First, “Crash”. It’s a non-PC (politically correct) movie that exposes the ugliness that exists around Los Angeles (and probably most cities in America) about racism, stereotypes and conflicts between different ethnic groups and professions. It’s a very well-written script with excellent performance from many big-time actors. Don Cheadle<\/a>, after his amazing performance in “Hotel Rwanda<\/a>“, did it again with this film. But I’d say that this movie, overall, was a hidden treasure from the mainstream. I can think of many reasons why movies like this simply won’t become mainstream, but the issues it brought up certainly deserve a closer look. This movie reminds me of “Changing Lanes<\/a>” quite a bit.<\/p>\n “Batman Begins” really took me by surprise with the quality of script, directing and cinematography. Since the franchise kind of took a nose die after about the third film, this movie saved the “Batman” name from being lost in a crowd of badly made super hero movies. I also have to add that this was one of the few super hero movies to which I hardly pay any attention to any of the special effects because I was so engaged in the plot, storytelling and acting. This movie is highly recommended if you are ever so curious about just how Batman came about.<\/p>\n Blockbuster tried to lure us back with a special offer of $1 for the month of January to try their Netflix-rip-off service again. And damn it, I was happy to let them. So I got to see “Crash” and “Batman Begins“. Both movies surprised me. First, “Crash”. It’s a non-PC (politically correct) movie that exposes … Continue reading ““Crash” and “Batman Begins””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-6s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Movie:](\"\/images\/movie_crash.png\")
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