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"American Psycho" (1 Viewer)

Awful, awful book.

Pretty good flick, but I think I enjoyed the movie just because the book sucked so bad.

The business card scene is classic. As is the Huey Lewis speech.

 
The book is definitely a cult classic. It could be disturbing to some because the prose was different and the violence was extremely graphic. Considered by many to be genius.

I liked both but it's the classic cliche' where the book was better than the movie.

 
Jack Daniel said:
jdoggydogg said:
I don't see how people can say this film sucks. Great satire.
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Bale was perfect as Bateman.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was linked to the film for awhile before it was made. It's hard to see him in that role at that time. Now I think he'd be able to pull it off because he's really matured as an actor but I'm not sure he could've pulled it off successfully at that time. I think two of the reasons why the film wasn't successful was because the violence served to blot out the satiric elements of the story and the ending leaves you with no idea if he really committed the murders or if it was just a figment of his twisted imagination. But I agree Bale was great and his "in-depth" analysis of songs from people like Phil Collins and Huey Lewis is outstanding. :shock:
 
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massraider said:
Awful, awful book. Pretty good flick, but I think I enjoyed the movie just because the book sucked so bad.The business card scene is classic. As is the Huey Lewis speech.
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The business card scene and Huey Lewis stuff were almost verbatim right out of the book. Why do you consider the book so "awful"?
 
certainly not a movie you'll forget. In that sense, great movie.

the scene where he goes on and on about the genius of Genesis as he's planning to butcher the gal in his apartment was unbelievable

 
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packersfan said:
Jack Daniel said:
jdoggydogg said:
I don't see how people can say this film sucks. Great satire.
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Bale was perfect as Bateman.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was linked to the film for awhile before it was made. It's hard to see him in that role at that time. Now I think he'd be able to pull it off because he's really matured as an actor but I'm not sure he could've pulled it off successfully at that time. I think two of the reasons why the film wasn't successful was because the violence served to blot out the satiric elements of the story and the ending leaves you with no idea if he really committed the murders or if it was just a figment of his twisted imagination.

But I agree Bale was great and his "in-depth" analysis of songs from people like Phil Collins and Huey Lewis is outstanding. :rant:
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And that's bad? Leaving unanswered questions is a plus in my book.
 
i really liked it. Bale was awesome.

"Murders and executions, mostly"

"Dont just stare at it....EAT it"

 
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jdoggydogg said:
packersfan said:
Jack Daniel said:
jdoggydogg said:
I don't see how people can say this film sucks. Great satire.
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Bale was perfect as Bateman.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was linked to the film for awhile before it was made. It's hard to see him in that role at that time. Now I think he'd be able to pull it off because he's really matured as an actor but I'm not sure he could've pulled it off successfully at that time. I think two of the reasons why the film wasn't successful was because the violence served to blot out the satiric elements of the story and the ending leaves you with no idea if he really committed the murders or if it was just a figment of his twisted imagination.

But I agree Bale was great and his "in-depth" analysis of songs from people like Phil Collins and Huey Lewis is outstanding. :banned:
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And that's bad? Leaving unanswered questions is a plus in my book.
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I had no problems with it but I don't think it would be unrealistic to assume a lot of moviegoers would. There are plenty of people who go to movies who like everything explained to them and like to have the story all make sense at the end. "American Psycho" is the anti-thesis of that.
 
Feed me a stray cat.

I am a huge fan of this movie, as well as Rules of Attraction (which I think is underrated), but you'd probably have to call it a cult classic. I can certainly see why it does not have mass appeal.

I have to go now. I have to return some videotapes.

 
Please See Mine said:
I am a huge fan of this movie, as well as Rules of Attraction (which I think is underrated)
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My main problem with Rules of Attraction was VanderBeek playing Bateman with that perpetual evil look on his face. He played him like a blatant psychopath and it was too over the top (maybe that's how the character was written in the book? I never read it). So that detracted from the film for me and made it far less effective.It also didn't help that Jessica Biel didn't get naked for her sex scene.
 
Great book, it messed me up. The first time I read it though I was like 'wtf is this nonsense?'. Took me another read to fully appreciate it. The movie did a pretty good job of capturing the tone of the book.

Rules of Attraction's another great book....not so great movie though.

 
i really like Bale and thought he did a great job, but I really didnt like this movie much at all.

i will say though that business card scene cracks me up. reminded me of my 5 year reunion.

 
I loved the book - very disturbing in a way that few books can be.

The most disturbing part about the book is that the same mind that can analyze the music of 'H&L and the news' and Phil Collins with such pose and attention to the most minuscule of detail can also describe to nauseating extremes the graphical dismemberment of a living human being.

 
I can't really evaluate this movie because it's like a Disney version of the book. Not that the movie is weak, just that the book is so graphic and savage that you simply couldn't put it on screen and expect to be able to show it in theaters. I thought Christian Bale had the right look and swagger for the role, but it was so sanitized by comparison that it makes it difficult to judge the film on its own merits. I'm not strictly talking about the violence per se, but the book gave you such a frenzied, disturbing perspective on the mind of the Bateman character and the movie never matched that for me. The book is just flat out hard to read, because it's so disjointed in parts and makes you feel like you're reading the memoirs of a true madman. That's the book's genius, not the intricate violence.. the fact that you're thinking while reading it : "the guy that wrote this has to be nuts.. no one could make this #### up."

The movie conveyed very little of that to me. I'm not sure how it could have... maybe if Kubrick did it. His imagery is unsettling enough that maybe he could have gotten some of the gradual unhinging of Bateman's psyche across to the viewer, who knows?

 
i never really read the book. i remember when it came out, the hullaballoo about it and read parts of it. i never really cared for macinerny's style of writing, so it didn't surprise me that this didn't appeal to me.

now, the film was really clever. i think folks want the level of violence it portrayed now only because the trend in films today offer that up. evey 2-3 months there is another snuff flick like "hostel","saw" or whatever that doesn't flinch at showing graphic violence. the book is satire. the film is satire. on those terms, the film is reasonably successful.

 
saintfool said:
i never really read the book. i remember when it came out, the hullaballoo about it and read parts of it. i never really cared for macinerny's style of writing, so it didn't surprise me that this didn't appeal to me.
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Shtick taken, bub.
 
Darth Cheney said:
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Zaxxon said:
Jack Daniel said:
jdoggydogg said:
I don't see how people can say this film sucks. Great satire.
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Bale was perfect as Bateman.
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Pretty good as Batman as well. :yes:
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Except for his degree from the Jack Bauer school of voice acting.
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I imagine most of us grew up on Adam West's voice delivery....but Bale's inflection is how the character is described as speaking in the comics.
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Unintelligible? :confused:
 
packersfan said:
jdoggydogg said:
packersfan said:
Jack Daniel said:
jdoggydogg said:
I don't see how people can say this film sucks. Great satire.
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Bale was perfect as Bateman.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was linked to the film for awhile before it was made. It's hard to see him in that role at that time. Now I think he'd be able to pull it off because he's really matured as an actor but I'm not sure he could've pulled it off successfully at that time. I think two of the reasons why the film wasn't successful was because the violence served to blot out the satiric elements of the story and the ending leaves you with no idea if he really committed the murders or if it was just a figment of his twisted imagination.

But I agree Bale was great and his "in-depth" analysis of songs from people like Phil Collins and Huey Lewis is outstanding. :thumbup:
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And that's bad? Leaving unanswered questions is a plus in my book.
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I had no problems with it but I don't think it would be unrealistic to assume a lot of moviegoers would. There are plenty of people who go to movies who like everything explained to them and like to have the story all make sense at the end. "American Psycho" is the anti-thesis of that.
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And thank god there are films that don't explain everything.
 
Loved the book. When we can't remember Bale's name, my wife and I will still say, "what's his name, you know, American Psycho"

 
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