I don't understand...

Rating: 10/10 (5 December 2005)

It seems to me that, as I read through the reviews for this film, all of the users who enjoyed the film have specific reasons why, but the ones who did not enjoy the film don't give any real reasoning. I don't understand...
I absolutely LOVE this film. As a writer, it is the epitome of what I would want my name associated with in this industry. I can't help but think that most of the bad reviews of this film come from people who live the type of life that it somewhat parodies (i.e. "I live in the perfect town, with a perfect house, and a perfect career, and a perfect child")... I know so many of these "perfect" people and guess what...they don't like "American Beauty". To them it's "weird" or "inaccurate" or "pretentious". Now, I understand that some people just don't like because, well, they just don't like it and that's fine...but most "American Beauty" haters fall into the other category...
Top notch acting, top notch writing, and top notch directing does not make for a bad film. It makes for a MASTERPIECE! Kevin Spacey is outstanding as Lester. I haven't liked him more in anything that he did before or has done after this film... Annette Bening is so brilliant that I don't even know how to describe it in words, my GOODNESS she's good! "and I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me on the same day that you LOSE YOUR JOB!!" LOL! LOL! She is AMAZING! All of the supporting cast is magnificent, especially Chris Cooper, Wes Bentley, and Allison Janney...
This the reality of what some people consider the "good life" and I LOVE that Alan Ball wrote something that spits right in the face of all that phoniness. LOVE THIS FILM!