How did a movie so great in every way get beat in the Oscars by garbage
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Uninspired-imdb-ID — 9 years ago(January 22, 2017 07:39 PM)
Agreed. I don't think American Beauty has held up very well. It comes across as a movie that isn't as clever as it wants to be. Possibly it seemed more poignant to a younger me,but it now seems a bit trite.
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El_Beastador — 13 years ago(September 03, 2012 04:29 PM)
I've seen American Beauty twice and I have to agree. I don't feel as strongly about it, but I don't like it. There's no way it should have beaten TGM.
American Beauty was more of an Oscar type movie though, so it was always gonna win.
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ThePhantomReporter — 12 years ago(June 20, 2013 04:18 AM)
Incorrect, American Beauty was unconventional and broke down the barriers for dark comedies with the Academy. Green Mile was the far more safe, prototypical Oscar-bait film with its noble white saviour themes.
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bond_98 — 12 years ago(August 20, 2013 03:18 AM)
American Beauty is one of the most pretentious, ham-fisted, self-important, meaningless movie i have every seen. The Green Mile had heart. Just like Shawshank Redemption (which is vastly better than American Beauty) was about Hope and Resonance of the Human Spirit. American Beauty was about a 50 Something Pedophile, an Air Head Wife, Brain Dead Teenagers and a Homophobic Neighbor and Stupid Scene with a Plastic Bag. It's one of those movies that any meaning comes clearly from the viewer's own imagination and not from what is actually on the screen. Frankly all the other Oscar nominated movie that year were vastly better. Not to mention if you look at anyone list of worst Oscar winners. American Beauty is on almost every one of them.
http://movies.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/worst-best-picture-winners.htm
Not to mention that the green mile is only the second in a poll of movie that should have won the Oscar.
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crakatoot — 12 years ago(September 20, 2013 08:20 PM)
I could not possibly agree with the OP more. This is a GREAT MOVIE. Where as American Beauty is trying so hard to be a great movie that it just comes of as silly and pretentious. Like the guy is having a mid life crisis so he's sees the beauty in life. That's been done. But the Green Mile, there was really nothing like it.
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Flickfan-3 — 9 years ago(May 23, 2016 04:37 PM)
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."
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nightwing60 — 12 years ago(March 20, 2014 04:15 AM)
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.
