Rumors...demise...exaggerated

Shawshank:
Thank you for your conscription offers and for the stylish jumpsuits. I will try to re-enter society for a bit before exiting again.

Heart:
Those figure skater couples this last Olympics were badass. The russians who had to deal with that accident where he straight dropped that girl on the ice, concussing her head big time and concussing his confidence even bigger. The one china team with the cat with the torn achilles, back on the ice and skating just a few months after, and how he did fine and how his partner, enmeshed in the bonds of solidarity and empathy fell in his stead, so concerned for his landings rather than hers. And that other china team, where she fell slamming her knees and spread eagling all awkward across the ice to slam into the side, then to weep rightly for a bit, and then to come back, skate flawlessly, and take silver. Sheeet maaan. Badasses, all of em.

Blather:
What's the deal with Crash? Did no one see Higher Learning with Ice Cube, years ago, an equally simplistic, shallow caricature, with characters as ciphers wearing sandwich boards for their "positions"? Higher Learning sucked as well, but it has dibs because it got there first--not first really, lots of films have addressed these issues--but first in topic, form and presentation. It was just Crash with college kids. or rather, Crash was just Higher Learning with working folk.
I thought this review captured some of the problems. I don't like to "issue-ize" flicks, but since there is so much hype, just thought I'd toss in my minus two cents.