This movie won best picture?! This movie was just plain TERRIBLE!

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2002)

I know that American Beauty won the best picture Oscar in 1999, that being said, this movie has to be one of the WORST movies I have ever seen, it is quite hypocritical and left leaning, two things I hate most about films. It involves a man who is enduring a "mid life crisis" instead of taking responsibility for his life, he quits his job, makes his family life hell, and fantasizes over a teenage girl. (Is this guy a pediophile or something?!) The only "normal" people are a gay couple living next door. (The writer, Alan Ball, is openly gay so he wanted a black comedy with gay people in it!) Even the next door neighbor is shown as a sadistic bully! Anyways, the film shows how messed up our society is if we work hard to achieve the American dream. I didn't buy it, and found the whole movie to be a complete hypocritical mess. If you want to explore similar themes without the hypocrisy, go see 1999's Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, which is ten times better than this OVERRATED mess. A one on a scale of 1-10.