Why do people act like this film hasn't aged well or whatever? Do people still not have midlife crisis or question their surroundings and life? everyone thinks its >muh white people problems, but the characters are all very relatable IMO
and it has one of the best endings ever
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Lots people here are kids and believe bit out of fashion clothes make movie dated.
Kevin spacy is literally the only interesting part of the movie and he isnt even that interesting
his daughter and her bf scenes are other wordly cringy, as is the "TOUGH MILITARY MAN IS REALLY GAY xD!" part
you didn't understand the movie
yea american beauty is ine of my absolute favorite films. people still have midlife criseses. people still look for meaning. people still live under regimes(parents) that don't understand them.
the dad wasn't gay. he just wanted to understand his son. not getting this is a meme here. the closet hugging scene is heartbreaking.
is it the deepest movie ever? no. but it did get me started at looking closer.
>YOU DIDNT GET IT
this movie is fucking gay pretentious horse shit that aged like milk and no one gives a shit about it. Deal with it
I like it a lot.
maybe things are different now. maybe girls don't try to onebup each other. maybe boys that don't give a fuck aren' sexy. maybe people who have fallen out of love can't love another.
yea, maybe it is me who didn't get it.
>the dad wasn't gay
pretty sure he was
he was super closeted
Yeah that movie sucks , it didn't age well at all. First time I saw it I loved it and watched it multiple times. Flash forward to today and it's all cringe and totally out dated themes and shock value
but he fairly obviously wasn't. gay is being sexually aroused by men. he wasn't.
he kissed lester only to see how it felt. he didnt like it so he killed him.
how can the new generation both beleive that sexuality is genetic but that a character choses his sexuality? the mental gymnastics in hollywood mist be olympic teir
It plays to liberal idealism, with themes and messages done over a million times before it was even made. Now that it has been done a billion times over, it is just less tolerable. It tries to be this deep, sophisticated story, that now is just played out and would be considered "SJW Pandering" if it came out now that these ideas have become so commercialized.
I still like the movie despite all of this, as while it may have been made up of tired ideas, especially now, it is still really well made. Spacey is fantastic in it, Thora Birtch's underaged tig ol' bitties, and a lot of thought went into every shot and scene. The bag scene gets a lot of shit these days, but I still got a lot of nostalgia for seeing it in the theater back in the day. Sitting in the dark with my grrl watching a film with a young couple sitting in the dark watching a film. Good feels.
>this movie is fucking gay pretentious horse shit that aged like milk and no one gives a shit about it. Deal with it
You can just say you didn't understand it
great flick that belongs in the museum of "pre-9/11, turn of the century America" cinema.
I think a lot of people see problems with it because of the pedophilia and the melodramatic filming the bag blowing in the wind scene. It's a very over the top film, and really not a great portrayal of life nowadays. It's also sort of unbelievable that it won best film because it's good, but not amazing by any means.
I dunno dude, the only thing that's really dated is the closeted military dad. The rest is no more dated than '90s movies with similar themes of pre-9/11 consumerist ennui like Fight Club or The Matrix.
How is "closeted person compensates by hating gays" dated at all? There have been more anti-gay lobbyist and conservative brimstone preachers outed since 9/11 than before.
so it's a bad movie because the themes are overdone 15 years later? it came out in 1999 when the american dream was alive and nobody had any real concerns. working 9-5 wasn't a bad thing because usually you had something to show for it. the film was ahead of its time in saying that you don't have to be happy with living the same life as everyone else
sure, it's a common trope in film/tv now, but that doesn't mean it hasn't aged well as the themes are more relevant than ever, it just got there first
Saying someone didn't understand it is not an argument. How can you not understand the film with it shoving it's message in your face throughout it? It's a melodramatic mediocre film with good imagery and cinematography.
cause it's so blatantly 90s and not in a fun way like the matrix
Shrubby dad stuck at the dead end white collar job who rebels married to the empowered corporate woman and angst daughter whose boyfriend is "weird" who's fucking got money outta the ass with the overbearing father
Now these things may be not that 90s but the handling of issues like a modern marriage , a modern family, homosexuality, the corporate rat race are all handled with views that not many people have anymore
Watched it again yesterday.
It's a great film. Top 10 for sure.
its not deep you child, so this "y-you didnt get it!" nonargument doesnt work
the movie sucks and youre a boring pussy if you think its amazing
I just saw it for the first time recently and thought it aged great, who say's it didn't age well?