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04-16-2012, 06:04 PM
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| | Senior Member
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| American Psycho (2000) starring...
Reese Witherspoon
Christian Bale
Willem Dafoe
Jared Leto
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Josh Lucas
what is your opinion of this movie?
It's one of my favorites and I find it very funny. Probably my favorite Bale performance slightly above The Fighter and The Machinist. | 
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04-16-2012, 07:45 PM
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| | Not Guilty
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| Great film | |
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04-16-2012, 07:52 PM
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| | Cobra, btch!
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| Great movie. Even tho is he is supposed to be vile, Bateman is just too cool not to like. Almost made me wanna be a business man/serial killer. I said almost!! Chasing a girl down the hall with a chainsaw while you are naked never looked so much fun. I want his job for sure.
I go back and forth on whether the murders actually happened or not. I think they did. Part of the point of the story is that everybody is so wrapped up in themselves, they don't care about whats really going on around them. Nor do they bother to believe when Bateman confesses.
I think the only hallucination is obviously the sequence of events following the ATM machine. I think the novel supports this, because it is the only part that is not a first person narrative. So something different is going on there. Could be either way tho, cause Ellis is never clear on whether the murders are real or not.
Script writers intended for the murders to be real, but its not their call to make, since even the orignal author wouldn't make it. Its up to the audience, but the moral lesson remains the same regardless.
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04-16-2012, 10:11 PM
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| | Resist much, obey little.
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| This movie is so funny it disturbs me how funny I think it is. The business card scene is my favorite. I don't think you could hear "In too deep" the same way after seeing this film. I love the dark humor. Christian Bale is amazing in it. | |
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04-17-2012, 12:24 AM
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| | Made in Memphis
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| I personally loved it. | |
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04-17-2012, 12:34 AM
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| Fun Facts about it:
Leonardo DiCaprio was originally cast as Bateman but feminist activist Gloria Steinem lobbied him not to make the film, as his fan base consisted predominately of young teenage girls, and he could ruin his career.
Christian Bale was warned by many that it would be career suicide for him to play the lead in a film like this. This only made him more eager to take the part.
In the DVD commentary, Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself. | |
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04-17-2012, 12:51 AM
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| | Bone Zone
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| Loved it | |
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04-17-2012, 01:32 AM
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| | VN GURU
| I am a fan.
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04-17-2012, 01:56 AM
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| | You can call me Cracker
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| book blows away the movie in over the top gore.
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04-17-2012, 02:01 AM
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| "it's pretty weak but if we do enough of it we'll be alright". | |
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04-17-2012, 04:04 AM
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| | #freebandz
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| Bale is fantastic in this. The business card scene, the opening and music monologues, all perfect. Pretty sure I read recently that it's to be remade. Shame. | |
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04-17-2012, 08:31 AM
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| | Cobra, btch!
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Costigan  Fun Facts about it:
Leonardo DiCaprio was originally cast as Bateman but feminist activist Gloria Steinem lobbied him not to make the film, as his fan base consisted predominately of young teenage girls, and he could ruin his career.
Christian Bale was warned by many that it would be career suicide for him to play the lead in a film like this. This only made him more eager to take the part.
In the DVD commentary, Mary Harron says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself. | I like this bit better:
To block the three-way sex scene with two prostitutes, Mary Harron and Christian Bale watched x-rated tapes. In her commentary, Harron says Bale made stick-figure drawings of the positions he thought would work best. Quote:
Originally Posted by NEOCON book blows away the movie in over the top gore. | Almost too difficult to read. The graphic nature can be rather cringe-worthy at times.
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04-17-2012, 09:02 AM
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| | Short Sided
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| Love this movie. After I first saw it, it consumed my mind for like a week. | |
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04-17-2012, 10:07 AM
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| Underrated movie btw. When I got my first ps3 they had the 5 blu-ray offer & it was on the list. Easy decision. | |
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