I just watched this movie. It’s so bad! Why? What am I missing?
I guess it depends on the viewer’s tastes. It was hilarious to me personally. The overly serious way he describes his metrosexual routine, the importance of the quality of business cards, etc. The horror aspect and gore takes a backseat for me and I view it as a comedy.
What is hilarious about it? The only scene that got me a chuckle was when he was narrating his entrance to a restaurant with his fiancé after one of the murders: “I entered the [restaurant name] and immediately a chill went down my spine: <dramatic pause> I was afraid there would be no good tables left.”
I'd love to explain but unfortunately I have to return some video tapes.
Do you like it for the memes, too? It’s Napoleon Dynamite all over again.
I think it's an anti-capitalist thing. If you already genuinely see these Wall Street, corpo ghouls as murderers in real life, then the movie's dramatization of their hyperbolic desire for gratuitous murder and torture encapsulated in one "American psycho" becomes an inside joke making fun of the entire USian hyper-capitalist mode of life which lives at the expense of everyone else's suffering and death.
It's hard to explain, I haven't seen it in a very long time. Just kind of a dark comedy thing.
The message is very clear (in your face). The fact that everybody keeps mistaking the VPs for one another because they’re indistinguishable is another point. But what is funny about it?
for bergson, comedy comes from the overlap of the material and the human. bateman is a robotic character, embodying this duality in himself, and exists in a highly satirical environment.
Again, the message can be clear, sure, but if you're a committed anti-capitalist then it transcends the simple message and it becomes like an inside joke.
It's like cathartic release and you enjoy seeing the enemy depicted in all its petty, murderous AmeriKKKan evil.
It’s almost like Always Sunny or something. The joke is that these people are huge vapid pieces of shit. If it isn’t for you that’s fair enough, but watching Bateman in a cab ignoring his lady friend because he’s listening to his cassette player is just so funny to me. Or tricking his drugged up mistress that they went to a fancier restaurant that he couldn’t get seats at.
And of course when you already hate these Wall Street clowns it also hits on an ideological level which is a bonus.
Also who doesn’t want to see Jared Leto get adjusted to the head with an axe?
Feels like Fight Club to me where there is a subset of young men who like it, not recognizing it's a parody. Then there's people who get it and like it as a comedy. And the obviousness of which is which is not always clear, so you will never see me talking about whether I like it or not because it invites the first type.
anyone knows the same looking headset as it was in the movie where he is walking in the office room
