seen a lot of reaction videos for this film and its interesting how people are calm when he kills the homeless man but shocked when he kills the dog right after
Fun fact: Christian Bale claims that he based this role by watching interviews with Tom Cruise. He wanted to catch the phony charm combined with the cold predatory eyes.
Fight Club (1999) || Edward Norton & Brad Pitt Black Swan (2010) || Natalie Portman The Devil's Advocate (1997) || Al Pacino & Keanu Reeves American History X (1998) || Edward Norton Léon: The Professional (1994) || Jean Reno, Gary Oldman & Natalie Portman
Not ambiguous at all if you're European. You can't explode a car by shooting the fuel tank. That's so 1970s. The moment he started shooting everyone, including the janitor, I just laughed out loud.
Yeah we don’t even know if the murders were real tbh He could’ve been in a psychosis the entire movie. The ATM told him to feed it a stray cat. He blew up 2 cop cars with bullets and looked at it strangely. Helicopter was looking for him through the window but nothing ever came onto the news. Paul Allen’s place was being sold and the realtor acted as if there wasn’t multiple bodies everywhere the day prior. The lawyer said he spoke to Paul Allen a few days ago and Patrick seemed to have something Dawn on him. The realtor could’ve just been even more evil than the mentally ill Bateman and the lawyer could’ve just gotten Paul’s face mixed up with someone else as that’s a big thing in the books and somewhat in the movie.
Ha, you made me chuckle: TVs weren't "muffled" back in the day, and land lines sound clearer and better than cell phones (today as much as back then). In other words, the sound of phones has gotten WORSE not better in the last twenty years. It's just because it's a movie that she doesn't hear the sound from the TV over the phone (if he's even watching the video for real and it's not "all in his head".)
He owned the apartment building ( his father owned the company he worked at . That’s why he just wants to fit in. Nobody lived in the apartments in his building . Just him . His lawyer covered up for him bottom line . I’m sure his father has gotten him out of these types of situations before.
I'd read the book by Ellis, and it was a hard read. Never thought it could be a movie. But this film nails it. I got to see a bit of the filming as it was done in Toronto and it was amazing. And for the record, it's not a horror. It's social commentary on Western materialism... although, that makes it horror... Great review. I love that you take the time after the watch.
observation @ 1:04:00 about Bateman masking his alienation with the regurgitated thoughts of others (eg on music) is so spot on for a first viewing! way to go
Thank you for the movie and book recs, Caley! Murakami wrote the Drive my car story that they adapted into the film. Not sure if you knew that. I recently saw Drive My Car and I was also blown away so I will now for sure take on your rec for Kafka on shore! p.s. I appreciate you both very much, not just your reactions, but also your in-depth discussions, and especially the way you treat each other. Your communication is something beautiful and inspiring. Peace and love from Croatia!
Ayy gratz on 10k subs...Hope you channel grows. Just amount of effort you put in editing CZcams cut is impressive. Love the movie, u cant go wrong with Christian Bale.
One of my favorite movies, I consider it to be a psychological thriller and a comedy. The vanity of Bateman is exaggerated to comedic levels in many parts of the movie. Upon re-watching the comedic aspect of the movie becomes more and more evident. For instance in every interaction Bateman has with the detective he is acting as guilty as humanly possible. When he salts his steak he is so stressed he pours the entire salt thing on it. And yet again and again, he gets away with murder (literally). Right after killing Paul he takes the body out in a designer bag leaving a trail of blood, and the only person to stop him does so to ask about the bag. Bateman is so guilty it is ridiculous, but the society he lives in is incapable of finding him guilty, hell it even helps him get away with it. Near the end of the movie, Bateman revisits Paul's apartment which he was using as a dead woman storage. However it has been cleaned out, even the bodies. Then he is confronted by a realtor, and caught in a lie. What I get from that scene is that the realtor lady cleaned the apartment to rent it out. It would be bad for business if it was known that that property was used to hide dead bodies, so she simply cleaned it without alerting authorities. When shes catches Bateman in the lie it became obvious to both parties that Bateman was the killer and that the realtor covered it up. They then depart with the understanding that it is beneficial for both parties to keep things quiet. And lastly the conversation with the lawyer at the end has 2 possible interpretations assuming the murder of Paul happened (which is very likely given the dialogue with the realtor). 1, the lawyer mistook someone else for Paul when he visited London. 2, the lawyer is lying to protect Bateman. Either way, the lawyer produces an alibi for Bateman that implies Paul dissapeared in London, not New York. Bateman gets away with everything, and the upper class people protects their own while living in excess at the expense of everyone else.
Oh, and the sequence starting at the ATM machine asking to be fed a stray cat to his confession on the phone is in his mind. An atm would not ask to be fed a stray cat and even Bateman was surprised when he blew up the cop cars with one bullet. The message he left on the lawyer's phone was a consequence of his mental breakdown.
I always laugh at the reactions to the nail gun. It needs an air hose to operate and he did not have one connected. Those "underground alternative clubs" were not really "underground." They were trendy so a variety of trendy people would go to them. A new one would open and everyone had to just be there and be seen. A good example of that would be Studio 54, and with all the craziness that happened there, it was the place for all kinds of celebrities to be seen arriving.
it's an open ending. which is why people still argue to this day what really happened. Me personally I think it all happened, the realator cleaned it all up so she could still sell the place, the lawyer was playing ignorance on purpose because Bateman is his client.
@16:50 Patrick was VP of Murders and Executions. I studied under Bret Easton-Ellis for some courses, the guy that wrote the book this movie is based on. Waited a whole 9 months for him to talk about American Psycho. He hated talking about it at that time due to it being his most famous work and he wanted another hit, desperately...according to his anti-woke hit piece and memoir, "White". Anyway, there is enough clues in the book and the film to deduce that Allen was in, fact alive, and that if you pay attention to the first of the film Paul Allen is an older man, though Bateman doesn't look at him, and if you notice everyone can never remember, or let alone cares, about who other people are and they often just go along with the flow when called other people's names. So forget it all being in his head. Is Patrick Bateman really Patrick Bateman?
imo, the original writer was suggesting that you can get away with anything if: you're attractive, clean, articulate and successful the reason is shown that society values the culmination of these attributes, more than life itself society is willing to deal with a wicked spirit, as long as it maintains every other aspect of itself to a high degree
A lot of Wall Street firms, especially in the 80s, saved money on exec salaries by offering them the "Vice president" title. If the guy wanted $300k they'd offer him $200k and the VP title. Of course they ended up with 50 Vice presidents but what did it matter? They all got their egos stroked.
“When the audience doesn’t get the joke” [10:59] by CinemaStix is a yt video that will help you with the ambiguity of American Psycho which is a horror thriller second but at it’s cold, cold heart actually a very, very, VERY dark comedy. Read the book, it’s great. Thanks for making videos eh.
I don't know if you guys will see this, but I hope you do! I don't agree with all of the things yall say and I'm not particularly religious but I do think yall are good people and do a great job putting to words your interpretations and ideas from the films you watch. You two are a really great reaction couple and bring up great points! Having said all of that, I think a show(I know yall don't really do shows) that would fit perfectly with yalls knack for interpretation and deciphering metaphor is The Leftovers from HBO. It has very religious themes and deals with all sorts of philosophical, psychological, and theological questions and is one of my favorite shows ever, even as someone who is not a believer. I do really hope yall see this and consider it some time in the future, even as a Patreon exclusive. I would definitely sub for it and would really love to hear yalls comments on it. Have a great day!
On the rich people having guilt thing you mentioned. I have to point out studies done on major emotional motivating factors within different societal groups around the world show that the main enotional motivating factor in Western Countries ( including the United States ) is Guilt. I don't know if this is because of Christianity or historical contexts, but it's very interesting that you brought that up. In other places like East Asia ( eg Japan, South Korea, China ) the main emotional motivating factor is Shame.
@56:10 I got a little chuckle out of their review when they're saying that people leave comments about them being too young to not get references about different decades or other cultural items but when he's doing the exercise to Texas Chainsaw Massacre they simply say "oh a chainsaw man, idk that must be some sort of slasher or horror film." Lol 😆 🤣
The murders and executions is a play on words due to the ruthlessness of the function of mergers and acquisitions as often that is used to kill off the competition in the business world.
The more I thought about it, it makes sense that in this movie is the way it is. Its from the perspective of a psycho. Its Patrick Bateman's story. It makes sense that its hard to tell fantasy from reality.
In the late 1980s, the term 'YUP' (Young Upcoming People) or YUPPIE came into use. It was the definition of Patrick Bateman minus the slashing. So this movie, by a female director, shows what all those young career obsessed male professionals were like in the 1990s. As a man, I could hardly agree more. One of my best teachers in Dutch highschool said he'd rather be locked up with a murderer than with a YUP.
Also a lot of people do a lot of speculating on this movie it's really not hard to figure out lol he's a psychopath who has schizophrenic episodes living in an environment and culture of narcissism, and on top of that is aware of his condition.
he wasn't crazy. my personal theory is that they all covered for him because there is no merit in making a huge public outcry about them and their businesses. they would lose millions if they turned him in, so instead they just covered everything up. we all assume he is the only psycho but in reality many of these rich people are just as insane as him.
Leveraging the priviledge.Thats exactly what he does! But even when he tries to be different, their culture and society is too self absorbed to notice him.
Vice President is a rank. Analyst 3 years, then associate 3 years, then VP by age 27/28. On a few hundred k a year. They wouldn’t hang out with associates. They are all work colleagues.
I don't even feel like Paul Allen is real. It's like a metaphor, hearsay, a name thats thrown around like a 'person' people have heard of but don't even know.
2:10:30 empty streets. Not that uncommon. He's walking around the financial district, which in any city tends to be all business and no residences, and when the work week is over no one has any reason to be there, even in a city like NYC. I once walked through Boston's financial district on a saturday night, you coulda filmed a post-apocalypse movie there it was so quiet.
William Dafoe was directed to do multiple takes of each scene...1 take where the detective thinks Bale is a suspect....one take where he isn't a suspect and just asking questions....they then edited those takes together to give you that weird interaction between Bale and Defoe....where you don't quite know if Defoe knows or doesn't
The movie Patrick Bateman was working out too is The Texas chainsaw massacre it’s a good ass iconic horror movie one of the best y’all should react to it next pls🙏😅😂
Great reaction! You became the American Psycho. Confused; unable to determine what's real and what's imagined. For me, that is the point of the movie. Fortunately, for you, it will wear off in a short time haha.
It's an open-ended movie. It's up to the viewer to decide what happened. The ambiguity is the best part of the movie. According to the book or not, I came away with a feeling of "well shit, I don't know." Which is fine because the movie sticks with you b e c a u s e you just don't know what was real and in Bateman's mind. Personally, I found the movie to be funny. The humor was great. The dragging of a dead body through the lobby leaving a trail of blood. No one notices. The Cards being compared, "Murders and Executions" And when 2 bullets blow up 2 cop cars and the way he looks at his gun like "wtf was that??" "I have to return some video tapes" The humor was very dark, but it was there. And Christian Bale was excellent The confession on the phone to his lawyer was pure gold. Anyway, a good reaction on a very confusing movie. Oh.. Bateman...Batman...;)
FUN FACT: The novel "American Psycho" is considered an important late 20th-century-era literary work. As a stand-alone, the movie fails to project the intent of the author to present an over-the-top commentary on the narcissism, avarice, and moral decadence of the '80s. However, if one had read the book prior to watching the movie, this premise is spot-on! It is not a "horror/thriller" thang; it is an uber-parody on the order of "Slaughterhouse-Five." At any rate: ENJOY!
Everyone always talks about how it's all in his head. I always took it as showing these rich phychos getting away with cartoonish levels of crimes & then the moment the rich man calls his lawyer, it all gets painted over & covered up with zero consequences.
Christian played Patrick too well. The problem here is he is now forever going to be Patrick Bateman. You play a role super well like that, you cement yourself into it. Christian, you can be the Machinist, you can be anyone else, even Bruce Wayne. But in the end, you will be Patrick Bateman. i can't change that when you play a role that well, you cement yourself into it
A lot of people fall into the trap of being overly literal in their analysis and focusing on "did he really do the murders or not?", but that completely misses the point of the film. Whether he really killed all those people, imagined the murders, or it was some combination of reality and fantasy by an unreliable narrator is secondary to the point of being meaningless. The point the film is driving at is that almost everyone around him in this hedonistic, capitalist, Wall Street shithole is more or less just like him. They're all trust fund babies awash in greed, excess, fake jobs and basically doing nothing but going to useless meetings and eating at overpriced restaurants. Patrick Bateman and Paul Allen keep getting mistaken for other people because they're all the same empty vessel. And even the people who aren't psychopathic killers like Patrick are oblivious or indifferent to his crimes because they're focused on the mundane, shallow, spiritually dead pursuits that make up modern consumer culture. There is no punishment or catharsis for Bateman because the entire society in which he lives is built upon letting wealthy psychopaths get away with their crimes.
What most people who watch this movie blind miss the first time through is that this is an art film. It's a satirical critique of 80's consumerism and the dandification of men.
It's not that they're dandies, it's that they're such conspicuous consumers and so intent on keeping up with the Joneses. Note that several of them are wearing the *exact same outfit*.
American Psycho is creepy. There is one other, really amazing and creepy movie that will make you feel uncomfortable. This movie is called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). Add it to your watchlist. You won't regret it. Alan Rickman in one of his best movies.
I’m from this era. Soundtrack? Over abundance, extreme! 80’s Awesome! I’ve cut my own hair sense the beginning of covid. Made a few mistakes along the way but I think I’ve gotten quite good. I can’t remember where I was going with this
Its not a fantasy in his mind, almost everything happened, especially that. If you read the book you will notice how much more obvious it is that he wasnt hallucinating.
@@skydetheking "in the book" Roy Hobbs strikes out at the end of 'The Natural', half the plot to 'The Green Mile' about the orderly in the present day old age home being just like Percy doesn't even exist, Red really is Irish and in prison for doing what Andy was accused of (killing his wife) in 'The Shawshank Redemption' and John Hammond is eaten by his own dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park'... this is a reaction to the MOVIE, not the book.
Christian Bale is able to show supreme acting skills in this movie and role, far more than any Batman movie in my opinion. This role is mentally unstable, whereas in Batman he is more monotone and mentally stable (as expected for the character)
People theorize that batman is actually pretty crazy due to recruiting teenagers to risk their lives on top of being some powerless guy that dresses up in a bat suit and kicks the shit out of people lol
Have you seen Paul Allen's reaction?
Hey Paul......aaaaaaaaaahhghhhh
I met Big Paul Allen in a Philippines' airport 2 months ago.
@@americanandpinay No…..you didn’t.
@@benntura Buang ka. Ako pud
@@americanandpinay Can you translate please? 🙂
seen a lot of reaction videos for this film and its interesting how people are calm when he kills the homeless man but shocked when he kills the dog right after
Was just about to say the same thing
Probably eats animals too!
Pyschos
I think that's purposely done to specifically reference the audience
The way I look at it, its better to kill the dog than to leave it alone without its owner.
Fun fact: Christian Bale claims that he based this role by watching interviews with Tom Cruise. He wanted to catch the phony charm combined with the cold predatory eyes.
"Sabrina don't just stare at it, eat it!" Lol that part always makes me laugh, it's so like wtf man.
Fight Club (1999) || Edward Norton & Brad Pitt
Black Swan (2010) || Natalie Portman
The Devil's Advocate (1997) || Al Pacino & Keanu Reeves
American History X (1998) || Edward Norton
Léon: The Professional (1994) || Jean Reno, Gary Oldman & Natalie Portman
Add… Run Lola Run, Se7en, Get Shorty, Thick as Thieves, Out of Sight
Patrick going to the last remaining Blockbuster store, searching outside for the KwikDrop slot to return all his videotapes. 😂
The killings happened according to the book. The director admitted she made the end if the film too ambiguous and that she regretted it.
It’s kinda perfect, though. I love the ending. I’ve read the book.
The ending is fine. It leaves the audience incoherent just like Bateman at the end
Not ambiguous at all if you're European.
You can't explode a car by shooting the fuel tank. That's so 1970s.
The moment he started shooting everyone, including the janitor, I just laughed out loud.
Odd thing for her to say considering there are multiple scenes where it is obviously fantasy.
The ambiguity is absolute genius in my opinion..
I like that, because of the multiverse, in this film we see the Green Goblin interviewing Batman about the Joker being missing.
lol so I’m not the only one who sees things like this
Also Batman kills the joker
People who never lived through the 80s will have no idea how relatable this movie is. For Gen X, it's practically a documentary. xD
O shit! Where’d you grow up
My all time favorite movie line... "Don't just look at it... eat it!"
Did they not put it together that some of it was his delusions? ATMs don't normally say "feed me a stray cat" 😂
Mine did. I hate evil ATM's.
"YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE COME BACK, FLYNN!"
Yeah we don’t even know if the murders were real tbh
He could’ve been in a psychosis the entire movie. The ATM told him to feed it a stray cat. He blew up 2 cop cars with bullets and looked at it strangely. Helicopter was looking for him through the window but nothing ever came onto the news. Paul Allen’s place was being sold and the realtor acted as if there wasn’t multiple bodies everywhere the day prior. The lawyer said he spoke to Paul Allen a few days ago and Patrick seemed to have something Dawn on him.
The realtor could’ve just been even more evil than the mentally ill Bateman and the lawyer could’ve just gotten Paul’s face mixed up with someone else as that’s a big thing in the books and somewhat in the movie.
Ha, you made me chuckle: TVs weren't "muffled" back in the day, and land lines sound clearer and better than cell phones (today as much as back then). In other words, the sound of phones has gotten WORSE not better in the last twenty years. It's just because it's a movie that she doesn't hear the sound from the TV over the phone (if he's even watching the video for real and it's not "all in his head".)
I'm pretty sure it fits the theme of the movie that people are so self absorbed they ignore basically everything he does or says
Great reaction, I love the effort and thought you both put into it. This channel is gonna blow up!
He owned the apartment building ( his father owned the company he worked at . That’s why he just wants to fit in. Nobody lived in the apartments in his building . Just him . His lawyer covered up for him bottom line . I’m sure his father has gotten him out of these types of situations before.
I'd read the book by Ellis, and it was a hard read. Never thought it could be a movie. But this film nails it. I got to see a bit of the filming as it was done in Toronto and it was amazing. And for the record, it's not a horror. It's social commentary on Western materialism... although, that makes it horror... Great review. I love that you take the time after the watch.
observation @ 1:04:00 about Bateman masking his alienation with the regurgitated thoughts of others (eg on music) is so spot on for a first viewing! way to go
Its not just a horror..its a dark comedy your supposed to laugh at the absurdities and the repetition is silly even though the subject is dark
Thank you for the movie and book recs, Caley! Murakami wrote the Drive my car story that they adapted into the film. Not sure if you knew that. I recently saw Drive My Car and I was also blown away so I will now for sure take on your rec for Kafka on shore!
p.s. I appreciate you both very much, not just your reactions, but also your in-depth discussions, and especially the way you treat each other. Your communication is something beautiful and inspiring.
Peace and love from Croatia!
16:17 to this day, the inner monologue of Peter has me on the fence. I cannot decide if this is a thriller or a comedy
its both
Ayy gratz on 10k subs...Hope you channel grows. Just amount of effort you put in editing CZcams cut is impressive. Love the movie, u cant go wrong with Christian Bale.
One of my favorite movies, I consider it to be a psychological thriller and a comedy. The vanity of Bateman is exaggerated to comedic levels in many parts of the movie. Upon re-watching the comedic aspect of the movie becomes more and more evident. For instance in every interaction Bateman has with the detective he is acting as guilty as humanly possible. When he salts his steak he is so stressed he pours the entire salt thing on it. And yet again and again, he gets away with murder (literally). Right after killing Paul he takes the body out in a designer bag leaving a trail of blood, and the only person to stop him does so to ask about the bag. Bateman is so guilty it is ridiculous, but the society he lives in is incapable of finding him guilty, hell it even helps him get away with it. Near the end of the movie, Bateman revisits Paul's apartment which he was using as a dead woman storage. However it has been cleaned out, even the bodies. Then he is confronted by a realtor, and caught in a lie. What I get from that scene is that the realtor lady cleaned the apartment to rent it out. It would be bad for business if it was known that that property was used to hide dead bodies, so she simply cleaned it without alerting authorities. When shes catches Bateman in the lie it became obvious to both parties that Bateman was the killer and that the realtor covered it up. They then depart with the understanding that it is beneficial for both parties to keep things quiet. And lastly the conversation with the lawyer at the end has 2 possible interpretations assuming the murder of Paul happened (which is very likely given the dialogue with the realtor). 1, the lawyer mistook someone else for Paul when he visited London. 2, the lawyer is lying to protect Bateman. Either way, the lawyer produces an alibi for Bateman that implies Paul dissapeared in London, not New York. Bateman gets away with everything, and the upper class people protects their own while living in excess at the expense of everyone else.
Oh, and the sequence starting at the ATM machine asking to be fed a stray cat to his confession on the phone is in his mind. An atm would not ask to be fed a stray cat and even Bateman was surprised when he blew up the cop cars with one bullet. The message he left on the lawyer's phone was a consequence of his mental breakdown.
I always laugh at the reactions to the nail gun. It needs an air hose to operate and he did not have one connected.
Those "underground alternative clubs" were not really "underground." They were trendy so a variety of trendy people would go to them. A new one would open and everyone had to just be there and be seen. A good example of that would be Studio 54, and with all the craziness that happened there, it was the place for all kinds of celebrities to be seen arriving.
That is an early type air gun which does not need a hose to operate. That large ball on the gun is
an air tank for compressed air.
@@anttyzale5455not sure about that. He’d also have to push it against her head due to the countersink
it's an open ending. which is why people still argue to this day what really happened. Me personally I think it all happened, the realator cleaned it all up so she could still sell the place, the lawyer was playing ignorance on purpose because Bateman is his client.
@16:50 Patrick was VP of Murders and Executions. I studied under Bret Easton-Ellis for some courses, the guy that wrote the book this movie is based on. Waited a whole 9 months for him to talk about American Psycho. He hated talking about it at that time due to it being his most famous work and he wanted another hit, desperately...according to his anti-woke hit piece and memoir, "White". Anyway, there is enough clues in the book and the film to deduce that Allen was in, fact alive, and that if you pay attention to the first of the film Paul Allen is an older man, though Bateman doesn't look at him, and if you notice everyone can never remember, or let alone cares, about who other people are and they often just go along with the flow when called other people's names. So forget it all being in his head. Is Patrick Bateman really Patrick Bateman?
He actually said what he said, it was just too loud for her to hear
43:17 you surprised me with that line about him being at a low frequency, pretty spot on
You guys do great reactions/reviews. Keep it up!
imo, the original writer was suggesting that you can get away with anything if: you're attractive, clean, articulate and successful
the reason is shown that society values the culmination of these attributes, more than life itself
society is willing to deal with a wicked spirit, as long as it maintains every other aspect of itself to a high degree
2h16m? I thought you uploaded the whole movie 😂 Excellent discussion and analysis, subscription earned, gonna watch your backlog 🤙
Did you know that the red haired actress who gets killed under the bed sheets is actually the person who wrote the screenplay for this film?
I love y’all in depth talking about the film ❤
A lot of Wall Street firms, especially in the 80s, saved money on exec salaries by offering them the "Vice president" title. If the guy wanted $300k they'd offer him $200k and the VP title. Of course they ended up with 50 Vice presidents but what did it matter? They all got their egos stroked.
The perstige is another Christian bale movie you should check out
DEFINITELY
I kinda had fun watching this movie it's kinda funny to me as well the way bale act and the last chase scene was definitely funny
“When the audience doesn’t get the joke” [10:59] by CinemaStix is a yt video that will help you with the ambiguity of American Psycho which is a horror thriller second but at it’s cold, cold heart actually a very, very, VERY dark comedy.
Read the book, it’s great.
Thanks for making videos eh.
He was watching texas chainsaw massacre from the 70s. You should watch it, extremely good 👍
I don't know if you guys will see this, but I hope you do!
I don't agree with all of the things yall say and I'm not particularly religious but I do think yall are good people and do a great job putting to words your interpretations and ideas from the films you watch. You two are a really great reaction couple and bring up great points!
Having said all of that, I think a show(I know yall don't really do shows) that would fit perfectly with yalls knack for interpretation and deciphering metaphor is The Leftovers from HBO. It has very religious themes and deals with all sorts of philosophical, psychological, and theological questions and is one of my favorite shows ever, even as someone who is not a believer.
I do really hope yall see this and consider it some time in the future, even as a Patreon exclusive. I would definitely sub for it and would really love to hear yalls comments on it. Have a great day!
I can't believe they don't know what the Texas chainsaw massacre looks like.
I think the chick doesn't know much of anything lol
On the rich people having guilt thing you mentioned.
I have to point out studies done on major emotional motivating factors within different societal groups around the world show that the main enotional motivating factor in Western Countries ( including the United States ) is Guilt. I don't know if this is because of Christianity or historical contexts, but it's very interesting that you brought that up.
In other places like East Asia ( eg Japan, South Korea, China ) the main emotional motivating factor is Shame.
@56:10 I got a little chuckle out of their review when they're saying that people leave comments about them being too young to not get references about different decades or other cultural items but when he's doing the exercise to Texas Chainsaw Massacre they simply say "oh a chainsaw man, idk that must be some sort of slasher or horror film." Lol 😆 🤣
Y'all are a very intelligent couple. Y'all commentary makes me think. Keep up the good work 👍💪
One of my favorite movies of all time.
"But inside doesn't matter."
Yeah, Chris Nolan saw that.
Genesis (band) · Tony Banks · Mike Rutherford · Peter Gabriel · Anthony Phillips · Chris Stewart · John Silver · John Mayhew · Phil Collins ...
His girl is a blonde, he kills blondes. This is a true classic, before it’s time.
@21:34 lmaooo y'all never heard of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? 1 of the most popular horror movie franchises of all time... ?
I dislike slasher movies but even I know that title.
'Bad Taste' by Peter Jackson was great satire though.
The murders and executions is a play on words due to the ruthlessness of the function of mergers and acquisitions as often that is used to kill off the competition in the business world.
The more I thought about it, it makes sense that in this movie is the way it is. Its from the perspective of a psycho. Its Patrick Bateman's story. It makes sense that its hard to tell fantasy from reality.
This is a satirical black comedy!
Impressive, very nice.
LOPES is not LOPS haha
When did we start competing to care the most about dogs? We've always cared about them, but it's become performative.
In the late 1980s, the term 'YUP' (Young Upcoming People) or YUPPIE came into use. It was the definition of Patrick Bateman minus the slashing.
So this movie, by a female director, shows what all those young career obsessed male professionals were like in the 1990s.
As a man, I could hardly agree more.
One of my best teachers in Dutch highschool said he'd rather be locked up with a murderer than with a YUP.
I thought YUP was short for Young Urban Professional? Never heard the "young upcoming people" one, I guess that would fit too....
@@hollyodell4012 Could be, I may have remembered incorrectly. Anyway, the young males in suit ready to kill. I mean, make a killing.
@@hollyodell4012 Yes, "young urban professional" is what Y.U.P. stood for.
Great f ing breakdown. After hearing your end comments I FEEL ON THE VERGE OD A BREAKSOWN! WoW, great reaction / review.
*Let's see Paul Allen's Card*
Darren Aronofsky’s “MOTHER!” 2017 with Jennifer Lawrence & Javier Bardem is a must watch on a whole other conspiratorial level. 🎥🍿
Also a lot of people do a lot of speculating on this movie it's really not hard to figure out lol he's a psychopath who has schizophrenic episodes living in an environment and culture of narcissism, and on top of that is aware of his condition.
I work on a commodities trade floor. Half the floor has the title of Vice President. It doesn't mean they are second in command of anything.
he wasn't crazy. my personal theory is that they all covered for him because there is no merit in making a huge public outcry about them and their businesses. they would lose millions if they turned him in, so instead they just covered everything up. we all assume he is the only psycho but in reality many of these rich people are just as insane as him.
Leveraging the priviledge.Thats exactly what he does! But even when he tries to be different, their culture and society is too self absorbed to notice him.
Every asset manager pretended to be Vice President of their firm back in the day. The same thing is hinted at in Wolf of Wall St.
Vice President is a rank.
Analyst 3 years, then associate 3 years, then VP by age 27/28.
On a few hundred k a year.
They wouldn’t hang out with associates.
They are all work colleagues.
It's a satire of the rich and the '80s, and it's really rather savage.
So you FINALLY get to my movie!
I love these talking points. I've never argued with myself so much.
I don't even feel like Paul Allen is real. It's like a metaphor, hearsay, a name thats thrown around like a 'person' people have heard of but don't even know.
2:10:30 empty streets. Not that uncommon. He's walking around the financial district, which in any city tends to be all business and no residences, and when the work week is over no one has any reason to be there, even in a city like NYC. I once walked through Boston's financial district on a saturday night, you coulda filmed a post-apocalypse movie there it was so quiet.
Best satire?
William Dafoe was directed to do multiple takes of each scene...1 take where the detective thinks Bale is a suspect....one take where he isn't a suspect and just asking questions....they then edited those takes together to give you that weird interaction between Bale and Defoe....where you don't quite know if Defoe knows or doesn't
The movie Patrick Bateman was working out too is The Texas chainsaw massacre it’s a good ass iconic horror movie one of the best y’all should react to it next pls🙏😅😂
Great reaction! You became the American Psycho. Confused; unable to determine what's real and what's imagined. For me, that is the point of the movie. Fortunately, for you, it will wear off in a short time haha.
Trying to look for the movie/scene, impossible 🤣
25:20 "Sabrina don't just stare at it, eat it". Ironically followed by "holy shit!". Hole(y) shit, indeed. "Hole"(y)...shit.
U guys should do a criterion watch along, SO many classics u guys can discover
It's an open-ended movie. It's up to the viewer to decide what happened.
The ambiguity is the best part of the movie.
According to the book or not, I came away with a feeling of "well shit, I don't know."
Which is fine because the movie sticks with you b e c a u s e you just don't know what was real and in Bateman's mind.
Personally, I found the movie to be funny. The humor was great.
The dragging of a dead body through the lobby leaving a trail of blood. No one notices.
The Cards being compared,
"Murders and Executions"
And when 2 bullets blow up 2 cop cars and the way he looks at his gun like "wtf was that??"
"I have to return some video tapes"
The humor was very dark, but it was there.
And Christian Bale was excellent
The confession on the phone to his lawyer was pure gold.
Anyway, a good reaction on a very confusing movie.
Oh..
Bateman...Batman...;)
Congrats on the 10k !!
I'd suggest you review Swimming With the Sharks.
Yuppie culture isn’t high class culture just saying lol class culture is measure by charm ;)
She's so beautiful.. lucky man
Aren't they siblings
FUN FACT: The novel "American Psycho" is considered an important late 20th-century-era literary work. As a stand-alone, the movie fails to project the intent of the author to present an over-the-top commentary on the narcissism, avarice, and moral decadence of the '80s. However, if one had read the book prior to watching the movie, this premise is spot-on! It is not a "horror/thriller" thang; it is an uber-parody on the order of "Slaughterhouse-Five." At any rate: ENJOY!
Everyone always talks about how it's all in his head.
I always took it as showing these rich phychos getting away with cartoonish levels of crimes & then the moment the rich man calls his lawyer, it all gets painted over & covered up with zero consequences.
Christian played Patrick too well. The problem here is he is now forever going to be Patrick Bateman. You play a role super well like that, you cement yourself into it. Christian, you can be the Machinist, you can be anyone else, even Bruce Wayne. But in the end, you will be Patrick Bateman. i can't change that when you play a role that well, you cement yourself into it
21:29 thats the Texas chainsaw massacre
A lot of people fall into the trap of being overly literal in their analysis and focusing on "did he really do the murders or not?", but that completely misses the point of the film. Whether he really killed all those people, imagined the murders, or it was some combination of reality and fantasy by an unreliable narrator is secondary to the point of being meaningless. The point the film is driving at is that almost everyone around him in this hedonistic, capitalist, Wall Street shithole is more or less just like him. They're all trust fund babies awash in greed, excess, fake jobs and basically doing nothing but going to useless meetings and eating at overpriced restaurants. Patrick Bateman and Paul Allen keep getting mistaken for other people because they're all the same empty vessel. And even the people who aren't psychopathic killers like Patrick are oblivious or indifferent to his crimes because they're focused on the mundane, shallow, spiritually dead pursuits that make up modern consumer culture. There is no punishment or catharsis for Bateman because the entire society in which he lives is built upon letting wealthy psychopaths get away with their crimes.
What most people who watch this movie blind miss the first time through is that this is an art film. It's a satirical critique of 80's consumerism and the dandification of men.
Boy, has that dandification of men part come even further since the 1980s.
@@tristramcoffin926 that ain't no lie
It's not that they're dandies, it's that they're such conspicuous consumers and so intent on keeping up with the Joneses. Note that several of them are wearing the *exact same outfit*.
Empire of the sun.
1:09:28 Tell us how you feel about it.
American Psycho is creepy. There is one other, really amazing and creepy movie that will make you feel uncomfortable. This movie is called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). Add it to your watchlist. You won't regret it. Alan Rickman in one of his best movies.
I think they're all VP's because they're probably kids of other higher ups. Nepotism baby.
Less note taking, more paying attention
Y’all gotta watch ozark for one of your series
I’m from this era. Soundtrack? Over abundance, extreme! 80’s Awesome!
I’ve cut my own hair sense the beginning of covid. Made a few mistakes along the way but I think I’ve gotten quite good. I can’t remember where I was going with this
And Christian Bale is British. 😂😂😂
It's hip to be square!
17:02 WHY??? John Wick it was the entire plot point that drove the movie... in this one it doesn't even happen, everything is a fantasy in his mind
Its not a fantasy in his mind, almost everything happened, especially that. If you read the book you will notice how much more obvious it is that he wasnt hallucinating.
@@skydetheking "in the book" Roy Hobbs strikes out at the end of 'The Natural', half the plot to 'The Green Mile' about the orderly in the present day old age home being just like Percy doesn't even exist, Red really is Irish and in prison for doing what Andy was accused of (killing his wife) in 'The Shawshank Redemption' and John Hammond is eaten by his own dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park'... this is a reaction to the MOVIE, not the book.
Christian Bale is able to show supreme acting skills in this movie and role, far more than any Batman movie in my opinion. This role is mentally unstable, whereas in Batman he is more monotone and mentally stable (as expected for the character)
People theorize that batman is actually pretty crazy due to recruiting teenagers to risk their lives on top of being some powerless guy that dresses up in a bat suit and kicks the shit out of people lol
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You may want to try just plain "Psycho" which is also pretty good.
A 2 hour movie review . Love it need more