House of Sand and Fog

This must be the most pretentious, needlessly over-the-top melodramatic feature of the year.
Much ado about totally nothing. This film's stereotypical caricatures of supposed real people is based on totally one dimensional writing and way over done acting, that is not even camp, it's just plain ridiculous. Maybe Ben Kingsley has flipped out, but how can he seriously utter such horrible lines as 'we must be like lions, my son' ? And Jennifer Connelly is too pretty and kempt for the part. Yuck! I hated it!
Is it me or is it the industry that is wrong to give such accolades to something so ridiculous and bad. And what a spread Vadim Perelman had in the Times.
Well, at least everyone that I went with and met at the screening agreed with me (and that included the Village Voice ).