Comments on: American Beauty (1999)

By: Beverly Penn

Beverly Penn — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:06:20 +0000

My favourite movie of all time. Great review.

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By: Pabs

Pabs — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:32:26 +0000

This movie has so many incredible one liners… three of my favorites are:

1. “Oh, don’t worry, I wouldn’t remember me either.” ~Lester to the King of Real Estate at the holiday work party.

2. “Jane, that’s like almost a mile.” ~Angela to Jane after she decides to walk home with Ricky Fitts from school.

3. “I don’t think you’d fit in here.” ~The fast food worker interviewing Lester for a job.

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:45:18 +0000

I love when she starts flipping out right before he chucks the asparagus. Man, everyone’s great in this.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:57:55 +0000

Just any scene with Annette Bening going crazy rocked. When she has her fit after not selling the house. Whenever she slaps her daughter. When she grabs the shirts at the end.

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:04 +0000

I’d probably say exactly what you would say, they’re fucking crazy. American Beauty’s the bomb. Simple as that.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:33:03 +0000

A few of my friends think its pretentious (I LOVE it and often mock them for their rancid taste in film) so what would you say to that?

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:38:16 +0000

Totally agree with you about Revolutionary Road. Review it a while back, wasn’t impressed. Too melodramatic, felt like I was watching a soap opera. Everything it had to say about mid-life crises and suburban America was already said better in American Beauty. Not really sure why Mendes even did that movie. One of history’s mysteries.

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:31:13 +0000

I’ll concede there have been a lot of copycats, but I don’t think any movie since has just done the concept half as well as this little vehicle, which contains enough humour to just about stop you from slipping into depression after it (see Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road for an example where the dysfunctional family thing is just played straight without the humour – I think the film was too lifeless and depressing for its own good).

By: Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:31:08 +0000

Good review ma, and I completely agree, I loved the movie the first time I watched it and only recently returned to it earlier this year. I was surprised by the amount of backlash that had cropped up against the film and went into my second viewing expecting to see some of “massive problems” that so many others kept telling me about. But nope, it was just as good this year as it was when I first saw it.