Like people who like these might have a very basic taste in movies, but they are real movies made by real people. Not a collection of gifable moments smashed together by an algorithm and 35 focus groups.

Also the guy's favourite movie is American psycho, I feel like you can't be an American psycho guy and make fun of fight club guys.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I believe the point is that Patrick Batemen isn't cool or interesting at all: he's physically fit and affluent, which people mistake for being cool, but as a person he's completely vapid and obsessed with status symbols and what other people have to say about them, hence the constant cutaways to bizarre monologues about fashion, or food, or pop culture that are all completely empty of any substance when looked at beyond the most superficial level. The only original thoughts he has are ways of saying literally nothing on a topic while giving the appearance that he's made some insightful comment, and everything else is just repetition of critics or ads he's read.

      And that's him as a person even before you get into the "he compulsively kills people for fun or over perceived slights," stuff.