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In Reply to: Ebert's top 10 is out... posted by RGA on December 19, 2005 at 18:54:26:

Out of the ten I've only seen his #1. I thought it OK, but very posed or contrived.
-The bad punk learned a lesson
-The racist cop rescued the same lady he previously persecuted
-The non racist cop (partner of the racist cop) killed a minority kid by mistake
Like I said, I thought it was OK, that's all. A bit too lesson learning/after school special-like for me.
Wonder what the other 9 are like.

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Crash, "very posed or contrived"?! Why by golly, yes! But it was a Terribly Important movie, you see. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:27:45 12/20/05 (2)
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- How and why? Please explain. (Or are you kidding?) NT - grantv 12:08:32 12/20/05 (1)
  - Search! "A suffrocating tangle of ham-fisted ironies and belief-beggaring coincidences." - clarkjohnsen 12:43:42 12/20/05 (0)
    How can it be "thought-provoking" when it tells you what to think?
    I quote from another earlier post:
    "And I found an excellent center seat in the theatre's second-largest (52 ft. screen) stadium house -- there to sit disgusted by the blatant contrivances of this dreadful film. The writer/director makes you know he has some Terribly Important things to say and the lecture, the harangue never lets up. Just one instance of how this all misfires: The "racist" cop Ryan (Isn't it racist as well to use an Irish name here?) upbraids a black underling for her pissy, bureaucratic response to his father's medical predicament, and eventually he uses racial terms, but really, isn't he just rather undeft in handling underlings?"
    More:
    - http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=films&n=35590&highlight=crash+clarkjohnsen&r=&session= (Open in New Window)

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