Disturbing and creepy.

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2000)

I hate how when one person labels a movie as "art" and all of a sudden it becomes a "masterpiece" and "one of the greatest films of all time." Do you really think that we should throw these words around so carelessly? I found American Beauty to disgusting and perverse. How can we find a movie based on a man masturbating and fantasizing about a 16 year old girl art? I like a good sex flick any day, but when the characters are a middle aged man and his daughter's friend, I think it's extremely creepy. I also found it creepy that we see frontal nudity of 2 girls that we are suppose to believe are 16. All the pedophiles of the world can certainly get off to this one. It also thought that the movie was very predictable. It wasn't a "murder mystery." I won't spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it, but the movie was no mystery. I'm glad I caught the matinee and saved a couple bucks.