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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (159937)	3/6/2006 1:34:51 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793838

I didn't see Grand Canyon. The cutting in Crash is very Altmanesque, lots of short cuts between disparate scenes. I liked it a lot. Matt Dillon was a revelation. Didn't see anything else on the Best Picture list. I wanted to see Munich but nobody would go with me. Think I will go alone. I watched Syriana alone yesterday afternoon at the matinee. I thought it was good. Don't know why people say Syriana's "anti-American." Regardless of whether you think this is a Good Thing or not, during the Cold War we did have a long history of interfering in the transfer of power in other countries according to our own beliefs about which potential ruler best represented our best interests, see, e.g., the two which are completely indisputed, Guatemala and Iran. Are we doing it now? Hell, why not? Throw in some oil and some terrorism and it makes a ripping yarn. Clooney was great. Reminded me of the spook next door -- well, I have no idea whether the guy next door is a spook or not but around here (Washington) they often are. My favorite scene -- William Hurt as former CIA and now consultant, tells Clooney, still CIA, that as a consultant he has two kids in college and is redoing his kitchen. True success by Washington standards!

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (159937)	3/6/2006 2:16:08 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

more like magnolia stylistically, replete with as this reviewer writes, the 'fake "magnolia" meditative song interlude oh and of course don cheadle (whom i like, btw) sinlechuga.com Don Cheadle breaks the record for earliest utterance of Titular Line1 in this critically acclaimed total piece of shit. Writer/Director Paul Haggis promises in the Behind the Scenes that Crash will make people think and ask questions, such as: How edifying is it to watch stereotypes talk about stereotypes in a stereotypical way? Is it possible to employ tragic irony with no irony whatsoever? Is it racist to treat racism with all the subtlety of an xtreme sport? Did Brendan Fraser ADR all his dialogue? Is Ryan Phillippe the Poor Man’s Paul Walker or is it the other way around? But you won’t be asking anything during the scene in which the Arab (I mean Persian) points a gun at the Mexican (I mean El Salvadorian – wait is he Mexican?) for some unconvincing contrived reason as if to suggest that all “Arab” violence is justified but not really as the Mexican(?)’s little girl runs outside because her daddy told her a parable about molestation I mean some story about a magic fairy and the orchestral synths hit hard and dramatic and the camera dolly-zooms and the mother falls to the slow motion ground in ethnic despair and the Arab realizes the act of violence is justified if not the violence and the fairy is real because immigrants are easily duped by fat blue collar whites and I’m beating the pathos out of Franke’s arm with everybody squealing on the couch in uncontrollable stupefied delight. From the fake Tarantino introduction for Ludacris to the fake Magnolia meditative song interlude to the fake sympathy I’m supposed to feel for the pain that (I guess) excuses Sandra Bullock’s and Matt Dillon’s cartoonish racism even as it puts a gun in the hands of what’s-his-Hustle-n-Flow so he can finally for once in his life act like a black man, this movie is the whitest shit I’ve ever seen. Al Sharpton loved it. I sold a book to Matt Dillon around the time Crash came out and wanted to tell him how much I adore Wild Things but I thought he would think I was making fun of him so instead I said “Sir, your change!” as he hurried out the store.2 I had yet to see Crash. I couldn’t tell him it sucked so bad it made me want to diarrhea someplace secret, though in all honesty I found the scene of him pulling Thandie Newton out of the burning car absolutely riveting, no really I did. _________________________ 1Only 44 words in, if you count “L.A.” as one word.