Tom Hanks came - that close to pleasing the sleeze, again

Rating: Null/10 (20 June 2000)

This movie was the definate movie of the year. American Beauty was not beautiful at all, it was sickening and very average. If a movie kills the main character, that doesn't mean it should win the oscar. The Green Mile deserved it.
What morals are we telling film makers by saying that a pot smoker going through a mid-life crisis who gets shot, is a better story than this?

Last year the same thing happened, they favored Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. What do all the veterans feel like when finally a movie comes along and succeeds in getting as close to what really happened, the horror of it all, and they favor a foreign love story over the re-telling of what their grandparents went through to this new generation.

Tom Hanks almost won best actor 2 years in a row again. Almost