Movies / More Oscar crap

Of course Crash won Best Picture. Why wouldn’t Academy members — I’m assuming they’re mostly white and Angeleno — rally around a film that momentarily relieved them of guilt they feel for living in such a racially segregated city? (I have to admit that I love Ludacris’s rant about the racial implications of riding city buses. That, and Don Cheadle’s opening, were the only moments in the entire movie that weren’t heavy-handed, cheesy, or gag-inducing).

The Morning News has a great list of quotes from other reviewers who disliked the movie as much as I did. A sample: “Contrived, obvious and overstated, Crash is basically just one white man’s righteous attempt to make other white people feel as if they’ve confronted the problem of racism head-on.”