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COPS AND TERRORISTS
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... know that most Muslims aren't even Arab? And that Islam is a religion of peace and submission to God? Hey, 'Islam' even means submission! Also, they have a lot of legitimate complaints about American policy, but there's no excuse for expressing those complaints through violence." - but there's nothing remotely dramatic about it, and he's not a good enough director to make scenes of pe that ople talking seem interesting. It happens that Cheadle was also one of the many producers of Crash , and though it's a certainty that the earlier film could hardly be a primary influence ...
Crash The TV Show?
The Movie Blog —
... One of those unpopular moments that I actually think the Oscars got right was a couple of years ago when the brilliant film “Crash” won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain (don’t get me wrong, Brokeback was a very good film, but in my opinion got massively over hyped due to it’s subject matter). ...
THE THIN BLUE LINE
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... black racist! What will they think of next? - then we are rankled by the film's own obvious racism, and finally made to understand that racism is a tricky issue in modern America (incidentally, I can't imagine that the intended audience for this film comes in any hue other than lily-white). And perhaps that neat little three-step program would have even worked, if Lakeview Terrace were actually so aggressive that it could actually piss anybody off. But no, 'tis not to be; much like Crash , the touchstone for all Los Angeles-based stories of American racism, this movie is far ...
Bullock's All About Steve trailer online
Filmstalker —
... and Crash as anything standing out from the rest of the romantic rubbish. Oh dear lord, this looks utterly painful and horribly clichéd. Okay the mine joke was pretty funny, but the rest of it?
FEBRUARY 2009 MOVIE PREVIEW
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... for me is likely to be Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , the first attempt since The Movie That Killed Raul Julia to adapt one of the most popular video game series of the 1990s to film. Video game adaptations, the most ill-fated subgenre in the history of cinema, are a sort of favorite of mine; in the manner that they are favored by all lovers of truly wretched filmmaking, that is. In limited release, we've got Crossing Over , which appears to be " Crash , but for illegal immigration" and Assassination of a High School President , which ...
Chinese Cinema at SFIAAFF 2009
YNOT at the Movies —
... comes to SFIAAFF. In a style similar to "Crash," this film tells a story of a cab driver Li Mi's quest looking for her suddenly vanished boyfriend. ...
SOCIAL STUDIES: SPRINGTIME EDITION
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... else do you make a movie with two protagonists? - but it kind of muddies the question of what exactly the film wants to be about: is it the story of how Lopez finds his humanity again? About Ayers overcoming his difficulties? About the transformative power of music? Or just a good old-fashioned Message Picture, designed to make us all aware of the terrible life of a homeless Angelino? I'm inclined to assume that it's mostly the latter; it has some of the same feel of the L.A.-centric Crash , although the exact opposite problem of that film's ceaseless clarity of message. ...
Three Writers on board for James Bond 23
Film Gecko —
... the past four Bond films, and Peter Morgan, who wrote "Frost/Nixon."
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of Eon Productions Ltd. will produce.
The movie will once again star Daniel Craig as Agent 007, and the three-writers theme melds with the last two pictures, "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace." Purvis and Wade drafted the script, which then got the onceover from "Crash" writer-director Paul Haggis.
Interesting that Morgan has quite a ...
5 Movies Sacha Baron Cohen Should Remake in the Style of Bruno
SpoutBlog —
... his first-hand experiences with racism while masquerading as an African American in the South in the late 1950s. Like the 1964 film adaptation, though, the name would be changed and the situations different. Obviously, 45 years later, the direct discrimination will be less, but Baron Cohen in blackface would nevertheless expose a lot of intolerance and separatism still existing in the U.S. Funnier than Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder and harder hitting than Crash, a new Black Like Me done as a comedic documentary may even finally make up ...
The 100 most memorable characters of the decade - part 3
Come Back Shane! —
... ) Crash - To be honest I didn't really love Crash, but John Ryan was the one character who stood out from all the others. On one hand Ryan is loathsome and awful - he's a racist and he molests a woman, Christine ( ...
The Decade in Film: the 2000s
Tativille —
... 2003, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 2007.) Still, Oscar got it wrong far more often that it got it right with the atrocious A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001), Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002; Baz Luhrmann's striking Moulin Rouge!, 2001, was the more impressive work in every respect); Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004), and Slumdog Millionaire (Danny ...
DISNEY ANIMATION: COME ROLL IN ALL THE RICHES ALL AROUND YOU
Antagony & Ecstasy —
... as good as making them no Other at all. This is not a problem unique to Disney; if I remember rightly, Dances with Wolves suffers from it as well, along with plenty of other films. In a film like Pocahontas , this isn't just obnoxious because it deprives a whole civilization of its humanity, although that's the worst part of it: it also leads to tiresome, thump-you-on-the-head message movie moralizing, and boy howdy, Pocahontas is full of that. It is akin to the ten-years-later Crash , a film so horribly devoted to its theme that there seems to be little other plot than ...
