So far, what I have here (pictured):
Reservoir Dogs (Special Edition), Jarhead, 40 Year-Old Virgin (behind jarhead), and the Broken - NIN Ep. on CD..
I hope to get more soon enough. I am hunting for Natural Born Killers on DVD, currently
welcome 2 the movies part of my site.
Here, you can read my AWESOME MOVIE REVIEWS, and look at my collection that i've started, too. these are what would be considered.. plain good movies.
I don't have much so far. Be warned.
Wooo, my first ever movie review! Jeyeah.
Ahhh, yes, the fabled Natural Born Killers. We are all VERY familiar with it.. Lul
This has got to be definitely one of my favorite films of all time. I have seen it twice so far, and there is a lot I can say about it. Tarantino is absolutely known for his whole surrealist style, but with when it came to be, I can both make the argument it was ahead of its time, and that it is a product of its time, and surrealism doesn't cover it. I think anybody who sits through this movie & enjoys it needs to do so more than once to break down and comprehend all that there is to it. Also because it is just an amazing movie generally. Something I have noticed a lot with Tarantino's productions is an animal motif he has going on, he is very big on symbolism obviously, and upon my first watch I didn't even pick up on it myself, hence why I say two or more times, but, NBK's seem to be snakes. The snake ring, the rattlesnake scene, the native dude's storytelling, the constant shots of them that overlay M&M. It is that, and wolves that always seem to follow them, but wolves lesser so. I think that was a very smart choice. I like the constant changing of shots and presentation style, even if it can be a little hard to follow at times. I also like the choice of technicolor for a lot of the shots, I noticed that, but that's probably because I'm a film nerd el oh el. Mickey and Mallory are amazingly written characters, and their actors were also casted very well, which gives a good sum of points. I recognized a lot of actors, actually, which always makes a movie enjoyable for me. I also liked what felt like irony about the attention the pair got and how it reflects real life events more than it could ever know, COUGH COUGH, that kind of trope will always get me. What I will dock points off for is how long some scenes felt, and maybe this is just me, but, how long the very end felt. It made sense for it, but I have a short attention span..
In full, it is still a very good movie. 8.5, and it sits in my top 5 of all time, if not my top 3.
I, honest to God, find this movie to be a cinematic masterpiece. This is a movie I have watched fairly recently for the first time, so it is engrained in my mind very freshly, and it has comfortably nested itself into the folds of my developing mind irreparably. I cannot stop fucking THINKING ABOUT IT. The creative choices put in place by Fincher are so subtle, but so pleasant to pick up on, every second of it I found myself captivated and unable to focus on a single other thing, which few movies do. The runtime was the most ideal I could put into words for a movie, not a single scene felt too drawn out in a way that I was bored, rather than tense and focused, and the feeling of noticing things later on in the movie and being able to properly put two and two together, to follow the story accurately as though I got to witness Tyler's spiral into insanity was something I wish more movies were capable of in a way that impressive. The very fine details have stuck with me days later, and all I can say is how impressive it is. The continious calling of Tyler 'sir' got a little repetitive towards the end, which I wasn't as fond of, but it still fed the viewer the idea very smoothly, and the repetitiveness did not muddy my enjoyment any. The effects used, the 3D animation sequences and the contrast in the last 30 minutes where you can see both Tyler and.. Himself, the Narrator on screen really did get me. I would give this movie a 10/10 if that was something I did, and if the runtime in the last 20 minutes contained the word "sir" maybe three less times. I have never found myself so passionate while WATCHING a film, usually that sets in after. This is probably the movie I would rate best, out of what I have seen recently. It did not bore me any that I had to continually check the run time, and The Narrator/Tyler Durden as an individual(s) is so well written, I have never related to a character in any media more, as far as I can think. Cliche, I know.
I give it the thinking man's 10/10, honorary of course, but an accurate assessment would be a 9.
Very well done, over all. As my boyfriend says, I am a "Fight Club D-Rider".
Let's see Paul Allen's movie review.
Oh, where do I even start? This movie I hold dear to me for many, many reasons. If I had one wish for all of "normal" TikTok, it would be for them to actually WATCH American Psycho and not just place Patrick Bateman's face over everything, because not a single person would regret it. It's Christian Bale, for christ's sake! The job he does portraying Bateman's very steep, rapid decline is amazingly done, it was fantastic to watch him go from so composed at the very start, a display of a very standard routine to the stark contrast that the lack of any normalcy in his being was, with everything surrounding him reflecting what he once had been, as well, what anybody on the outside of his mind is none the wiser to him not being anymore.
If you look at it from Patrick's perspective, he feels as though he is accomplishing something, as if he is any different from anyone else, and in a way different than he perceives himself to be, he is, but the complete and utter disconnect from himself is fairly obvious from an outside point of view, because he thinks of himself in such a grandois fashion he's certain others have not only should have caught on by the end, but that he had been hiding anything successfully in the first place, when in reality he was so irrelevant to anybody else that rather than it being his success at hiding anything, living life like a "normal person" with advanced status, it's reasonable to say he would have been noticed detrimentally easy if people regarded him as anything besides a fucking loser.
You are meant to watch the movie through two lenses, through Bateman's self absorbtion, the poluted mindset a person like that puts themself into, and the disconnect that others similarly feel towards him. They simply do not care. There are multiple jabs at him through multiple people who all bring up how irrelevant they find him to be IN PASSING, move on, and that is that, and that is what makes the movie for me. Its sublety. Not a single other person really cares for him besides Jean and his wife, and while that could be because many people see him as just some guy in the office, I think a large piece of that is the isolation he imposed onto himself, you know, killing people. I think the man COULD have had so much potential in a different universe, there was a drive there, but, he was lost from the start as he said himself, there is no real Patrick Bateman. That made it exceptionally entertaining to sit through.
I found the psychology around the entire movie very fascinating, and some of the shots were so well done to me that I have thought about them weeks after. I have never seen a character so fantastically delusional, so deranged written so well, and even the title bears two distinct meanings that tie into it all. I have not read much of the book, but, the only critique I could possibly make is that I wish they kept it as graphic as the original text was in the movie, the brutality was intended and that gives the full effect. The acting, the way things are filmed and framed, and the way we get to understand from more than one person's perspective as we go further into it that he really ISN'T perfect made it for me. Patrick Bateman is an amazing character, and it was a really fun movie to analyze and sit through, I was on a pleasant amount of edge for so much of it. The soundtrack was also amazing, I have relistened to many of the songs featured in it since my first watch. The guy had good music taste
American Psycho is something I, of course, will be watching again soon, seeing as I have so much to say on it, and I think it is one of those movies to be classed as something the viewer should experience more than once, fairly.
I have no real reason to have docked any points off otherwise, as I find it to be a genuine masterpiece, but it will sit at the rating I gave it. 8/10.
