All the parts that weren't crap
Getting over a bit of being sick, finally took some time to watch the supposedly-best-picture-of-the-year last year, Crash. In light of the accolades it has received, I was awestruck by how bad it was.
And for once, I found some comfort in the fact that a great many people on IMDB agreed with me. Rather than waste more keystrokes on it, I'll just quote the best user comment I found there. I really don't see how I could come up with anything better than this:
I really liked all the parts that weren't crap5 March 2006
1/10
Author: GuyMourning from United States
you could either watch crash or eat a big pile of crap. As I mentioned, before, I found this movie insulting for all the intelligent people who watched, the blatant stolen concept from the film Mangolia made me want to pee all over the film and jump up and down on it. Killing the creators would not be enough, not until everyone that took part of this film is dead, well this injustice be almost pardoned. I found the smell of the box, to be ugly, and I found the directing to be glossy. I feel as if the world doesn't know the deference between a good film and a pile of crap. If you like this movie, you are now stupid and should, spend the rest of the afternoon questioning your life, because you obviously don't have the basic intelligence to continue existing
I too, am in the minority when it comes to my opinion of "Crash" as a mediocre movie...and one that does not carry as noble as message as it deigns to on race (it carries a few hypocritical messages). I think it's a very myopic movie, very contrived, though of the very best level of contrived. It may have been a top 30 movie of the year, but not the BEST. I was shocked when it won!