it's was rude crude and socially unacceptable

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2000)

It was just too weird. I've read all the positive comments on it and frankly I just don't agree. It's superficial and STUPID. It's very hard for me to find a movie that I don't like but honestly this one takes the cake.
It's perverted, unrealistic, poorly directed....what else is there to add? The only thing that was worth noticing was the acting, which was above average but the story line was seriously flawed and in other words, excuse me, but it sucked. It's just gross that Lester wants to lay a 16 year old girl...I wonder where they come up with this *BEEP*...it's pedophile and revolting.
And the part of the anti-gay military dude...well that's just politically incorrect because it no movie should there be such a topic. Until we learn to accept homosexuals into our community as regular people, we could just as well be living in the medeivel era. I mean, you don't see people making "black" comments anymore in movies, why do they have to insist with the "gay jokes" and all the little nicknames that they have for people that solely have a different sexual orientation? I don;t think that for the people concerned all the "fag" comments were very much appreciated. They could have been avoided easily.
Then I was just too weirded out by the horny father...that is just really repulsive and I don't know how a movie plot could be based on such a taboo topic. It's nauseating.
And then American Beauty encourages everything that we DON'T need in our country. I mean, tv stations don't drugs to be seen on tv shows ect ect but then here is this 40yr old perve who buys scat from an 18yr old drug dealer. And then he proclaims him his hero. Nice. Is this the picture that we want to send out to today's teens? That we should worship druggies? Oh, lovely. Very appealing. And the american stations now censor everything. Well this moves should just be one big censor. It has nothing positive about it. It says that people would rather die than live. And it's just not fun. It has a sick sense of humor.
This is just my opinion, but since this movie has apparently appealed to various genre of people, than maybe there is something that I missed. For the sake of the American public, I hope it's a fault of mine because if we were nominated THIS for an Oscar, then we have a very sick sense of humor and the average American is degenerating monumentally.