I finally got to see it and even *I* am disappointed. For all my dislike of Hollywood mass-shit I still expected just a tiny bit better. This one is so much lacking in any artistic virtues and imagination, it is simply laughable. No, I am not surprised at all the hoopla around it - by now I am used to it. But gentle-guys, we are talking about the director and the rest of the crew still struggling with simple additionas and multiplications when decades ago the rest of the world had discovered the quantum mechanics. It is THAT far behind ANY curve... it is pathetic... it is your sister's child playing piano with one finger at the family gathering...Is it a waste of acting talent? No, regrettably no. She is just what she always is - a completely inept in ANY role, this one no exception. And Kevin - well, I am not sure any longer that his work in The Usual Suspects was not simply a fluke. If he keeps working in trash like that with such meager results - it will be time to write him off too.
I am glad I didn't go out and pay to see it. Looks like being one year behind the Hollywood is a good thing. Perhaps I should now stretch it to few more years, perhaps decades, to the period where there was *somethng* to see from that hill. Now it seems that nothing but just the proverbial shit is flowing towards us. Titanic.... SPR.... now that one...
With so much truly good cinematography around, it is so regratable that trash like that gets watched. Promoted. Paid for.
We should lament the fact that our kids will grow up thinking that this idiocy is what movies are all about and that there is not much out there besides the endless regurgitating of cheap teeneager trash.
This one certainly belongs in that category - all its 5-cents cliche's and stupid music, trying, unsuccessfully, to be sure, to catch that haunting Body Heat atmosphere.
I am sorry I saw it, I am sorry Kevin had stooped this low. I am sorry the director has no clue. I am sorry I stayed up late.
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Topic - American Beauty what an overrated piece of garbage, what a hopeless peice of Hollywood trash! - Victor Khomenko 06:42:27 07/23/00 (53)
- Re: American Beauty what an overrated piece of garbage, what a hopeless peice of Hollywood trash! - Emit 10:09:12 07/28/00 (0)
- you expected something more...nt - Keith F 15:05:54 07/25/00 (0)
- I liked it, good movie (nt) - taco 22:50:06 07/24/00 (0)
- A Hollywood movie that condescends to typical Hollywood movie characters -- Is there no end to their perfidy? (nt) - clarkjohnsen 08:09:45 07/24/00 (0)
- Re: American Beauty what an overrated piece of garbage, what a hopeless peice of Hollywood trash! - AndrewH 23:30:19 07/23/00 (35)
- The K-car of movies - Victor Khomenko 05:40:04 07/24/00 (34)
- Re: The K-car of movies - AndrewH 15:34:05 07/24/00 (33)
- Re: The K-car of movies - Victor Khomenko 16:39:31 07/24/00 (32)
- Re: The K-car of movies - AndrewH 22:26:01 07/24/00 (31)
- Re: The K-car of movies - Victor Khomenko 06:33:38 07/25/00 (30)
- Re: The K-car of movies - AndrewH 11:45:15 07/25/00 (29)
- Re: The K-car of movies - Victor Khomenko 12:50:40 07/25/00 (28)
- Re: Absolutes - Jeff Starrs 04:55:43 07/26/00 (8)
- Re: Absolutes - Victor Khomenko 08:07:58 07/26/00 (7)
- Re: Absolutes - Jeff Starrs 02:05:45 07/27/00 (6)
- Re: Absolutes - edta 17:18:33 07/27/00 (3)
- Re: Absolutes - Victor Khomenko 05:21:57 07/28/00 (2)
- I envy you that you are so far above the concerns of many average Americans today. - edta 19:28:30 07/28/00 (1)
- Sorry pal! - Victor Khomenko 05:07:13 07/29/00 (0)
- Re: Absolutes - Victor Khomenko 05:38:13 07/27/00 (1)
- Re: Absolutes - Jeff Starrs 06:14:23 07/27/00 (0)
- being mal kevich - petew 14:09:16 07/25/00 (18)
- un mal kevich? Qu'est-ce que c'est un kevich? nt - AndrewH 16:58:44 07/25/00 (0)
- Re: being mal kevich - Victor Khomenko 14:53:11 07/25/00 (16)
- the Bravo channel: Actor's Studio - petew 18:15:44 07/25/00 (0)
- hold it right there - late 17:33:25 07/25/00 (14)
- Sorry? - Victor Khomenko 19:02:15 07/25/00 (13)
- Re: "...dumbing down of America..." - gino 09:01:50 07/28/00 (0)
- explanation - late 09:21:38 07/26/00 (0)
- No calculators, please... - George M 19:12:07 07/25/00 (10)
- Well... - Victor Khomenko 19:52:00 07/25/00 (9)
- Euclidean parallel? - George M 05:29:03 07/26/00 (0)
- not so well ;-) - gnat 00:24:12 07/26/00 (7)
- Got a closet big enough? - Victor Khomenko 05:57:57 07/26/00 (6)
- I'll use my dacha :) - gnat 00:37:21 07/27/00 (5)
- Your papa member of tse-ka? - Victor Khomenko 06:23:52 07/27/00 (4)
- nope, he's from tsa-gi :) - gnat 23:51:29 07/27/00 (3)
- I don't think this is the soln. you're looking for but it works... - Shane 13:46:28 07/28/00 (1)
- minor correction - Shane 13:51:09 07/28/00 (0)
- Right kind of dad - Victor Khomenko 06:39:12 07/28/00 (0)
- I strongly disagree! - edta 18:55:39 07/23/00 (1)
- Re: I strongly disagree! - Victor Khomenko 19:23:36 07/23/00 (0)
- thanks Victor - late 13:22:13 07/23/00 (3)
- From the vicarious school of film criticism <nt> - Stephen Hayes 06:07:45 07/24/00 (1)
- crash 'n burn - late 07:18:27 07/24/00 (0)
- Me, too. - Ears 16:37:15 07/23/00 (0)
- you didn't like the whirlwind trash? - petew 11:09:53 07/23/00 (4)
- Unseen Forses-R-Us - Victor Khomenko 12:46:19 07/23/00 (3)
- where do you find these films? - petew 18:01:37 07/23/00 (2)
- Re: where do you find these films? - Victor Khomenko 19:15:51 07/23/00 (1)
- try this place... - dave 13:21:34 07/26/00 (0)
- Re: American Beauty what an overrated piece of garbage, what a hopeless peice of Hollywood trash! - swtoby 06:58:32 07/23/00 (1)
- Let it go. He's done this before and he'll do it again. - Stephen Hayes 08:41:09 07/23/00 (0)