WORST Best Picture Winner Ever? Chapo Trap House Reviews "Crash" [Ft. Alex Nichols]

This week, joined by our friend Alex, alias @Lowenaffchen, we take a deep read of 2006's Best Picture, Crash, the anti-racist movie for racists. Extremely weird lessons about sexual assault, bigtory and America from the Thetan-drained mind of Paul Haggis. Then, a broader reflection on Hollywood's embarrassing Bush era, output, and the small victory of Three 6 Mafia's victory of the shitty Crash soundtrack at the Academy Awards.
[Chapo Trap House Ep.41: "Smash" ft.@Lowenaffchen, Released 9/16/16]
Writer-director Paul Haggis interweaves several connected stories about race, class, family and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11. Characters include a district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his casually prejudiced wife (Sandra Bullock), dating police detectives Graham (Don Cheadle) and Ria (Jennifer Esposito), a victimized Middle Eastern store owner and a wealthy African-American couple (Terrence Dashon Howard, Thandie Newton) humiliated by a racist traffic cop (Matt Dillon).

[@adamtherock2008]

Brokeback Mountain losing Best Picture to this dog shit will always be unforgivable.

[@Praisethesunson]

This movie won awards?!

[@mrchoochoohead9033]

@@Praisethesunson it won best picture! utter trash

[@stevengarcia705]

Proof the Hollywood system is not only rigged but extremely mediocre

[@deathmagneto-soy]

@@mrchoochoohead9033 - A shining indictment of the Academy Awards.

[@RancorousSea]

The academy wasn't ready for a movie about mountains. I would have gone with an adaption of Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" first to break the barrier.

[@squilliamdafoe4648]

Crash? More like “belongs in the trash”

[@BrapObombaOGBedlumite]

Written/Directed by Squidward Produced by Mr Krabs

[@MrKYT-gb8gs]

Gotem

[@Hippiethecat124]

I watched this movie with my parents when I was in high school, and was so moved by the discussion of prejudices and systemic oppression and banal cruelty in the face of undaunted human hope that I immediately showed it to a guy I was dating. After we finished it, I sort of meekly apologized as I had realized real-time on a re-watch that it was actually a godawful maudlin cringefest.

[@artyomtimoshenko2610]

That’s a hot date

[@gillbates6154]

I appreciate this story. I found this movie profound as a pre-teen and can forgive myself for that now. Actual adults finding this movie good is pretty sad.

[@zackcolbourne6921]

A similar thing happened to me when I showed my friends Mystic River.

[@Luminousreign]

I had the same experience, but with Spider-Man 3 and I never apologized.

[@cwhit0110]

I did the same thing only I showed a girlfriend years after I first saw it…. Lmao

[@gillbates6154]

forget about it Jake, it's racist town

[@screwintuna]

Lol idk why this made me laugh so hard

[@billcrotts5456]

It was so cool when Hilary won

[@laurapringleswilder]

"She's still going to win...she's up by twenty points..." Oof. Meesa no feel good now.

[@IMelkor42]

I went and watched the song with the burning car at the Oscars that Matt was talking about. Didn't see any guys dressed as gang bangers... I think he just saw those in his internal racist mind's eye. Which he would appreciate that he had, if only he took the message of Crash truly to heart!

[@ArgDu]

I saw this movie in theatres (I worked there at the time). I thought it was the most emotional and thought provoking film I had ever seen. I believe I developed the capacity for internal dialogue about a decade later, but this has not been externally verified.

[@ChewyThomson]

I can't tell you how angry this stupid fucking movie made me. It was that one Avenue Q song but a shitty melodrama.

[@InvinciblKillerQueen]

I went to film school in 2011 and they showed this movie. Everyone got mad at me when I said it was dumb. History has vindicated me.

[@jfrsnjhnsn]

When this movie came out and everyone thought it was good and I saw it and it was so bad, I was like, is everybody but me taking crazy pills?

[@deathmagneto-soy]

I can only surmise that a lot of people had their head in a cultural space where they were overreacting to the Bush administration at the time and this cringefest was a good outlet for the virtuesignalling. Either that or everybody is stupid.

[@screwintuna]

@@deathmagneto-soy por qué no los dos?

[@deathmagneto-soy]

@@screwintuna - I never said it was an either/or friend.

[@RancorousSea]

Imagine being that guy but you're leaving a Nazi propaganda film in 1940. You're trying to try to find ways to critique it without immediately being executed for being a sympathizer. "I hate them as much as the rest of us, but are they really ETERNAL? Just seems like a plot hole"

[@zztopfan5201]

The Cronenberg movie called Crash is interesting to say the least….

[@montrose252]

This movie is SO bad!

[@BenjaminGlatt]

Man, remember when James Spader was hot and not one potato stacked on top of another potato?

[@zer0nix]

My hearing is kind of going. Is the audio for this episode especially soft, except for exceptionally loud sibillant s sounds or is that just me?

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

It’s a pretty old ep, pre-Trump presidency even

[@IMelkor42]

"They all have to work together to beat the volcano... And then later, when the volcano has been stopped" Did Matt watch the same volcano movie as the rest of us?

[@samb8744]

Coda and Nomadland are the worst. Crash and Green Book are also very embarrassing

[@Xylus.]

Not even the best movie called Crash

[@HonestObserver]

Video messes up at 44:22, FIX IT

[@Dayndawn01]

I wish they reviewed 1996 Crash

[@RancorousSea]

I wish they reviewed the book I read when I was a little kid

[@silomooney1857]

My professor made us watch this movie and write a paper on it for a social work course. I’ve been working at CPS now for five years, and this movie is still the most terrible shit I’ve ever seen.

[@inprofile741]

A proto-Daily Wire classic

[@Ssalamanderr]

We watched this shit in school, lmao

[@deathmagneto-soy]

I had no idea Three6Mafia won an academy. Also, that Brock Winthrop outro song is cool af.

[@crummycuzz]

they won for Hustle and Flow.

[@deathmagneto-soy]

@@crummycuzz - Holy Moly. I just realized Terrence Howard is in both Crash and Hustle and Flow. I wonder how much starring in either of those movies precipitated his recent mental unravelling.

[@crummycuzz]

@@deathmagneto-soy Probably not much, given the fact that those films were so long ago and had nothing to do with science or his perception as a smart man. I watched a Jamie Foxx interview where he roasted him on the radio, and he described what he was like behind the scenes. It seems that he's always been odd. That roast is hilarious, and pretty much gave us the "Mayne" Meme. If anything, that tells why he wasn't in Iron man, which could have played a part in his Hubris that we now see in the public.

[@RancorousSea]

@@deathmagneto-soy 100% because for every action there is a reaction. Or it's 50% because it either happens or it doesn't.

[@BrendanMacWade]

For sheer tropes, Driving Miss Daisy's win hut a lot more. But this movie is indeed shit. I don't know a single person who liked Crash nor Green Book. Heck, Training Day wasn't good. There's a ton of shit out there.

[@nathanjones5457]

First!

[@deathmagneto-soy]

I'm gay.

[@BigHomieGayAss1917]

@@deathmagneto-soyI’m gayer