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This movie fell off the planet.

posted 8 years ago by kbp-25959
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I know it still comes up at awards time between film fans, but it's not cited in culture much anymore. When it came out it seemed epically cool that this little film was gaining so much traction. Pulling off the ultimate kinda destroyed it in my opinion, it just set the bar too high. It's just strange that at the time it was really high in the Top 250, all my classes were talking about it, random people who don't pay attention to awards season were seeing it and not just because it was a contender. By the following year I was never hearing anymore about it, I think quickly afterward we moved on to the controversy surrounding 9/11-themed films United 93 and World Trade Center. Then Talladega Nights came out, soon followed by Snakes on a Plane and then The Departed and it sorta fell into oblivion perhaps.

Hmm, sorry if I went on a bit of a tangent there!

[–] TxMike 8 years ago

I always try to keep in mind that they just movies, fictional stories to entertain, then anything makes sense. Almost as disposable as a candy wrapper. The only question is "how long"?

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[–] Gamera623 8 years ago

The only time this movie comes up anymore is when people talk about the worst movies to ever win Best Picture at the Oscars.

Have you ever noticed that the people who say "DC is for adults and Marvel is for kids", are kids?

[–] dogstarman1 8 years ago

It fell out of favor because the truth is it really isn't a very good film. Most critics and audiences realize that now. It's now regarded as a glorified after school special that inexplicably won best picture. Simple as that.

[–] Galactus03 8 years ago

...that is all...no movie stays in the public conscious very long...

[–] Galactus03 8 years ago

...that is all...no movie or TV shows stays relevant in the public conscious very long...

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[–] cjpmak 7 years ago

Not inexplicably - Hollywood homophobia won the Oscar the year, to Crash's benefit. No question about it.

But otherwise, yes, you are 100% correct.

[–] Nooneimportant 7 years ago

BS. Ive seen both movies. Brokeback Mountain and Crash. And Brokeback Mountain had some great nature scenery, but it was boring as hell and went nowhere. But crash had some interesting views on bigotry and problematized it most refreshingly.

A homoerotic romance movie is what BM are. Replaced one man with a woman and you would have most romantic movies ever made.

[–] Information-Police (4054) 4 years ago

If Brokeback had won, there would have been even more gnashing of teeth about SJW virtue signalling in Hollywood.

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 4 years ago

Indeed.

[–] Information-Police (4054) 4 years ago

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[–] BuckSwope (3511) 4 years ago

Great! Why don't you come on down and cum inside us!

[–] autumngnorth 7 years ago

Hey kbp-25959,

I think that you bring up a good point, questioning the fact that this movie has disappeared. I was thinking about this idea as well, just having watched it recently. The themes and lessons that the film is trying to communicate, are still extremely relevant and helpful in this time. During the past couple of years and especially this year with the election season, the discussion of race has been heightened again. People are beginning to recognize the problems we have with race in our country. Crash was able to point out the complexity of the problems that we have in our country. With there being many story lines to follow, with many different races intersecting, viewers were encouraged to not think of racism as something limited to white vs black but latino vs persian and black vs half-black. We are all intertwined. That is complexity that we have come to grapple with more so this year than in years past. Crash is extremely relevant today. I think this is due to the way the movie was filmed, written, and acted. These elements all communicate a humanness that remains effective and easy for the audience to connect to. I think that it would do this generation a lot of good to watch this movie to gain new perspective on our conflicts involving race through the avenue of film since film is a lot easier to swallow.

[–] kbp-25959 7 years ago

I'm 28 and was having a discussion with an almost 20 year old at work last week and she made the comment "I'm not racist." and it's odd to realize she would be too young to remember this film, while for me it was such a monumental part of my teens being that it came out toward the end of sophomore year, went from indie to word of mouth hit throughout junior year, and pulled off the ultimate upset which catapulted it from arthouse to infamy, which oddly enough is what I think is also responsible for its downfall. The praise was maybe a bit too much. HOWEVER, I do think it was the better film.

It's just weird now thinking of this as an old film that an entire generation who's 5 years older than I was when it came out is pretty much completely unaware of and yet they seem to think they have a handle on race issues, politics, global warming etc. when they don't remember 9/11, Katrina, Saddam, An Inconvenient Truth, Oklahoma City, Cindy Sheehan, Terry Schiavo, Bush v. Gore, all those gay marriage and stem cell research things in 04 and 06. All that stuff that got me interested in politics. And yet they think they somehow know so much about themselves when they're just now getting involved in the game and I've been at it since they were like 6!

[–] sage2112 7 years ago

Well-crafted dramas just don't tend to stay in the forefront. Some crap like the hunger games or these rebooted star trek movies are all the rage.

[–] Gd5150 (11016) 4 years ago

It was decent. Not best film caliber.

The worst best film is still Shakespeare in Love which best Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful. Just laughable.

[–] Boricanator (1369) 3 years ago

TBF, most Best Picture winners fall to irrelevancy.

Of the last 20 years, the only Best Picture winners that still seem to gain new audience are Gladiator and Lord of the Rings.

More and more there seems to be a split between audiences and Hollywood.

[–] Wuchak (8110) 3 years ago

Gladiator was a weak Best Picture winner (don't get me wrong, it's decent, just not great); meanwhile The Lord of the Rings didn't win Best Picture at the Oscars, although it won four other awards.

[–] Boricanator (1369) 3 years ago

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won best picture.

[–] Wuchak (8110) 3 years ago

It shouldn't have. Didn't it end with someone dangling from a cliff? To add insult to injury, a dangling-from-a-cliff scene was already done at the end of the first movie with a recap scene in the second.