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Always baffling how Patrick Bateman became a personality character, when his whole point is that he is vapid and forgettable

The way American Psycho 2 feels like a Disney Channel Original Movie

3:35 I love the fact that Adum is so completely disconnected from heterosexuality that he referred to a married woman as a husband first, then a girlfriend, before finally remembering what a wife is.

American Psycho 2 has one of the worst scores I've heard in a film.

Willem Dafoe did 3 different styles for 3 different takes of him talking to Christian Bale. They ended up using a splice of all 3 takes to give you that true sense of not really knowing what angle Willem had on him. Perfectly casted imo.

I really like the detail that every time Patrick Bateman plays music for someone, he talks over it by parroting some magazine review. Not his real opinion, of course, but the most effective opinion.

The blood trail missing from the og film is one of many inconsistencies purposefully put in the movie because the movie is from Patrick's perspective and the idea is that his perception of events is... questionable. It is entirely possible that the entire murder spree is wholly within Patrick's head and he just makes it up just to pretend his life has more going on than being a soulless WallStreet business dude.

Another way to interpret the post-shooting spree story in American Psycho is that Patrick Bateman's complete inability to relate to any other human being has him legitimately terrified and confused as to why they're all seemingly ignoring or outright covering up his crimes.

The director filmed multiple takes of Dafoe all with a different theme. Some intimidating, some kind, some questioning and then intercut them to add to the uncomfortableness of the scenes with him.

Psychologists aren't forbidden from reporting anything, they just can't legally be compelled. You can lose your license if you share it for fun, but technically they are supposed to report it when they think someone is actively a risk to other people(or section 5150 if they are actively a danger to themselves), so they won't lose their license for reporting the crime(and it's not breaking any laws)

The way I've always understood American psycho 1 was, everyone was too caught up in their own rich extravagant lifestyles to even see the serial killer literally right in front of them [sometimes even telling them straight up that he kills people, they still don't believe it, lol] and Patrick Batemen desperately wants the satisfaction of being this big scary killer, and the fact no one pays attention pisses him off even more. actually pretty funny in a meta sense.
Him being confused for other people is because of the idea that all rich businessmen have the same clothes, hair, lifestyle so he constantly isn't even recognized as himself which also pisses him off I think.

The contrast between these two films is insanely funny.

The first one is genuinely one of the funniest movies ever made

The author of the Novel, Bret Easton Ellis, has written a bunch of stories coming from his Silicon Valley/Rich Californian perspective and a lot of them have similar themes. It often boils down to characters constantly abusing drugs (pharmaceutical and otherwise) to cover up their psychiatric disorders, a sociopathic drive for wealth and social status, and a general listlessness when it comes to finding purpose or meaning.

Theres a bunch of humor regarding Patrick constantly being mistaken for someone else in the book as well, because he and all of his yuppie friends all drive the same cars and wear the same clothes, and have similar meaningless job titles. You could honestly interpret this chain of events as being a fever dream or an actual rampage and the theme would be the same - Patrick's existential torture in the center of a faceless void of wealth and status.

I kinda like the idea that all the events of the story are literally true. They're not metaphors, it's not all in Patrick's head, he really did kill all those people. However, the world he lives in just doesn't care. It accepts wanton violence. Embraces it, even. It's a cutthroat business. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Greed is good. What if those weren't just catchphrases, but literally true? In that kind of world, what's one more murder on the pile?

It's nothing. It's not anything at all. Patrick's despair comes from him realizing that for all his monstrosity, he is utterly ineffectual. He receives no judgement, he receives no praise, people don't even know who he is. Villains often commit violence as an act of rage against the world, but in American Psycho, Patrick's rage is nothing more than a tantrum.

Genuinely, I would love to see YMS talk about more movies that he appreciates or that he considers to be better and better the more he thinks about them.

Notice how Patrick says where he lives before introducing himself.
He's more concerned with showing off his fancy home than with the audience acknowledging him as a person.

So this is how Adam reacts to a movie that is a 10/10 for him

Bale gets his rightful praise for his legendary performance, but I think Mary Harron's direction and Guinevere Turner's screenplay are sorely overlooked. There's also an extra layer of having two women direct/write this movie considering its subject. I don't think the Oliver Stone/DiCaprio combo would've been as memorable had the studio gone with that duo as intended.