How did a movie so great in every way get beat in the Oscars by garbage
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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.
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InsecureNeuroticControlFreak — 11 years ago(January 31, 2015 01:09 PM)
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.
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seahawk3133 — 11 years ago(February 23, 2015 11:22 AM)
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 -
Planikta — 11 years ago(March 23, 2015 08:01 AM)
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.
