American Beauty is at least an 8/10 movie. Maybe 9/10

American Beauty is at least an 8/10 movie. Maybe 9/10.

5/10, mostly for the unintentional hilarity and cringe.

>unintentional hilarity
It's a comedy, you know.

8/10 pre-Spacey getting outed as a pedophile.

0/10 now.

Like a bit over half of it is, sure.

Was my favourite film ever when I watched it at 15
It's still alright if a bit overwrought

6.5/10

It's good. It's just ripping off a lot of better movies.

It's better when you see it for the first time in high school. Time goes by and you realize it's nothing special. It's alright though.

>7/10 before Spacey scandal
>9999/10 after because of the irony of ending

DUDE PLASTIC BAG IN THE WIND LMAO

It's a comfortable movie.

How did they get away with having two pairs of underage tits in one movie?

I probably saw more movies in the theatre in 1999 than any other year of my life, but I didn't see this one. I remember before she died, Pauline Kael came out with some criticism of this in, I think it might have been Film Quarterly. Basically she said it reassures audiences that their boring lives in the suburbs are justified and not wasted and that it's phony.

It used to be, but now that spacey is a sex offender it's no more than a 5/10.

Only Thora Birch was actually underage.

I loved the movie, but I want to hear your opinions on this, Sup Forums: was the scene where Janie and Ricky watch his plastic bag video meant to be a lighthearted lampoon of that kind of person who sincerely finds depth in things that aren't deep, or was it genuinely trying to be deep?

I think that it was the former, and that the call back to it at the end IS genuine as it drives the message of the movie home, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts

Blond chick was 18? She looked young as fuck

It's a 7/10 movie, at best.

what? she really was underage? fuck that makes it so much hotter

>le contrarian face

18 or 19. The movie came out when she was 20.

Yes, Thora Birch was 16 when the movie was filmed. Her parents actually encouraged her to do the topless scene.

So any dissenting opinion is automatically considered invalid? Fucking retard.

>Best Picture
>Best Director
>Best Actor
>Best Cinematography
Must have had a hell of a good campaign.

>Thora Birch
Wow she's really not doing great these days

>Spacey going for underage sex
10/10 realism
>Spacey pulling out because it was a girl instead of a guy
10/10 realism

Movie was fucking real.