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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:59 am 
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Had seen this years ago when it first came out on DVD but watched it again a few nights ago while flipping through some HB0 channels.

Forgot how hilarious this movie was; up there with "American Pyscho" as far as Brett Easton Ellis's adaptations go. Have still not read either book but I think both movies grasped what Ellis was going for (according to what I have read of AP and the bits I've read on ROA).

Incredibly dark humor but so true, and well updated from the 80's book. Funny how things don't change. This deals with excess the way american psycho did but from a college campus point of view--still about the rich though, and the main character is patrick bateman's little brother.

Favorite part is definitely Victor's montage. How that guy narrated it was just wonderful.


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is that the movie with James Van Der Beek? I'll have to check it out. Funny you should mention American Psycho, I actually watched that last night...

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yes, james van der beek is in the lead role.

there are a few recognizable people, including jessica biel (sp), and the guy who played boon in "lost". also if you've seen "driven" (i wound up watching a half an hour of it at a jiffy lube while they worked on my car and had it in the DVD player...), the lead guy in that is in it too.


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I DVR'd it last night, will watch this weekend. If it is in the same league as American Psycho I am already drooling.

Thanks for the recommendation would not have hit my radar with the movie title. Never heard of it.

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I watched it this weekend on Demand. It was okay; not nearly as good as American Psycho. Most of my problems with it were superficial, though.
A few notes:
James Van der Beek looked like he was 35 years old (which he might have been at the time). He wasn't to convincing as a college freshman.
Jessical Biel didn't get naked. I didn't think she would, but I was hoping.
Was that Eric Stoltz as the teacher that got the hummer? Tremendous.
I LOVED the scene where Sunshine from Remember the Titans talked about his trip to Europe.
I liked the Sopranos-esque ending.

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Bulldog Scott wrote:
I watched it this weekend on Demand. It was okay; not nearly as good as American Psycho. Most of my problems with it were superficial, though.
A few notes:
James Van der Beek looked like he was 35 years old (which he might have been at the time). He wasn't to convincing as a college freshman.


I see your point but I thought he was excellent.

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Jessical Biel didn't get naked. I didn't think she would, but I was hoping.


Can't have it all.

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Was that Eric Stoltz as the teacher that got the hummer? Tremendous.


Yes.

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I LOVED the scene where Sunshine from Remember the Titans talked about his trip to Europe.


My favorite sequence of the whole film.

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I liked the Sopranos-esque ending.


It's meant to be a palindrome-like ending, beginning is the end is the beginning. It's harped on more in the book. The book begins in the middle of a sentence and ends in the middle of a sentence I believe. Not meant to have an ending because the point of it is this type of lifestyle, etc. doesn't end. Something like that.

I agree it wasn't as potent as "American Psycho" but I thought the satire was there, and that some of it was goddamn hilarious.


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She still gets "nailed", use your imagination fellas, wacked off to that last week!


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I think I caught this during the same cycle of showings on HBO as you WZ. Pretty underrated I think. Funny and very sad(especially bath tub scene).

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