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Thanks to Brad for submitting this in the MotM draw last month! I'm really not sure how I feel about this movie, so this review is on the longer side. I hope you enjoy the reaction and looking forward to talking about this more in the comments! Thanks for watching. 🥰

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Miles is Editing

No shade to Brad at all, we all have different taste of course and we all pick different things and that is great. Not meant to be personal at all! Happy you won and I hope you enjoyed the reaction! Anyway: Absolutely hate this useless movie with a burning passion. The fact this won best picture is absolute academy insanity to me. I get what this movie "wanted" to do but it failed on every single level for me. To me it wanted to do it but didn't even try to do it. One of my least favorite movies of all time. "Racism is bad." Sure. But we know that. Why is it putting me through an entire movie of just horrible racism scenes with no redemption, no arcs, no growth, no epiphany whatsoever. Nothing is achieved through actual character development. This movie is the equivalent of that vine where someone says "this one is to end racism", throws a basketball and misses. It feels like watching random scenes of people being awful. Almost like scrolling through those TikTok's where cops are racist to people of color in their car. Yes they are awful but it's just awful for the sake of being awful. Shockvalue first. No substance. "Look how bad this behavior is!!!!"

HugoBoss435

Agreed. This movie sucks

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Ahhh crash, the worst best movie winner of all time.

Steve Mercier

So, I think there are some really great performances in here: Michael Peña might steal the show for me (dig your thumbnail, by the way). But this movie, which means to demonstrate and highlight how racism affects us all, winds up being a bit...well, racist. Many of the 'racist' highlights lean heavily into stereotypes--almost cartoonish stereotypes. And the movie has a tendency to use degradations and violations of people of color to allow white characters a chance at--I guess--unjustified redemption, but with big swelling music and all that bullshit. And also, I'm sorry, but racism is not equal. It does not affect all people equally. And...I'm rambling. Venting. Ranting. Diatribing. And no offense to Brad for choosing this. Different people experience different things differently. Sorry if I offended anyone. This movie makes me feel on a big level, but not because of what I would normally attribute to the craft and talent of those involved, but instead what I see as a bungled attempt, with potentially harmful messaging. Alas...I shall shut the fuck up now. (But still, the cast: Michael Peña, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Esposito, Larenz Tate, Shaun Toub, Keith David...fuck, even Ryan Phillippe, Ludacris, and Tony Danza are solid in this.)

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The performances are solid, I agree. Thank you for sharing your thoughts too, I can definitely understand what you are saying.

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I can definitely understand your opinion. My feelings would be much different if there had been proper growth and epiphanies displayed, for sure.