blatant ripoff of magnolia

Rating: 1/10 (14 September 2005)

While I definitely think the movie was better than the 1 out of 10 I gave it, it is simply rated way too high on the best all-time movie list. People... if you liked this movie learn to expand your horizons in film watching. I could probably find you a million better films all around the world that will bring out the emotions of this film, and with much more depth and beauty.
Also,
there was so much in the movie that was taken directly from magnolia... it was reminiscent of Imaginary Heroes in comparison to American Beauty.. and by the way Imaginary Heroes is much better than Crash (it can make you laugh as well as cry), but of course you regular movie goers will probably never see it because it doesn't have the Hollywood names of Crash. Anyways, back to ways in which it resembles Magnolia aside from the obvious interconnectedness of such seemingly separate characters:
1) sick father in both films
2) long music sequence w/out dialogue
3) snow falling instead of frogs
4) portrayal of heroic cop ... I'm sure I can think of more, but this was all just on my first watching of Crash.
And... finally the character Sandra Bullock (the biggest actor/actress in the film)plays is entirely way too underdeveloped, and the scene in which she slips down the stairs is one of the cheesiest in movie history.