Crash 2: Get Off My Country!
The trailer for Crossing Over, starring Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, and our collective cognitive dissonance about immigration:
You know what I want to ask myself instead of asking myself why so many risk so much to come to this country? I want to ask why the people already in this country are so stupid that instead of watching DOCUMENTARIES, which they almost never watch, they fall all over these fictionalized, simpled-down, melodramatic fairy tales that ostensibly explore gray areas while remaining as black and white as an Aesop's Fable. Actually, no, Aesop was subtle and clever. I don't want a Hollywood movie to ask me to ask myself something, I want Errol Morris to ask real people things until I'm forced to ask myself on my own. ERROL MORRIS FOR PRESIDENT (Of Movies.)
Posted by Lindsay at 2:00 PM in Documentaries, Trailer
Tags: Ashley Judd | Crash | Crossing Over | Errol Morris | Harrison Ford
Lindsay, you're a reasonably powerful and influential blogger. Can't you stop this movie from happening?!
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I smell a WMOAT nomination, compadres.
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Why hasn't someone told Ashley Judd she'd not allowed to make any more movies? Please, for the sake of all our sanity, make her stop.
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this post sounds very gabe-like
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I know! What is that? I was waiting for someone else to notice that. "Get off my country" was his joke. We share sometimes. But I've been waiting a long time to say that stuff about documentaries.
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At last! It's been too long since I've seen a movie featuring a woman curled up and crying in the shower after an ugly sexual experience. (It's at the 1:50 mark; blink and you'll miss it!)
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Documentaries aren't all good. Errol Morris is exceptional film maker. Most docs are, like most other movies, not too great. That said, this looks particularly horrible.
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I love that this movie prominently features Australian and Brit illegal immigrants, as if the audience is supposed to, I dunno, relate? Feel sympathy for them? Right, because it's nearly impossible for citizens of Western nations to gain legal status in the U.S. ICE is so unfair to English-speaking white folks! Those poor limeys just want a better life!
That said, if Ray Liotta wanted me to debase myself for a green card... I... might... do it. But I'd shower-sob after!
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