didn't even finish the movie I thought the first 15 minutes were so bad. I've never been so out of the loop from others WRT my opinion on a creative work. Maybe it's me?

I'll put it this way .. Since my statement of being changed seems not to be the way everyone feels about this movie... Did any of the other movies in this catagory do ANY better in terms of making you think.. There was alot I felt could be changed in the movie that would have tailored it to fit what I liked more about it, but in the end the movie was THE ONLY ONE FOR ME... let me stress for ME that made any type of impact. I felt Brokeback Mtn to be more a film geared to win this award instead of a movie that was to be viewed by the people that go in to sit and watch it. And because of that it didn't illict any type of feeling in me other than.. well that was a well made movie.

I celebrate the fact that almost every critic is up in arms about the movie since none of the ill will given the movie was expressed until it was time for the awards.

But thats my opinion and for once the Oscar went to a choice I made instead of the one the critics made for me. And that is all us regular non-expert movie goers ask for these days.

Crash is a decent movie but shallow,short,corny,and cheesy at da same moment academy award deserving?? NO even brokeback mountain and especialy munich were more deserving or the movie that was snubbed in my view sin city three better more deserving movies 2 nominated one not desered to win over sentimental crash just proves the academy is out of touch AGAIN.

All those critcs are gays that wanted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to win hahahaha !!!

I really disliked the movie Crash. All the characters were simplified cliches whose one dimension was being racist. The movies message seemed to be a straight "don't be racist", which is a good message, but wasn't portrayed very effectively. I feel like the truth is that most people are racist to a degree (like having stereotypes and subconsciously applying them, sometimes fed to them by the media through movies like Crash), and aren't in-your-face racist. The movie should have tried to tackle the intricacies of negative race relations and how to resolve them in America, and not just try to point them out.

But props to the movie for playing a clip from this dope L.A. underground rap group called Move.meant from the song "Str8 Up & Down" during a Ludacris acting scene.

I can't believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $23357. Isn't that crazy!