Possibly the most overrated movie of all time

Rating: 1/10 (20 April 2002)

I enjoyed the sequence at the drive-thru. I also thought Scott Bakula's small performance was pretty good. Outside of that, this was my most painful experience in a theater since "Club Paradise."
What was this movie trying to say? Marriage is a bad, arcane, suffocating institution? Adultery, pedophilia and drugs are good and liberating? All Marines are bigoted psychotics who abuse their wives and children, and are all of course closeted homosexuals? Perhaps that is what they think in Hollywood.
I was watching this movie with my girlfriend. Towards the end of this interminable nightmare I walked out. I walked back in when she didn't follow. After the movie, I told her that this movie was so critical of every good and decent aspect of American life, that it was a shoo-in for Best Picture. This movie does not entertain, it does not make one think, it just aggravated me. I had never wanted my money back so bad.