Friday, March 10, 2006

Crash: How did this win an Oscar?

I really don't hate that many movies, I may dislike some that I view, but not actually hate. Some movies are bad, but in an entertaining funny way such as Riki-Oh and Iron Thunder (two movies I previously reviewed). Other movies that have some sort of political agenda behind them (Jarhead for example), piss me off more than anything. Like Jarhead, Crash was made to inform the audience that "things in this country are worse than you think". Please, all movie directors out there in LA, movies are meant to entertain, not to be confused with a toilet that you can spew your liberal crap into and have it explode on all of our faces. Crash was a horrible movie, simple as that. The story line was shallow and had no emphasis whatsoever on character development. There were dozens of exaggerated characters that were so unbelievable and unlikable, there was no way to actually "get into" the movie. The racism was so over the top it made me cringe everytime two characters of different nationalities interacted. Every single person in the movie was affected by discrimination either by being on the giving or receiving end. Yes, racism is a problem, but people do not blatantly go up to one another and say "YOU'RE MEXICAN, I DON'T WANT YOU INSTALLING MY ALARM SYSTEM BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO STEAL STUFF FROM MY HOUSE". Why wouldn't you want a Mexican to work in your house? They do just as good as a job and you only pay half of the price. "YOU'RE ARABIC, HOW ABOUT YOU GO FLY SOME PLANES IN SOME BUILDINGS AND KILL 2,000 MORE PEOPLE". Seriously, how often does an unprovoked attack happen like that in real life? If it does, it happens very rarely and is not a wide spread problem how the movie portrays it to be. So now this movie is out and everyone is saying "Racism is such a huge problem, I had no idea it was this bad! George Bush isn't doing a good job, he hates black people." I WISH I WAS EXAGGERATING BUT I'M NOT! THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE THAT STUPID AND FILL THEIR HEADS WITH JUNK THEY SEE ON TV OR ON THE BIG SCREEN.
So now it's time for the Academy Awards and Crash is nominated for Best Movie of the Year. All the socio-elites who are rich and white think "Oh how horrible! Minorities are treated so unfairly, this movie is just superb, it depicts life how it really is. Excuse me as I go take a bath in one hundred dollar bills".
Are these people retarded? The Academy Award shouldn't go to a movie that tries to jam as many storylines of objectionable people into one hour and forty minutes of film. It’s an insulting script to the audience's intelligence (America has racial issues just in case you didn’t know) but people think of it as a creative masterpiece with earth shattering ideology. Instead it’s obvious and cliched at so many levels only Hollywood would aspire to reach. People think America is bad with racism? Try going to the place where racism was all started... Europe. Check out: Racism In Europe

In the end, Brokeback Mountain should have won. Sure it was about two gay cowboys who loved playing with each other's trouser snakes, but I'd still rather have seen that win over the travesty of film called Crash.

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