Crash

Really really really enjoyed this film. Havn't seen a good film like this since I watched The Island (oh saying that I really enjoyed Flight Plan!)

If you have a spare 2 hours and have a local video renting shop. Its worth a watch.

Action packed, all star cast, brilliant
 
Just watched this film and I thought it was brilliant. Had tears in my eyes a few times.

No wonder it won Oscars !!

I enjoyed it sooooo much I think I will watch it again later :)
 
Both BM & Crash qualify for best films of this decade so far. Both films are good because they do not pinpoint the difficult issues in life so boldly as in other films. e.g "I hate you because your gay, black, chinese etc" - and we are supposed to sympathise with the characters. BM and Crash goes a lot deeper than that, and thats what makes the films so good to watch.
 
Personally I'm glad it won over Brokeback Mountain, which I found average, and can't understand the backlash of it's oscar win. I thought Crash was the better movie of those two. However I think that Capote or Munich should have won best picture over both Crash and Brokeback...

I think Crash raised issues that needed to be raised. So did Brokeback, but less effectively than Crash.
 
I'd seen Crash and Brokeback Mountain and thought BM should've won the best picture oscar. It had a much bigger effect on me than Crash because of its choice of subject which hasn't been tackled in film before.
 
only saw crash recently. i did enjoy it and think it was very good - but despite all that, thought it could have been better - none of the characters were really fleshed out particularly - so in that sense i can see where people are coming from when they say it was simplified.

it actually reminded me of grand canyon - which wasn't specifically about racism, but the scene where danny glover broke down in the wrong part of town was arguably more involving and powerful than anything in crash.

Iain
 
I went to see Brokeback moutain a little while ago, whereas I saw Crash AGESSSS ago... & I agree that crash is the much better of the two films & definatly deserved the oscar... I was so thrilled when it won... It really was an amazing film... so amazing I bought it... LOL
 
I don't remember a film making such an impact on me as Crash. I still remember it vividly and I've only seen it once (inflight movie too).

I'll be buying it - I'm forcing everyone to do the same :)

Can't wait to see it again
 
I thought both movies were fantastic,, excellently made and excellently acted. I think they both raised very topical issues in society and made the audience take a look at themselves and how they would react in those situations. Had it been left up to me I would have found it difficult to pick one over the other for best movie.
 
I havent seen BM yet and will post my comments about it on here when I do.

But getting back to Crash, I loved the way the film was put together.

The scence where he rescues her from the car had me riveted!!

And this brings me upto my 1000th post :D
 
I loved Crash too.
It was so layereed, and it really made you think about racism from a different perspective.

In that movie everyone was in some way prejudiced of someone else.

I cried so much through that film, it really moved me, and afterwarRAB it stayed with me a longtime. What upset me was that I had this sense that the World is always going to be so corrupt and there really is nothing we will ever be able to do to stop people being racist.
It left me with a feeling of hopelessness and I felt sad for humanity.


BM, I really enjoyed too. It was a very different feel, in a way it was sort of claustraphobic too in the sense that the two guys seemed to be condemned to a life that neither of them wanted.

I felt so sad after watching this movie too, my God what must it be like to have meet the love of your life and not to be able to spend time with them and to always know they are out there really feeling the same way. I think it would kill me. There was such a sense of loss and pain in this film it really touched my heart.

I loved both films, I think perhaps the better movie won, but honestly they both had an impact on me.
 
This is pretty interesting... Crash obviously really moved some people and left others, like me, totally cold. I too found it unbearably contrived filled with one-dimensional characters. It came off as a school play to me, written by an over-earnest student. Nothing rang true (the early scene between the two black people walking in the white neighbourhood has to go down as one of the worst conceived and executed scenes in a supposedly serious movie ever).

Not to mention all the films it ripped off, especially Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (even down to the tainted movie producer character!)

I really wanted to like it...

For me, a far braver and three-dimensional film on racisim was American History X, inexplicably disowned by director Tony Kaye.
 
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