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Why people don't like it


First let me just say I loved the first two episodes, they were amazing.

But as I looked through all the bad reviews it's gotten from the critics I've noticed something. Every one of them went into this with the pre-conceived notion that it was going to be just like the movie. They wrote whole articles saying why it doesn't live up to the movie, which is even something I can agree on, but the show isn't supposed to be just like the movie. The pilot was intriguing, funny, bold, and sexy; everything you would expect from a show on Starz.

Most of those critics are still hung up on the fact that the movie itself won an Oscar. I liked the movie, but comparing a full feature length movie to 2 episodes of a 13 episode series is irresponsible when you have an obligation to your audience to give your honest opinion on what you just saw. There wasn't one review that didn't mention the movie. Sure it's not so in your face about racism like the movie was but that's all they seemed to focused on.

What I saw was 2 episodes of people with their own problems trying to survive. Terrific acting from the entire cast and an interesting story to boot.

Crash hasn't promised anyone anything, so why is everyone acting so let down?

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completely agree with you...i was pretty shocked to see the negative reviews...i thought the show was extremely entertaining and Dennis Hopper is simply a genius. Keep it up Mr. Haggis and Mr. Cheadle.

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There are perhaps many words strung together in varying coherent sentences that can aptly describe my feelings for this show.

Perhaps the most succinct is: "This show is incredibly bad!"

Bad dialogue. UNBELIEVABLE situations. Uninteresting and unlikable characters. As a matter of fact, I don't need a short sentence to describe the conclusion that I came to wasting my time watching the first two episodes. One word will suffice.

And that word is: BILE!

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