I have to disagree with you about Crash!
Yes, there were a few nice moments, the
locksmith character with the little
daughter, sure. All fellows with daughters
are going to like that guy.
And I liked the contrivances to set
up that story with the blanks, even
though the foreshadowing was a little
too obvious (just give me those bullets...)
[Geeze, that was Marina Sertis from Star Trek
as the cranky old bastards daughter!]
But the other story lines I thought stunk to
high heaven. Everything was so extremely unlikely.
And the best guy becomes the worst, the worst the
best, oh brother. And even as these unlikely events
rattle off, you are thinking...now the writers will
do this or that, and it is completely predicatable.
A high school kid could have wrote it.
I haven't yet seen any of the other nominations,
so maybe it was an especially weak year. My wife
thought Brokeback was the best of them, and
she saw all five.
ON DVD, what I've seen recently...
City of God is a very fine movie,
I read a glowing review a couple years ago and
finally got around to watching it.
Also, A History of Violence, yawn.
William Hurt was nominated for that?!
Not crap...just not very good. The sort
of screenplay that fixes itself with
great actors and direction I suppose,
but the story stunk. |
