Oh, The Irony

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

a roving band of negroes

Don't they usually just call them "gangs" these days?

[ice grillin you]

call it what you want....if you see a bunch of black kids with skullys get nervous

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

call it what you want....if you see a bunch of black kids with skullys get nervous

From the Oscar winner for Best Picture:

Anthony: Look around! You couldn't find a whiter, safer or better lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys, who look like UCLA students, strolling down the sidewalk and her reaction is blind fear. I mean, look at us! Are we dressed like gangbangers? Do we look threatening? No. Fact, if anybody should be scared, it's us: the only two black faces surrounded by a sea of over-caffeinated white people, patrolled by the triggerhappy LAPD. So, why aren't we scared?

Peter: Because we have guns?

Anthony: You could be right.

[phattymatty]

to my defense, ive been watching the wire non stop for two weeks now. kick ass show.

fo sho, i rented the first 2 seasons of off netflix as i haven't had hbo in a few years.  can't wait for 3rd season to come out.

i would literally watch all 2 or 3 episodes the day a new disc came in the mail.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Other great banter from "Crash":

Graham: Mom, I can't talk to you right now, OK? I'm having sex with a white woman.
[hangs up, and Ria gets out of bed]
Graham: OK, where were we?

Ria: I was white, and you were about to jerk off in the shower.

Graham: Oh, shtein. Come on. I would have said you were Mexican, but I don't think it would have pissed her off as much.

Ria: Why do you keep everybody a certain distance, huh? What, you start to feel something and panic?

Graham: Come on, Maria. You're just pissed 'cause I answered the phone.

Ria: That's just where I begin to get pissed. I mean, really, what kind of man speaks to his mother that way?

Graham: Oh, this is about my mother. What do you know about my mother?

Ria: If I was your father, I'd kick your farging ass.

Graham: OK, I was raised badly. Why don't you take your clothes off, get back into bed, and teach me a lesson?

Ria: You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How 'bout a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. Neither one of those is Mexico.

Graham: Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?

Anthony: You could fill the Staples Center with what you don't know.

Peter: The Kings are playing tonight.

Anthony: Man, I know you just pretend to like hockey to piss me off!

[SunMo]

Crash was good, but overrated

[Feva]

call it what you want....if you see a bunch of black kids with skullys get nervous

Word... 

[Feva]

Crash was good, but overrated

Too many people liked it?


Not saying it's how you personally mean it, but so many times... that seems to be what people mean when they call something overrated.  It's like they have to be in the minority to for them to consider anything really good... but the second more than 5 people agree... it's no longer "cool" to like it and it becomes overrated.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

He could simply mean that it was a fine movie, but not deserving of the top honor in movies of the year.

[SunMo]

He could simply mean that it was a fine movie, but not deserving of the top honor in movies of the year.

yeah, that.

Feva, i know the people you are talking about, i used to be one of them.  but now, i try to base my opinion on what i am actually seeing or hearing, ya know, how it should be .

[MURP]

so what is your movie of the year, Sun Mo?

[Feva]

He could simply mean that it was a fine movie, but not deserving of the top honor in movies of the year.

yeah, that.

Feva, i know the people you are talking about, i used to be one of them.  but now, i try to base my opinion on what i am actually seeing or hearing, ya know, how it should be .

Yeah, it's all good.  I saw it... loved it.  Others I know saw it... hated it, and everything in between.  Like I said, I wasn't trying to shtein on your opinion, just wondering.

[SunMo]

i dunno, i didn't see them all.

and i'm sure that will lead you to say, "How do you know that it didn't deserve Picture of the Year?"

and i can't honestly answer that, other than when I watched it, i thought it was a good movie, but i never got that knock-your-socks off feeling when watching other award winners.  so, maybe it was the picture of the year only because it was a weak crop of movies, that very well could be.

another reason i thought it was overrated was because people were proclaiming to be a real social statement, it wasn't really.  it was just a bunch of social cliches, imo.

[phattymatty]

i thought crash was the best movie i saw in the theaters, by far.

[rjs246]

I liked Crash but thought it tried too hard to make its point. A little over the top. Still, definitely the second best movie I saw this year. Capote took that title. Wouldn't want to watch it again, but an outstanding movie.