Watching Crash (2004) in a 2022 lens

[Anonymous]

Oscar Season!!!

This movie is constantly criticized as 'white savior' and terrible but I think it's 100% accurate. The nastiness from all of the characters happens all the time. None of the characters are likable except the Mexican locksmith and his family and the Mexican nanny.

This movie could have been made last year and it would still be exactly the same. Nothing has changed in all the themes. Even Matt Dillon's character is realistic because a racist cop would probably save a black woman from a burning car (it's a fast track to promotion and makes the department look good).

[Anonymous]

Didn’t he save Thandie Newton? Half-white and hot? Heck yeah.

[Anonymous]

Many people thought it was pretty awful from the get-go. Here's a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece about in from 2009, just 4 years after it came out. I hated it because of white savior focus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/12/worst-movie-of-the-decade/32759/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many people thought it was pretty awful from the get-go. Here's a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece about in from 2009, just 4 years after it came out. I hated it because of white savior focus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/12/worst-movie-of-the-decade/32759/

The officer leaped in to save a person, he didn't realize who she was until she freaked out. To me, cops are always waiting for a hero moment and he would have saved anyone to get his name and face in the paper and a possible fast-tracked position. I think a better focus is that bad people are capable of doing good things; I just didn't see him as a hero. Just doing what he was trained to do and how it could benefit him in the long run.

Matt Dillon is in the movie for a grand total of 15 minutes and I think all of that is getting ignored for the bigger picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many people thought it was pretty awful from the get-go. Here's a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece about in from 2009, just 4 years after it came out. I hated it because of white savior focus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/12/worst-movie-of-the-decade/32759/

Haven't seen the movie, don't know anything about it. I read that piece by Coates and ugh. That piece was just terrible. It was meaningless and smug at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Whenever people discuss this movie I always think they’re talking about Speed (1994) also with Sandra Bullock and I get so confused

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many people thought it was pretty awful from the get-go. Here's a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece about in from 2009, just 4 years after it came out. I hated it because of white savior focus.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/12/worst-movie-of-the-decade/32759/

The officer leaped in to save a person, he didn't realize who she was until she freaked out. To me, cops are always waiting for a hero moment and he would have saved anyone to get his name and face in the paper and a possible fast-tracked position. I think a better focus is that bad people are capable of doing good things; I just didn't see him as a hero. Just doing what he was trained to do and how it could benefit him in the long run.

Matt Dillon is in the movie for a grand total of 15 minutes and I think all of that is getting ignored for the bigger picture.

[Anonymous]

I always liked that movie

[Anonymous]

I was glad when it won. I liked the movie. Didn't understand the criticism just because Brokeback Mountain didn’t win 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

I did not like that movie the first time round. I found it gratuitous and mean-spirited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever people discuss this movie I always think they’re talking about Speed (1994) also with Sandra Bullock and I get so confused

Speed was more deserving of an Oscar than Crash. 1994 was an incredible year, though.