off-the-scale pretentious

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2005)

this movie is as moving and insightful as a fart. the director and his actors have no grasp whatsoever of the human condition. instead of giving an accurate or interesting snapshot of humanity they chose to create some sort of suburban nightmare and allow a bunch of hateful and inhumane people inhabit it. the scene wherein the paper blowing around is filmed and called "beautiful" by one of the "actors" in this flick sums it up for me. i.e. if you call it beauty, then people will want to fawn over, look and act like it. in this case, and in the case of the movie, it was just trash. you and i were scammed. and the academy did its usual part by praising this garbage to the sky. only in the case of titanic has a movie been less deserving of an award.