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People only started hating Crash after it won the oscar for best picture

New Yorker

over 2 years ago

Everyone loved it before it won, but it was completely lambasted after the oscars seemingly because it won. Could someone explain this phenomenon to me of liking a movie and then suddenly deciding you hate it because it won an oscar. Granted, its not the greatest film ever made but its not the dreadful monstrosity people make it out to be nowadays

House of Leaves

-moderator-
over 2 years ago

Not.

You’re going to get roasted for this one, if anyone cares to bother.

Jesse Richards

over 2 years ago

Not true

Jirin

over 2 years ago

I don’t think everyone loved it so much as people who disliked it were less vocal.

Stuff that’s more highly rated gets worse backlash. It’s like how a lot of people act like Final Fantasy 7 is the worst video game ever made, just because so many other people swear it’s the best. If they saw other people only saying it was ‘okay’, they’d be saying it was okay too. I’ve read some comments on imdb reviews that explicitly state they rated a movie lower than it deserved just to drag the average down.

Robley

over 2 years ago

Hehehehehehehehe…

Man I used to love Final Fantasy 7 back in my Playstation days.

Chris Knudsen

over 2 years ago

Should I be more vocal about my dislike attitude towards the Hurt Locker, Avatar, Up in the Air, Blind Side, A Serious Man, District 9, and Precious right now? Up, Basterds, and An Education weren’t exactly favorites either.

Chris Knudsen

over 2 years ago

Should I be more vocal about my dislike attitude towards the Hurt Locker, Avatar, Up in the Air, Blind Side, A Serious Man, District 9, and Precious right now? Up, Basterds, and An Education weren’t exactly favorites either.

Brad

over 2 years ago

Sorry, but I hated it when I walked out of the theater almost a full year before it took home the Oscar.

Dennis Brian

over 2 years ago

I hated it when I saw the trailer
when it was being filmed
when the screenwriter typed the title for the first time

Roscoe

over 2 years ago

Nope, New Yorker, sorry, I can definitively state that I hated Haggis’ CRASH before it won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Berjuan

over 2 years ago

I hated it when that albanian man “shots” that little girl. It made me sick to see how far the “filmmakers” were willing to go to manipulate my emotions…. I feel the same about every other scene in that film.

apursan​sar

over 2 years ago

I completely agree with Berjuan, that scene was one of the most awful manipulations I’ve experienced in recent years.

Drew Gregory

over 2 years ago

Gotta love the melodramatic chanting used for the score. :D

traag-1

over 2 years ago

I just hate the fact that it constantly overshadows Cronenberg’s far superior film of the same name. Everytime I hear/see ‘Crash’ I instantly think of Cronenberg’s….Haggis’ film hasn’t really made a dent with me and I remember seeing it in the theater.

deckard croix

over 2 years ago

Alternate title for this thread:

“People only started paying attention to me after I trolled the forum.”

Matt Parks

over 2 years ago

Not bothering to troll in the form of a question anymore, eh New Yorker?

Roscoe

over 2 years ago

Evidently Haggis’ CRASH is not as cheesy as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

Clarice the Specter

over 2 years ago

a.k.a. Trash

Matt Parks

over 2 years ago

squarer aspect ratio = less room for cheese.

Nikolas

over 2 years ago

I saw “Crash” in its opening weekend and I hated it, and I grew to like it as I saw it over and over again. So yeah, that would be an incorrect statement.

New Yorker

over 2 years ago

I’m sorry, but I did not realize this site was filled with so many a*******, I don’t think any of my topics qualify as trolling

Matt Parks

over 2 years ago

IMHO New Yorker, if you’re seriously trying to have legitimate conversations, you might want to try not starting so many threads that take an (as you put it earlier) “devil’s advocate” position and focus more on just contributing ideas and opinions until people here get to know you a little.

Angelo Dagonel

over 2 years ago

Crash is as commendable as Blue Streak and National Security in commenting on racial tensions.

Berjuan

over 2 years ago

I thought that thread was about the movie The Devil’s Advocate haha

Law

over 2 years ago

You must admit that your thread title is very polemic.

People who “loved” Crash before it won the Oscar = moronic

People who “loved” Crash before but pretend to have hated it = moronic but capable of shame

People who “loved” Crash before and after = irredeemably moronic and incapable of shame, e.g. George W. Bush

sandwic​hes

over 2 years ago

Crash is a really good film, it tackles universal themes without pretention or cliché and doesn’t afraid of anything.

Polaris​DiB

over 2 years ago

Crash is one of those very few movies where I went in thinking, “This is going to be AWESOME, this looks like a damned good film!” and I left saying, “Wow, a montage of crying stereotypes is all it takes to get people’s attention, huh?”

—DiB

Dimitri​s Psachos

over 2 years ago

“Crash is a really good film, it tackles universal themes without pretention or cliché and doesn’t afraid of anything.”

universal themes? well i say….i guess i’m not “American” to comprehend them.

Polaris​DiB

over 2 years ago

Eh, racism is everywhere.

Not that that point is particularly profound, but what can ya say?

—DiB