Crash

This was the kind of movie that I thought I should like, but I just found it lame and revolting.  The idea?  People are so obsessed with famous car crashes that they re-enact them… literally, they often get injured and/or die in the act.  I just didn’t like something about the pace and the way the characters were written.

To make matters worse, somebody else came out with another movie called “Crash” in like 2004. That shouldn’t be allowed. I mean, if someone already made a movie with some title, you can’t just reuse it.

Stargate

This movie was a lot more significant than most people realize. It was the first of a new breed of “special effects-driven” sci-fi movies. Computers have brought down the cost of special effects to a point where the plot no longer needs to be “incredible”, it can just be “adequate”. Actually, this movie was above “adequate”, but it left the door open for a bunch of adequate movies to follow.

Also, the whole Stargate empire that followed – the sequels and the TV show… I could do without.