# American Beauty

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 31, 1999, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847 "1999-10-31T01:08:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 1999, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/41 "1999-11-07T01:22:00Z")

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Go figure.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/42 "2000-03-17T11:40:00Z")

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Finally got to see it.

Pah! It was bollocks.

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[The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/)

- **Shadow of the Pigeon** -  
Weirdo of the Night

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/43 "2000-03-17T13:07:00Z")

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Wow, it bothered you that much that you had to dredge up this old thread to tell us? 😉

I am gonna buy it on tape. 😛

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You know you are a vet tech when: you can eat your lunch with one hand and clean up a parvo blowout with the other.

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**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/44 "2000-03-17T13:46:00Z")

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When I saw this I thought TennHippie was back. ☹

Where did he go anyway ?

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" The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference."  
Elie Wiesel

Voted SDMB Biggest Flirt (Female) and Least Shy (No Mom, I have no idea why they think that)

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/45 "2000-03-17T14:32:00Z")

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I guess it boils down to this. If you are an optimist at heart, you will like this movie. If you are a fundamentally pessimistic person, it may not move you.

Me, I loved it. If AB doesn’t win the Oscar, a fraud has been committed. I have seen the other nominees, and the only one that comes close is The Sixth Sense.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beauty/14847/46 "2000-03-18T01:14:00Z")

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An optimist? When your life finally turns good, you get killed by a gay marine?

That’s not really what optimists want out of life, I think.

I just don’t like movies about dysfunctional families, but really just don’t think it deserves all this praise. Obviously the people who liked it saw something that I didn’t. (I fear for those people ;))

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[The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/)

- **Shadow of the Pigeon** -  
Weirdo of the Night

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