American Beauty Vs Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 

Which one do you like better?

the thing

I think there at least needs to be some basis for comparison.

Eternal Sunshine has better looking chicks.

Yeah, why are we comparing these movies again?

Eternal Sunshine by miles.

I thought American Beauty to be very highly over rated.

ESOTSM I thought to be excellent, however. So it wins.

Ninjas

I loved them both. ESOTSM was my favorite of the two. I've never understood the vitriol spewed towards American Beauty.

It's a popular movie. That happens with all popular movies, especially more recent ones.

You think Beauty gets a lot of hate, take a look at Fight Club. You either got people who love it, or call it the worst movie ever made.

Damn is Eternal kicking some butt. Good to see it get the credit it deserves though.

When I first saw American Beauty, I was left with that "wow" feeling. Eternal Sunshine is a great, fun movie, but I wasn't as impressed.

American Beauty was great, Eternal Sunshine put me to sleep.

I guess I would say Eternal Sunshine, but I find this to be a very odd comparison. I mean, it's hard for two movies to be any more different.

you should see some of his other polls.

Since no criteria was given, I voted using my default: which movie had the most nudity.

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Agreement here. I've also seen Beauty a lot of times (especially around release) but have only seen Spotless once.

They're both very good films and there's not option showing they're both good. I'd vote for that option.

Neither suck, but I can't compare the two. Therefore I won't vote.

For future reference, some other polls I won't vote on:

Being John Malkovich vs Million Dollar Baby
Rushmore vs Rashomon
Thirteen vs Apollo 13
Boogie Nights vs When Harry Met Sally
Cat People vs The Man With One Red Shoe

I saw American Beauty 4 times in the theater with 4 totally different sets of people. All 4 sets did not like the movie at all. I found it to be brilliant and one of the best films of the 90's (Fight Club being #1).

Sunshine is a movie that requires a few viewings to "get". I have seen that one 3 times and it is another great film. However I saw this one by myself so no outside influence.

Comparing the two side by side is tough. Even though they follow a similar dramedy formula to a degree, I give the edge to American Beauty. I saw this because the support characters in American Beauty are for more interesting and but the actual plot is not as interesting as Sunshine. So Sunshine wins there.

here we go again...

question: why don't you at least contribute an opinion in the first post?

i like them both, but after a 2nd viewing of Eternal fell in love with it and it has become eminently rewatchable. AB not so much, but still a great movie.

i love lamp

American Beauty. Although, in a head-to-head with The Thing I believe the choice is obvious.

I meant to vote for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I clicked on The Both Suck instead. -ohbfrank- New glasses should be ready sometime later this week.

American Beauty I liked up to a point, but then it just lost me completely. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my all time favorites, always find something new to appreciate in it.

I refuse to participate in any poll from anymore so called "cool new members".