So whether a movie is "good" or "bad" is a highly subjective notion. It isn't so obvious to conclude that just because a movie rakes in billions of dollars at the box office, it's a "good" movie. The common notion of a "good" movie seems to be more like a high IMDB rating than the box office numbers. Although, that's more about popular appeal than whether a movie is really "good", "bad", in between or beyond. Regardless, I saw two movies this weekend. This has become somewhat of a rare ocassion in recent months. I used to watch 5, 6 movies per weekend, but I seem to have become way too disorganized to be able to pull that off anymore. Now I average 1 movie a month if that. Simply pathetic. Look at how stale my blog has gotten, too... *SIGH* Hmm... I keep getting side tracked here... Goes to prove just how disorganized I am, doesn't it?

EEeeeeeenyway... So yeah, two movies. I saw Crash and 2046. 2046 is so obviously Mr. Wong's movie - complete with his right hand man Tony Leung - , yet it does have a bit more of an artsy fartsy indie feel to it. I enjoyed it very much, and there are some nice quotes about love in there that I resonated with. Now, I'm not implying that the two movies can be compared in any justifiable way, but Crash just blew me away. The simple fact that the movie was actually made lets me have hope that Holloywood can indeed make movies that portray something more than its usual (insert obnoxious high-brow statement on what Hollywood usually portrays here). It is still quite Hollywood in that its very much dramatized and it works the emotions in somewhat stereotypical ways, but I liked it a lot anyway. It was a movie recommended in passing by Mick, and I have to say that I thank him very much for the recommendation. Both movies come highly recommended from yours truly. Now go out and cop they thang!