Great cinematography, but that’s about it for me. It shouldn’t have won best pic. It got nominated last minute like many films do through a PR/ad blitz in Variety to academy members who for the most part, DON’T watch nominated films, let alone hear about more deserving films off of their radar.

Way too much relied on coincidence. The director just happens to be in the same neighborhood that the carjackers were looking? Please.

More than that stuff though, everyone acted like Archie Bunker. I thought the race theme was going to be handled more deftly. Instead, it felt like a bunch of actors spouting someone else’s sterotypical personal views on race.

Maybe Archie Bunker would be the only one to go off like Dillon did on the insurance lady,(first on the phone, then to her face), but anyone else you know? The whole point of racial tension would’ve been better served by showing the hate that goes on behind people’s backs, not to their face. It’s too easy to play that card.

A win for Crash and Hollywood pats itself on the back that it’s doing something, anything about race, even by profiling it poorly. It’s like the LA riots gave them street cred on depicting race because, ‘We lived through the horror in our hilltop homes without Pellegrino while the sreets burned.’ Guess that was their ‘Vietnam.’

I think The Constant Gardener was a better movie, and a better look at how insidious the race issue becomes with regards to drug companies. Also, American History X a few years ago was and is still a better look at race issues than Crash, with Ed Norton in an incredible role.

And, talk about robbed: The doc Murderball losing to a bunch of Penguins. Unreal.