Dr. DVD

I have started limiting the Best Picture nom. DVDs I buy as I don't watch them all that often. However, I do try to buy at least two of the noms. from that year as I do agree with their noms. One I will have is definitely Good Night and Good Luck, as it was the Best Pic. of the year IMHO. The other spot I cannot decide between Brokeback Mountain which I thought was good but not great, and Crash, which I hold in about the same opinion as Crash. The other noms, Munich and Capote, were both impressive but not as much as these other two to me.

Brokeback was an accomplishment and beautiful movie, but a tad overrated IMO. Crash was something I enjoyed and wanted to get the DVD, but decided to wait until the DC was available once I heard about it. I guess I'm just torn between what did win and what many thought should have won. What's your opinion?


NOTE: I do not want this to be another heated debate thread.

EDIT: Could someone edit that accidental smilie out of my poll? Thanks!

Filmmaker

Sounds like you liked CRASH best (shame on you for not recognizing that MUNICH was better than all of 'em, but you're certainly not alone) so it looks like a no-brainer to me.

jaschiero

I saw crash, thought it was lame and anticlimactic. Would never watch Brokeback Mountain. So as someone who wouldn't buy either just as much as the other, go with the Crash DC because a) it did win, and b) its a "special edition"

There ya go!

gryffinmaster

Crash.

OldBoy

oh good...another debate between these two. doesn't the 5 or so threads in movie forum preclude a debate will ensue? plus, isn't this for "Reviews and Recommendations"?

adamblast

I'm confused by your assertion that you like Crash about as much as Crash.

jaschiero

ha, I didn't even catch that

Duality

Buy To Kill a Mockingbird if you desire a classic movie which deals with race. Buy Brokeback Mountain if you want to have a life-changing experience. Forget Crash.

Drexl

I say get both if you want them, regardless of whatever awards they won or didn't win. Personally, I would get Brokeback and no version of Crash, but that's just me. Just because some of us didn't like Crash but liked Brokeback (or vice-versa), there are people that liked both.

pro-bassoonist

Ciao,
Pro-B

Richard Malloy

My suggestion - especially if you're all-region/format - is to forego these purchases for something that approaches a similar subject matter in a more interesting (and IMO successful) manner. After all, do you really want your personal collection to look like what one might find at any ol' Blockbuster?

Instead of "Brokeback Mountain"... try "Tropical Malady". (preferably the PAL-format Thai release from ethai.com)

Instead of "Crash"... try "Code Unknown". (preferably the PAL format UK release)

OldBoy

has anyone found any reviews for "Crash" DC?

dvd_luver

Brokeback Mountain had all the makings of a Best Picture Oscar winner, with repeated viewings it grows on you even more and it becomes even more powerful. Crash won the Best Picture Oscar, but with repeated viewings it grows a bit stale with that whole "your a racist, el' sicko, dirty slimeball, corrupt cops" were all crashing into eachother in this life in LA thing. Don't get me wrong, it's a powerful film, but Brokeback Mountain is the better long term film for repeated viewings, it's a film that you would want to go back and see all the time. Crash grows stale with repeated viewings imo.

billneill

I go to most all movies and can tell you on a scale of 0 to 9 that Crash is in the range of 2 or 3, whereas Brokeback Mountain is in the range of 7 or 8. I base this on what did this picture have to say? Was it new? Was is significant? Was it well done? Was it real?

In all fairness, Crash was the same BS warmed over and over and over. My God how many times do you have to see this same s***? The cast was of no real interest, some over the hill and need to get a life and a job not on screen! As far the the picture goes, LA is LA and so what did you expect?

Now BBM is all new, vivid, clean, clear, strong, it is so strong you will think about it for a week after seeing it. This is a life of millions of up standing citizens, many do not know and some will never know what he was. You may have a mother or father or other relative who made it work for all their lives. I for one am just fed up with all the cops that are guilty and act like they know or are given some better view of life - BS, they are not on my list to honor, because I worked with them for years and know far too much. Bill Neill, [email protected].

eXcentris

Say what?

Why don't you rent them both and then decide which one you want to buy?

illennium

Nah, To Kill a Mockingbird was the Crash of its time: overwrought, self-congratulory crap, one of the best examples I can think of to demonstrate the difference between classic films and just old ones. It resonated powerfully with some... but so did Crash.

Do the Right Thing is decent. Not my favorite, but I'm white, so maybe that's the point. The first film I think of that's in a similar vein as Crash but much, much better is Dark Blue, with Kurt Russell.

Richard Malloy

Code Unknown!

Dr. DVD

Maybe I'll just spring for a copy of Cannibal Holocaust off of Amazon.CA instead.

toddly6666

the question is...are you confident enough to have a gay cowboy movie or have a Matt Dillon/Sandra Bullock (yikes!) movie in your DVD collection?

DoubleDownAgain

Easy! Buy the movie you like most!

lateforwork

I thought Crash was good. but WAY too overrated.

filmnoirguy

Before going to Capote I watched To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was written by Harper Lee, who is played by Catherine Keener in Capote. Mockingbird is autobiographical, and Harper calls herself Scout in the book and movie. The little boy with specs who comes to Macon for the summer was really Truman Capote. That's when she met him and they became lifelong friends. So I would buy both Mockingbird and Capote and watch them as a double feature. The tie-in is so beautiful! Cheers~~

Josh H

What does Capote or To Kill a Mockingbird have to do with trying to decide whether to buy Brokeback Mountain or Crash?

BassDude

I'll throw another wrinkle in this and say...get the first version of CRASH. The DC was not the film that won Best Picture.

trebor00

Agreed. But if you prefer gay cowboys eating pudding...go with Brokeback Mountain.