Reasons I'm Actually Kinda Happy That Crash Won Best Picture

1. It means that the Academy is not nearly as thumb-suckingly boring and predictable as I thought it was.

2. Despite the fact that I'm all about the movie Brokeback Mountain and will argue to the death that it's a good thing that it got made, Crash was definitely the far more interesting and complex (and well-crafted) of the two movies, especially in its examination of prejudice and social issues.

3. And most importantly, it allowed us to dodge the bullet that would've been Land of the Anxious Dog shouting "I told you so" and gloating for the 1,500th time.

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