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Saw Pulp Fiction and American Psycho after meaning to see them for like 15 years. Didn't really care for pulp fiction, should probably watch it again. Didn't really care for American Psycho at first either untill the next day and now I think it's one of the best movies I've seen. Also got me on a skin care program which is nice. Also made me understand that wknd sketch
I had a similar experience
@GardenSkater77 I read the Brett Easton Ellis book as a late teen. It's OG serial killer chic and so dark and vile, but I think the critique/satire of the 80s Reaganites was always mixed in there- so it's so cool that Mary Harron decided to focus on that instead of the physical gore.
But when I first saw the film I was so disappointed. I had read that David Cronenberg was going to do the film with Brad Pitt and the movie was going to somehow have no murders - which sounded incredible. So my expectations were all over the place.
The actual American Psycho film looked/sounded kind of lower budget at first, and I kept doing that thing where I saw only the parts of the book that had been left out, not the value of what was included. SPOILER ***There's this one scene in the novel where Patrick Bateman buys handfuls of crack in the street and eats it, goes into a fancy deli and does the same thing with a fancy ham, just hoovers it, and throws up all over himself, and then has a shootout with some cops. I was for some reason pissed about that scene being cut. I guess I just wanted to see someone eat a fistful of crack and then go Liz Lemon on some ham.***
A few days later I was talking about the movie with a friend who was also obsessed with the book, and they loved it. They kept describing the facemask skin peel scene and the business card scene, and then it clicked in my head how well done the film of American Psycho is.
I rewatched Heat last night. Even as a low res youtube video its still so good. The plane lights in the gun fight and the whole last act is <3