American Beauty with Vanessa Gonzalez

This movie is something else. It's played as a quirky slice-of-mid-life-crisis with wacky scenarios interspersed between hot-button topics, and I guess that's exactly what it was in the late '90s, but NOW, in 2018, knowing what we know about its star and speaking how we speak about victims of sexual assault, it's a horror movie that has romantic comedy lighting for some offensive reason. Kevin Spacey plays a manipulative self-centered pedophile who destroys his family and neighbors in pursuit of hedonistic pleasure, and he naturally does a good job, that being his life, as we now know. Almost nothing holds up about this, and we were braced for that, but Vanessa and I were genuinely wounded by how -- and I hate to sound this prude, but there's no other way to say it -- INAPPROPRIATE this movie is. Join along with the hate watch, now with longer movie clips for better context, by popular demand. Keep passing along your feedback, it helps!

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