Crash (Haggis, 2005)

[Shameless]

I feel I'm going to share all opinions using parables from now on. Ordinarily I would do it through interpretive dance, though I find the impact of dance is weakened somewhat when translated to an online text format.

[Hatshepsutely]

Taylor Swift should have been in Crash.

[erikdean]

Taylor Swift should have been in Crash.

When McG does a remake in the next few years, she can play Bullock's part.

[makemeameteor]

I cannot express in review format what I truly think of this film, so will instead share a story.

A few years ago now I was at a food court waiting in line at McDonalds (hey, I love chicken nuggets, alright?) when a young girl in front of me began proudly showing me what she'd just been shopping for. It was Taylor Swift's album, "Fearless". The girl was around 12 or 13, maybe 14 at most, and though I'm somewhat partial to exaggeration it is with complete honesty and devoid of any measure of sarcasm that I say the way in which she spoke about the album just about brought tears to my eyes. I stood there with my hand held to my heart, witnessing a passion unlike any I'd ever heard, full of such sincerity and immediacy. Were I wearing pearls, I would have clutched them at this point. For a moment I forgot entirely what the subject of this passion was, and could think only "I simply must experience this rapturous music of which she speaks!" Heartwarming though the moment may have been, the fact remains she was talking about Taylor Swift. Thankfully I had McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce to console me after realising the search for the answer to life's eternal mysteries expressed through the form of song was a quest that would remain unsolved for another day.

[TheOppressionRepressesMe]

I cannot express in review format what I truly think of this film, so will instead share a story.

A few years ago now I was at a food court waiting in line at McDonalds (hey, I love chicken nuggets, alright?) when a young girl in front of me began proudly showing me what she'd just been shopping for. It was Taylor Swift's album, "Fearless". The girl was around 12 or 13, maybe 14 at most, and though I'm somewhat partial to exaggeration it is with complete honesty and devoid of any measure of sarcasm that I say the way in which she spoke about the album just about brought tears to my eyes. I stood there with my hand held to my heart, witnessing a passion unlike any I'd ever heard, full of such sincerity and immediacy. Were I wearing pearls, I would have clutched them at this point. For a moment I forgot entirely what the subject of this passion was, and could think only "I simply must experience this rapturous music of which she speaks!" Heartwarming though the moment may have been, the fact remains she was talking about Taylor Swift. Thankfully I had McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce to console me after realising the search for the answer to life's eternal mysteries expressed through the form of song was a quest that would remain unsolved for another day.

OMFG.

Is this the Shameless of days gone by?

Of Joan Rivers fame?

Anyway, this movie made me cry in the moment where the girl got pulled out of the burning car. I was so mad at myself for crying because of the blatant manipulation, but I couldn't help it.

Agree with all of the posts above, and I think Erik hit the nail on the head more than once.

[Shameless]

Oh, what a flashback!

[jeanne_dielman]

I cannot express in review format what I truly think of this film, so will instead share a story.

A few years ago now I was at a food court waiting in line at McDonalds (hey, I love chicken nuggets, alright?) when a young girl in front of me began proudly showing me what she'd just been shopping for. It was Taylor Swift's album, "Fearless". The girl was around 12 or 13, maybe 14 at most, and though I'm somewhat partial to exaggeration it is with complete honesty and devoid of any measure of sarcasm that I say the way in which she spoke about the album just about brought tears to my eyes. I stood there with my hand held to my heart, witnessing a passion unlike any I'd ever heard, full of such sincerity and immediacy. Were I wearing pearls, I would have clutched them at this point. For a moment I forgot entirely what the subject of this passion was, and could think only "I simply must experience this rapturous music of which she speaks!" Heartwarming though the moment may have been, the fact remains she was talking about Taylor Swift. Thankfully I had McNuggets with sweet and sour sauce to console me after realising the search for the answer to life's eternal mysteries expressed through the form of song was a quest that would remain unsolved for another day.

McDonald's chicken nuggets are really good

I don't know if this also applies elsewhere in the United States as well as Australia, but they've been selling 20 Chicken McNuggets for $5 for months now in Chicago.

It has made me really happy!

[Timmer]

I used to love Mcnuggets, and then I read that viral story about how they are made from goop, and even though I'm pretty sure that story is bullshit, I've been an Angus Burger man ever since...

[Jeff Beachnau]

I love where the direction of this thread has headed.

[Jali]

I love where the direction of this thread has headed.

I wonder when will people start talking about sausages and Merle Oberon.

[Pingy]

[jb]

E. Annie Proulx is such a betch.

The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy awards, it would get Best Picture as it had at the funny, lively Independent Spirit awards the day before. (If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit choices.) We should have known conservative heffalump academy voters would have rather different ideas of what was stirring contemporary culture. Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of Trash - excuse me - Crash a few weeks before the ballot deadline. Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver.

It was now dark, or as dark as it gets in the City of Angels. As we waited for our number to be called we could see the enormous lighted marquee across the street announcing that the "2006 Academy Award for Best Picture had gone to Crash". The red carpet now had taken on a different hue, a purple tinge.

The source of the colour was not far away. Down the street, spreading its baleful light everywhere, hung a gigantic, vertical, electric-blue neon sign spelling out S C I E N T O L O G Y.

"Seven oh six," bawled the limo announcer's voice. Bingo.

For those who call this little piece a Sour Grapes Rant, play it as it lays.

[crazyfists3600]

She is the very reason I was happy about the Crash win...and then my own personal taste level increased to outweigh her ridiculousness.

[Bean]

She is the very reason I was happy about the Crash win...and then my own personal taste level increased to outweigh her ridiculousness.

I mean, you baffle me all the time, but this is really baffling.

[crazyfists3600]

I mean, you baffle me all the time, but this is really baffling.

LOL, well half of this is sarcasm, but I did mention already in this thread that I really liked Crash when I first saw it and that when Oscar's rolled around I had yet to see BBM, so I was happy when Crash won. Then Proulx made that comment, which I found tasteless and so I was all the more happy. Then I saw BBM and my mind was quickly changed.

BBM>>>>>>>>Proulx

[Darbicus]

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[filmy]

Since this thread has already gone off the rails, I hadn't realized that Annie Proulx attributed BBM's loss to Scientology. LOL.

[kissfromarose]

I wish the 90's Miramax had produced Crash. A Weinstein/Proulx showdown would have been epic.

[Pingy]

Since this thread has already gone off the rails, I hadn't realized that Annie Proulx attributed BBM's loss to Scientology. LOL.

If that were true, where's Academy Award Winner Jenna Elfman been hiding?

[Timmer]

Jenna Elfman is just a Woody Allen movie away from her Oscar win... someone hook them up!