Crash, The Accidental Tourist, Gorky Park, & The Village

Crash was crap. Extremely earnest concerned liberal claptrap about Race. Didn't deserve any of the accolades it got. Unless you like movies all about how everyone's a little bit racist. I prefer my racism as satire, otherwise it's just crap. Like Crash. Why, exactly, did every single character need to be a racist? Why, exactly, did that soundtrack need to suck so hard? Why, exactly, did anyone watch this and think that it was a brilliant piece of cinema? It's simple trash.

The Accidental Tourist begins my William Hurt minifest. What's up with it? Just seems a little too eh to have gotten the accolades it got. An Oscar nod for best picture? A win for Geena Davis? Actually, that isn't that bad. Until you realize that it's about the same as Marisa Tomei winning an Oscar. Sometimes, the Academy is smoking crack. Just like when they gave the Oscar to Crash. Stupid old people. Anyway, I liked it, but it certainly wasn't anything amazing.

Gorky Park, the second movie in the minifest makes me wonder why I even bothered reading these type of novels? And why must there be 80s films with terrible 80s soundtracks that don't fit the movie at all? Stupid Hollywood and their bad tendency to fit music to the movies rather than allow the movies to have appropriate music. Plus, it just seemed like there was something more that could be done with the movie.

The Village, the final movie in the minifest, suffers from me not caring about any of the characters besides Bryce Dallas Howard. Maybe some has to do with Joaquin Phoenix. I still don't like him. The dialogue is terrible, the "twist" is horrendous, and most acting is bad. At least M. Night has made a pretty movie. But other than that, there's less in the movie than I could have hoped for. He made Unbreakable, which was a good twist on an old story. This constant desire to have a twist in the movie means that there's less of a reason to be surprised when it occurs. You know it's coming, it's usually going to turn the movie on its head. So just expect it and get a lot less from the movie.