Crash

myrrh · #1 09-20-2005, 07:35 AM

I rented and watched Crash last night. And loved it.

These kinds of movies are my favorites. That is the kind where the character's are positively changed throughout the movie, by the events that happen within the movie.

If you haven't seen this yet, I highly recommend that you do so.

adam · #2 09-20-2005, 07:40 AM

Yeah, I saw it twice in the theatre. My favorite scene is when the TV producer loses it in front of the cops.

Animal Boything · #3 09-22-2005, 06:20 PM

There was a thread about this a while ago... but yeah, best film I've seen in years.

patrick · #4 09-22-2005, 06:26 PM

damn right... it was really amazing. it reminds me a lot of a movie i have seen before but i can't remember what it is right now... just one of those things where lots of little plot lines work together and meet in cool ways, but not huge/obvious ways at the end... the writer was brilliant!

b.miller · #5 09-23-2005, 01:51 AM

the movie sort of resembles another ensemble piece made a few years ago called Playing by Heart that dealt more with relationships in different forms rather than race but... yeah this is the one where Ryan Phillipe spends the whole movie wanting to NOT sleep with Angelina Jolie...

but you know... best movie in years? I mean... not gonna like, try and talk you out of liking the movie or anything but... how many movies do you see per year? :P

Magnolia, Short Cuts, and Me, You, and Everyone We Know all sort of follow this character-tapestry pattern... it's sort of almost a sub-genre.

Animal Boything · #6 09-23-2005, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by b.miller

Magnolia, Short Cuts, and Me, You, and Everyone We Know all sort of follow this character-tapestry pattern... it's sort of almost a sub-genre.

I'm not saying it's good because it's so fresh and new, I don't actually care about that, and I agree that it isn't. There are other movies like this. Usually I'm not that into them. It's just a simple matter of a great script, a great cast, great cinematography, great editing... it's a flawlessly constructed film. It's that all these plotlines are happening and it WORKS. That's the great thing. By way of contrast, I hated Magnolia. We've had that thread before, though, so I don't wanna get into it.