Nothing original here.

Rating: Null/10 (29 February 2000)

I didn't see anything original in American beauty. Why is it considered so highly? OK, it was comic-tragic or whatever you call it. Maybe that's original. But there was nothing for me to think about, and I didn't learn anything, and I wasn't inspired by anything. It was a mixture of ideas from other films which are much better.
To be honest, the message of freedom in Disney's Tarzan was much more touching. Tarzan was more memorable too.
Sorry American beauty, you were too simple to be interesting.
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is much closer to the mark.
I mean really, what's the difference between this film and 'Falling down', except that the main character appears to fall upwards as he falls down?
Even the end, when he goes through his life, and his memories; what's important here? What are we looking at here? There are one hundred interesting ideas that could have been developed in this movie, but I didn't see one of them. I think they must think we are too stupid or something, that all they could give us was a homosexual in denial (his lost wife), a defeated middle aged man who falls down in an upwards direction, a crazy woman who will give all decent men nightmares for the next ten years, and two teenage girls, one who is a goth, the other who forgot to develop a personality because of how well panties sit around her hips. Oh yeh, and then there's Mr King. Wow! So what!! Doesn't every human being know all of this already?