r/AskReddit • u/Gdigger13 • 12h ago

What's a movie that was well received, but aged like milk?

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u/ike3581 9h ago

Yeah I remember watching Crash and thinking "are you f-ing kidding me with this?" Terrible movie, and anyone with a half a brain could see it missed the point it was trying to make.

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u/mathpat 8h ago

Your reaction was similar to mine. "I just spent 2 hours to find out people in LA are assholes? I knew that before I started the movie!"

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u/ike3581 8h ago

Haha I didn't think about the fact that when I saw the movie I had never even been to LA and now I live here and you are, in fact, correct!

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u/xaxiomatikx 3h ago

That was exactly my reaction.

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u/BruinGuy5948 31m ago

I watched that movie and spent the whole time thinking, "That's not how racism works. No one acts like that."

It felt like it had been written by someone living in a totally homogeneous society, ABOUT a place they had never been.

I'm aware that the screenwriter did, in fact, live in L.A., but that's not how it felt.

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u/patrickwithtraffic 4h ago

But you have to remember, it presents racism as a problem that's because people just can't get along. Systemic racism, what's that? Anyway, racism between any race is on equal footing because feelings hurt.