These 2 movies are quite similar to each other. What do you find a better movie and please explain why?
shareI didn't like Crash's forced message of 'EVERYONE's a racist, but that's ok, because everyone has some good in them too!' It just seemed way too transparent.
Traffic beats both though as far as my favorite movie of that style.
Amores Perros is a lot better than Crash. Crash seemed like a slight Hollywood imitation on Amores Perros. But aside from a car crash and the idea of the narrative following three inter-related stories, the films are quite different.
shareCrash was preachy and very contrived to force a message down your throat, as well as quite cliched in its multiple storylines all interelated (Magnolia, Amores Perros and many others...). It was also quite Hollywood-y accessible, a bit too simple if you ask me (and that's qhy it wrongfully won the Oscar over BBM IMO) I think that Babel has a similar flaw, though it is more pretentious.
Amores Perross all the way.
The only thing Crash and Amores Perros have alike is the multiple storyline format. Babel and Magnolia also use this format. I found Amores Perros to be more powerfull then Crash, Crash was more of a polished up movie( a little too slick too actually move you). Crash did have powerful moments I must admit and the acting was also good. Amores Perros 9.5/10, Crash 9/10
Easy. Amores Perros by a mile.
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Crash.
If Crash sucked so much, how come the IMDB user rating is the same as Amores Perros, (8.2/10) and more people have seen Crash (almost 3x as many)?
My favorite movie with this directing style is Traffic, by far. Anyway, Amores was too labored for me. It seemed too nihilistic (that means "pessimistic" for those of you who never leave your computers). Crash had the message that even though people are racist, in times of need or emergency, their racism is forgotten and the focus turns to helping others. It had the same element of AP in that not everybody ultimately gets along with everyone else, but AP made the point that everybody has a FUBAR life and that is the way things are. Sure, the dogs added a piece that had to do with love, but the only real love in the movie involved humans and animals, not humans and humans. I am not saying that AP was S H I T T Y, or anything, but Crash left me with a more satisfied feeling; I felt like I knew the characters and wanted them to work their problems out. AP left me feeling more like an observer left with the question "Okay, so what?" 21 Grams was a better movie, and was more obviously a story about redemption. (Also, on a lesser note, the acting was better and the characters were more likeable). I thought Benicio's character in 21 was more troubled, so his transformation at the end was more significant. In AP, the ex-guerilla didn't really make an obvious change for us. He was a figure in the movie that didn't do a whole lot and then we find out he still loves his family. That's great, but it did not have the redemption value of 21 Grams or Babel.
Babel 9/10
21 Grams 8/10
Amores Perros 6/10
I'M AN ALBINO!
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"If Crash sucked so much, how come the IMDB user rating is the same as Amores Perros, (8.2/10) and more people have seen Crash (almost 3x as many)?"
duh, maybe because it's an american movie and it won the oscar?
and yes, crash sucked that much. deal.
It's not my fault that no Mexicans are on IMDB. If the movie was so great, I ask again, why is Crash rated higher???
I may be from Ohio, but I'm not *from* Ohio- Daisy (Bowfinger)
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All over, well said, Subsound. I got my mom to watch it, (she does not watch movies), and she loved it. She said it was depressing but important.
Mystic River next!
You, Sir, are a bigot and a racist. Can I buy you a drink?
What Would Harry Do?
Hmm well I haven't actually seen Amores Perros but I have been dying to see it for ages. babel as well. But for me I agree with some of the reviewers that Crash was too focused on one issue and how the people experienced it. However, sayig that I did find it thought provoking and challenging. Not for the main storylines but for the iraqi/iranian (?) guy who goes to shoot the mexican guy for not getting his insurance and you think he's shot the girl! For me that wasn't about racism but about desperation and the need to blame someone. It was one of the most moving scenes I've ever seen.
shareI think Amores Perros was better but I think the section about Daniel and that model Valeria Amaya was a weakness.
shareAmores Perros is SO much better done than Crash.
Crash was just a mess in my opinion, only made worse by pretentious direction and mediocre acting on all parts.
Amores Perros however is beautifully shot and the performances by the entire cast are amazing. One of my all time favourite films
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Crash because the characters were more likeable and didn't *beep* everything up that much.
shareAmores Perros is better, Crash is only about racism and it had Ludacris in it! what a joke. But it was a decent movie, Dillon was really good, but it never at once impressed me.
shareCrash was an undeniabely good film, but Amores Perros is far better. It is a compilation of beauty and power, a real tear jerker that explores humans and nails emotions right on the head. Mexican cinema is fantastic, and I hope it doesn't go the same way Hollywood did.
shareI don't really see the connection between these two movies....
but I guess since the question was posed - Amores Perros, quite easily is way better
Crash is one of those commercial movies that everyone THINKS is good and thinks they have good taste to list it in their favorite movies. Like Braveheart or Gladiator.
Someone already said it, but I will say it again. If you want to see a Crash that IS good, see the Cronenberg Crash with James Spader - way more original
Amores Perros is about the human condition in general, I think, about people's expectations, frustrations, needs, redemption, revenge, transgressions, insecurities. I don't think you can say, it's about 'this'. Whereas Crash is more obviously about the implications of racism. I think all they really have in common is a car crash. I personally thought Amores Perros was more powerful, more visceral and difficult to take in. It's my favorite of the González Iñárritu-Arriaga collaboratons.
Good luck to Guido.