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"I can’t explain what attracts me so much to the highly unlikable characters of Bret Easton Ellis’ fiction — or, in my case, since I’ve never actually read his books, of movies based on Bret Easton Ellis’ fiction — but I absolutely love Less Than Zero, American Psycho, and especially The Rules of Attraction. However, I have to give more credit to the filmmakers behind each of these films, because all three adaptations have their own appreciable style that helps me to enjoy the stories of these horrible people. The Informers may look like it fits in with the rest of the filmed versions of Ellis, but I’m skeptical. I was quite bored with director Gregor Jordan’s war satire "
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"…or, at least, The Most Essential 9:52 in All of Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Ellis. Except for most of American Psycho. Well…maybe the Most Essential 9:52 in All of 80s Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Eliis? Can we agree on that? In short: Less Than Zero has been uploaded to YouTube in several chunks. Embedding has been disabled by the request of user 80sTeenMovies, but you can watch the first nine minutes and fifty two seconds––from the tacked-on graduation prologue, through Andrew “Clay” McCarthy’s EuroCine flashbacks to the dissolution of his relationships with Jamie “Blair” Gertz and Robert “Julian” Downey Jr, and up through the end of the triumphant “You can’t home home again…to a Ferrari showroom
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"…or, at least, The Most Essential 9:52 in All of Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Ellis. Except for most of American Psycho. Well…maybe the Most Essential 9:52 in All of 80s Cinema Based on a Text By Bret Easton Eliis? Can we agree on that? In short: Less Than Zero has been uploaded to YouTube in several chunks. Embedding has been disabled by the request of user 80sTeenMovies, but you can watch the first nine minutes and fifty two seconds––from the tacked-on graduation prologue, through Andrew “Clay” McCarthy’s EuroCine flashbacks to the dissolution of his relationships with Jamie “Blair” Gertz and Robert “Julian” Downey Jr, and up through the end of the triumphant “You can’t home home again…to a Ferrari showroom
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"Like all true satires, American Psycho isn't afraid of being misunderstood. It is a deeply black comedic looks at the shallow lives that first became truly available in the 1980s. It was a time when the growing backlash against sexual liberation was teaming up with corporate prosperity. This movie captures all those ideas in a twisted allegory. Patrick Bateman is the perfect embodiment of style over substance. He does hundreds of crunches to have the perfect body. He shows that perfect body off in the best tailored suits. He makes sure that the body and suits are seen by the right people by eating in the most exclusive restaurants. He affords all of these luxuries by holding down a Wall Street job in Murders and Executions. Or is it Mergers and Acquisitions? But what does all of that mean to him? Nothing. Why should it mean anything to him when his friends and coworkers are interchangeable? At one point in the movie he passes himself off as one of his victims, not because they look ... "
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"With an almost completely dead, holiday hungover RSS, I spent the morning leisurely slogging through this LA Times profile of 80s it-boy novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Much of the story’s 3,000 words are devoted to defenses of Ellis’ literary reputation, most notably for our purposes from New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, who praises Ellis as “a much more radical writer than he seems.” The rest of it details the oft-adapted novelist’s own attempts to break into screenwriting. Ellis’ published work has so far formed the basis of three released films: the gloriously trashy Less Than Zero, in which Robert Downey Jr. essentially plays a future version of himself; Mary Harron’s American Psycho, which broke with Ellis’ trademark moral passivity in order to turn the material into obvious satire; and Roger Avery’s Rules of Attraction, which seemed to be kind of more about Roger Avery learning how to use Final Cut Pro than anything else. Somewhere along the way, Ellis app "
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"With an almost completely dead, holiday hungover RSS, I spent the morning leisurely slogging through this LA Times profile of 80s it-boy novelist Bret Easton Ellis. Much of the story’s 3,000 words are devoted to defenses of Ellis’ literary reputation, most notably for our purposes from New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, who praises Ellis as “a much more radical writer than he seems.” The rest of it details the oft-adapted novelist’s own attempts to break into screenwriting. Ellis’ published work has so far formed the basis of three released films: the gloriously trashy Less Than Zero, in which Robert Downey Jr. essentially plays a future version of himself; Mary Harron’s American Psycho, which broke with Ellis’ trademark moral passivity in order to turn the material into obvious satire; and Roger Avery’s Rules of Attraction, which seemed to be kind of more about Roger Avery learning how to use Final Cut Pro than anything else. Somewhere along the way, Ellis app "
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"I'll admit that I'm a real sucker for interview shows. I've been a fan of "Inside the Actor's Studio" for years, so I was really looking forward to Professor Richard Brown's series of interviews with (mostly) well-respected actors, and for the most part, this disc delivered. I got "Leading Men," which contained interviews with George Clooney, Josh Lucas (huh?), Daniel Day-Lewis and Dennis Quaid.Clooney's interview provided a lot of interesting information about his background. I thought his description of his childhood and his idealistic journalist father really explained a lot about the kind of public figure the actor is today, and why he's taken on so many of the recent projects he has, like Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck. While he still seemed pretty self-important, Clooney's view that his stardom has everything to do with luck and ability, and less to do with arrogance was a great point of view to hear. It seems as thou ... "
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"A true character study, and a hilarious dark comedy, American Psycho is misunderstood. I bought this movie on VHS, sight unseen, when I was twelve years old. It took me over a year to find out that it was not made in the 1980's. The acting, lighting, music, and cinematography are spot-on 80's. Since then, I have fallen completely head over heels for this movie. The opening restaurant scene contains more than one of the greatest all-time movie lines, and the over-the-top music during the fantastic looking murders got me to listen to Phil Collins (who has become one of my favorite musicians). All of this is just a background for the perfect Christian Bale. An obsessive, yuppie, robotic serial killer is completely believable when Bale stares for minutes at a time or makes dinner reservations while watching porn. He is funny and scary and absolutely becomes Patrick Bateman. I've never seen anything like it. This was the beginning of Bale, who has, of course, become a hou ... "
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"It's quite obvious that Bret Easton-Ellis (author of the book that this film is based on) hated the 80's, and, having grown up in the 80's myself, it's easy to see why - it was an era of the yuppie: rich, egotistical and materialistic. This is a black comedy for those who are confused, and one of the darkest comedies I have every seen. Christian Bale's performance is Oscar-worthy, and I don't know why he wasn't even considered. His character of Patrick Bateman is a complex one, simultaneously mockingly self-centered and maniacally homicidal. The range of emotions on his face in any given scene is transfixing, and one can see why he is touted as the next "De Niro" or "Brando". A fine, fine film, but keep in mind...it's supposed to be funny (at times). Watch it! "
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"I just watched "American Psycho" for the third time last night and really felt that I was laughing a little too much. Maybe it was just late in the evening and I was a bit punchy, but this movie cracked me up. Bale's character was so evil and nasty, and just outright loopy. It made for an interesting depiction of 80's ugliness. I seem to like this film more each time I see it. "
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