I watched
Tiimer a while ago, long enough ago to forget any details that would help you decide on it, but I recommend it. Not highly but like, if you have Netflix and some time to kill it's at the top of that list.
This week trapped more-or-less without internet I finally got around to watching
Crash and what the fuck, society? Why was this the greatest movie ever that everyone jerked off over when it came out? Now, I know this movie isn't old enough to be spoiler-immune but it's well watched enough for me to not bother with tags, so keep that in mind.
First off and most minor, the car accidents had basically nothing to do with the movie. I can't think of a single event in the movie that required the car accidents, they could have been any other thing in the world and you have the exact same movie without any other editing. For this reason I have renamed the movie
Don't you Feel Like a Douche? and I feel that makes a lot more sense for this story. Okay, now to get into the specifics. I'll describe each character using one word and I guarantee anyone reading this will know who I'm talking about as soon as they read it.
I would use their names, but that would require I care enough to remember. Actually, the only character I cared about was Mexican, and we only meet him to move two other character plots forward. He has what, two scenes? ShucknJive was a fun character I guess, but only because that term makes me giggle every time I think of it. There were some other people too, but they didn't matter because we had racist and he was the entire plot. Racism, not to be confused with the character, was the entire plot by the way. In case you didn't notice. That's cool I guess, it's totally topical and no one has ever heard that LA is racist, so I'm glad the word got out on that.
Really the only thing to watch it for is that it does make good on Chekhov's gun and it gets points for that. Even the Shamalamadingdong-esque tweeeests were weak, though. More "The Happening" then "The Sixth Sense". I mean, if you didn't realize the bullets were blanks as soon as Mexican got in a fight with Muslim you weren't paying any attention. I can't really fault you for that though. It was nice how they do manage to tie everything together, but once I went through my dad's DVDs I moved on to my little sister's books and
Dear Dumb Diary did a better job of that.
tl;dr:
DyFLaD is pretty good I guess. I wouldn't buy it, I wouldn't choose it over... much, but it's watchable. It didn't deserve half the reception it got but I guess you get enough names people recognize together and critics will just Shuck 'n Jive.
hehehe