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Title: Crash
Post by: Esnel Pla on September 05, 2005, 05:37:48 AM
As I am poor, I am just now seeing the movie Crash in dollar theatres, and apparently the DVD is coming out really soon...

Holy. Crap.

I haven't seen a new movie this good in a LOOONG time. Holds more kinetic energy than a frog on a frisby, as suspenseful and nerve-racking as anything I've seen, and just really over all powerful.

Hell of a cast too. Tony Danza and Ludacris.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on September 05, 2005, 09:28:10 AM
I didn't even know of this movie...  :tired
"Crash" you say?  Gonna have to read about it...
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 05, 2005, 11:10:03 AM
Interestingly, most of the reviewers I read hated it.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Helena on September 05, 2005, 11:16:25 AM
Well, reviewers r Jerks. Everyone listens to them, but I don't because most of the time I've found that movies that r horrible they think r good, and vice versa.

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Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 05, 2005, 12:26:05 PM
Usually I check out teh IGN guys first. They're about in line with my tastes, honestly.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Qualtagh on September 05, 2005, 03:53:29 PM
I'm going to see it very soon.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Esnel Pla on September 05, 2005, 04:51:49 PM
The reviewers at IGN are uneducated chicken-shits. Jeff Otto panned the movie with the most idiotic of reasons, namely, having something other than a straight 3-act narrative, having too many characters in a film in which depicts a society as a whole, and over-exagerated racism, which it did not.

This is more a film in which racism is shown as distrust rather than anger. A toned down Do the Right Thing, for our audiences, with just as much irony and comedy.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 05, 2005, 06:30:41 PM
Well, you certainly get passionate, don'tcha. ;)

Just saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith. That was fun popcorn.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Mageknight Locke on September 06, 2005, 01:29:05 PM
i cant stand any movie with that BEEPing BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP angelina jolie, arrogant stuck up tart that she is, i just want to perform a pre-mortuum autopsy on her  :mwaha
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 06, 2005, 02:09:51 PM
I think she's kinda hot... which isn't the only reason to watch her movies... but it helps.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Destina Faroda on September 06, 2005, 10:33:02 PM
Crash is a good movie that is acted superbly and written in a way that is both realistic and examines the layers of racial and ethnic prejudice without being heavy handed or morally dogmatic, but there are a few flaws in this movie's writing that robs it from being great.  In trying to wrap up the threads of some of its characters, some of the ends go in completely unrealistic directions.  Still, even if it does not acheive the lofty status it aims for, it does tell and important story, one that must be watched.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Esnel Pla on September 07, 2005, 12:04:22 PM
No movie is perfect, the film is great.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 07, 2005, 01:57:26 PM
Well I agree that no movie is perfect, there'sa lot of movie that reach fantastic. Great and fanatstic are not the same thing ;)
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Destina Faroda on September 08, 2005, 01:57:55 PM
Yeah, I tend to hold films that are serious and try to be good to a much higher standard than I do less brainly, more "blockbuster" stlye films.   When something that tries to be good disappoints, it's more painful than watching Batman and Robin.  (On a side note, a blockbuster picture like Wild Wild West is even more painful than one that tries to be good.)  Crash didn't disappoint as I thought the movie would be merely okay.  It just didn't live up to its potential from what I saw.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 08, 2005, 02:20:43 PM
Ugh, Batman and Robin is shit. I am ashamed to own that movie.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Mageknight Locke on September 09, 2005, 03:20:11 PM
batman and robin is just proof that just putting big names in a movie doesnt mean its good
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Destina Faroda on September 09, 2005, 06:46:54 PM
Batman and Robin is bad movie, but it's not completely unenjoyable, or even that much of a disappointment compared to some films I've seen.  I mean they cast AHNULD as Mr. Freeze.   You knew what you were getting into.  Besides, you can always laugh at the part where Robin is drowning and the cheapskates just played the footage in reverse because they wasted all their money on those overly garish sets.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 09, 2005, 08:05:59 PM
OVERLY Garish. You have to capitalize the OVERLY. It's that bad.

I have seen worse movies, although there's aren't many. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome comes to mind.
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: ilpalazzo on September 10, 2005, 02:25:56 PM
Jeepers creepers sucked

didn't scare me once.
neither did the ring or ring 2
Title: Re: Crash
Post by: Darkmoon on September 10, 2005, 03:29:35 PM
I thought Jeepers was a decent attempt, and worth watching if your eally like horror flicks, but it's not fantastic. I did however like the Ring asd a thriller. It's not a real horror movie, but it is a decent, creepy thriller.