The Wire... or Crash? lol

One of the worst films to win best picture. It has no real depth and tells the story in the most surface-level, unrealistic, cheesy way possible. The Wire is on a different plane of existence. Crash is an average movie.

Jereco

Yes

Alan McCloskey

The movie was trash then and is trash now.

Freezing cold take actually

jmv213

YES, Parasite would have been great, but I think they all already saw it

BetheSOUL

Please dont watch Crash

Chris

I would actually love it if they watched Parasite such a great film.

weebsage

All that you need to know about Crash is that its widely panned as a joke for winning the best picture Oscar. Its a meme at this point for being an underserving winner. A total waste of time, do not watch. If you want to watch best picture films, watch Parasite.

Kevin

I don't care for Crash not only because it was the most asinine example of "racism only exists between individuals" type of narrative that Hollywood likes to pump out since that story can be told in 2.5 hours, but for all the similarly mediocre films it inspired afterwards. From Blindside, to the Green Book, to every other Oscar-baity movie where the big takeaway is "See? White people aren't all bad!", you'll find Crash in their shared moviemaking DNA

Andrew Nguyen

How could anyone even put the Wire in the same sentence as Crash. Smdh

Darrell Henry

I loved when I watched it back when it came out. I haven’t had a recent rewatch and I know people’s opinion on this film has soured, so I only have my original opinion of it. At any rate, there’s a scene in the beginning where Michael Pena is talking to his young daughter and trying to make her not scared anymore. It’s such a beautiful scene and may be worth watching just for that.

@eric.na.goo.yen

tbh I don't even remember this movie at all lol

jose giron

I'm German and this movie was shown to us in school and was part of the curriculum to teach American society and problems with racism. I did enjoy it but it felt more like a semi-professional play than a Hollywood movie

Agreed on both the handling of most of its material (Matt Dillon’s character especially) and that Brokeback Mountain was robbed.

Champion Bescos

There were some reaches in the movie. Pretty unbelievable reaches

Quinton Campbell

It's shocking at how forced all the racist scenarios were. People actually thought it was good? It kept me entertained don't get me wrong but it was insanely bad. You guys should watch, the reaction would be GREAT! As long as Rana is involved :)

Daniel R

It has...some good parts...but most of it is pretty cringe. The way it presented the "redemption" by the racist, rapist cop was disgusting. Thandie Newton is doubly victimized, and the film frames it as this beautiful moment and promotional materials made it the main image featured on all posters.... The thing is, no one would have remembered this movie if homophobic Oscar voters weren't desperate to vote for anything but Brokeback Mountain in 2005.

outdoorcats

I saw this when it first came out when I was a tween, and at the time I thought it was an incredible movie, super meaningful, ~art~ A few years later I was embarrassed to have thought that. And I still am. A little more life experience and time can change someone’s opinions a lot. My mom still loves it though... so I guess not everyone changes lol

Arcia

This movie was so goddam bad

Max

It's laughably terrible in a borderline offensive way and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as The Wire, in my opinion. Deserves a Razzie, not an Oscar. It feels like what out of touch guys in suits who've never dealt with racism in their lives imagine racism to be, while patting themselves on the backs for what a profoundly meaningful movie they think they're making. Also one of the few cases where I think the label "pretentious" is actually warranted.

rkhc

The only thing good about this movie in 2021 is the soundtrack.

Chaos T

That is the best summation of Crash ever, well done.

Ryan

Crash is to race relations what The Room is to relationships. Except The Room is actually fun to watch.

Ooze McShoes

I honestly didn't think it was that special of a movie, but I can see why if some find the relevancy of it given current events. But no my opinions haven't changed.

Ruben Lopez

lUdAcRiS iS iN iT?! (gold star to the reference getters)

JD

Literally never heard of this movie which is weird considering its accolades and supposed hype. I can only guess it hasn't aged well since throughout my classic and top rated movie binges it's never come up.

JD

I ain’t touching Crash with a ten foot pole. But after looking at the poster, I realized it had both War Machine’s in it. Neat.

Ryan

It's a bad movie and it was bad back then. The movie pushes the narrative that racism is due to individual bad people instead of the systems that have been set into place. Of course, individual people can be bigoted and bad, but solving racism means that we have to dismantle the racist systems. In that way, The Wire is better. It shows us the systems that continue to hurt a lot of people for the benefit of a few. These systems have "good" participants who want things to be better, but they also help perpetuate the system, like when Daniels covers for Prez in season 1, or how some of the "good" cops will still brutalize people.

Legion

No

Rahsaan

I don't think I've seen it since it came out, I don't have any particular opinion. It certainly takes a lot of flack in the Cultural Discourse these days.

Nerd Going Outside

Haha! Nah, this movie aged terribly! 🤣

Victor Fiegel

Shaun Tobb and Michael Pena killed it in this movie. Also *slight spoilers* that scene with Ryan Phillipe at the end bears a lot of relevance to headline events these past few years. Hard stuff to watch.

Champion Bescos

i liked it alot when it came out, i find it overly contrived and hacky now, which i think undercuts what it wants to say.

Dennis Ramirez

May be a hot take but one of the most superficial and shallow movies about race ever made, right next to Green Book

Ron H

I love this movie so much. I appreciate it way more now that I’m older

Andre Ransom