Has anyone else seen this movie? I just went and saw it last night. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie in which I had nothing but disdain for EVERY FREAKING character. The whole film seems to be one big, long tour of the deepest, darkest parts of the human soul. Sex without meaning, constant drug abuse and the overall feeling that none of the characters gave half a **** about anyone else in the movie just made me disgusted to watch it. I understand that the book this movie was based on was written by the same person that wrote American Psycho (last name of Ellis, I believe)...and knowing that, I can definitely see the similarities now. Still, I have no idea what the writer/directory/anybody-remotely-involved-in-the-film had in mind when they made it. One thing I do know, seeing this movie made me REALLY want my life to have some meaning, or to at least be able to say that I am nothing like any of those characters in the film...and if that was what the director had in mind when he made it, bravo. It freaking worked.
You had disdain for Jessica Biel? (calm thyself...) I might kill you if I ever see you. I liked this movie. It was pretty cool. And that gay guy in the glasses was hilarious.
Yeah I saw it. I really liked American Psycho, because it was just so over the top. This movie, on the other hand, seemed like it was trying so desperately to be "brutally honest," as critics like to say...like just because everything in the movie is so disturbing it makes the movie more real. To me it was about as far from reality as your typical, happy-ending, feel-good movie. I felt absolutely nothing during or after it, and that's about the lowest critique I can give. Oh, and I've never seen backwards filming so grossly overused. I guess they were trying to hide the emptiness of the movie by making it more "stylistic."
Jessica Biel was hot looking, but I wouldn't really even consider her a character since she wasn't developed at all. And like you, DCKid, the gay guy with glasses was hilarious once he stopped dancing on the bed in his underwear. The scene in the restaurant had me laughing pretty hard. In fact, there were several scenes towards the beginning of the movie that made me laugh, but right around the time when the one girl commits suicide I stopped liking this movie and started thinking about how much I disliked all the characters.
Did someone say pictures? Jessica Biel is hot but I like Shannyn Sossamon better. She doesn't have Biel's body but she is FINE! Oh yea the movie. I was also a huge American Psycho fan also and that is why I was so excited to see the movie because of Sean Bateman. I found many parts to be hilarious but the movie definately lacked substance. The backwards filming is getting over done. However, I like the one double camera shot when Van Der Beek and Shannyn Sossamon met.
Movies like this one remind me why I don't like to go to the movies. Oh, how shocking! Oh, how scandalous! Oh...puh-leeze! Movies are FAKE. It is impossible for a manufactured film like this to be brutally honest because they are entertaining you by telling you a fictitious story. I can appreciate really well-done films and even really stupid, silly movies, but from everything I've read, this just sounds like a weak attempt at "being real" with the audience. Ugh. Next.
Judging by how much money this film made on it's opening weekend, those of you who have seen the film are in the very small minority. I think it made 2.6 million and ranked like 12th. I believe it had a widespread release with something like 1400+ screens as well. Maybe it should have gone straight to video?
So, Sean was the brother of Patrick from American Psycho. That's about the only thing I got from the movie.
