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The (forgettable) film Crash with Sandra Bullock won Best Picture in the mid-2000s... but it's mostly (for the first half or so) a sanitized, watered down, far
by listenallyall 5y ago
The (forgettable) film Crash with Sandra Bullock won Best Picture in the mid-2000s... but it's mostly (for the first half or so) a sanitized, watered down, far less daring or interesting version of Magnolia, which is an absolutely brilliant film.
- pmoriarty 5y agoMagnolia was utterly forgettable to me, except for Tom Cruise's super sleazy, arrogant asshole character. Crash was even worse, though.
- blowski 5y agoI recently watched Magnolia in the Prince Charles Cinema in London. I'd seen it multiple times before, but never in a cinema. The bit with the frogs was incredible, going from peaceful to absolutely deafening. That scene is now my most memorable.
- dvdgsng 5y agoThere are so many movies I haven't had a chance to watch in a cinema, I wish more theaters would play classics on their largest screens. I just found out that one of our local cinemas now has weekly 'classic sneaks'. Lucky me.
- listenallyall 5y agoI'm not going to tell you what movies you should like. Magnolia is a long film, and it takes a while to get where it is going. Some people think it's gimmick-y, others are willing to suspend belief and go with it. But either way, Julianne Moore wound tight, desperate William H Macy, lonely John C Reilly, Jason Robards on his deathbed... these are all epic performances (as is Tom Cruise of course). The secondary players as well -- Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Melora Walters, Jeremy Blackman (kid), Luis Guzman -- are superb. I acknowledge lots of people hate Magnolia but if you found it forgettable, I doubt you were even paying attention in the first place.
- hobochili 5y agoIf you’re tracing Crash back to Magnolia, keep on going until you reach Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993). Magnolia uses a similar template, just weighs it all down with more melodrama.