#3 out of 250??? Oh, gimme a break!!!

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2000)

The top 250 films list is now irrelevant. It would appear that it has been hijacked by a generation that does not know nor care to know great movies. "American Beauty" was a good film for many reasons the best being that it was never boring. It had many fascinating moments in it and certainly showed good film-making. Nonetheless to say that this film is better than say "Key Largo" "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Gone With the Wind", "Wizard of Oz", "Great Expectations (1946)", "Singing in the Rain", "The Good Earth" .......... whoo hoo!!!!! Hucksters and hype artists of average age 25 are brilliantly contriving to limit young people's knowledge of great cinema to shoddy or average efforts where political correctness and unbridled fornication are the norm. Great acting and writing have yielded to the crutch of computer wizardry to excite the kids of today. I have a feeling Greta Garbo's performance in "Camille" would make them chortle or The Foolishness of the Marx Brothers in "A Night at theOpera" would appear just that. Acch what a pity (raise my hands in disgust)