Reply #23: One of the worst movies I've ever seen... [View All]

[LiberalGuy000]

Unbelievable. All I can think is that The Academy didn't want to upset Red-State America by choosing "Brokeback Mountain".

"Crash", in my opinion, was incredibly difficult to watch - not because of the subject content, but because it was so poorly presented. Impossible situations, inane dialogue, and seriously unlikeable characters made me want to walk out of the theater before the movie was over.

I agree with much of what Erik Lundegaard (movie critic) says about "Crash" in this MSNBC article:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11480804/page/2/

Here's part of what he says:

“Crash” has another big problem. It assumes that by showing us the two extremes of a single character it’s giving us a full character. Don Cheadle’s character dismisses his mother and then cares for her; Matt Dillon’s character humiliates a black woman and then risks his life to save her; Ryan Phillippe’s character goes out of his way to rescue an armed black man and then shoots an unarmed black man because of a racial assumption. But two extremes are not a full character. They’re just extremes. “Crash” raises important issues but in the end it gives us no clarity; it just gives us more noise.

The Academy should be ashamed.