highly overrated

Rating: 1/10 (25 March 2004)

I went into this movie not knowing much about it except that it was getting a lot of praise. After viewing it, I strongly feel that the praise and Oscar nod that this movie received was highly overrated.
First off, I got bored and I found the movie entirely too predictable. Who really wants to watch a middle-aged man obsess about a teenage girl? Apparently there are more people out there than I care to think about.
Second, the homophobic undertones in my opinion were a little overdone and got to be quite annoying by the end.
My opinion of the film as a work of art may have been a little tainted by the fact that I found a lot to be lacking in the morality both of the film and its characters. I am sure that there was some genius in the filming and the way that story was told otherwise the high marks it received would be completely impossible to believe.