American Psycho

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Wyatt K I just love being able to see old movies in the big screen. Being born too late for the great bands is a drag, but it's great to be able to see old movies in the way they were supposed to be seen. Love retro days. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/07/24 Full Review Sid I love this movie! That chainsaw seen on the big screen was everything! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review William B Great movie. A little hard to understand, which makes it even better. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/25 Full Review Ghostj09 c JESUS! Christian Bale is such an amazing actor. movie was great and gets you thinking what's real and what's not. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/12/25 Full Review Stancu V Pretty much non sense. Just an idiot who likes to kill without any justification. Nothing interesting! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/25 Full Review Birithivy Y American Psycho - 10/10. In honour of the Austin Butler announcement to play Patrick Bateman (still don’t see it), I decided to revisit this film. It holds up extremely well, and sadly, feels more relevant now than it did when it first came out. American Psycho has become this cult classic meme masterpiece of sorts, and surprisingly some people have not dialled into the film’s core message and approach to capitalism, society, classism, and ignorance coming from certain sects of the workforce. American Psycho is a deep (and darkly satirical) look at a finance worker, his views, and how he goes about his life. Why I can’t see Butler in the role yet is because of the career changing performance of Christian Bale. What a performer he is! He’s almost like clay, just moulding himself into the physicality and psyche of the character with no hesitation. Here, he embodies the jackass of all jackasses. There’s nothing redeemable here, and he just lets loose and plays this darkly fabricated individual oh so brilliantly (and brutally) well. He’s stated he used a Tom Cruise interview on Letterman to craft the personality of Bateman, but I see heavy doses of Jim Carey here too! Its this wacky performance that he somehow dials into cold murderous rampage that freaks you out and also can’t make you leave your eyes off the screen. And also, what a 2000’s stacked cast! The big positive outside of Bale is the direction and writing. The film is a no holds bar look at an individual of this nature. We shouldn’t like him at all, and there’s not once a single ounce of likability allowed by the director to the audience. He is smug, annoying, hilariously over compensating, and most of all, hypocritical in a hilariously unbeknownst way. The way the director crafts some scenes here are pure brilliance (especially the initial Dafoe encounter where they shot it 3 times: one time for his character thinking Bateman’s guilty, the other time having some suspicion, and the other thinking he’s innocent). That specific scene I just mentioned is moulded together to help confuse not just Bateman, but also the audience. The psychologically challenging last quarter is excellent as well. Was he truly killing, or was it all in his head? Or, is he being gaslit by the people around him? Are we, the audience, being gaslit into thinking he might just be hallucinating? Or are we trying to allow that mindset to excuse the possible horrible acts he has done here, because we don’t want to think that a main character could be this cynical and evil? Either way, this is a brilliant film, a very Toronto film (cool how they shot around the city for this, its pretty evident), and a movie that encapsulates the horrible nature that some people have towards others that are not on the same “level” as them. Excellent and jarring, while being entertaining from start to finish! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/28/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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