Crash
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Originally Posted by tenblade2001,Nov 9 2005, 07:33 PM
I watched it several times. It's one of the most thought provoking movies to come out in years. It did an excellent job examining not only race relations, but more importantly looking at what makes a person prejudice or "racist".
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Lets be realistic here. Crash was an average movie at best. The only thing worth mentioning about the movie is the acting. I'd definitely say the acting was pretty good.
But the movie is heavily flawed. First, too many big name actors are packed into this long-winded movie. There is no hardly any character development at all. No sense in the writers introducing all the extra main characters if they dont spend more than 10 minutes developing their character. I felt that many of the performances were in vain due to the clutter in the script. Case in point, Sandra Bullock had a pretty decent 7 minute showing in the film...too bad nothing ever happens with her character other than her freaking out.
As far as being hailed a great movie about race relations, racism, etc--I don't see how any can view this movie as realistic. I think that some of the viewpoints are justified, but they are beat to death and over sensationalized in the film. I personally felt they tried to squeeze every drop out of the racism motif and just really over did it. I mean, race relations in America aren't perfect, but they arent as bad as things were in past decades. And the movie just seems that even though we live in the 2000s, race relations are still like they were in the 60's--just not true.
The only people I can think would actually enjoy this movie are people who support political correctness and are hyper-sensitive to racial issues. I personally would have like to see a motif such as racism put into a film with another context. For example, use it along with other motifs to tell a story rather than base a movie around a lot of famous people that just flounders and makes a lot of ridiculous and overblown assumptions about racism in American society.
Before I get flamed with comments that I'm racist or other ridiculous accusations, watch the movie again and ask yourself, is this an accurate depiction of Racism in America? Is this movie realistic in terms of racism that we see every day? The reason I ask is that I have never encountered nor seen anything in my life that remotely equates to events that are exposed in the movie. The worst racism I've been exposed to are racial slurs used in hip hop songs, which of course for some reason aren't considered racial slurs because they are written by African Americans themselves...But we'll never see a movie about that.
I think overall, that I was most disappointed in this movie because everybody and their grandmother hailed this as film of the year and all the other press it got. And I was really let down--this was one of those movies that I tried really hard to like, but just couldnt. And in retrospect, I believe I'd appreciate the movie more if I didnt think it had such high marks.
But the movie is heavily flawed. First, too many big name actors are packed into this long-winded movie. There is no hardly any character development at all. No sense in the writers introducing all the extra main characters if they dont spend more than 10 minutes developing their character. I felt that many of the performances were in vain due to the clutter in the script. Case in point, Sandra Bullock had a pretty decent 7 minute showing in the film...too bad nothing ever happens with her character other than her freaking out.
As far as being hailed a great movie about race relations, racism, etc--I don't see how any can view this movie as realistic. I think that some of the viewpoints are justified, but they are beat to death and over sensationalized in the film. I personally felt they tried to squeeze every drop out of the racism motif and just really over did it. I mean, race relations in America aren't perfect, but they arent as bad as things were in past decades. And the movie just seems that even though we live in the 2000s, race relations are still like they were in the 60's--just not true.
The only people I can think would actually enjoy this movie are people who support political correctness and are hyper-sensitive to racial issues. I personally would have like to see a motif such as racism put into a film with another context. For example, use it along with other motifs to tell a story rather than base a movie around a lot of famous people that just flounders and makes a lot of ridiculous and overblown assumptions about racism in American society.
Before I get flamed with comments that I'm racist or other ridiculous accusations, watch the movie again and ask yourself, is this an accurate depiction of Racism in America? Is this movie realistic in terms of racism that we see every day? The reason I ask is that I have never encountered nor seen anything in my life that remotely equates to events that are exposed in the movie. The worst racism I've been exposed to are racial slurs used in hip hop songs, which of course for some reason aren't considered racial slurs because they are written by African Americans themselves...But we'll never see a movie about that.
I think overall, that I was most disappointed in this movie because everybody and their grandmother hailed this as film of the year and all the other press it got. And I was really let down--this was one of those movies that I tried really hard to like, but just couldnt. And in retrospect, I believe I'd appreciate the movie more if I didnt think it had such high marks.
