Just saw American Psycho for the first time...
07-08-06 | 07:58 PM
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This is one of my favorite movies. The narration Bale gives is very subdued, which is a nice contrast to his onscreen actions. The comments he makes are perfect in a passive-aggressive way.
I always thought he did it, but no one really noticed.
I always thought he did it, but no one really noticed.
07-08-06 | 11:09 PM
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I simply loved the film. I love to hear the clips on the radio and refrences to the movie's classic lines "Don't just stare at it, eat it" or hearing Christian Bale talk about Huey Lewis and the news before he kills people. Christian Bale is bloody brilliant.
I like to belive he did it and got away with it as well.
I like to belive he did it and got away with it as well.
07-09-06 | 01:04 AM
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I always figured everything was real up until the point of the ATM telling him to stuff the cat inside....after that there's the revolving door shooting, that cop shoot out w/exploding car AND the fact that he was spot on with every pull of the trigger.
07-09-06 | 06:26 PM
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My favorite book, and a very very good movie - entertaining, interesting, just very creative. I think there are sooo many funny scenes in the movie, and I think Bale does a really, really good job. When reading the book I think the movie does VERY well.
"I have a lunch appointment with Cliff Huxtable".
"Is Paul still handling the Fischer-account?"
"Tell him I'm at lunch"
"I guess I had to return some videotapes. And then I had some sorbet."
"I have to return some videotapes"
"Is that Ivana trump??"
"The thickness of it. My God...it even has a watermark!"
"Did you see the ad in the times?"
- and the list goes on and on, truly one of the funnies movies (kinda scary book though) I have seen.
"I have a lunch appointment with Cliff Huxtable".
"Is Paul still handling the Fischer-account?"
"Tell him I'm at lunch"
"I guess I had to return some videotapes. And then I had some sorbet."
"I have to return some videotapes"
"Is that Ivana trump??"
"The thickness of it. My God...it even has a watermark!"
"Did you see the ad in the times?"
- and the list goes on and on, truly one of the funnies movies (kinda scary book though) I have seen.
07-09-06 | 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by MartinBlank
I always figured everything was real up until the point of the ATM telling him to stuff the cat inside....after that there's the revolving door shooting, that cop shoot out w/exploding car AND the fact that he was spot on with every pull of the trigger.
07-19-06 | 08:29 PM
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The book really disgusted me. I had to actually put it down for a year before restarting and completing it. The killings were a lot more graphic and sadistic (i.e. rat+tube+cheese+victim).
Harron actually made the movie a lot more palatable. There was no way they could have been faithful to the book.
Harron actually made the movie a lot more palatable. There was no way they could have been faithful to the book.
07-19-06 | 08:53 PM
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After seeing the movie again I wonder ONE thing
Are we relying on what the filmakers have said in interviews and shit to determine the killings were real? In the movie it still seems like a big illusion. If the movie cant make it clear than I think its a huge hole that totally fucks the movie. I shouldnt have to read a BB or an interview to learn what the movie means or is trying to portray. If it wasnt clear in the movie, someone didnt do their job well.
That 3 way with Phil Collins "sosudio" (or whatever the fuck it is) is damn hilarious.
Are we relying on what the filmakers have said in interviews and shit to determine the killings were real? In the movie it still seems like a big illusion. If the movie cant make it clear than I think its a huge hole that totally fucks the movie. I shouldnt have to read a BB or an interview to learn what the movie means or is trying to portray. If it wasnt clear in the movie, someone didnt do their job well.
That 3 way with Phil Collins "sosudio" (or whatever the fuck it is) is damn hilarious.
07-19-06 | 09:08 PM
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It wasn't supposed to be clear, though. It was supposed to be confusing, vague, ambiguous, etc. Much like the rest of the 80s, really.
American Psycho doesn't try to tell a neat and tidy little story, so it's not a bad movie for failing to do so.
American Psycho doesn't try to tell a neat and tidy little story, so it's not a bad movie for failing to do so.
07-20-06 | 09:24 PM
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If he didn't kill them, then the movie has no point.
The book is far more ambiguous as to whether or not he actually killed anyone. The whole thing reads like a laundry list. "Drank Perrian, made reservations, pulled out a bum's eyeball, returned some tapes," and so on. The murders get lost in the intentional monotony of the narrative.
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The book is far more ambiguous as to whether or not he actually killed anyone. The whole thing reads like a laundry list. "Drank Perrian, made reservations, pulled out a bum's eyeball, returned some tapes," and so on. The murders get lost in the intentional monotony of the narrative.
