Forum Overview :: American Beauty :: big hollywood wonders about this director's next "masterpiece"

[quote name="Weyoun Voidbringer"]<a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/02/22/sam-mendes-masterpiece-road-schizoid-mann/#more-57034">http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smann/2009/02/22/sam-mendes-masterpiece-road-schizoid-mann/#more-57034</a> [quote]Joe Bob Briggs, in his old movie host show “Monster Vision” used to display, at the beginning of each film he screened, a tally of items viewers were about to be subjected to. The lists usually included severed heads, bloodsucking monsters, flying brains, that sort of thing. Well, maybe we need a Sam Mendes list. We can call it Uncle Sam’s Tally. It might go something like this… “American Beauty”: 1 jack-off scene by anti-hero (this opens the movie - remember, this won Best Picture), 1 failed marriage, 1 divorced neighbor, 1 drug dealer (hero figure), 1 hot teen lusted after by anti-hero, 1 precocious teen daughter who runs away with drug dealer, 1 cheating wife/entrepreneur, 1 Trans Am, 1 child beating and murderous homosexual Vietnam vet, 1 plastic bag flying. Add-ons: 1 Best Picture Oscar. 1 Best Director Oscar.[/quote][/quote]