Monday, October 16, 2006

Crash and United 93

I finally watched Crash and Flight 93.

If I may be frank, Crash sucked. I kept waiting for whatever was so great in this movie that was hailed to happen but it never did.

Ludacris was great, he was the only good part of the movie. Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock and Keith David were wasted in all the hooey and anything with Tony Danza automatically loses credibility.

It was depressing, holy sheepshit was it Depressing. Who the Hell wants to escape into a movie to be utterly depressed?? I can watch more of the news channels if I want to be depressed, spare me the socio-cultural-economics in the movies I'm supposed to pay 10 bucks to see. I'm glad I didn't pay to see Crash, nothing like paying to walk out of a movie depressed.

Not a movie I would recommend and I'm sorry, I don't understand why it won awards.

Bleh.

United 93 was good but not what I expected. The one on A&E was actually better, I think. I read the 9/11 Commission Report, I read about all the mistakes that were made. The A&E movie focused more on the passengers and the families.

It was good though, this one I'm glad I have. You get so used to hearing the human end of it the emphasis on the technical end was different.

After those two, I had to go and watch Deuce Bigelow again, I needed a laugh.

Here fishy fishy fishy!

1. I rented Crash from Netflix after a lot of favourable reviews and the three(?) oscars.

   And it taught me something.

   Don’t trust reviews.

   A lot of people criticised the ‘too many coincidences’, but its a ‘Magnolia’ styled thing, so thats a bit like picking on Starship Troopers for having aliens.  There are so many other, better reasons to not like Crash.  It was rather blatant, from the heavily circled names/addresses on the dashboard of the shopkeepers car, to explicity showing the blanks in the store and so on.  And, of course, the overlying theme of “Racism is bad, m’kay” as presented by cliched characters.

   I haven’t seen any of the 9/11 movies.  Though I did notice ‘Meet the Feebles’ has just come out on DVD, so I might pick that up next.

    on  10/17  at  02:05 PM

2. Thought Crash was a little over-rated.. but in some ways shows the incompleteness of life. Redemption/conclusions are not part of it.
   United 93 was pretty damn good, beautiful telling of a story that could not have been done any better.

   The vacation was good ?

   SEV  on  10/17  at  05:06 PM

3. Can’t agree with you totally on Crash. I thought they could have done a lot more with Ryan Phillippe, but they totally wasted that character. Hate Sandra Bullock, but I think they made it that way, so you would really hate her.

   On the contrary I thought Don Cheadle’s character developed better than anyone elses. Definitely could have been a better movie and I think they tried a little too much to pull on hearstrings.

   Cris  on  10/20  at  03:54 AM
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