I loved it!
2006-06-27 07:03:11 · 10 answers · asked by Jewel 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
An outstanding film. I was so pleased it won best picture over BBM, which I feel was a story that 90% of the country didn't want to see or hear, I know I didn't.
Excellent ensemble cast and well acted, but there is good cause for criticism for it's highly stereotypical and two-dimensional characters . But I believe it does a great job to remind us that we're FAR from living in a colorblind society and that we've still a long way to go to get there.
2006-06-30 12:15:57 · answer #1 · answered by chairman_of_the_bored_04 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't like it, and wrote a little about why on my blog.
It is too forced, contrived, and stilted to really work as a serious drama. All the characters spout racist comments not because it is what they would naturally do as characters, but because the film is about racism and the screenplay requires that they do so.
For instance, in the aftermath of a car crash that opens the film, a woman from South America accuses the Chinese woman driver of the other car of not being able to drive because she's an Oriental. The Chinese woman angrily levels a similar race-based insult at her. Would either of these women really behave this way at an accident scene, belligerently exchanging racial comments? Highly doubtful. The same contrived insincerity glares out when a black male cop (Don Cheadle) makes a comment to his Hispanic lover about her culture "parking cars on their lawns." Say what? And the film is stuffed with scenes like this that do not ring true, incidents that are glaringly false, and coincidence stretched beyond believeability.
What "Crash" does have going for it is an excellent ensemble cast, including Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser in roles of a type they have seldom, if ever, tackled before. But the great cast does not make up for shallow plot contrivance.
2006-06-27 17:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by spark_writer66 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I enjoyed both of them very much. The Oscar winning one was a great movie on social commentary, and the David Cronenburg one about car wrecks and soft core porn was amusing yet mildly disturbing.
2006-06-27 14:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by dan h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it S****D... And I could not even watch it. The parts that I did see were so bad I yelled at my hubby and said, "How can you watch that? " His reply was it is only a movie my reply... But crap like that happens all the time and it is SICK........ So he was sweet enough to turn it off. Trashy movie. But then if you like that style of entertainment, I just know I don't...
2006-06-27 18:37:31 · answer #4 · answered by ~ Rio ~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a great movie, the story wasn't really an original, but overall it was well acted and directed
2006-06-27 14:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by Patricia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did, I thought it was a pretty good movie, I liked the actors in it, like Terrance Howard and Ryan Phillippe!
2006-06-27 18:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by Redbird 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's one of the best movies I've seen.
2006-06-27 14:12:29 · answer #7 · answered by gabby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was a great movie and I highly reccomend it.
2006-06-27 14:06:32 · answer #8 · answered by N8ball88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah it was good very interesting
2006-06-27 14:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by maggiejp2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes was great!
2006-06-27 18:08:21 · answer #10 · answered by jason 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋