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  • gmag
    Lucid Dreamer
    • Jun 2001
    • 409

    #1

    American Beauty

    That is a damn good movie. It's number one on my list. What's with the roses, though?
    "Men think they think upon great politcal questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side; they arrive at convictions, but they are drawn from a partial view of the matter in hand and are of no particular value. They swarm with their party, they feel with their party, they are happy in their party's approval; and where the party leads they will follow, whether for right and honor, or through blood and dirt and a mush of mutilated morals."
    ~Mark Twain
  • Xzion
    Official Dragon of AO
    • Jan 2001
    • 1617

    #2
    I loved that movie too, Kevin Spacey is an awsome actor... I just love the dry humor... kinda reminds me of my family lol

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    • MagMan5446
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      • Jun 2001
      • 2572

      #3
      I wouldn't say it is the best movie. That would go to The Usual Suspects. Kevin Spacy does a good job in that too.

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      • gmag
        Lucid Dreamer
        • Jun 2001
        • 409

        #4
        All of my friends have been telling me to see the Usual Suspects, but I have never got around to it. Maybe I'll watch it this weekend.
        "Men think they think upon great politcal questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side; they arrive at convictions, but they are drawn from a partial view of the matter in hand and are of no particular value. They swarm with their party, they feel with their party, they are happy in their party's approval; and where the party leads they will follow, whether for right and honor, or through blood and dirt and a mush of mutilated morals."
        ~Mark Twain

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        • RobAGD
          Cantankerous Administrator

          • Oct 2000
          • 2030

          #5
          Usual Suspects is a great film. All my friends beat me down and made me watch it :)

          Glad they did it was agreat movie.

          Amercian Beauty was an AWSOME film, way better than he awards it recived.

          Then again I have a rather elceletic(sp) taste in films

          -Robert
          Serving AGD customers since 93, wishing I could beat some common since into some of them about 5 hrs later.

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          • MagMan5446
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            • Jun 2001
            • 2572

            #6
            The Usual Suspects is one of, if not the, best damn movies I've ever seen.

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            • Twiek
              Registered User
              • Sep 2001
              • 81

              #7
              The Usual Suspects is one of those movies that you have to watch over and over again to really appreciate it.....

              I'm pretty good at picking up stuff in movies, but I can still watch it and find something I didn't see before :) It is probably one of the most skillfully crafted movies of all time.

              One of my favs is the Big Lebowski. I probably watched it 40 times this summer.... you keep picking up on things in this one too.... and it's SO funny! (One interesting fact: You never see the Dude bowl!)

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              • Jeb_Hoge
                Registered User
                • Jun 2001
                • 143

                #8
                Bah...American Beauty was a case of the emperor's new clothes. It's a sullen, ugly film that points fingers at its view of "middle America" while ignoring the horrid Hollywood culture that decided to trumpet it. If there was a high point to the movie, it was Kevin Spacey's descent into juvenilism, and that was the high point only in that it provided a cathartic release for those of us who might feel that way sometime but know how immature it really makes you. People said it was great because they thought that's what they were supposed to think, and the filmmakers laughed (at us) all the way to the bank and to the stage at the Oscars.

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                • liquidthunder
                  Registered User
                  • Aug 2001
                  • 24

                  #9
                  i thought it was good, you got to see 2 hot girls boobs, there was drugs, all that was missing was some good rock n roll. j/k ^_^, it was allright, deffinatly not one of my top 10 tho
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