One of the best movies I have ever seen

[sook]

Whoa Whoa whoa

Its a good movie, but...

It's not close to an all time classic dammit!

and youre GAY for crying at the end of it.

Ok...I didn't really cry but it was an emotional ending.

[koriwhat]

Chris Cooper is a criminally underrated actor. If you want to see one of his few leading roles, check out The Lone Star. It's a really engrossing snapshot of the border region of Texas.

saw that in my film class back at sac. crazy... it was good to say the least.

[Blue Jew]

Classic!

[ShoogarBear]

Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening were great. If the movie was solely about them, I'd have loved it.

Unfortunately, the movie is also about a budding love story between their daughter and their "oh wow, I am so totally introspective" pussy neighbor kid who thinks filming a trash bag flying around qualifies as some kind of deep spiritual event. "Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."

Run away with me, my darling! Let's reject this hollow superficial suburban world if favor of smoking weed and filming trash! That's what life is really about! We're "freaks." People just don't understand us. Maybe they'll let us live outside a Hot Topic.

And then there's his dad, played admirably by Chris Cooper, but written as an over-the-top, one-dimensionally evil characature. Oh wow, the abusive phobic military father is actually gay himself? What a clever ironic twist!

There's really not a single character in the movie worth rooting for or even giving a about. And that would be fine except I think we're supposed to like some of them.

I agree with everything . . . and go one further.

Spacey's character began the film as a narcissistic bag who wants to sleep with his daughter's friend. And at the end, our hero has gone through a transformation so that now he is a narcissistic bag who doesn't want to sleep with his daughter's friend any more.

That's it. That's the big self-relevation: There are limits to baggery.

[Laker Lanny]

all of you missed the whole point of the movie it was about the plastic bag!

[IronMexican]

Never watched it or even heard of it.

[ChumpDumper]

It has some great performances but I think it's overrated as a film.

I generally agree with this assessment.

There are some great moments with Spacey of course, and the overall message was an interesting one but they way it got there was a little contrived to be an all-time classic.

Still, some priceless parts....

"You're gettin' it from the king, baby!"

" me, your majesty!"

[tp2021]

Chris Cooper is a criminally underrated actor. If you want to see one of his few leading roles, check out The Lone Star. It's a really engrossing snapshot of the border region of Texas.

Plus incest!