[lbo-talk] Re: oscars

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Mar 7 08:29:08 PST 2006


Crash is a piece of crap that's not worth seeing except if you want to know what Hollywood thinks is a radical movie about race relations. It will be out in video soon.

Joanna

Chuck wrote:


> Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
>> Speaking of which, I watched "Crash" last night, and man, what
>> overrated cripe. Kabuki racism set to Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia."
>
>
> I didn't see many movies last year. Love movies, but when you have no
> cash, movies aren't affordable. I plan on catching up in a few weeks
> when I do catsitting for somebody who has all of the movie channels.
>
> Tell me, is Crash anything like that awful movie "Grand Canyon"
> directed by Lawrence Kasdan? I rented that once with friends. We gave
> up on that piece of garbage after I started predicting scenes.
>
> "OK, guys. The jogger lady is going to drop her keys and then get
> attacked by some guy."
>
> Lady jogger in movie drops keys and gets attacked.
>
> The other example of this "white suburban fear" genre that I can think
> of is Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." I remember abandoning
> that book after some scene about a stockbroker whose car breaks down
> in the wrong part of town.
>
> Chuck
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