The weird thing is, he absolutely would say that. He talks big game about being a heartless psycho, but really he just an egotist who kills people about it, and gets mad when people don't believe it's him.
He’s a rich, attractive, incredibly boring, vapid and insubstantial man, who eventually goes mad and starts committing murders to feel something. He does a terrible job at hiding them, but because he’s so fucking BORING, when he confesses to the murders everyone just laughs at him and no one believes him.
Which is a dumb theory. The entire point of the movie would be ruined if that was true. Patrick admits to murders and is super obvious about them, but nobody notices it because they're all so self-absorbed and can't even tell people apart, let alone realize Patrick is a murderer.
The movie also gets way more fantastical toward the end. There's a nice nod of the head when Bateman shoots at the cop cars and they immediately explode, and he looks at his gun in disbelief
And the fact that If It was indeed true, the real estate agent didn't Just "not notice It". She got rid of the bodies and cleaned everything. I can understand the "It was real" angle, but for me It definitly didn't. He Will start doing It after the end, though.
I really like the theory that the real estate agent came along, saw the bodies and made the sum that if this came out then she would lose commision, so she called a few people and cleaned it up, I mean what was in it for her if she reported the murder?
it's a very: everyone is some measure of patrick bateman in the depicted society and the irony is that it robs bateman of his ultimate dream, he's not different from anybody else, he's not special
It's a valid angle. The point that defines It for me though, is when he's runing away. He shoots at a police car and It explodes. He looks at the gun knowing It doesn't make Sense.
There's another angle that I think about sometimes. He is the only one that feels that the World he lives doesn't make Sense. In a way, the real psychopaths are the people around him.
well yeah, but how am I supposed to get people to click on my screenrant article if I actually pay attention to the plot, themes, or in-story events of the media I theorize about?
don't you know that every character is dead, in purgatory, in a dream, and they're dying in real life?
Does he? Patrick is way too obsessed with being liked and admired to boast about being a psycho. It's just that he can't help but be a heartless little shit, because he's incapable of relating to anyone. The only person he changed his mind about killing was his secretary, and it was mostly because she actually tried to connect with him
You think it’s a tough watch? I’m gonna be honest American Psycho is my comfort movie. Feels like every scene has a whole bunch of funny and quotable lines. I don’t even mean this in a “I’m so demented and numb to pain” way, I legitimately think American Psycho is a hysterical comedy
I completely agree. >! the part where hes running around in the hallways naked with a chainsaw is just hilarious. And then he perfectly drops the chainsaw like 4 stories to hit someone running below him is just comedically ridiculous !<
My favorite part was the business cards. Only an investment banker would actually care about the subtle differences in those cards, and Bateman nailed the performance
It's mostly the way he treats the prostitutes he hires. Everything else can be laughed at because it's so over the top, but something about these scenes really gets to me.
For me, it was the scene with the homeless man. The sex tape scene is pretty funny (until they wake up and Patrick says they're not finished), but there was just absolutely nothing funny that scene. It was just pure, unsettling sociopathy.
I tried to watch it once but got bored and turned it off after the first 15-30-ish minutes. Every now and then I'm tempted to give it another try but I haven't recently.
That's pretty valid. The start is almost supposed to be boring in a way, normal business guys doing normal business stuff, literally just Bateman explaining his morning routine, stuff like that. It's absurd, but it's also just kind of a normal work day.
It's a character study, you have to learn the character before the story makes sense, and the banality of the opening is very much the point.
I've seen people miss the entire plot of the movie because they, like every character in the movie, are too absorbed in their own perception to notice what's in front of them. It's really an apt an ironic metaphor, all said and done
For some reason I assumed they were talking about Bateman playing Batman in a movie but they thought he was still acting a la America Psycho. I read WAY TOO DEEP into it lmao
American Psycho is like Fight Club and Always Sunny, the people being mocked by those movies and shows are too dumb to understand they're not the hero and think the protagonists are people you're supposed to relate to and root for.
The people that "get it" and aren't the ones that need the message, and the ones that really need to hear it are too dumb to understand it.
Victim: "Oh my god, Van Patten, why are you doing this?"
Patrick Bateman: "Are you fucking joking"
Victim 2: "Yeah, you've really fallen off the wagon, Davis."
Victim 3: "Hey, what's Paul Allen doing?"
It’s very funny that the movie became some wacky meme when it’s really just a very solid character study and satire of the hollowness of the American upper class.
It’s great. I really like rules of attraction more, but I think that’s just because Shannyn Sossamon did things to me that cemented the type of woman I’m most attracted to forever
It’s pretty good, you just have to not be an idiot and draw the wrong conclusions from it.
No, it’s not sigma male propaganda.
No, it’s not a generic “rich people bad” movie.
It’s more about the type of people that are rewarded by the system today and how fucked up it is. If these kinds of neuroses are prioritized and rewarded rather being filtered out by our system, what does that say about our culture today?
My favorite part was when Patrick Bateman said "it's Batin' time," then he Bated all over his victims.
I think that's a slightly different movie involving a pit and lotion
I like how both of these references involve Jared Leto.
Bate or stupidity, call it
But did he Master Bate all over his victims?
That may have happened in the book, honestly
Read the book years ago, it absolutely does
this is just that "he didn't say that" meme from a while back
The weird thing is, he absolutely would say that. He talks big game about being a heartless psycho, but really he just an egotist who kills people about it, and gets mad when people don't believe it's him.
Imma be honest I haven't watched that movie either, so I'll take your word for it
He’s a rich, attractive, incredibly boring, vapid and insubstantial man, who eventually goes mad and starts committing murders to feel something. He does a terrible job at hiding them, but because he’s so fucking BORING, when he confesses to the murders everyone just laughs at him and no one believes him.
I haven't watched the movie either. Apparently there's a hypothesis that he wasn't a killer at all and just wanted recognition.
Which is a dumb theory. The entire point of the movie would be ruined if that was true. Patrick admits to murders and is super obvious about them, but nobody notices it because they're all so self-absorbed and can't even tell people apart, let alone realize Patrick is a murderer.
The ending is very intentionally ambiguous. I don’t think it’s dumb to believe something that the ending tries to convey.
The movie also gets way more fantastical toward the end. There's a nice nod of the head when Bateman shoots at the cop cars and they immediately explode, and he looks at his gun in disbelief
Not to mention the ATM telling him to feed it a cat
And the fact that If It was indeed true, the real estate agent didn't Just "not notice It". She got rid of the bodies and cleaned everything. I can understand the "It was real" angle, but for me It definitly didn't. He Will start doing It after the end, though.
I really like the theory that the real estate agent came along, saw the bodies and made the sum that if this came out then she would lose commision, so she called a few people and cleaned it up, I mean what was in it for her if she reported the murder? it's a very: everyone is some measure of patrick bateman in the depicted society and the irony is that it robs bateman of his ultimate dream, he's not different from anybody else, he's not special
It's a valid angle. The point that defines It for me though, is when he's runing away. He shoots at a police car and It explodes. He looks at the gun knowing It doesn't make Sense. There's another angle that I think about sometimes. He is the only one that feels that the World he lives doesn't make Sense. In a way, the real psychopaths are the people around him.
well yeah, but how am I supposed to get people to click on my screenrant article if I actually pay attention to the plot, themes, or in-story events of the media I theorize about? don't you know that every character is dead, in purgatory, in a dream, and they're dying in real life?
In the book, he didn't kill anyone. In the movie, he did some of the murders, but not all of them.
Does he? Patrick is way too obsessed with being liked and admired to boast about being a psycho. It's just that he can't help but be a heartless little shit, because he's incapable of relating to anyone. The only person he changed his mind about killing was his secretary, and it was mostly because she actually tried to connect with him
In the book, his girlfriend says: “He’s the boy next door, aren’t you honey?” “No I’m not,” I whisper to myself. “I’m a fucking evil psychopath.”
Didn’t he also stop himself from strangling the gay guy it’s been forever since I’ve watched it
Yeah, good catch, made a mistake in my comment lol
He'd much rather lecture you about Whitney Houston though.
I mean, he definitely is also literally psychotic.
My favorite part is when he went to return some videotapes
It's a really great movie, it's just a bit of a tough watch. I recommend it 👍
You think it’s a tough watch? I’m gonna be honest American Psycho is my comfort movie. Feels like every scene has a whole bunch of funny and quotable lines. I don’t even mean this in a “I’m so demented and numb to pain” way, I legitimately think American Psycho is a hysterical comedy
I completely agree. >! the part where hes running around in the hallways naked with a chainsaw is just hilarious. And then he perfectly drops the chainsaw like 4 stories to hit someone running below him is just comedically ridiculous !<
My favorite part was the business cards. Only an investment banker would actually care about the subtle differences in those cards, and Bateman nailed the performance
Did you notice that they all have the same title?
And Acquisitions is spelled wrong on all of them.
"it even has a watermark" is a bit of a vocal stim for me on occasion
One of the first lines of the movie is “they don’t have a good bathroom to do coke in.”
Every scene in that movie is a masterpiece, the book is also pretty good but there's a lot lost between mediums that the movie REALLY nails
It's mostly the way he treats the prostitutes he hires. Everything else can be laughed at because it's so over the top, but something about these scenes really gets to me.
For me, it was the scene with the homeless man. The sex tape scene is pretty funny (until they wake up and Patrick says they're not finished), but there was just absolutely nothing funny that scene. It was just pure, unsettling sociopathy.
If you don't wash these I will kill you.
I tried to watch it once but got bored and turned it off after the first 15-30-ish minutes. Every now and then I'm tempted to give it another try but I haven't recently.
That's pretty valid. The start is almost supposed to be boring in a way, normal business guys doing normal business stuff, literally just Bateman explaining his morning routine, stuff like that. It's absurd, but it's also just kind of a normal work day.
It's a character study, you have to learn the character before the story makes sense, and the banality of the opening is very much the point. I've seen people miss the entire plot of the movie because they, like every character in the movie, are too absorbed in their own perception to notice what's in front of them. It's really an apt an ironic metaphor, all said and done
I've seen the movie, but DNF'd the book very early because of this. The detailed description of his shower/skincare was exhausting.
It’s fine enough. There are two equally valid interpretations of the ending that work well.
the movie is pretty good, it’s comedy, it’s not really a horror movie at all, even though there is a killer.
The best part was when he said "It's American Psychoing time" and then psycho'd all over those Americans.
Patrick Batman lol
"It's you Patrick?!?! You're the American Psycho?!?!"
He didn’t say that.
Do we mean the new "The Batman"? Pretty good yeah
They're talking about the book (which got famously adapted into a movie) American Psycho Unless you weren't being serious and I'm just an idiot
For some reason I assumed they were talking about Bateman playing Batman in a movie but they thought he was still acting a la America Psycho. I read WAY TOO DEEP into it lmao
Let’s see Paul Allen’s synopsis
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark...
Honestly, he would say that lmao
[This](https://youtu.be/nInpsReK8Sk?t=2333) is the best summary of american psycho
American Psycho is like Fight Club and Always Sunny, the people being mocked by those movies and shows are too dumb to understand they're not the hero and think the protagonists are people you're supposed to relate to and root for. The people that "get it" and aren't the ones that need the message, and the ones that really need to hear it are too dumb to understand it.
Actually, the titular line is said by Comissioner Gordon
actually in that scene he says "what, we some kinda suicide squad?"
It's one of those movies that is absolutely worth seeing... but you're gonna wanna stay clear of anyone who's a little *too* fond of it.
Victim: "Oh my god, Van Patten, why are you doing this?" Patrick Bateman: "Are you fucking joking" Victim 2: "Yeah, you've really fallen off the wagon, Davis." Victim 3: "Hey, what's Paul Allen doing?"
Where is the four page monolouge?
Titular line: [https://youtu.be/AWxiTPQv0ME?si=Vm8w4iBNR4v90V8P](https://youtu.be/AWxiTPQv0ME?si=Vm8w4iBNR4v90V8P)
Sounds like Jason bateman
https://youtu.be/xFy-doUdMsU?si=56gZKb-QnoDpmFGf
It truly was a Shawshank redemption.
It’s very funny that the movie became some wacky meme when it’s really just a very solid character study and satire of the hollowness of the American upper class.
Now we know how far he’ll go to be the next freak show
It's a good movie but I hate it and never want to see it again. Definitely a worthwhile watch though.
It’s great. I really like rules of attraction more, but I think that’s just because Shannyn Sossamon did things to me that cemented the type of woman I’m most attracted to forever
"Patrick Bateman? You're the American Psycho? NOOOOOOOOO" - Paul Allen just before he gets Bated
It’s pretty good, you just have to not be an idiot and draw the wrong conclusions from it. No, it’s not sigma male propaganda. No, it’s not a generic “rich people bad” movie. It’s more about the type of people that are rewarded by the system today and how fucked up it is. If these kinds of neuroses are prioritized and rewarded rather being filtered out by our system, what does that say about our culture today?
You like Phil Collins?
is there a subreddit for lines like these
How the hell did this get 3,800 upvotes in less than a day