American Beauty... one of the worst and boringest movies ive ever seen. I wouldnt have suggested it to my worst enemy (unless it killed them)
But yet between a great movie and a movie that put B in bad they picked the worst.
Frankly American Beauty was just self important pretentious drivel. The Fact anyone think it was worthy of an Oscar is mind boggling.
shareAmerican Beauty has probably stood the test of time better than the Green Mile.
But I still like TGM.
Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.
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I think it is unusually interesting that what Michael Clarke Duncan tells Paul (Tom Hanks) is true for "American Beauty's" as much as "The Green Mile":
"He kill them wi' their love. Wi' their love fo' each other. That's how it is, every day, all over the world."
"That's the beauty of argument, Joey...if you argue correctly, you are never wrong..."
Both are only been around for 14 years. Lets wait 50 years before we talk about standing the test of Time. What is perceived to be relevant today might not be in 50 years time. Frankly I find American Beauty to a lot more irritating and overly important even when it first came out. I don't see it as a masterpiece of any kind. Its just a hodge podge of PC B.S.. A lot people talk about how 2001 has lasted the test of time. But most of the time people just debate about how overrated it is.
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Back in like 2007 when I first saw American Beauty, I would've disagreed with you. I was fifteen when I saw it, and it deeply affected me… Now in my 20s, I feel like the film truly is very ham-fisted and self-important as a lot of the people in agreement with you are saying. It's a good film, but it's definitely not a masterpiece and has not stood the test of time.
The Green Mile is an absolute masterpiece. It's a film that can make me cry every single time I watch it. Every actor in the film delivers fully and brilliantly, which is more than I can say for American Beauty (Sorry, Wes Bentley…).
American Beauty is definitely an Oscar-bait film. It's pretentious, self-important, and acts deeper than it is. In 1999, I'm sure most people thought it was as deep as it pretended to be, but so many better films have gone on to do the exact same things but better… And more deeply.
This is gonna *beep* do for him what "Jade" did for David Caruso.
1999 had probably 3 of the 5 best movies of the 1990's in The Green Mile, American Beauty & Fight Club. (why Fight Club not nominated for best picture??)
I have not seen The Cider House Rules so I can't judge that one, but losing to American Beauty is just a case of bad luck to have a top rate movie in your same year
You could try to make a case and argue that The Green Mile is better than American Beauty, but to call it one of the worst movies you've ever seen only tends to imply you haven't seen that many movies. I also liked The Green Mile better, but American Beauty is a great movie, too. Maybe you should watch it again.
shareI'be seen all three films and everyone will have their differing opinions about which was best. And all three films were great but I prefer TGM to AB and CHR. But no one could convince me that TGM didn't have the best actors of all time. And Doug Hutchinson and Michael Clarke Duncan should have taken home awards as well as Sam Rockwell.
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Both Green Mile and American Beauty are masterpieces.
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