Quote (Svartermetalisk @ 3 Sep 2016 08:22)

Enemy is good but it's a pretty excentric. Prepare for something unintelligible and Kafkaesque!

Quote (Svartermetalisk @ 3 Sep 2016 17:37)

I love American Psycho, the humour works wonders for me and I can't help but laugh my ass off everytime even though I've seen it like 3-4 times.

Quote (zarkadon @ Sep 3 2016 08:27am)

American Psycho (2000)

Yes, I hadn't seen American Psycho. I had mixed feelings while watching this one... everyone praises it so much that I had a hard time keeping myself from having high expectations, and this probably made me have a lukewarm feeling while watching it. It felt like an interesting approach to a psychopathic character, and Bale's performance was great, but the movie felt corny, farfetched and nonsensical for the most part. But then the ending came along and fixed that by wrapping things up nicely, making of the movie's weak points turn into strong ones. So yeah, I liked it. Perhaps a bit overrated, but definitely a solid movie.

Quote (zarkadon @ 3 Sep 2016 18:32)

SPOILERS:

I just feel like they shouldn't have made it so surreal if they were going to go for that final plot twist. If we compare it to the 6th Sense for example, all the clues that support the plot twist are there, but you don't have the feeling that something isn't right until the very end, which is why it's so brilliantly executed. Now I'm not saying this movie as a whole is worse than the 6th sense, but I feel the way they built towards the plot twist is indeed worse.

American Psycho has a similar ending concept and the final twist still creates impact, but the movie is full of inconsistencies that jump out from the beginning and just make you think it's too absurd to be real. Things like an empty luxurious apartment building where Chrisitan Bale can freely run around naked with a chainsaw, his perfect accuracy (with the chainsaw he drops and the gun he shoots), the exploding car after a bullet shot like if it was a b action movie, him signing the entry book at his workplace and not getting caught when he killed people in that building at around the same time, etc. I think it's ok (and funny) to have bizarre things like an ATM display "feed me a stray cat" because you know that's completely overboard dark comedy that makes fun of how messed up his mind is, but the other kind of more serious stuff just felt annoyingly ridiculous to me until the ending wrapped it up.

On the other hands, subtle details like the korean laundry guys (who are supposed to be "the best" according to the girl) not being able to wash out a stain are excellent, because the stain isn't there in the first place, and you don't realize it. I think the movie should have focused more on that kind of stuff.

But that's just according to my taste and my opinion on it. I still think the pros heavily outweigh the cons and I had good fun with it though :D

Quote (zarkadon @ Sep 3 2016 05:32pm)

SPOILERS:

I just feel like they shouldn't have made it so surreal if they were going to go for that final plot twist. If we compare it to the 6th Sense for example, all the clues that support the plot twist are there, but you don't have the feeling that something isn't right until the very end, which is why it's so brilliantly executed. Now I'm not saying this movie as a whole is worse than the 6th sense, but I feel the way they built towards the plot twist is indeed worse.

American Psycho has a similar ending concept and the final twist still creates impact, but the movie is full of inconsistencies that jump out from the beginning and just make you think it's too absurd to be real. Things like an empty luxurious apartment building where Chrisitan Bale can freely run around naked with a chainsaw, his perfect accuracy (with the chainsaw he drops and the gun he shoots), the exploding car after a bullet shot like if it was a b action movie, him signing the entry book at his workplace and not getting caught when he killed people in that building at around the same time, etc. I think it's ok (and funny) to have bizarre things like an ATM display "feed me a stray cat" because you know that's completely overboard dark comedy that makes fun of how messed up his mind is, but the other kind of more serious stuff just felt annoyingly ridiculous to me until the ending wrapped it up.

On the other hands, subtle details like the korean laundry guys (who are supposed to be "the best" according to the girl) not being able to wash out a stain are excellent, because the stain isn't there in the first place, and you don't realize it. I think the movie should have focused more on that kind of stuff.

But that's just according to my taste and my opinion on it. I still think the pros heavily outweigh the cons and I had good fun with it though :D