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60 of 191 · most liked firstI think Hanania must just be an idiot? The climax of American Beauty is Lester realizing how bad it would be to act out his fantasies about his daughter's best friend. The movie is not about how cool it is for dads to bag high school girls. Also Kevin Spacey is a personally notorious kid toucher
unlabelledView post →Had an idea of taking classic movie posters and redoing them as chub or gainer related. Well here’s the first, based off of American Beauty. Stay tuned for more and comment with any ideas! Thanks to @/growinbear for his help in taking the picture and the editing.
unlabelledView post →I have long maintained that the “don’t sell out not caring is cool caring is cringe” thing was bound to turn evil, this is not unrelated to the fact that I hate the movie American Beauty
unlabelledView post →American Beauty has aged terribly as a movie but I haven't seen a windborne plastic bag without thinking about it in a quarter-century
unlabelledView post →Ashton Kutcher and Alison Brie will star in Gregg Araki's next film ‘THE DECLINE OF FUCKING WESTERN CIVILIZATION’. The film is described as ‘Election’ meets ‘American Beauty’. (Source: Deadline)
unlabelledView post →Also - that was like a key part of the movie. Kevin Spacey was a creep in American Beauty.
unlabelledView post →AMERICAN BEAUTY is a superhero origin story movie and Spacey and Bening (and Cooper) are the supervillains. (The superhero is Ricky, the neighbor kid, who has superhuman emotional intelligence)
unlabelledView post →What movie won tons of awards in your youth that you suspect would be hot garbage if you tried to watch it today, aside from American Beauty? I'm going to go with Scent of a Woman
unlabelledView post →American Beauty, a movie in which a pedophile played by another pedophile whines about living in the suburbs, is probably the best Gen X manifesto out there
unlabelledView post →“Nobody thought Lester was sexually unusual” That is, and I mean quite literally, the basis for the entire movie lol. That’s what it’s about! Of all the insipid American Beauty discourse and debate we’ve had over the years, that is like the only universal constant
unlabelledView post →I saw American Beauty in the theater. I kissed a boy for the first time while the movie was rolling. 110F outside and we were in the cold blissful darkness. He was a bad kisser, but I was excited to be kissed. When the gun entered the frame, the power went off. They had to kick us out.
unlabelledView post →I'm not here to defend American Beauty, which I think is a pretty dogshit movie, but it was definitely not treating that relationship as normal
unlabelledView post →eurgh also: the meaning of American Beauty isn't "40 year old men, you should fancy a 16 year old girl!' *the text of the movie* is a man who comes to realise that his yearning to have sex with a teenage girl is about his own inadequacies and his failures as a man and a human being.
unlabelledView post →American Beauty, but now everyone else has caught up to me and hates it too, it was once considered THE movie of 1999
unlabelledView post →Oh right American Beauty, starring sex pest Kevin Spacey, who spends an entire movie barely managing not to rape a confused and messed up minor, only to be murdered by events he set off in a deeply troubled homophobe while indulging in solipsistic degeneracy. Real model of behavior there, Dick.
unlabelledView post →American Beauty, famously a movie about “healthy heterosexuality.”
unlabelledView post →I guess the thing with internet nazis is that they cannot grasp anything that isn't active propaganda and so if Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty isn't aspirational, why would the movie even exist
unlabelledView post →I can't believe yall are forcing me to defend American Beauty BUT The whole point of the film is the Mena in Kevin Stacey's head having fuck all to do with the actual Mena outside of it. And once confronted with that, he accepts the reality of her. The opposite of Chris Cooper's character who...
unlabelledView post →“the suburbs are evil and bad” is a true statement that’s also simply a very annoying and boring premise for a movie. American Beauty is shit from an ass
unlabelledView post →Also: 1) American Beauty is FICTION. That wasn't actually Kevin Spacey being attracted to a child. 2) wasn't the whole point of the movie that it was weird and disgusting that his character was attracted to a child?
unlabelledView post →[Richard leaving the theater after American Beauty] what a wholesome family-friendly film
unlabelledView post →American Beauty is...a lot...but the text of the movie is that Spacey's character is a manchild and a creep whose only moment of true happiness in the entire film comes at the very end of his life when he hears his daughter is happy.
unlabelledView post →[takes a drag off a candy cigarette] I don't like to go negative, but... -American Beauty. I will go to my grave spitting nails at this movie. -Quarantine. Possibly my most hated movie. Unpleasant nothing. -Summer's Blood. Ugly & hateful & GTFO. -Mystic River. MORE SEAN PENN OVERACTING, PLEASE.
unlabelledView post →All these years I've been saying the problem with "American Beauty" was that it was a movie convinced that audiences were too dumb to understand its satirical points, so everything had to be underlined, repeated and put in bold type. The actual problem seems to have been that it was too subtle.
unlabelledView post →still not my #1 issue with the film but American Beauty was WAY off about what it's like when you see a bag
unlabelledView post →Holy shit is this movie just early American Beauty
unlabelledView post →American Beauty was weird. It came out, everywhere I read it's an epoch-defining film. I watched it, it seemed like skeezy, mid-life wish-fulfilment. So sad the tragedy of young women not being interested in middle-aged males. So older guy gets with hot younger woman. Not a revelation.
unlabelledView post →Our Movie Museum has exciting memorabilia, including replicas of the American Beauty plastic bag and the cardboard head box from Se7en.
unlabelledView post →If someone thinks that AMERICAN BEAUTY was endorsing Kevin Spacey's character's lust for a teenage girl, I want to know exactly what they thought the movie was about.
unlabelledView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 17: The movie with the greatest villain American Beauty (Mendes) Every adult was a villain, but Col. Frank Fitts was the worst, in my opinion.
unlabelledView post →"Nobody thought Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty was a weird, desperate pervert." Yes they did! That's not true! I saw that movie when I was 16 and it was extremely obvious even then!
unlabelledView post →This is a bad film. I don't agree with all your film takes Katie, but I'm growing to trust you as reviewer for your consistency. American Beauty was always garbage (both then and now.) The fact it won any awards, while not surprising, is still a stain.
unlabelledView post →Smash 2 movies together to make a new movie American Beauty and the Beast
unlabelledView post →What you have to understand is that a big thing of indie cinema in the 1990s was this theme of “the suburbs are fucked up, man.” American Beauty was basically the fast food version of a film like Happiness.
unlabelledView post →American Beauty. I actively hate that movie and how it’s actually the perfect example of pretension, self-importance, and delusion that can be pervasive in Hollywood
unlabelledView post →What is the biggest ratio in terms of movie score quality to movie quality here i'll go first: American Beauty score : American Beauty Simply cannot be calculated. Astronomical.
unlabelledView post →For day 68 of my year long retrospective on TV Movies that Need a DVD/Blu Ray release I went with the 1973 Spelling-Goldberg drama The Great American Beauty Contest. This is a wonderful ensemble piece That features a pre-Charlie's Angels Farrah Fawcett alongside so many terrific actors. Love it!
unlabelledView post →anyway the movie was originally called LIVE VIRGIN and made a few years earlier but never released due to being both bad and distasteful. but then suvari had a big year breakout year with AMERICAN PIE and AMERICAN BEAUTY so they rushed it to theaters under a new name where i saw it on a date
unlabelledView post →I’d be interested to know how the depiction of the suburbs in movies in the 90s & 00s has impacted urban planning. Movies like American Beauty, The Ice Storm, Ghost World & SubUrbia all show the isolation inherent to suburbs. This seems to have decreased their popularity since the movies came out.
unlabelledView post →The same year Chamber of Secrets came out, the Best Picture Oscar went to American Beauty. Everyone loved that movie at the time. But we look back on it now and think “how did we not see how creepy and reprehensible this was?” Sensibilities evolve.
unlabelledView post →this picture always reminds me of the Bus Bench Real Estate Ladies in LA, or the movie American Beauty
unlabelledView post →American Beauty, the movie about healthy heterosexuality. Lots of normal healthy relationships in that one. Spacey and Bening, Spacey and his daughter's friends, Chris Cooper and his son
unlabelledView post →People ABSOLUTELY thought Kevin's character in American Beauty was weird, that was kind of the entire point of the film? 😂
unlabelledView post →My favorite film performances from the 1990s. Annette Bening, Carolyn Burnham, "American Beauty" (directed by Sam Mendes). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #annettebening #americanbeauty #sammendes
unlabelledView post →I met a guy who moved to Austin to go to film school, and his favorite film, the movie that made him decide he had to go do it himself, was American Beauty. They're out there. They're out there and are responsible for plants, pets, even children.
unlabelledView post →Me when I completely missed the point of American Beauty. No dude, people who watched it totally thought that. That was actually a normal thing to take away from that movie!!
unlabelledView post →I first learned of Re-Animator vicariously through an American Beauty Blockbuster rental in the 9th grade ... Dang, I was a pretentious little Film Shit for a while there after my first taste of Godard ... You've come a long way, baby ... . #FrightClub #ReAnimator
unlabelledView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 24: fast food employee in a movie American Beauty (1999)
unlabelledView post →#CarlsChallenge Song you heard for the first time in a movie ... Gomez "We Haven't Turned Around" from American Beauty youtu.be/THI4U3OsDQY?...
unlabelledView post →I think I started getting that feeling when I watched American Beauty and thought, what are these people and am I supposed to relate to them I think it was after that that I stopped bothering to keep up too much on current film or TV
unlabelledView post →Reenacting the rose petals scene from American Beauty... She's a good sport. #Cats #catsofbluesky #film #AmericanBeauty #ridiculous
unlabelledView post →OK, I just cracked this one. At first I thought it was a gender swapped American Beauty, but it's actually an inverted Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. It's Depressive Pixie Dream Boy.
unlabelledView post →Hanania's piece defending age gaps* is illustrated with a shot from American Beauty, a film about an adult man destroying his life then being shot because of his infatuation with a teenager and his desperation to be young again. There's problems with the film but it's definitely not aspirational!
unlabelledView post →#BlueZicos #MusicChallenge @ludovicmars.bsky.social - Semaine O.S.T - 🎶🎬 04/02 - Film scénario (?) American Beauty 🎬🥰 Various artists. Annie Lennox 😍 -Don't Let It Bring You Down. ( Neil Young cover ) 🎶🎶 youtu.be/23aYZf18i-c?...
unlabelledView post →This reminds me of my own thoughts on the peak year of cinema: 1999. We got: - the Matrix - American Beauty - Office Space - Fight Club - Being John Malkovich The inciting incident to all of these movies is basically, "I'm a bored white guy feeling existential dread." They're all great films, but if late-90s cinema is any indication, a huge swathe of Americans had virtually no problems back then. Or to put it another way: as of 2000, [Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is…
unlabelledView post →'American Beauty' was such a disturbing movie BECAUSE everybody knew it was wrong!
unlabelledView post →Other than making the best (and the worst) Bond film in the Craig years I think Sam Mendes hasn't made anything of note. American Beauty is pants. Ditto 1917. Road to Perdition was a waste of talent... Jarhead? M'ehhead more like. And Away We Go...
unlabelledView post →People call American Beauty a boomer film but it’s really kinda the ultimate Gen X film (derogatory).
unlabelledView post →56) TBH I’m still mad people thought American Beauty was a good movie
unlabelledView post →Ye gods. AMERICAN BEAUTY is a film that has aged like a pint of milk left on a rooftop in Burkina Faso. For a month.
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