Movie review - "Crash", 2006.
What a major disappointment!
I have to say right from the outset that I DO NOT and WILL NOT understand HOW this film won the Best Film Oscar Award last year?
This film for me was a complete and utter wreck after the first 45 minutes promised so much. I am 99% sure I have never seen a film just totally fail in so many critical and obvious ways - and that it went on to win an award is a tragedy for the medium of film and the film industry!
The only consolation I have is that I never spent hard earned money buying a cinema ticket or paid to rent it as I think I would join the new trend of demanding ticket money back after leaving the movie theatre!
That said, I will admit, that the opening forty-five minutes was strong and gripping. The tight dialogue, along with excellent shot selection drove the pace of the picture with verve, good character introduction, decent opening plot arcs and then,...then I heard the music for the first time and felt my face go pale!
From that point on the whole picture went crash, bang, whallop and fell into every cliche any intelligent mammal could imagine! Then add bad structure, which must be embarrassing as this was a non-linear piece, with absolutely NO further character development and if I missed any it was left behind as road-kill! And GOD! This piece from then on was just nothing more than irritating, annoying - bit like a wart, 'roid or a veruka!!
But, going back to the music! Jesus H. Christ! Oh, bad is not the word! I do feel sorry for people who enjoyed this feature! But PLEASE tell me that the soundtrack at best was nothing more than "New Age", 'noodley' bollocks that would be better suited to one of the new art-house real porn pictures rather than a movie that was trying to be a very serious examination of racism within the modern social context, and blah, blah, blah,...
I have convinced myself (and it didn't take a lot!) that there is a hidden agenda, a secret clique of bad minds of taste that vote for material of this degrading nature because I think any honest jury must have had to fall asleep behind the wheel to award this movie any award - let alone the Oscar!!
Lastly and to be bold, I will say that it reminds me of another recent Oscar tragedy when Adrian Brody won best actor in a leading role for "The Pianist" over Daniel Day Lewis for "Gangs of New York" - I don't think I need I say anymore,...do I?
I have to say right from the outset that I DO NOT and WILL NOT understand HOW this film won the Best Film Oscar Award last year?
This film for me was a complete and utter wreck after the first 45 minutes promised so much. I am 99% sure I have never seen a film just totally fail in so many critical and obvious ways - and that it went on to win an award is a tragedy for the medium of film and the film industry!
The only consolation I have is that I never spent hard earned money buying a cinema ticket or paid to rent it as I think I would join the new trend of demanding ticket money back after leaving the movie theatre!
That said, I will admit, that the opening forty-five minutes was strong and gripping. The tight dialogue, along with excellent shot selection drove the pace of the picture with verve, good character introduction, decent opening plot arcs and then,...then I heard the music for the first time and felt my face go pale!
From that point on the whole picture went crash, bang, whallop and fell into every cliche any intelligent mammal could imagine! Then add bad structure, which must be embarrassing as this was a non-linear piece, with absolutely NO further character development and if I missed any it was left behind as road-kill! And GOD! This piece from then on was just nothing more than irritating, annoying - bit like a wart, 'roid or a veruka!!
But, going back to the music! Jesus H. Christ! Oh, bad is not the word! I do feel sorry for people who enjoyed this feature! But PLEASE tell me that the soundtrack at best was nothing more than "New Age", 'noodley' bollocks that would be better suited to one of the new art-house real porn pictures rather than a movie that was trying to be a very serious examination of racism within the modern social context, and blah, blah, blah,...
I have convinced myself (and it didn't take a lot!) that there is a hidden agenda, a secret clique of bad minds of taste that vote for material of this degrading nature because I think any honest jury must have had to fall asleep behind the wheel to award this movie any award - let alone the Oscar!!
Lastly and to be bold, I will say that it reminds me of another recent Oscar tragedy when Adrian Brody won best actor in a leading role for "The Pianist" over Daniel Day Lewis for "Gangs of New York" - I don't think I need I say anymore,...do I?
posted by Paul Anthony Lomax at 9:20 PM
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