Netflix: Crash
Last night we watched Crash, the one from 1996 starring James Spader. After I hit "Play Movie" it came up with a screen asking if I wanted the NC-17 or the R-rated version. Well, naturally I picked the NC-17, we're big girls and can handle that sort of thing.
Holy crap, that was softcore porn.
I barely remember watching this movie with some friends back when I was in college (so about 1997), and I don't remember it being like that. I think my wife was disturbed by the movie - even though she loves James Spader - but I actually liked it. It's somewhere between racy and outright pornography...the element of the car crash fetish is a little bizarre, but I don't think that detracted from the sex scenes throughout the movie. I was a little surprised by all of the swapping going on - just because someone has a kinky, rare fetish doesn't mean they're automatically polyamorous.
A lot of the characters seem to be emotionally dead, particularly Catherine. To tell the truth, I really disliked her character - she was so dispassionate and so blasé, even when she was supposed to be "enjoying" herself, that it made her scenes almost unwatchable.
I found myself wondering through a lot of the film how they faked some of this stuff...because damn, some of it looked realistic.
Holy crap, that was softcore porn.
I barely remember watching this movie with some friends back when I was in college (so about 1997), and I don't remember it being like that. I think my wife was disturbed by the movie - even though she loves James Spader - but I actually liked it. It's somewhere between racy and outright pornography...the element of the car crash fetish is a little bizarre, but I don't think that detracted from the sex scenes throughout the movie. I was a little surprised by all of the swapping going on - just because someone has a kinky, rare fetish doesn't mean they're automatically polyamorous.
A lot of the characters seem to be emotionally dead, particularly Catherine. To tell the truth, I really disliked her character - she was so dispassionate and so blasé, even when she was supposed to be "enjoying" herself, that it made her scenes almost unwatchable.
I found myself wondering through a lot of the film how they faked some of this stuff...because damn, some of it looked realistic.
