Crash

I have many favorite movies but the one that I chose to write about is Crash. Crash has a great cast including Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Tony Danza, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendon Fraser, Terrence Howard, and Ryan Phillippe. There are so many characters in this movie which may seem confusing, but it ends up to be one of the major benefits of the movie. Crash is about many different characters separate lives. At first, the characters seem to have nothing in common but in the end all of them are tied together in some way and all of their stories intertwine. The stories bring many examples of racism and racial stereotypes. The characters consist of a detective who has a younger "trouble maker" brother, the "trouble maker"s partner in crime, a District Attorney and his racist wife, a prestigious film director and his wife, two cops (one of which is extremely racist), and a Persian-immigrant and his daughter. My favorite quote of the movie is when the detective says to his girlfriend after their car accident,

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

I think that quote pretty much sums of the movie. It is in the beginning when he says it and it is extreme foreshadowing for what is to come. Crash is my favorite movie for many reasons but mostly because of the way that the characters all have separate lives and problems but then fate brings them all together and connects them all somehow.

Crash

I have many favorite movies but the one that I chose to write about is Crash. Crash has a great cast including Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Tony Danza, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendon Fraser, Terrence Howard, and Ryan Phillippe. There are so many characters in this movie which may seem confusing, but it ends up to be one of the major benefits of the movie. Crash is about many different characters separate lives. At first, the characters seem to have nothing in common but in the end all of them are tied together in some way and all of their stories intertwine. The stories bring many examples of racism and racial stereotypes. The characters consist of a detective who has a younger "trouble maker" brother, the "trouble maker"s partner in crime, a District Attorney and his racist wife, a prestigious film director and his wife, two cops (one of which is extremely racist), and a Persian-immigrant and his daughter. My favorite quote of the movie is when the detective says to his girlfriend after their car accident,

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

I think that quote pretty much sums of the movie. It is in the beginning when he says it and it is extreme foreshadowing for what is to come. Crash is my favorite movie for many reasons but mostly because of the way that the characters all have separate lives and problems but then fate brings them all together and connects them all somehow.

Journal #1

The review that I read was for the movie "Superbad". It was done by Lisa Schwarzbaum. Lisa is a critic for Entertainment Weekly. She rated the movie a B and had some positive but mostly negative things to say about it. She started off the review by implying that the movie was really geared only towards men because of all of the jokes in the movie that refer to the penis. This is also because so much of the movie is based around the idea of the boys getting girls drunk at a party so that they can have sex with them and lose their virginity before heading off for college. Lisa said in her review

They’ll get a couple of girls drunk at a party and do ‘em. Lay ‘em, plow ‘em...choose the age-old crudity of your choice

She also points out the fact that the movie is not as appealing for some adults because it is mostly only high school students shown besides two very unintelligent and unrelatable cops. Lisa regularly uses sarcasm to help tear down the things about the movie she does not like. An example of this is from the review is:

That’s Superbad’s clean little secret, the throwback thing that’s almost as fascinating to this seasoned female as the fabulous illustrations of male genitalia that Seth used to draw in grade school

She writes about the unrealistic parts of the movie by saying how hard she finds it to believe how safe the wild party is and how Jules (the girl that one of the main characters Seth is after) is unrealistically perfect. Lisa calls Jules

the impossibly perfect hottie who’s popular and not mean and retains her coolness although she doesn’t drink when all around her do

The review shows mostly negative feedback for the movie but to get a B rating it cannot be all bad. And even though she talks so badly of it, she does admit to slightly enjoying this type of comedy when she writes

it’s easy to enjoy the pulsing phallic comedic energy of the enterprise

She also does give credit to the actors by saying how talented they are and often compares this movies to others like The Forty Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Overall, I thought that this review was too negative. I have seen this movie myself and I think that the review was too harsh. She seemed to pull out all the bad things about it and did not give enough credit for all of the hilarious other parts of the movie. Although the jokes were often crude and slightly inappropriate, that is not all the movie had to offer as it may seem from this review. I think Lisa needed to "lighten up" a bit and realize that the movie was not such an attack on women as she thought it was. It was very simply just a funny movie that needed to be watched knowing that it was all in good fun. I thought this review was very well written and hit many key points of the movie but I do think it was too negative. She gave it a pretty positive rating (B) and then bashed it throughout the review. Although I did enjoy some of her perspectives on the movie, I do not think I will read another review of Lisa’s.