That got a spit take out of me lol. Well said and timed. This is a film I enjoy watching and quoting with other fans. I think it is more relatable than most people want to admit. I want to read the book and add it to my collection. For an even better laugh watch the fan edit someone did where they out Pokémon cards in the scene. Well done.
Fun Fact: For Willem Dafoe's scenes, the director shot each scene three different ways: One where he knows Patrick didn't do it, one where he does think Patrick did it, and one where he knows Patrick did it. The director then blended a mixture of those scenes into the movie (hence the shifting moods and inflections in those scenes.)
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What I like about this movie is that it's not just a standard serial killer movie. It's a social satire about 1980s greed and materialism. Patrick's behaviour, at least in public, is really not that much different from those of the other people he hangs out with. The blonde woman he runs into at the club who mixes up "murders and executions" with "mergers and acquisitions" demonstrates that everyone's so into themselves that they're not really listening to what he's saying. Also, it indicates that maybe, as the film is all shown from Patrick's perspective, maybe he's not a completely reliable historian, and we get that feel more as the movie goes along. Any one of his friends could be just as psychotic as he is, but we don't really know what's real and what isn't, because it's all being told from the perspective of a guy who either kills people in brutal ways or at least fantasizes about it. There are indications from certain events in the movie that they could all be in his head and those situations tend to escalate. People's reactions to Bateman tend to get more and more questionable and unrealistic as the movie goes along. At the very least, all of Patrick's colleagues are serious narcissists. I love the ending. It actually leaves more questions than answers. But one thing is for sure: Patrick Bateman is not well. I believe in the book, Paul Allen turns up at the end, leaving things even more vague as to whether or not he actually murdered him. I think the author intended for the character to actually be a serial killer rather than just a guy who fantasizes about it, but that vagueness works to enhance the social satire about Wall Street. They're all psychopaths.
We know that not everything PB sees happens, because he sees an ATM instruct him to feed a cat to it. How about the murders? Are they real or imagined? Paul Allen being seen later puts all the murders in doubt.
I love that Bateman has no personality whatsoever. He doesn't love music, he just parrots reviews he's read because he thinks that's what people do. He constantly rents movies but never pays any attention to them, and every single human emotion just drops off his face once he's finished an interaction with someone. I also love that almost every other person in the movie is complicit - his status in that particular time and place mean that he is never ever challenged, because to hold him accountable for his lifestyle would incriminate the entire system that they live in. He is just a template of success to them, completely interchangeable with the people around him, and so nobody has any interest in what he's actually saying. The only person to listen is Jean, and that's the only time you see a crack in his psychopathy. Because of this I think the supporting characters are where the real satire lies in this, and it's perfectly executed. Bateman is just the absurdist parable which highlights the very real vapidity of that kind of ambition. A lot of people were unhappy with the ambiguity of the ending, but it perfectly encapsulates everything before it. It literally doesn't matter to his world whether these things happened or not. He simply is not there.
The twist isn't that it's all in his head. It's that all the corporate suits around him are exactly as greedy, ruthless and psychotic as he is. He gets away with anything because he's part of a system built to enable people like him. He's "the generic" American Psycho. In the world he lives in, he's a cliche, not an individual freak.
@@Mad_Nceku no, people just need to learn the actual definition of “underrated” and stop throwing it around so much! I don’t know when underrated became everybody’s favorite word, but it’s annoying as hell
It wasn't in his head. The author (Bret Easton Ellis) is saying that the Yuppie culture was itself just a facade of humanity. The real estate lady, for instance, needed to make a sale. So she cleaned up all the bodies. And everyone looked the same, so no one had an identity. It's a brilliant book, but a lot more graphic than this.
The director Mary Heron said some of it happen but some of it didn't happen. Like a great cliff hanger we only find out Bateman lost touch with reality when he realized it, which is far too late to know exactly when he really did lose touch. So begs question what is real and what is not. Does it really matter is the point I got from it in this messed up world that is as broken as Patrick.
@@DavidZ4-gg3dm Patrick os psychotic, but also has delusions of grandeur. Some of his crimes may have happened, or all, or none. He is a mentally disturbed, unreliable narrator. Like when he says terrible things and no one responds to them, is he actually saying them or just imaging he is?
@@DavidZ4-gg3dmWell, Patrick's lawyer didn't even recognize him, so perhaps he mistook someone else for Paul Allen in London. Part of the theme of the movie is all these yuppie Wall Street types resemble each other & it's hard to tell them apart.
I always thought it was funny that Huey Lewis wouldn't let the Ghostbusters people use his music, but he was alright with the American Psycho people using it for the ax murder scene.
Same with the metalcore band Ice Nine Kills. They made a song based on this book/movie called “Hip To Be Scared”, and in the bridge before the breakdown, they sample “Hip to be square” and had to get permission from HL
Probably because this movie gave Huey credit. For the other movie, record company creeps just stole the melody and chord progressions of "I Wanna New Drug" and tried to sell it as a new song ("Ghostbusters").
Its a psychological horror film. Its not a scary horror film. Scary and horror are different. Scary is a feeling, horror is a genre. American psycho is a psychological horror satire. But its themes and tone and elements are horror.
The book has some humorous bits as well, such as the time he tricks his fiance into eating a urinal cake after he and his friends take turns pissing all over it, coating it with chocolate and telling her it's Godiva -- she just can't pass it up. "I'll finish it... it's just so... minty!"
The interaction with the Realtor is my favorite scene. She gives an excellent understated, tense performance. And Bale gives a great performance playing off of her. And it's just so interesting in the greater context of the film.
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Bateman did it all. Upon multiple viewings, you'll notice the men basically look the same, which is why people were constantly misidentifying one another and ultimately gives Bateman an alibi for his whereabouts. At the end when Bateman greets his lawyer, he calls Bateman "Davis." So, when the lawyer says he had dinner with Paul in London, it was probably someone else.
I agree with this point, but what about the security guard in Bateman's apartment building? He or anyone for that matter is not going to notice that trail of blood on the floor? And then when he shoots the police car and it blows up. He looks at his gun like "did that really happen?" The ATM asking him to feed it a cat is obviously an illusion brought on by his psychosis. It just seems some things are clearly in his head and others are not.
Unfortunately, you are basically correct. Bateman did it all or nearly all of it. However, I think the story is better if he didn't actually do anything.
I agree, it’s more entertaining to play did he or didn’t he? Or he just fantasized about killing and in reality did nothing. But that realtor scene is the creepiest in the movie for me. @@FuckTH-camAndGoogle
It always baffles me how incredible this movie really is, the talking past each other, nobody is really paying attention to anything at all. You have everyone whipping out business cards for the same jobs and yet nobody ever seems to be working… people eating in high class restaurants but you hardly even see what they are eating.. as someone who is autistic, this movie is just complete chaos.
There's a parody skit where Huey Lewis raves the appeal of the American Psycho film to Weird Al, beat for beat like the killing of Paul Allen scene. So good.
Kat: He loves musicals and we support it, just peeing every morning and looking at Lés Mis Patrick: *Kills the homeless man and the dog* Kat: I hate him! 😂
This reaction was all I had hoped it would be, Kat is always as fascinating to watch as the film. If you want to get VERY creeped out, read the book, there are things in there they could never show on film, lol. The interesting thing to me is how accurate this film was depicting a certain tier of society in the 80's, I'm not sure how to explain it but they got the _feel_ of the era in a way few films have.
Waaay back in the beginning of Willem DaFoe's career, he had a very small part in a classic vampire film from 1983 #title "The Hunger", which stars Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie. If you've never seen that movie you absolutely must! It's one of the best vampire movies ever made; very different, and haunting.
I first saw Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun when I was a kid. I remember thinking 'this isn't a child actor...this is an actor that just happens to be a child.' He is SO talented. Great reaction btw :) you crack me up.
I love that Bateman/Bale tells Kimball/Dafoe that he has an appointment with "Cliff Huxtable." That's the name of Bill Cosby's character on "The Cosby Show." 🤣
I know, that cracks me up every time, and out of probably a dozen or so reactions to this movie I’ve seen, I believe only one person actually caught that lol
There are technically two sequels to this. American Psycho 2 as previously mentioned was just an unrelated script with the name slapped on. But the author of the book wrote another about Patrick Bateman's younger brother in college, called The Rules of Attraction. In 2002 there was a film adaptation from one of the writers of Pulp Fiction, starring lots of former family-friendly child actors looking to prove they were ready for 'adult' roles. It's not as well known because people would skip over it thanks to the super generic title, as well as one of the most misleading trailers ever made. They tried to sell this as a generic teen sex comedy, when it is more of a deconstruction of that genre instead. It is fucked up and unsexy as possible by design, as seen through the same lens of American Psycho being a 'corporate drama.' Highly underrated, not a lot of people talk about it.
The business card scene is one of my favorites. One of the best send ups of the 80s is my book ( I 'm old, so I remember it ) Bret Easton Ellis is a great writer, Less than Zero is also another book that they made into a film, but its not a horror film.
There a few layers to this satire but most salient today is the skewering our sociopathic and predatory financial apparatus that, in the words of our protagonist, eludes punishment despite admitting everything.
Aside from being such a fun movie, it's also one of the best social satires ever made. The book is even more out there and nuts, and there are things in the book so grotesque he can't possibly have done them and be able to maintain even the veneer of normality. So I suspect a lot of it is in his own head. But a deeply disturbed guy nonetheless :)
I am soooo happy I came across your channel 😊 your reactions to some of my favorite movie scenes and lines form this movie was wildly entertaining. Your commentary and the looks you make absolutely made my night 😂
i'm so glad you like jean! she's a LOT more fleshed out in the book and plays a bigger role as patrick's "love interest". in the entire book, we see patrick fantasizing about crazy fucked up shit -- but with jean, he imagines nice things, like walking through central park or buying balloons. it's an interesting view into both of their characters. he has a sort of fascination with her by the end of the book, going as far as to getting her a bunch of frivolous stuff on valentine's day (while also sending eveline, his fiance a box of flies). they have a really interesting (and kind of humorous) dynamic in the book that i wish was explored more in the movie
22:51 - Hey Kat, you would LOVE Willem DaFoe in the movie #title, "Shadow of the Vampire", which also stars John Malkovich, Cary Elwes, and Udo Kier. You'll really see that sinister DaFoe smile in that film, like you've never seen it before.
Just discovered you're channel, and you are ADORABLE girl. I would LOVE to watch you watch the French film Raw. It's one of my all time favorites, and IMHO, it's more of a character study than a horror film. Also, the eighties practical effect throwback masterpiece The Void!
Narcissism is sometimes called a disorder of self-love -- the person falls in love with the person in the mirror. In truth, they are incredibly insecure. The name "Bateman" is a joke on the word "bate," as a type of sexual self abuse.The smallest slight, someone not appreciating Patrick's business card, was a narcissistic wound that punctured his fragile ego and triggered his descent into psychosis.
Willem Dafoe was also in a thing called 'The Lighthouse', might be a fit for your channel. Also might give you the weirdest dreams you've had since childhood. That kind of thing.
Fun fact: they filmed all of Willem Dafoe’s scenes three times. One where Kimball knew Patrick was the killer, one where he only suspected he was the killer, and one where he had no suspicion. They spliced the three takes together to leave both Patrick and the audience unsure of whether Kimball was really on to him or not.
Finally! I got busy this week and am just now getting a chance to watch this. This movie gets wild so I'm psyched to see your reaction, Kat. Let's ggooooo!
There's a lot of interpretations about what was real in this movie, the consensus seems to be: some of it. The ideas behind it were that all these Wall Street guys in the 80's were interchangeable with each other, all the same suits, haircuts, body care routines, even the business cards. That's why they were always mistaking Bateman for someone else, why Paul Allen, whilst dead, could have lunch with Bateman's lawyer twice in London. None of them really know each other. You were right, all the cards were the same but these guys are so obsessed about status and brinkmanship that they were seeing each new card as better than theirs when they were presented. As Bateman's psychotic break escalated toward the end of the film, you become less sure that what we see actually happened, ultimately having Patrick even doubting that he is Bateman when talking to his lawyer. The real estate agent at the end was willing to cover up all the bodies found in the apartment because it's prime real estate, being unable to lose the chance to rent it out/sell again. Bateman is Bateman, he's mentioned in a couple of other of Brett Easton Ellis' books, he's a cousin or something of the main character in Less Than Zero and interacts with the protagonist in Glamorama "with a strange stain on the lapel of his Armani suit" lol I love that you've started watching actual great movies like this and Se7en.
Also, "Mergers & Aquisitions" is spelled wrong on everyone's business cards. Because no one does any actual work, and therefore knows how to spell it! ROFLMAO
He was Patrick Bateman, but one of the themes is that all of those wall street guys are the same. They were constantly calling each other by different names, save Lewis, who was a standout due to his looks and probably sexuality.
>''There's an idea of Patrick Bateman'' , ''I simply don't exist'' >Police car explosion biggest hint that he's only imagining his Patrick Bateman life >Sketches out his imaginary murders >Takes his psychiatric medication (at phone booth) >Immediately comes back to reality with his own lawyer calling him Davis
Willem Dafoe is such a amazing performance in this movie. He keeps changing his facial expressions from casual to suspicious to show Batemans paranoia and insanity. This movie is essentially all style and themes with no answers and is one of the few movies I love that don’t answer much.
How nice to see you react to one of my favorite movies! Patrick existed alright; his lawyer mistook him for someone named Davis just like Paul mistook him for Marcus. It’s a running theme/joke. Everyone in this universe is so self-absorbed that they constantly mix up people and pay no attention to Patrick’s sudden insane declarations (“I like to dissect girls”). The whole thing is a parody of the 80s yuppie era. So the lawyer can’t really be trusted when he says he had dinner with Paul in London since he doesn’t know he’s talking to Patrick. There’s theories that Patrick never really killed anybody; that it was all in his head. I admit there’s plenty to give this theory credence, but personally I believe it all happened, mostly because it was such a parody. Patrick is said to be an unreliable narrator but it’s like the whole movie is made up of unreliable narrators lol.
Kat's perplexed face is cute & adorable! People watching this film for the first time can walk away with their brain swelling with questions & confusion. You do learn how to respect & understand it's meaning over time if you don't get it the first time round, I didn't get it the first time round either! At first, I wasn't a fan of Christian Bale, but it's true that opinions can flip, I think he's a class actor
"Asked how he feels about his music’s role in American Psycho during a Guardian webchat, Collins replied: “Flattered! I’m easily flattered. I went to see the musical. First of all I was very surprised they made one. It was ok… If I was honest, if my music is being held as representative of an era, then that’s more than I thought would happen to me when I was 13 or 14.”
Oh also, I have a theory about the chainsaw noises... He had just rented Texas Chainsaw Massacre and was playing it very loudly quite recently, so in my mind it's possible he knew he could get away with using it just because he had already desensitized his neighbors to the noises prior, aside from the fact that everyone is self-obsessed in this movie and let's be honest, how many people react to car alarms or sirens or even people yelling if it's the middle of the night in a city?
You're right in the society that is portrayed in this movie, everyone is so heavily self-absorbed that they don't care at all if someone gets murdered next door. It's not realistic but it is a satire meant to overdramatize to drive this point home
You should react to all types of movies! I'm not too into horror movies but I love your reactions and I bet your channel blows up if you expanded to more genres.
It's not a horror, but my favorite Reese Witherspoon movie is Freeway (it's a black comedy based on Little Red Riding Hood). She plays a foul mouthed juvenile delinquent, completely different than any of her other roles, but is still the hero of the story.
Christian Bale said his inspiration for playing this character came from watching Tom Cruise's behavior on Letterman; citing that he seemed overly friendly but with nothing behind his eyes
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If you read the book American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (which is WAAAAY more disturbing and graphic than the movie if you can actually believe that) it's clear that he did commit a LOT of murders. Though in the movie he was obviously losing his "mask of sanity" as you could tell that you couldn't trust everything that was happening when you see an ATM tell you to feed it a stray cat. Anyway, in the Book, there's more detail about how everyone gets mistaken for everyone else because they all dress the same, have very similar haircuts, do the exact same thing, etc... It was his social commentary on Wall Street in the 80s, basically showing that someone could indeed commit all these heinous acts and nobody cares, everybody is so unidentifiable, etc... I also watched the DVD commentary, and as far as that lady in the apartment goes, it's clear that she knows there were a lot of bodies and blood here and that would only reduce the listing price so she wants him to get the hell out if he knows anything about this because she's trying to get the most money she can out of renting the place.
If you look at him dragging the body, there's a blood trail. But when he's outside the building and you look back at the lobby, there's no blood trail. Giving you enough doubt from the beginning, that this may all be in his head. And you can't trust what is real. Because you are witnessing events from Patrick's perspective and he is truly insane.
Yes, he did those things. This whole story is about the greed, excess, and narcissism of the 80's. People are so focused on themselves and image that they all look alike and these characters don't care enough about each other to even tell each other apart. The realtor hushes the cleanup so she can sell the ridiculously overpriced apartment. This one is great to watch a few times. Once you realize the themes, it all makes so much sense. Fantastic writing. The book is tough to read. He literally describes every article of clothing everyone is wearing every time he enters a room, but it's somehow perfect.
Yeah, I had to put the book away multiple times, because I just couldn't handle the numerous pages just listing the brands of everything in the room. It's even worse when you don't recognize any of those brands either. It felt like I was going through an IKEA folder. Which probably says something about me.
I'll watch this later. Right now, I have to return some videotapes.
LOL!!!! GOOD ONE!!!!!
🤣 This wins the comments
@@KatWatchesHorror As a kid I watched - _Evil Dead_ _American Werewolf In London_ and _The Thing_ - back to back. Nightmares for a month!
That's freaking lying in the movie I have to return some video tapes
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Patrick:''New card, what do you think?''
Kat: ''Boring''
Patrick: 🪓
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! If they didn’t want to be boring they should have gone with fluffy text instead of embossed??
@@KatWatchesHorror The guys cards were printed, Louis’s card was embossed.
That got a spit take out of me lol. Well said and timed. This is a film I enjoy watching and quoting with other fans. I think it is more relatable than most people want to admit. I want to read the book and add it to my collection. For an even better laugh watch the fan edit someone did where they out Pokémon cards in the scene. Well done.
@@KatWatchesHorrorComic Sans ?
Every card mis-spelled "Acquisitions," must be a message there, no?
You see... almost no one gets this movie. Patrick wasn’t the bad guy. The real evil in this story was Dorsia.
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It was clearly that fucker, Paul Allen, who was responsible.
God forbid they should take a late 9 or 9:30 res!!
The real evil in this movie is reaganism.
@rexmundi2986 Capitalism as an economic system rather, not its individual manifestations.
Fun Fact: For Willem Dafoe's scenes, the director shot each scene three different ways: One where he knows Patrick didn't do it, one where he does think Patrick did it, and one where he knows Patrick did it. The director then blended a mixture of those scenes into the movie (hence the shifting moods and inflections in those scenes.)
Is Paul Allen murdered by Patrick Bateman or not?
I love this fact.
This is a SUPER COOL AND FUN FACT!!! Thank you for sharing this misterbabadook!! AH. This is why I love the comments!!!! KAT:D PS amazing you could get signal in my basement!
@@KatWatchesHorror *Floor covered in paper, furniture draped in canvas, Bateman robed in plastic. Kat: "Genuinely, what's your plan?"* LOL
@@hulkhatepunybannerFurious cooking, maybe?
What I like about this movie is that it's not just a standard serial killer movie. It's a social satire about 1980s greed and materialism. Patrick's behaviour, at least in public, is really not that much different from those of the other people he hangs out with. The blonde woman he runs into at the club who mixes up "murders and executions" with "mergers and acquisitions" demonstrates that everyone's so into themselves that they're not really listening to what he's saying.
Also, it indicates that maybe, as the film is all shown from Patrick's perspective, maybe he's not a completely reliable historian, and we get that feel more as the movie goes along. Any one of his friends could be just as psychotic as he is, but we don't really know what's real and what isn't, because it's all being told from the perspective of a guy who either kills people in brutal ways or at least fantasizes about it.
There are indications from certain events in the movie that they could all be in his head and those situations tend to escalate. People's reactions to Bateman tend to get more and more questionable and unrealistic as the movie goes along. At the very least, all of Patrick's colleagues are serious narcissists. I love the ending. It actually leaves more questions than answers.
But one thing is for sure: Patrick Bateman is not well. I believe in the book, Paul Allen turns up at the end, leaving things even more vague as to whether or not he actually murdered him. I think the author intended for the character to actually be a serial killer rather than just a guy who fantasizes about it, but that vagueness works to enhance the social satire about Wall Street. They're all psychopaths.
Well said. Some of his fantasies in the book are, well...I'll never look at nailguns and mace the same EVER again....
The more absurd elements always stand out to me. The chainsaw drop and Bateman looking at the gun in disbelief are so darkly funny.
We know that not everything PB sees happens, because he sees an ATM instruct him to feed a cat to it. How about the murders? Are they real or imagined? Paul Allen being seen later puts all the murders in doubt.
Bret Easton Ellis said that Patrick is "not a reliable narrator".
Unreliable narrator is a popular move in direction of movies or videogames. Sometimes it gives us sorta bizarre results.
I love that Bateman has no personality whatsoever. He doesn't love music, he just parrots reviews he's read because he thinks that's what people do. He constantly rents movies but never pays any attention to them, and every single human emotion just drops off his face once he's finished an interaction with someone.
I also love that almost every other person in the movie is complicit - his status in that particular time and place mean that he is never ever challenged, because to hold him accountable for his lifestyle would incriminate the entire system that they live in. He is just a template of success to them, completely interchangeable with the people around him, and so nobody has any interest in what he's actually saying. The only person to listen is Jean, and that's the only time you see a crack in his psychopathy.
Because of this I think the supporting characters are where the real satire lies in this, and it's perfectly executed. Bateman is just the absurdist parable which highlights the very real vapidity of that kind of ambition.
A lot of people were unhappy with the ambiguity of the ending, but it perfectly encapsulates everything before it. It literally doesn't matter to his world whether these things happened or not. He simply is not there.
Not even does her parrot reviews. It's general consensus that Genesis was better in their earlier years. He just like whats new and hip
@@L4NTZENhe's parroting reviews, in the book it even says which magazines he's getting them from
He just wants to fit in.
@@L4NTZEN his
Frkn weird. I hope I we never meet an active psychopathic murderer. 😮
The twist isn't that it's all in his head. It's that all the corporate suits around him are exactly as greedy, ruthless and psychotic as he is. He gets away with anything because he's part of a system built to enable people like him. He's "the generic" American Psycho. In the world he lives in, he's a cliche, not an individual freak.
hahaha 'Big ego for a guy who doesn't even have a corner office' most brutal takedown you could've delivered to Bateman's face
Shhhhh, be quiet.
A Yuppie with a big ego. What a shock.
The most underrated scene is Patrick washing his leather gloves in the sink after Luis hits on him.
Being gay is a shield from him.
The most overrated word is “underrated!” Find a new word that you can obsess over and wear that one out instead
@@nsasupporter7557 we better stop communicating then as most words in the dictionary would be faded to oblivion now.
Maybe we need to form a new language, English has been around too long now
@@Mad_Nceku no, people just need to learn the actual definition of “underrated” and stop throwing it around so much! I don’t know when underrated became everybody’s favorite word, but it’s annoying as hell
It wasn't in his head. The author (Bret Easton Ellis) is saying that the Yuppie culture was itself just a facade of humanity. The real estate lady, for instance, needed to make a sale. So she cleaned up all the bodies. And everyone looked the same, so no one had an identity. It's a brilliant book, but a lot more graphic than this.
I left a similar comment but you put it much more succinctly. 😅
Some of it was clearly. The ATM did NOT ask for him to feed it a cat
@@harryballsak1123 I think this is proof you've never used an ATM ;)
The director Mary Heron said some of it happen but some of it didn't happen. Like a great cliff hanger we only find out Bateman lost touch with reality when he realized it, which is far too late to know exactly when he really did lose touch. So begs question what is real and what is not. Does it really matter is the point I got from it in this messed up world that is as broken as Patrick.
To say that the book is a lot more graphic than this is a MASSIVE understatement, it's like saying that the sun is a lot hotter than a hot pocket lol.
I have a friend name Paul. Every year I send him a birthday meme with Christian Bale swinging the axe that says: "Hey, Paul! Happy Birthday!"
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What explanation is there to Paul Allen being seen after being murdered by Patrick Bateman?
🪓 _"Try blowing out the candles and eating cake now, you stupid bastard!"_ 🪓
@@DavidZ4-gg3dm Patrick os psychotic, but also has delusions of grandeur. Some of his crimes may have happened, or all, or none. He is a mentally disturbed, unreliable narrator. Like when he says terrible things and no one responds to them, is he actually saying them or just imaging he is?
@@DavidZ4-gg3dmWell, Patrick's lawyer didn't even recognize him, so perhaps he mistook someone else for Paul Allen in London. Part of the theme of the movie is all these yuppie Wall Street types resemble each other & it's hard to tell them apart.
I always thought it was funny that Huey Lewis wouldn't let the Ghostbusters people use his music, but he was alright with the American Psycho people using it for the ax murder scene.
Hahha that’s great.
Same with the metalcore band Ice Nine Kills. They made a song based on this book/movie called “Hip To Be Scared”, and in the bridge before the breakdown, they sample “Hip to be square” and had to get permission from HL
Huey Lewis did a parody of that scene with Weird Al. Its floating around TH-cam someplace.
Probably because this movie gave Huey credit. For the other movie, record company creeps just stole the melody and chord progressions of "I Wanna New Drug" and tried to sell it as a new song ("Ghostbusters").
Huey appreciated the book author was a serious fan.
American Psycho is more of a Black Comedy that a straight up horror film
I agree its Hilarious 😂
Its a psychological horror film. Its not a scary horror film. Scary and horror are different. Scary is a feeling, horror is a genre. American psycho is a psychological horror satire. But its themes and tone and elements are horror.
More like a psychological horror satire.
its unironically one of the funniest movies I've ever seen
The book has some humorous bits as well, such as the time he tricks his fiance into eating a urinal cake after he and his friends take turns pissing all over it, coating it with chocolate and telling her it's Godiva -- she just can't pass it up. "I'll finish it... it's just so... minty!"
The interaction with the Realtor is my favorite scene. She gives an excellent understated, tense performance. And Bale gives a great performance playing off of her.
And it's just so interesting in the greater context of the film.
Yes, tremendously creepy. And the score in that scene adds to it.
Kat, I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful videos. Unfortunately I have to spend a lot of hours sitting in a dialysis chair, which is about as pleasant as it sounds. But your videos have become a godsend. Your humor, energy, and spirit really brighten up the day. Thank you so much for what you do. Now get back to work, you crazy banana...
prayer is nice also
HI TROY!! I can’t tell you how much it means to me to hear that these videos can brighten up your day. Especially while you’re doing the very not fun activity of sitting in a dialysis chair. Thank YOU so much for your message, AND for watching with me!!!! I appreciate you!!! KAT:D
@@scottgust9709 Wow, that's a great start to a great debate
That’s where I am
I watch hers and others reaction videos while in my dialysis charge to pass the time by.
Bateman did it all. Upon multiple viewings, you'll notice the men basically look the same, which is why people were constantly misidentifying one another and ultimately gives Bateman an alibi for his whereabouts. At the end when Bateman greets his lawyer, he calls Bateman "Davis." So, when the lawyer says he had dinner with Paul in London, it was probably someone else.
I agree with this point, but what about the security guard in Bateman's apartment building? He or anyone for that matter is not going to notice that trail of blood on the floor? And then when he shoots the police car and it blows up. He looks at his gun like "did that really happen?" The ATM asking him to feed it a cat is obviously an illusion brought on by his psychosis. It just seems some things are clearly in his head and others are not.
Unfortunately, you are basically correct. Bateman did it all or nearly all of it. However, I think the story is better if he didn't actually do anything.
I agree, it’s more entertaining to play did he or didn’t he? Or he just fantasized about killing and in reality did nothing. But that realtor scene is the creepiest in the movie for me. @@FuckTH-camAndGoogle
Batman did it all
Cmon....noone noticed when he said he has a lunch meeting it was with Cliff Huxtable?? Bill Cosbys character in The Cosby Show...
Yeah...that line aged weirdly appropriately
@@freemansteinslabWent from shocking and circled back to believable.
Went from funny haha to funny strange.
exactly
I was just going to say that!
God, I always love the utter confusion most people have at the end. It’s always just so great.
Glad you enjoyed, Kat! Stay awesome!
Believe it or not; The book is way, WAY, crazier.
Btw, you got yourself a new subscriber.
17:20 "He just wanted to talk about Phil Collins and have a bit of sex."
Who doesn't?
Just wish they used “Invisible Touch” instead
I love that you were proud you knew Texas Chainsaw
18:45. You cracked me up with the "Boop".
Great reaction, pretty much how I felt after first seeeing it many years ago...Your energy and huge smie always brighten my day! Thank You!!
It always baffles me how incredible this movie really is, the talking past each other, nobody is really paying attention to anything at all. You have everyone whipping out business cards for the same jobs and yet nobody ever seems to be working… people eating in high class restaurants but you hardly even see what they are eating.. as someone who is autistic, this movie is just complete chaos.
Notice there was no blood trail from the garment bag once Patrick got outside. That wasn’t a continuity error.
"oh...this guuuuy can diiiie in a fiiiiire" is the most authentic and correct response to the character of Patrick Bateman I've ever seen. lolol
There's a parody skit where Huey Lewis raves the appeal of the American Psycho film to Weird Al, beat for beat like the killing of Paul Allen scene. So good.
"HEY AL...!!!," 😂
Where? Where?
@@alonenjersey it's on the Funny or Die channel :)
The realtor gives me spider vibes. She speaks and moves with such deadly grace its unnerving.
Every time I rewatch the movie, I wonder, how much is real, and how much is just in his head? Great reaction Kat.
You are such a goofball, I love it!
Your channel is the most fun one can have watching reactions❤
Kat: He loves musicals and we support it, just peeing every morning and looking at Lés Mis
Patrick: *Kills the homeless man and the dog*
Kat: I hate him! 😂
This reaction was all I had hoped it would be, Kat is always as fascinating to watch as the film.
If you want to get VERY creeped out, read the book, there are things in there they could never show on film, lol. The interesting thing to me is how accurate this film was depicting a certain tier of society in the 80's, I'm not sure how to explain it but they got the _feel_ of the era in a way few films have.
Waaay back in the beginning of Willem DaFoe's career, he had a very small part in a classic vampire film from 1983 #title "The Hunger", which stars Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie. If you've never seen that movie you absolutely must! It's one of the best vampire movies ever made; very different, and haunting.
I first saw Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun when I was a kid. I remember thinking 'this isn't a child actor...this is an actor that just happens to be a child.' He is SO talented. Great reaction btw :) you crack me up.
8:25 "Oh, this guy can die in a fire." I agree and very prophetic, Kat.
I love how they are symbolically measuring their anatomy with business cards.
I love that Bateman/Bale tells Kimball/Dafoe that he has an appointment with "Cliff Huxtable." That's the name of Bill Cosby's character on "The Cosby Show." 🤣
I know, that cracks me up every time, and out of probably a dozen or so reactions to this movie I’ve seen, I believe only one person actually caught that lol
You're like "Wow" when he kills the homeless guy, but the second he stomps the dog "This guy can die in a fire" LOL
This whole movie is basically ways in which Patrick Bateman can escape conversations to return his videotapes
I would write a longer comment, but I have some video tapes to return.
LOL!! THIS HAHAHAHA
Like Homer Simpson, just throw them in the empty lot where the Blockbuster was.
There are technically two sequels to this. American Psycho 2 as previously mentioned was just an unrelated script with the name slapped on. But the author of the book wrote another about Patrick Bateman's younger brother in college, called The Rules of Attraction. In 2002 there was a film adaptation from one of the writers of Pulp Fiction, starring lots of former family-friendly child actors looking to prove they were ready for 'adult' roles. It's not as well known because people would skip over it thanks to the super generic title, as well as one of the most misleading trailers ever made. They tried to sell this as a generic teen sex comedy, when it is more of a deconstruction of that genre instead. It is fucked up and unsexy as possible by design, as seen through the same lens of American Psycho being a 'corporate drama.' Highly underrated, not a lot of people talk about it.
Your look at the end says it all Kat. It's a frustratingly brilliant insight into how a downard spiral into insanity might feel.
The business card scene is one of my favorites. One of the best send ups of the 80s is my book ( I 'm old, so I remember it ) Bret Easton Ellis is a great writer, Less than Zero is also another book that they made into a film, but its not a horror film.
With young Robert Downey Jr.
Less than zero was so depressing. Spader and Downey were fantastic!
14:25 "I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable" - AKA, Bill Cosby's character on the Cosby Show
There a few layers to this satire but most salient today is the skewering our sociopathic and predatory financial apparatus that, in the words of our protagonist, eludes punishment despite admitting everything.
Ironically, Bale would later go on to star in The Big Short.
Kat. You are super charming.
When Bateman was standing in front of the mirror and you simply said, "bum!" I almost died laughing. Best reviewer ever.
Aside from being such a fun movie, it's also one of the best social satires ever made. The book is even more out there and nuts, and there are things in the book so grotesque he can't possibly have done them and be able to maintain even the veneer of normality. So I suspect a lot of it is in his own head. But a deeply disturbed guy nonetheless :)
I am soooo happy I came across your channel 😊 your reactions to some of my favorite movie scenes and lines form this movie was wildly entertaining.
Your commentary and the looks you make absolutely made my night 😂
"Bum!!! ......nice." 🤣🤣🤣
I think Kat would have been great in a movie like this. Dispatching people while throwing in one liners. I would watch it!
There is a sketch with Huey Lewis and Weird Al where they spoof the Paul killing scene.
Thanks for that. Cool
It is so funny!
Holy shit, I am looking this up now lol
Kat has some of the best commentary of any reviewer. Love her videos.
My wife and I just found your channel and omg you are awesome Kat. ❤❤❤❤
this is the first time I've seen you and the Yidish-east-coast is already making me smile... gawd I love that.
If everyone had a friend like you the world would be a better place.
That card scene is absolute genius. Never gets old 😅
I'd like to see an updated version of the scene. These days w/ HD color printers, imagine the variety of business cards.
I adore this movie! Some of the best satire ever
-Maybe we could do lunch one day next week...
- Next Saturday?
- Sure.
- Can't, I'm afraid. I have a matinee of Les Mis...
5:30 is one of the best underrated moments of the movie. "😀 I'll call you 😠"
i'm so glad you like jean! she's a LOT more fleshed out in the book and plays a bigger role as patrick's "love interest". in the entire book, we see patrick fantasizing about crazy fucked up shit -- but with jean, he imagines nice things, like walking through central park or buying balloons. it's an interesting view into both of their characters. he has a sort of fascination with her by the end of the book, going as far as to getting her a bunch of frivolous stuff on valentine's day (while also sending eveline, his fiance a box of flies). they have a really interesting (and kind of humorous) dynamic in the book that i wish was explored more in the movie
Christian Bale is fantastic in Empire of the Sun.
He was 13 years old.
Great reaction as always.
Hey Kat, it's almost April, and you absolutely have to watch April Fool's Day. You'll love it
Lmao your bewilderment was 10/10
11:30 the blood disappears once he leaves the building, a nice touch.
22:51 - Hey Kat, you would LOVE Willem DaFoe in the movie #title, "Shadow of the Vampire", which also stars John Malkovich, Cary Elwes, and Udo Kier. You'll really see that sinister DaFoe smile in that film, like you've never seen it before.
Just discovered you're channel, and you are ADORABLE girl. I would LOVE to watch you watch the French film Raw. It's one of my all time favorites, and IMHO, it's more of a character study than a horror film. Also, the eighties practical effect throwback masterpiece The Void!
Narcissism is sometimes called a disorder of self-love -- the person falls in love with the person in the mirror. In truth, they are incredibly insecure. The name "Bateman" is a joke on the word "bate," as a type of sexual self abuse.The smallest slight, someone not appreciating Patrick's business card, was a narcissistic wound that punctured his fragile ego and triggered his descent into psychosis.
Your smile and facial expressions are adorable, you remind me of a High Elf. Thanks for your time of great entertainment
Willem Dafoe was also in a thing called 'The Lighthouse', might be a fit for your channel. Also might give you the weirdest dreams you've had since childhood. That kind of thing.
I love how in his introduction, he tells us where he lives before he says his name. Priorities!
Fun fact: they filmed all of Willem Dafoe’s scenes three times. One where Kimball knew Patrick was the killer, one where he only suspected he was the killer, and one where he had no suspicion. They spliced the three takes together to leave both Patrick and the audience unsure of whether Kimball was really on to him or not.
Finally! I got busy this week and am just now getting a chance to watch this. This movie gets wild so I'm psyched to see your reaction, Kat. Let's ggooooo!
There's a lot of interpretations about what was real in this movie, the consensus seems to be: some of it. The ideas behind it were that all these Wall Street guys in the 80's were interchangeable with each other, all the same suits, haircuts, body care routines, even the business cards. That's why they were always mistaking Bateman for someone else, why Paul Allen, whilst dead, could have lunch with Bateman's lawyer twice in London. None of them really know each other.
You were right, all the cards were the same but these guys are so obsessed about status and brinkmanship that they were seeing each new card as better than theirs when they were presented. As Bateman's psychotic break escalated toward the end of the film, you become less sure that what we see actually happened, ultimately having Patrick even doubting that he is Bateman when talking to his lawyer.
The real estate agent at the end was willing to cover up all the bodies found in the apartment because it's prime real estate, being unable to lose the chance to rent it out/sell again.
Bateman is Bateman, he's mentioned in a couple of other of Brett Easton Ellis' books, he's a cousin or something of the main character in Less Than Zero and interacts with the protagonist in Glamorama "with a strange stain on the lapel of his Armani suit" lol
I love that you've started watching actual great movies like this and Se7en.
Also, "Mergers & Aquisitions" is spelled wrong on everyone's business cards. Because no one does any actual work, and therefore knows how to spell it! ROFLMAO
THIS. ( I didnt want to write it.)
“Actual great movies” - a lot of the movies she has watched have been great
@tomesofawesome8041 that is a really cool little factoid, and also hilarious 😂
@@BlackavarWD Too bad they didn't include the Cheerio being interviewed on The Patty Winters Show.
He was Patrick Bateman, but one of the themes is that all of those wall street guys are the same. They were constantly calling each other by different names, save Lewis, who was a standout due to his looks and probably sexuality.
>''There's an idea of Patrick Bateman'' , ''I simply don't exist''
>Police car explosion biggest hint that he's only imagining his Patrick Bateman life
>Sketches out his imaginary murders
>Takes his psychiatric medication (at phone booth)
>Immediately comes back to reality with his own lawyer calling him Davis
Willem Dafoe is such a amazing performance in this movie. He keeps changing his facial expressions from casual to suspicious to show Batemans paranoia and insanity. This movie is essentially all style and themes with no answers and is one of the few movies I love that don’t answer much.
How nice to see you react to one of my favorite movies! Patrick existed alright; his lawyer mistook him for someone named Davis just like Paul mistook him for Marcus. It’s a running theme/joke. Everyone in this universe is so self-absorbed that they constantly mix up people and pay no attention to Patrick’s sudden insane declarations (“I like to dissect girls”). The whole thing is a parody of the 80s yuppie era. So the lawyer can’t really be trusted when he says he had dinner with Paul in London since he doesn’t know he’s talking to Patrick. There’s theories that Patrick never really killed anybody; that it was all in his head. I admit there’s plenty to give this theory credence, but personally I believe it all happened, mostly because it was such a parody. Patrick is said to be an unreliable narrator but it’s like the whole movie is made up of unreliable narrators lol.
Hi kat hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
If you haven't seen Reese Witherspoon in 'Freeway', it's a must. It's my favorite movie of hers. I guess it's a crime/thriller/dark comedy.
Kat's perplexed face is cute & adorable!
People watching this film for the first time can walk away with their brain swelling with questions & confusion. You do learn how to respect & understand it's meaning over time if you don't get it the first time round, I didn't get it the first time round either! At first, I wasn't a fan of Christian Bale, but it's true that opinions can flip, I think he's a class actor
"Asked how he feels about his music’s role in American Psycho during a Guardian webchat, Collins replied: “Flattered! I’m easily flattered. I went to see the musical. First of all I was very surprised they made one. It was ok… If I was honest, if my music is being held as representative of an era, then that’s more than I thought would happen to me when I was 13 or 14.”
Kat, love your channel
12:32 your disappointment in Bateman being “such a weirdo” 😂😂
‘’He is Batman Jacked’’haha about that
I STRONGLY suggest The Menu for your next dark comedy / satire / horror watch. It too, is a masterpiece.
Oh also, I have a theory about the chainsaw noises... He had just rented Texas Chainsaw Massacre and was playing it very loudly quite recently, so in my mind it's possible he knew he could get away with using it just because he had already desensitized his neighbors to the noises prior, aside from the fact that everyone is self-obsessed in this movie and let's be honest, how many people react to car alarms or sirens or even people yelling if it's the middle of the night in a city?
You're right in the society that is portrayed in this movie, everyone is so heavily self-absorbed that they don't care at all if someone gets murdered next door. It's not realistic but it is a satire meant to overdramatize to drive this point home
You should react to all types of movies! I'm not too into horror movies but I love your reactions and I bet your channel blows up if you expanded to more genres.
It's not a horror, but my favorite Reese Witherspoon movie is Freeway (it's a black comedy based on Little Red Riding Hood). She plays a foul mouthed juvenile delinquent, completely different than any of her other roles, but is still the hero of the story.
I love that you're taking this whole movie literally.
Christian Bale said his inspiration for playing this character came from watching Tom Cruise's behavior on Letterman; citing that he seemed overly friendly but with nothing behind his eyes
It was the interview on Letterman, but otherwise exactly.
Coincidentally, in the book, he meets Tom Cruise in an elevator and has a really awkward conversation with him.
@@TrackZero yep. It WAS Letterman. Thanks
We can thank Scientology for Bale's excellent performance then.
@@ursvamp85 Dammit I would have wanted to have seen that!
Cliff Huxtable line went right over her head...you know, Bill Cosby's character in The Cosby Show.
New subscriber here. I subbed today only after realizing that I didn't sub months ago like I meant to. I love your reactions. Keep up the great work, sorry for the late sub.
Another great lunchtime reaction with a pretty Kat,with pretty screams, and deadly air punches.😂 Love ya Kat.
Your channel is fun! I have a couple of recommendations for movies. Angel Heart and The Howling
I love your expressions and reactions.
If you read the book American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (which is WAAAAY more disturbing and graphic than the movie if you can actually believe that) it's clear that he did commit a LOT of murders. Though in the movie he was obviously losing his "mask of sanity" as you could tell that you couldn't trust everything that was happening when you see an ATM tell you to feed it a stray cat.
Anyway, in the Book, there's more detail about how everyone gets mistaken for everyone else because they all dress the same, have very similar haircuts, do the exact same thing, etc... It was his social commentary on Wall Street in the 80s, basically showing that someone could indeed commit all these heinous acts and nobody cares, everybody is so unidentifiable, etc...
I also watched the DVD commentary, and as far as that lady in the apartment goes, it's clear that she knows there were a lot of bodies and blood here and that would only reduce the listing price so she wants him to get the hell out if he knows anything about this because she's trying to get the most money she can out of renting the place.
If you look at him dragging the body, there's a blood trail. But when he's outside the building and you look back at the lobby, there's no blood trail. Giving you enough doubt from the beginning, that this may all be in his head. And you can't trust what is real. Because you are witnessing events from Patrick's perspective and he is truly insane.
Yes, he did those things. This whole story is about the greed, excess, and narcissism of the 80's. People are so focused on themselves and image that they all look alike and these characters don't care enough about each other to even tell each other apart. The realtor hushes the cleanup so she can sell the ridiculously overpriced apartment. This one is great to watch a few times. Once you realize the themes, it all makes so much sense. Fantastic writing. The book is tough to read. He literally describes every article of clothing everyone is wearing every time he enters a room, but it's somehow perfect.
Yeah, I had to put the book away multiple times, because I just couldn't handle the numerous pages just listing the brands of everything in the room. It's even worse when you don't recognize any of those brands either.
It felt like I was going through an IKEA folder. Which probably says something about me.
"Man he's batman jacked!" Boy do I have a story for you! haha
OMG this is going to be FUN!!