Yes, but they have planned a sequel...
Posted on 03/05/2006 8:49:15 PM PST by paudio
The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner.
"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.
In a year of provocative films at the Oscars, "Crash" was one of the fiercest, a portrait of simmering racial and cultural tension among blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians and Arabs.
The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.
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Is Matt gay?
Haha!
SLAY me with your insight and logic, my superior one!
Wow, you decry my opinion by opining merely that I am 'ignorant'.
If that's the best you can come up with, I think I'm doing pretty good on the ignorant/smart scale.
Why are you so happy about Crash? It was leftist Hollywood trash too. The moral was about how racist Amerikkka is....
To Hell with Hollywood.
He directed "Ride with the Devil", about the Missouri border war. It was an EXCELLENT movie. Best cinematic re-enactment of Quantrill's attack on Lawrence , Kansas I've ever seen. So he knows something.
Damnit- they were sheepherders.
If 'decent' means leftist propoganda, I gues you're right.
effed again. What can I say.
Yah, that's right on.
JFK did make stuff up to turn it into a drama, no doubt, but the reason it did that was to throw all that stuff up there, to bring it to awareness. Like you said, it's not a documentary.
It always surprises me the amount of so-called 'conservatives' that can't evaluate a drama as a drama. I don't quite get it. They seem to want everything to be a documentary.
That said, I'm heartened by the amoung of people here that understood 'Crash' was actually a movie that made a lot of points conservatives should agree with.
they were sheepherders, NOT COWBOYS...
Reminds me of the difference between a brown-nose and a butt-kisser...dept perception.
Honestly, I don't even think the leftists want that piece of crap.
Easily one of Oliver Stone's worst, most self-indulgent films. An embarassment.
It's a 'conservative' position to believe that Oswald didn't kill JFK, and that ultraliberal Lyndon Baines Johnson (the single worst president we've ever had, IMHO) would try to cover it up?
Okkkkkkk.....
His son is right.
I'll second that.
I FULLY expected it to be a Liberal racial sermon, all white men are evil wet dream, but I rented it anyway on the advice of Neil Boortz. I was VERY surprised.
It deserved to win. Hollywood got one right.
King Kong was one of a few movies I wrote down to see during the oscars....along with Walk The Line.
I own Crash and have watched it 3 times....absolutely brilliant scenes but found the overall point hard to fathom.
Torie offered this fine analysis:
"Crash seems to go nowhere while it actually does go somewhere. It treats the issue of where prejudice ends and humanity begins."
Yes, but they have planned a sequel...
It sounds a little like going to watch Les Miserables except that instead of Jean Valjean coming clean during the trial of the man who is accused of being him, Jean Valjean sits silently by and lets the man who is guilty of other crimes go to jail for him. Then Valjean lives happily ever after. Speaking for myself, that is not the type of movie plot I would enjoy watching.
If you think that was the message of Crash...you are far too young to be allowed to see it.
I look beyond the political implications of a movie.
That doesn't make me better or worse than you. It's just the way I see it.
JFK was decent entertainment. That's all I can say about it.
Maybe you should actually 'see' the movie before you decide what kind of movie it is.
Because you clearly don't have a clue.
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