Crash Sucks

I saw Crash at a free preview two weeks before it was released. I walked out thinking two things; one was that the movie was about as subtle as a sledgehammer and two that it was an unoriginal piece of crap.

One of David Spade's best jokes from the hollywood minute sketch on SNL went something like this: "Casino, Ca-seen-it! But I liked it better when it was called Goodfellas." This is how I felt about Crash. Ca-seen-it but I liked better when it was called Grand Canyon, or Short Cuts, or Magnolia, or Falling Down or any of the other dozens of L.A. stories that have come out in the last twenty years.(Hell there was even another movie called Crash about people who were turned on by car crashes, so the name is even unoriginal.) Some of the themes in the movie were: that we are all racists that should feel horrible about ourselves. That the LAPD is a racist and corrupt organization. That people who live in L.A. are all alienated and disaffected from their fellow human beings. This is groundbreaking stuff, huh.

I walked out of the movie thinking that the movie was disappointing but ultimately harmless because no one sees movies with Sandra Bullock in them anymore. Then it won the SAG award and I thought to myself uh-oh. The Academy award only proves to me that Hollywood pushes out so much crap every year that celebrating mediocrity is their only recourse. They have made their bed now they have to wallow in it.

Unfortunately, Crash was the only best picture nominee that I saw so I cannot comment on the rest of them but if this won they must have sucked.

Speaking of mediocrity check out that cast list Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillipe, Matt Dillon, Ludacris! There was more melodrama in this movie then a junior high girls locker room. I wondered how Don Cheadle got involved but his game has been a little off since he put on that horrible cockney accent in Ocean's 11. Terrance Howard is good in it but he just strikes me as the black Benicio Del Toro. I mean I've never seen those two in the same room so they could be the same people.


Separated at birth?

To sum up, Crash sucked.


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