A Talent For Inapt Comparisons

Roger Ebert starts a recent review thus:

Friends With Money resembles Crash, except that all the characters are white, and the reason they keep running into each other is because the women have been friends since the dawn of time.

Hmm. The whole point of Crash, hence the title, is how you keep pushing up against people you don't know in all sorts of combinations. Friends With Money, though set in the same city, is about a small group of friends who see each other all the time (and rarely anyone else) because they plan to.

"Saving Private Ryan resembles Crash, except that the characters are all in the Army and the reason they keep running into each other is because they've been ordered to."

Is Roger making some sort of joke? Sometimes I worry about him.