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."
Crash had its problems, and did sort of crash (no pun intended) and burn in places. I felt the characters were compelling, especially Matt Dillon's, and the dialog was very good. The ending was a little abrupt.