Crash - This Aged Great!

[@thisagedgreat]

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[@OPTAFTP]

Crash is the movie equivalent of someone writing the words "Racism Exists" on a 2x4 and beating you with it for just under two hours

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

I think it won best picture against “Brokeback Mountain.” I seem to remember every critic hated this movie and they were super pissed when it won best picture, probably because it made money.

[@grantmoore8790]

​@@Jamietheroadrunneri remember this movie being a critical darling.

[@kestrel1234]

So Crash is 2015 - 2022?

[@andrewboteler7522]

​@@kestrel1234 2004 lol. We all were aware of it, but no one knew how to portray it without exclamation marks. Great TAG

[@dash4800]

​@andrewboteler7522 pretty sure he means how everyone sports team or activist writes "end racism" or other dumb slogans nowadays

[@inthedeadhours]

One small note, the store owner didnt just give the guy blanks because he hated him. He explained all of the ammunition to the daughter, and realizing the red box was blanks she asked for them. The guy even asks "do you know what those are?" He was fully prepared to give them actual ammo, but the daughter knew better.

[@BatCaveOz]

Please never stop doing this. I hope this channel blows up... you deserve it.

[@ECCJustin]

So glad I randomly found this channel. lmao. These are hilarious. Watching the whole collection

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@FritzMonorail]

I had a college professor who showed parts of this movie in a class I took in 2018. She was fully convinced that this movie both stood the test of time, and taught valuable lessons.

[@nateb.9947]

Crash from David Cronenberg has aged surprisingly better.

[@LucasA84]

The gun store guy didn't GIVE blanks. The guys daughter bought them deliberately.

[@TheNitroG1]

I love how the guy your talking to assumed the bullet proof invisible cloak you can't feel is real rather than something being wrong with the gun...lol

[@fallouthirteen]

Wouldn't it be wild if a movie went that direction. Completely grounded stuff up until the very end, and then "bam, magic is real. No we will not elaborate."

[@BlueAsh-MilitaryAviation]

I saw this in a theater with a group of friends when it came out. One said that "this film was nothing more than a feature-length, Hollywood budget After School Special." She could not have been more spot on.

[@feloniuspunk7078]

I was in jail in Cleveland like ten years ago. And this guy is telling me about this movie Crash coming on tv later and how great it is. Its gonna blow my mind, etc. I watched it and literally was like “watching this movie was the worst part of jail” 😂

[@tylerdecker6994]

lol 😂

[@plr2473]

This movie made Michael Pena. He was in everything that needed a Latino actor after this

[@kozy15x]

@@plr2473 too bad he's literally the worst.

[@pap64]

"Pulling her out of the car is when they let the Little Mermaid be black!". Dude the way I CACKLED when you guys said that was unreal! Love these commentaries!

[@Anon26535]

I never saw this but my parents did, in fact it might have been the last movie they saw together, and I distinctly remember my dad thinking it was kinda stupid except that he loved Ludacris' performance. He kept saying the rap business was dragging Ludacris down and he should focus on his film career.

[@ElCrab]

Crash walked so Dhar Mann could run.

[@F4RB3YONDM3T4L]

Exactly lmao

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

I remember the day I thought I rented the controversial Cronenberg thriller and got this

[@BardsOnAHill]

This format is insane and you guys have killer chemistry and charisma. This could be one of the most popular shows on the platform imo. (imagine if they had uploaded this back in the old KZbin days - everyone would have known about it.)

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much!

[@Tyler-yw3rf]

That little mermaid joke sent me. Lifetime fan, absolutely hilarious.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@AmberNix-k7w]

I AM ROLLING

[@JonVaillancourtPro]

Actually, it was the daughter of the Persian man who asked for blanks.

[@bsktballman08]

Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed this.

[@JamesJessenfedden]

True. But that’s not funny.

[@basilelkhuri130]

The Persian daughter was the one who wanted blanks for her dad’s gun. So the dad wouldnt hurt himself or anyone else 👍🏽

[@ManiacleBarker]

They were blanks because his daughter bought them, specifically.

[@TimTeboner]

Yeah I only saw this once but I seem to remember her pointing to the bullets and saying just gimme a box of those and the store owner asking her "do you know what these are?" and she's like just give them to me. I took it as the daughter thinks all bullets are the same and we're supposed to think that they're hollow points or something but it turns out they're actually blanks. Maybe the daughter was supposed to have known they were blanks though, that never occurred to me.

[@JaguarXJ]

@@TimTebonerThe daughter knew they were blanks. She was against the whole idea of even getting a gun so she wanted blanks.

[@largeandscary8662]

really nailed it with the actual crash analogy in my honest opinion

[@michaelroque2662]

I know nobody cares. But the gun shop guy didn’t sell blanks to the Persian guy because he didn’t trust him. The Persians daughter told him to give her “that box” the gun shop owner asked her do you know what those are. And she told him to give it to her anyway. The daughter was against buy the gun and it’s implied she knowingly bought the blanks so that her father wouldn’t hurt anyone. But she also could have just bought the blanks not knowing they were blanks and the shop owner asked her if she knew what they were, and just sold them to her when she insisted. Crash is such a great movie and the seen with the little girl made me cry like a little B*tch. And still does whenever I rewatch it.

[@splashpit]

This is true but this guys recollection is far funnier for the payoff

[@michaelroque2662]

@@splashpit Well, I can’t argue with that.

[@pengwin_]

That year at the oscars, they introduced all the nominated best picture movies with interpretive dances. The one for Crash had the dancers reenact the frisking sexual assault part. So funny

[@groovefiend25]

ive watched like 6 or 7 of these videos in a row. what a great channel find you guys are hilarious

[@JoeyIsHere]

Same!!!

[@ArtnCharc]

Me too! The algorithm is surely swinging their way.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@montecristo1845]

Crash was one of the Oscar-iest Bait-iest movies I’ve ever seen! “We’re checking ALL the muthafu@kin’ boxes, baby!!!” -the filmmakers, March 2005 (few months before release)

[@jodi2847]

Before the term "woke" was coined came the movie Crash, which was instead called "aggressively obvious."

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Funny enough, the black little mermaid is another example of trying to fix racism with more racism

[@dr.scorpiopus8907]

i nearly choked!!!! "thats when we let the little mermaid be black." omg!!!!

[@djdksf1]

AND... this thing won BEST PICTURE that year, over Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich. 🙄 Don't say we haven't made any progress.

[@dominikhader920]

so it was male bootyhole vs female bootyhole

[@randyblekitas-JohnnyPalms]

All terrible movies

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

Capote was good, Phillip Seymour Hoffman was an incredible actor, taken too soon.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

Enjoyed Munich as well, good movie, but not Oscar worthy I'd say (however these days the Oscars aren't Oscar worthy, reputation of the Oscars is in tatters.

[@knaz7468]

Best series ever. Can't stop watching these.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@mierardi88]

That movie beat out Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Goodnight and Good Luck, and Munich for best film...for some (Harvey Weinstein) reason

[@mierardi88]

Oh and PS: The Passion of the Christ came out that year and...was not nominated for anything

[@d3nza482]

@@mierardi88 Well, much like with comedies, torture porn tends not to do that well at the Oscars - despite 3 nominees it had. Oscar nominations are not dictated by the year the movie comes out but by the year they start playing - in Los Angeles County. Which is why Crash was nominated for 2006 Oscars (coming out in 2005, in US) while The Passion of the Christ was nominated for 2005 Oscars, as it came out in 2004. And it won nothing cause it is a gimmick movie with nothing to say, no different than dozens of cheap Jesus movies coming out each year for the purposes of money laundering - apart from the torture porn and everyone learning their lines phonetically.

[@MarquisdeSuave]

Uh, the daughter asked for the blanks because she didnt think her father owning a gun was a good idea.

[@RichardServello]

That's right, I remember that now.

[@MrLambo559]

The daughter told the gun shop owner to give him the blanks. She asked for the red box, he asked her if she knew what they were, she said she knew what she was doing.

[@ajrollo1437]

The one positive I will give this movie is that it got a LOT of people to rent a film released earlier by the same name, but a very, very, very, very.........very different theme. (It's an NC-17 movie about car accident sex. Same guy who wrote "Empire of the Sun"? Did a car fuckin' book.)

[@matthewcrome]

Yeah it's written by JG Ballard. And directed by David Cronenberg. It's honestly one of my favorite movies (I'm a big fan of Cronenberg) despite its very strange premise (and it's VERY uncomfortable), it has WAY more metaphorical depth (despite not really trying to) than the 2004 Crash, which tries to be so "deep" and fails.

[@tggdan3]

The Persians daughter bought the blanks on purpose

[@ghfudrs93uuu]

no, she didn't. Racism saved the day as it always does.

[@Shlogger]

@@ghfudrs93uuu lol

[@kaleloz2868]

The daughter of the hidden Persian bought the blanks for the gun. The clerk clarified what they were

[@strictlyaesthetic9202]

Thank you for correcting that scene.

[@themartianVA87]

Holy shit, my memory had rewritten the blanks into the storyline as “Persian Lady asks for blanks so Persian Guy can at least scare someone” not just “Racism solved it”

[@thisagedgreat]

Upon rewatching it, I think that she probably asked for the blanks on purpose, actually. But in defense of my original interpretation, it is left somewhat ambiguous. The truth is whatever gets us to a joke!

[@themartianVA87]

@@thisagedgreat I think you might be closer, that movie's a goddamn mess.

[@nickerickson250]

IRRC the store owner tells the lady she needs to pick what kind of bullets they want. She points to some and the clerk ask if she knows what they are and she says yes. Still ambiguous though

[@themartianVA87]

@@nickerickson250 AHAAA! So we're basically all correct!

[@dmanx3391]

One of the best channels on YT keep working you’ll be big soon

[@photoboy]

TRUE STORY: When this came out, I was in high school and wasn't up to speed with current films. Classmates were praising this movie that they had just seen (not really describing much detail, but they talked about a car crash scene. Me being me, I interrupt them and ask: Are you guys seriously praising a film about getting sexually aroused from car crashes?!? And oh boy, did they not watch Cronenberg's Crash. LOL

[@photoboy]

Also, this is a great channel by the way. Much Needed!!

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much!

[@cecilyerker]

Cronenberg’s Crash is the superior movie 😂

[@bongmuon]

lol I was thinking this was the controversial 1996 movie Crash which I heard was so weird and full of freaky sex scenes. Then I see all these good actors listed and I was getting confused as to why they did this movie and then it turns out there were 2 movies named crash in 10 years.....

[@stgeorge28]

This show is hilarious, however as a movie buff, i have to intervene here. The daughter of the Middle Eastern dude bought the blanks because she knew her father was an over reactive A-Hole and shouldnt have access to bullets, and she was right in the end. Plus the gun shop owner seemed to agree.

[@stgeorge28]

@@Billkwando Brandon Lee from The Crow is an example of that.

[@mr.pavone9719]

​@@stgeorge28I was gonna say; at that range the girl would have been seriously injured at least or killed at worst.

[@aaronsarchive82]

There's so much more in this movie to dissect. We need a part 2 on YT.

[@michaeldickey7993]

I thought this was going to be a review of that movie where people crash their cars and it turns them on sexually-- also called "Crash"

[@jackkraken3888]

Say what how.

[@wingdingdmetrius8025]

​@@jackkraken3888 "cars are supposed to be sexy but they are actually really violent" -JG Ballard

[@matthewcrome]

@@jackkraken3888 It's a Cronenberg movie, and yes it's strange but it's actually really good

[@Irish-in-Bangkok.]

Wasn't it the Arab guys daughter who requested blanks in the gun store?

[@exo4rcist3]

You guys are awesome! Just found this channel and I can't stop watching! Hilarious,can't stop watching

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you!

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I was like "how is he defending this blatant copaganda-ass movie" then he hit me with the black little mermaid and I felt I had to apologize for ever thinking that.

[@jeremylawson6648]

even this goofy ass recap got me tearing up lol

[@Onimusashi85]

"People are so racist!" - Proceeds to act like a stereotype.

[@armaslohemadu]

In a way this is an excellent example of "You can spin any story however the fuck you want" with the conclusion that racism is the solution to the problems

[@airshow406]

Ok so im pretty sure tge gun store owner did not makiciously give the guy blanks. The guy's daughter bought the blanks on purpose to protect agai st exactly this situation. Thats why the gun shop guy asks her if she knows what those bullets are.

[@themadmattster9647]

I was hoping you were talking about the Cronenberg one

[@theepiphany3560]

Oh my goodness, that one is rough. But wound-fetish IS fertile ground for comedy.

[@underwaterlevelz1947]

Crash is widely considered to be one of the worst films to win Best Picture. Broke back Mountain was a much better film

[@JL-ze5qm]

Brilliant! I remember renting this movie and it turned out to be the Cronenberg Crash with James Spader, and I was like...wtf is this? ANyway, would you consider doing the movie 9-5? I think that would be a great one for you guys. (Side note: I served David Cronenberg at the restaurant where I worked in Toronto. He was very polite and quiet.)

[@taracarroll4218]

I think the only scenario I thought was powerful in this movie was the Mexican handyman being racially profiled by Sandra Bullocks character demanding her husband finds a new locksmith that doesn't look like a gangster. Then the next scene you see he's a doting dad who just wants a safe environment for his daughter (the invisible cloak scene). Apart from that, I was really baffled that this won best picture over Brokeback Mountain.

[@jordantaylor260]

They weren't giving Best Picture to a movie about two gay cowboys directed by a Chinese guy in 2005.

[@taracarroll4218]

@jordantaylor260 Pretty much that's how it went.

[@MicahMicahel]

there was a lot of humour in the script.

[@billyford2262]

So showing white racism which is basically non existent compared to all the other rampant racism especially from the black community is what they should’ve done? Nah you sound racist af lol you only like whites being called out. And you gay

[@Ledouche1234]

To be fair, both movies are pretty gay.

[@dariendarkhouse8538]

I rented this when it came out on DVD. That scene where they're complaining about the white woman thinking they'll rob her, then they rob her? That's when I turned the movie off. This movie was BS when it came out

[@bigbadsauce92]

1:35 "pre-fat brendan frasier" is a phrase I enjoyed wayyy too much

[@manaboutsound8727]

Noooo. the daughter of the Persian told the racist store owner to sell him the blanks. he was even like you sure? her role was super important and so often glossed over.

[@GravityJWST]

Dude I'm lucky I'm finding this now 2024, it's only UP FROM HERE❤️❤️‼️‼️💯💯🤯🎯🤯🎯🤯👍🏾🎮☝🏾

[@Charles_Gaba]

This wasn’t the worst movie ever made but I can’t think of one which infuriated me more for how insulting to my intelligence it was.

[@PEACEOUTPAT]

Postal

[@MicahMicahel]

really? How ? what scene did that? Its as a populist movie made to be understood but was it that insulting?

[@GremmPaltakin]

back in the day I remember an HR manager type person boasting about how she forced the local police department to watch it as an educational film

[@Mr_Jumbles]

So she's boasting about why a bunch of cops don't like her and/or how she wasted a department's time and budget intended for training. Either way, weird flex.

[@jonathannaughton8554]

Was it the gun store owner who gave him the blank bullets? Cuz I was always under the impression that the daughter was the one who bought them so that her dad wouldn't do something stupid that he would regret? It's been like 10 plus years since I've seen this tho

[@AC-iz7eh]

You're right. I watched this movie and remembered that part. It was the daughter that bought and loaded it with blanks knowing her father didn't understand English. I would've thought these guys genuinely watched and reviewed the movie but it's like an AI recap with an over the top laughing track to tell you which part is funny. Technology is evolving

[@takeit1229]

Yeah this guy created a narrative and just needed it to carry through the video. Crash was not a bad movie.

[@STNKbone]

@@takeit1229 Crash is a very bad movie

[@mement0_m0ri]

It was the Persian man's DAUGHTER that requested the blanks for his gun, because she didn't want her father to go kill someone. It wasn't the gun store owner.

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Well now you gotta do Cronenburgs Crash too

[@sweeney60]

This movie would be a great double feature with Collateral Beauty.

[@geniosityfilms]

It was actually the Persian's daughter who chose to buy blanks, but for the purpose of humor, I prefer "the racist gun owner sold him blanks" narrative.

[@jeremyh2103]

you beat me to this

[@glitchsister]

this movie is insane, the killcount is so high I took out the DVD and asked if it needed a hug

[@JoHart-q2x]

Yes they got that wrong about the gun store owner. I noticed that too. The daughter didnt want her Dad to do something he regretted. Love this channel, love this movie but had to point that out!

[@cheddarcheese7928]

Funny as Hell!..The well placed video clips just make it so much better even

[@Glassandcandy]

“You know how Persians are sneaking around in cars”

[@christopherknowles]

This podcast aged great.

[@noisepuppet]

🎶 THE PODCAST WAS DOIN ITS BEH-UST!!

[@christopherknowles]

@@noisepuppet you could have just said “the cast was doin its best” it was right there. 🤔

[@AlbertaTrailCams]

This was the movie equivalent of "Tonight, on a very special episode of ..."

[@burresseffects]

Is this just two guys talking in a concert hall alone?

[@alibushell6762]

Maybe there's a longer patreon version of this, but you missed out the point at which the black guy who is so angry about the stereotyping he believes he's receiving and then proceeds to prove people right about it, is literally offered the option to sell some people into slavey. He says no, so clearly he's reached enlightenment - bar set very high here.

[@JohnTaylor-fh4et]

You guys are sofa king great.

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

Crash has become the Nickelback of films.

[@RichardServello]

Damn I forgot how bad this one was.

[@originalsubwayjones]

My only complaint about this channel is that I wish the videos were just a bit longer. maybe the length of the videos are intentionally short to keep you wanting more, clever.

[@CountofBeretania]

Even Jack Nicholson (who was usually loaded at the Oscars) was like, “Wait, what? The gay cowboy movie lost?”

[@Glassandcandy]

Cruising lost? HOW?!

[@CountofBeretania]

@@Glassandcandy Right?!

[@badicusvibesimus182]

Just found this channel, it's fantastic! Reminds me of Nick's movie breakdowns on cumtown.

[@howardb.6205]

This is my new favorite channel, always so funny! Soul Man was great!

[@franciscotoro827]

is that what happened? Cuase that would really tie up the movie, but I thought it was the daughter who asked for the blanks. If I remember the she asked for the bullets and the clerk asks "Are you sure you know these are.." and she says "yes i know". Or am I miss remembering?

[@TaglitoFilms]

No you're right, either way it's so contrived.

[@mintermchugh8176]

Your commentary is like my last 2 brain cells at the end of night

[@GoodToGoIndustries]

Last time I saw Ludacris it was in some random Christmas special that I doubt anyone watched. He was hosting it. 😂

[@henryburton6529]

I liked this movie - cant wait to see what is actually like after so many years

[@BrianKoontz2]

This movie is the ultimate in Capitalist Realism. Forget about making the world better through improving the economic system. Just accept the magic and wonder of the butterfly effect, whereby even racism can have good effects in a sufficiently complex society. Its utterly depressing and pathetic. Welcome to the 1990s.

[@mickeyrube6623]

Forrest Gump, anyone?

[@acWeishan]

😂😂 these are fantastic reviews

[@bentickner1]

"both the cause and solution". I mean WTF Ben, your comedy has gotten so good. I remember watching an early attic clip and it was good, but your transitions, delivery and close are really really good. Now we just have to get you on the next Tom Brady roast so everyone can hear you. subscribing to patreon.... keep it up.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much!

[@4trahasis]

In some corners of Hollywood it is quietly spoken that this scene with Terrence Howard is what set him down the path he is on today.

[@English_MoFo]

Being a black with a dormant gene for violence?

[@job89]

I was so confused at first, i thought of crash (1996) with james spader😂

[@BatCaveOz]

Excellent movie.

[@Lifeoftheparty8290]

8:25 god that scene was so cringe crash is a pretentious film can’t believe this won Oscar’s

[@Alexander1005]

These are great

[@indianastones6032]

4:22 aint that the fella who cant do maths, so tried making his own version that dont add up??......pun intended indeed!!

[@Mtotheissle]

I thought the Persian's daughter specifically paid for the blanks because she didn't want her father to get a gun in the first place. Yes, I remembered this fact because like everyone in 2004 I WAS TOUCHED BY THIS MOVIE.

[@jacobk1717]

You are right, they are wrong

[@DarkMoonWayfarer]

Where did it touch you?

[@abraxasjinx5207]

I was also touched by this movie, but I think at the time I missed every valid point that this commentary brings up. We are all constantly learning to be anti-racist, and we had so much work to do in that realm back then that we can now look back and laugh at our own ignorance. In 2041 I hope we can still take a look back at 2024 and shake our heads in shame and disbelief. It's an ongoing process, not a one-and-done vaccination.

[@noisepuppet]

🎶 THE PAST WAS DOIN ITS BEH-UST!!

[@tomrobbins5242]

The best Oscar year was when Denzel won for being beat by a rookie, and Halle Berry won an Oscar for being a trailer park tramp.

[@infantiltinferno]

Wow, I remember watching this with my high school class as like a "makes you think, huh?" kinda thing - and it was just one racist archetype cliché after another. It was SO bad.

[@Nibs333]

The daughter of the Persian guy bought blanks internationally… the gun dealer even asks if she knows what they are. Like she was ignorant. But she knew they were blanks.

[@Charles2112pp]

Do they not sell blanks in the states?

[@BFTBGSFTST]

Ah, so she was racist roo! Hell of a twist!

[@Cyril29a]

This is my new favourite channel.

[@thisagedgreat]

Thank you so much!

[@marcelhurtado5766]

I think the persian guy was Armenian, but a lot of Armenians come from Iran.

[@Radxcor83]

Dude, I've never seen Crash because I hate melodramatic stuff, but holy shit your bootyhole analogy had me dying.