>Okay so get this, the main character is an affluent, narcissistic consoomer that lives in a major US city. He works a job that creates no real value and spends all his time obsessing over his appearance and how he ranks among his social circle. Everything from his business card to his political opinions are a result of over socialization in a hyper-capitalist society that values appearance over virtue.
>What? Hollywood? No no, this movie is about greedy corporate suits
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No no, this movie is about getting a reservation at Dubsia.
pathetic. check these
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sad
Sea Urchin sounds nasty
Is that where Mark Allen is going?
Sad!
Today's my birthday :>
Congratulations namegay, one more step toward the inevitable grave.
>He works a job that creates no real value
??? How the frick does overseeing corporate buyouts provide no value?
Maybe a position like that in real life would create value, but that's the point. The movie is pretty clear about the fact he does nothing at work. All of his interactions with his secretary are about his social schedule and he throws his feet up and watches TV in the office. The whole movie is projection at another segment of American society.
>The movie is pretty clear about the fact he does nothing at work
literally me. it unironically sucks bros, I feel so useless
I work at a print shop and I bust ass. Apparently a decade ago they had like 20 people. Less than half that now, same amount of work. I'm mentally and physically exhausted. It doesn't help I don't like the general public and have to help an insane number of pajeets. Like so many Jesus Christ. And old fat people who don't know how to email from a phone.
It's decent pay and I'm indoors and realistic about my prospects. Still it's dogshit work. At least there's little accountability. I'd have to scream obscenities at a customer or deliberately break shit or steal something to get fired. I was 20 minutes late yesterday and nobody gave a shit.
I got fired yesterday - over text.
I missed their call, all temps (like I was) normally get guaranteed 2 years.
I was playing on my phone at the end, just before the official end of shift and my efficiency rating (production job) has been low but that's explainable (no parts/machine down) and no one has said anything to me about work rate in weeks...
I worked in a call center and even though I kicked ass, those efficiency reports are soulless and awful. Let's just reduce humans to a bunch of numbers and then try to turn it into a game. Frick that. I got burned out after a year and quit.
Consider yourself lucky and get a different job.
same. I work 3rd shift IT and get a call maybe once a day. I sleep on shift sometimes cause 3rd shift is rough. I wanna switch to programming so I feel like I do something. most people don't enjoy being lazy, surprisingly.
It's interesting that Patrick Bateman works at Pierce and Pierce just like Sherman McCoy from Bonfire of the Vanities (the best novel of the last 40 years). I guess BEE liked it too
to some people (read fools) the higher paying a job is the less value it provides.
(lmao)
There's nothing inherently worthless with Bateman's job title but it was obvious in the book/movie that Bateman got his position through nepotism/cronyism and social status and doesn't do any actual work. I'm in the same position tbh but in a less well paid industry and at a lower level.
He's not shown doing any real work even once throughout the entire movie.
the movie is actually about feminism and how evil men are. thats literally what the b***h who made it said.
Since when does an author have a say in the meaning of the work?
Since when does an anon have a say in the meaning of their post? Protip: it's meaningless
>the movie is actually about feminism and how evil men are. thats literally what the b***h who made it said.
Reminder though that the book it's based on was written by a man. And OP actually just gave me an idea...
>the main character is an affluent, narcissistic consoomer that lives in a major US city.
>works a job that creates no real value
>spends all his time obsessing over his appearance and how he ranks among his social circle.
>Everything from his business card to his political opinions are a result of over socialization in a hyper-capitalist society that values appearance over virtue.
Who does this actually describe to a fricking T?
Women.
He secretly wrote a story about how stupid, vapid, and shallow modern women are by swapping the genders of the characters to men so that idiots wouldn't notice, but Bateman and the other yuppies are very clearly thinking and behaving exactly like women. And then the icing on the cake is that the absolute madman got a feminist to make it into a movie.
Sounds pretty fricking based to me.
>Who does this actually describe to a fricking T?
Trump?
No need to be offended by the theory. You are not and never will be a real woman, so it's not an insult to you, troony.
No seriously, read your own post again, and tell me how that doesn't exactly describe Trump to a T. He even puts giant golden T's on all his shit.
And he has done nothing but destroy other people's money.
>is still psychotically obsessed with orange man years after he left the whitehouse
holy shit shut the frick up you fricking tr00n. it amazes me how real TDS is, you homosexuals literally cannot stop seething about him even today. unironically get a fricking life.
He's literally never stopped declaring himself President in exile. He's actually the lead candidate to regain the job.
And yes, I will never stop laughing at him, or his moron fanbase.
Samehomosexual spam should be a bannable offense
Good point but hyper-socialized males behave like women.
Bret Easton Ellis is a gay man and he wrote Bateman as a closeted gay man. He's obsessed with his appearance, his dress, the dress of others, status etc.
This is translated well in the movie. When Bateman is fricking those gorgeous call girls he's looking at himself in the mirror. And he's so horrified when Luis sees through his bullshit that he immediately runs off to kill someone.
>Bret Easton Ellis is a gay man
And who hates women more than gays do? Nocturnal Animals is another great example of a gay man writing a story whose entire message is basically just "Frick women", though it's more obvious than in American Psycho.
holy shit
>is an affluent, narcissistic consoomer that lives in a major US city.
seek help, you fricking schizo
I will laugh to my grave over the 40 IQ gaygorts on this board who unironically supported this life-long serial grifter.
You'd have looked less like a jackass liquidating your assets and mailing it all to Joel Olsteen.
I don't support Trump. I never supported Trump. I haven't thought about Trump of my own volition in years. The only time he crosses my mind anymore is when mental patients like yourself screech about him. Seriously, go frick yourself, check yourself into an asylum, and leave us in peace. You're ruining a perfectly good thread with your unhinged moronation.
Cool story bro. I'm sorry I upset you dissing your Daddy Trump, provoking all these heated responses. Yes, if I supported that cretin, I too would deny it to anyone who asked.
Sorry your parents raised a dumb motherfricker and easy mark. Hopefully lessons were learned.
p.s., you don't have to reply to this post, you can just leave the thread and dry your eyes.
take your meds
only one of those is me thoughbeit
>works a job that creates no real value
>spends all his time obsessing over his appearance and how he ranks among his social circle.
>Everything from his business card to his political opinions are a result of over socialization in a hyper-capitalist society that values appearance over virtue.
The book was written by a gay man as a commentary on the preening faux-virtuous style of masculinity that was fashionable among the young New York upper-class at the time. The movie did a good job translating the book to film.
This. And Ellis was purportedly very happy with how the film turned out.
One of the rare occasions when a film adaptation basically nails it and presents a highlight reel of scenes straight from the book. I wish they could've included the part with Bono and some of the more frantic psychotic moments but that might've shifted things too far into the avant-garde. It's totally understandable why they toned down the gore. I don't need to see a woman's eyes burned out with a lighter and cut in half with a chainsaw to reveal the rat that was shoved up her pussy.
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I thought it's about a young man getting mad
I want to be a kitty cat so bad
Do cops just go out with their suspects like this?
He was a private investigator
his dad hired him to cover his ass, dad would rather pay some smuck than deal with his son murder hoboing
Pathetic thread
How much time to go from skinnyfat to that?
Skinnyfats also burn fat really easily, so assuming you
>work out 4 times a week
>follow a thought out bulk diet
>maintain a perfectly low fat + low carb diet for a month
I'd say 9 months?
lol delusional, a skinnyfat with zero athleticism is not gonna look like that in 9 months no matter what, even if they juiced
Post body
You're optimistic. Bateman was juicing in the book and Bale was juicing in real life
>Skinnyfats also burn fat really easily
this metabolism nonsense is painful to hear and read.
Leftists unironically believe fat people are fat because of genetics and there is nothing they can do about it. They are a delusional people.
I'm work out like twice a week for a couple months now and I've seen results. Nothing extraordinary but my arms and chest are bigger. It's not hard you just have to stick with it and not eat pure dogshit
yeah its crazy times. good luck with your gains.
You’re both morons. I’m sorry, but if you think everyone who follows Schwarzenegger’s regime is going to end up looking like him you’re the ones who are delusional. Genetics are an actual thing. It’s obvious. No, they won’t cause t you to become obese if you exercise and eat right, but they will cause one person to be predisposed to put on fat while another person puts on muscle.
I was a fat frick as a kid. Other than fricking around in the woods I was completely sedentary. When I stopped eating as much crap and exercising I could put on muscle just by touching a weight. I wasn’t lifting or eating right and I still bulked up pretty good. It’s a highly complicated biological machine and you dipshits act like it’s a flashlight.
how do i unsub from your mentally moronic blog?
> I’m sorry, but if you think everyone who follows Schwarzenegger’s regime is going to end up looking like him you’re the ones who are delusional
good thing i never said that
>I could put on muscle just by touching a weight
wow noob gains are easy? everyone knows that.
>Genetics are an actual thing. It’s obvious. No, they won’t cause t you to become obese if you exercise and eat right
only correct thing you said.
save alt his shit for your personal diary next time.
>I’m sorry, but if you think everyone who follows Schwarzenegger’s regime is going to end up looking like him you’re the ones who are delusional.
If they have the appropriate nutrition to survive they'll look great, even pure natty. You can't workout 5 hours a day without becoming enormously strong.
I agree with the others that you're not going to look like OP... but if a skinnyfat guy does that, he'll at least be fit in the time anon mentioned.
peak male performance
If you stop asking questions like this and actually go to the gym every day you will notice positive improvement in 1 month or less.
The book was written by an open leftist and was intended to be a dressing-down of the Reaganomics era. Did you really expect it to be done in honesty or good faith?
No, and the entire critique can be used against Hollywood. Every second of that show screams "Hollywood elites." Their entire existence is the pinnacle of capitalist excess. And look at the country now. I'm not going to say Reaganomics is wonderful. But it is compared to the Keynesian nightmare we've been living where the average tradesman can't even buy a small house.
Your approach to economics and society is Marxian.
I'm arguing from the standpoint of someone who believes in this stuff to point out how safe the moral critiques from Hollywood are. This is a movie that is held up as insightful in this regard and I'm saying it's trash. It's a shallow projection.
>unironically sucking Reagan's dick in the year of our lord Pandemic+3
Reagan was the best president America had in the later half of the 20th century.
subhuman
Coolidge is still the best president we ever had, but Reagan is close. Top 5 for sure.
If we discount the Framers who were presidents, he's number 2.
JFK is literally the only good president we ever have and the only reason we know this is because the CIA killed him
Ike was good too
JFK was the beginning of our mystical presidency. Frick him he was a hypocrite and full of shit. Could deliver a good speech tho.
It's so tiresome when boomers say he was the best. We get it you're old and wish it was the 60s again.
Go ahead and tell me how based and anti establishment Trump is while he did nothing to "drain the swamp" and memory holed Epstein's case for his puppeteers
Trump is a fricking clown. Stop thinking in tribalistic terms. And stop being awed by chief executives.
Trump isn't the president right now.
Why don't we talk about the sitting US president and ask if he is pro or anti establishment, and then compare Trump to this figure to see if he is pro or anti establishment relative to POTUS Biden?
reminder that this shit was posted directly in response to the troony who shot up a Christian school specifically targeting white kids.
JFK was a Catholic married to a lovely, submissive woman. And he cheated on her repeatedly with models and Playboy pinups.
He was a mere mortal, a hypocrite, a liar, and a shithead.
And yet he was the most honerable president the US has ever had, sad
The Framers were honorable. Yes even the slave owning ones.
Calvin Coolidge had honor, and took the job seriously when it was thrust upon him.
>he chose me in the end
no he didn't you stupid b***h. he chose everyone but you.
Yeah, it was a different time, a Catholic man in power couldn't get a divorce.
Otherwise he'd go through wives like tissues (or Trump).
>Insulting Jackie Kennedy Onassis
I would bet dollars to donuts you are an incel.
she was a cuck
She's in a Catholic marriage to the favored son of an incredibly powerful family, the sorts who can shrug off a murder or "accident" incident.
What could she do while he was alive?
>And he cheated on her repeatedly
please tell me you don't support Trump
I don't. I'm not moronic like most of this website. Just bored and lonely.
Politics is so dumb now I have opted out entirely. There's no one running that would be a good president. And Biden is a fricking mess. A pox on all their houses.
This is the 10/10 President.
>gets shot point blank
>gives a speech before going to hospital
He was based.
>Warrior
>Explorer
>Diplomat
>Environmentalist
>Foe of Monopolists
>Builder of vast Infrastructure
Greatest President
>all of his good policies were actually Taft's
>Taft enacted them better than Teddy did
>Teddy seethed so hard about Taft dunking on him that he ran as a third party purely to screw Taft out of a second term, handing the presidency to the open socialist Wilson in the process, thereby setting the stage for the Progressive New Deal movement that would dominate for the next 50 years
Thanks a lot.
Oh and I forgot to mention
>Only reason he is worshipped today is because his cousin FDR practically deified him
LBJ's great society bullshit that we currently are still suffering under was JFK's idea, and he actually wanted to take it further
He was assassinated by the mafia because the mafia are who helped him get elected (go look up the election shenanigans in Chicago in 1960) under the promise he would force the FBI to drop their investigation of them, which he did not do. JFK's dad was literally a rum runner for the Chicago mob in the 1920s.
JFK was the white Obama. The fact people still worship the c**t as the second coming despite bungling nearly every god damned political issue that happened during his presidency is proof of how powerful the cult of personality surrounding him is
Reagan was white Obama, except he actually got guns banned
>wasted billions on a futile war on drugs that resulted in worse drug use
>gutted social services
>increased the budget deficit so much he set new records
>sold weapons to terrorists and accidentally created al-qaeda
>had more documented examples of corruption in his cabinet than any other president
Why are there no films about the real Ronald Reagan and not the fictional superhero that people pretend he was?
>Pretending Reagan was the source of our problems and not the more recent clown administrations
Leftists seethe over Reagan so much it's unreal
It also acts as a commentary on the negative aspects that come from domesticating man and the dangers of denying individuality, so in a way its also a critique of common leftist values.
But never mind the fact that this was made well before the current rise of idpol culture war garbage, we must know whether thing is le my side or other side before I can enjoy it
You know in a way, the Cold War never actually left. The U.S. citizenry just localized it.
>
I agree. It's a better critique of Hollywood than any other segment of American society.
>honesty or good faith
Reminder that Reagan was literally an actor.
That monkey out acted him hard
He spent more of his life as a politician than he did as an actor.
>still basing your opinion on Reagan from Hebrewood hitpieces made on him out of spite for him calling them out as commies, in anno domini 1989+34
OP is an owners class shill. Buying and selling assets is not work.
whatever company you work at buys and sells assets. is it work for your company?
It's not putting bricks together with mortar
It's "work", a solar flare would result in mass unemployment for the financial sector.
cmon man use your brain please.
If I called blue collar work "labor" would that please you?
There is labor (work) and then there is pushing paper ("work"). One is essential to keeping humanity fed and sheltered, one is not.
We need an actuarial class for our capitalist society, but not as many as we have.
The white collar laborers are the reason the farmer has farming equipment. You can't have a coordinated logistics system (required for modern technology) with just laborers as you define it.
You moved the goalposts. Logistics is another kind of white collar work. Do we need people whose only job is the trading of assets? The financial sector is filled with such people by definition.
Retail trading in particular resulted in a wealth transfer from the lower and middle class to the upper class. We saw this during the pandemic before interests rates went way up.
In time on demand logistics is a nightmare to msintain, the frick is that anon about?
Without robots and computers our modern world would halt in a day, riots in 3, cannibalism by the month.
We're all field Black folk in a global financial plantation ran by syphilitic morons
The difference is, one is convenience and the other is necessity. Farmers don't NEED machinery to do their jobs, it just makes it easier for them. White collar jobs absolutely need the blue collars or else they all starve to death in a pile of their own filth.
This. You can't have white collar jobs without blue collar workers.
Playing pretend in front of a camera is not work.
Investment Banks help start ups that become integral parts of the economy and employ thousands of people
Ask me how I know you're from Sweden
ok, how do you know Im from Delhi
Yet another otherwise clean internet experience is shitted up by a stinking non-human pajeet
have a nice day stinky inbred white trash
Look out Hindu, that's my aim on your forehead
>MC was supposed to be hated
>Turns into a hero for people
Any other films for this feel? Joker, Barbie, etct?
You're not supposed to hate Bateman, You're supposed to find him ridiculous and funny. Only underage morons that unironically believe in sigma male memes think he's a hero.
you described the entire social media generation
I want to have a body like that. How do I get fit like that, bros?
Go to the gym 4 times a week and do a basic progressive overload program while eating an excess of calories. Then diet until you're lean. It's not some big secret or mystery.
I just want a dad bod. Wish I had a pull-up bar.
Stop consuming sugar. Can not stress that enough.
Eat protein rich diet.
If you do not change your diet, your work out would be meaningless, and you will not see much of a physical change outside of getting stronger and have more stamina
You need glucose for energy. Isn't sucrose energy as well?
Put another way, if I ate a tablespoon of sugar and then ran a mile, wouldn't it be burned off?
I meant artificial sweeteners, such as sugar, the one that's not in fruits.
Then you'd be losing gains since your energy consumption would use other tissues while adding/storing fats from sugar (not burned).
Hence, protein rich diet is the one you need if your goal is to have a physique like Bateman
Not to mention the crash and burn after said "energy" from sugar.
Go for rest and protein for energy.
After a hard workout the body needs restitute to build muscle and save energy for next workout
Consistency in strenth training or calisthenics 3-5 times a week, sleeping well, eating clean and doing that for a few years. You have to actually start tho, instead of posting on Cinemaphile
You would look like Bateman doing pushups. You need weights to get hypertrophy like that. But yeah you can look real good just doing body weight exercises.
I'm shy and don't like gyms so I work out at home.
You wouldn't* look like Bateman...
Man I fricking hate Google
People always talk about American Psycho, but House that Jack Built is the real literally me kino
The House that Jack Built is too offputting and kino for normies
Check em
All female remake when
The film is a critique of male behaviour so I don't see much point in that
>movie about stereotypical female friendships where they're all backstabbing egocentric b***hes toward each other but don't show it and subtly bully the outcasts
Sounds kino.
Yes because obsessive preening and obsession with your image within your fake social group is masculine. Bravo.
i enjoyed the movie.
Way to miss the forest for the trees
This dude is so rich and protected from the consequences of his actions that out of sheer boredom and more than a little desperation to prove he even exists he starts committing crimes. He starts with killing (and eating, as he imports the corporate raider mentality even into his personal life) the most vulnerable members of society, the homeless and prostitutes. This does not get him the attention he wants so he starts killing people he knows. This escalation still fails to accomplish anything; he gets away with the most heinous crimes with no effect on himself.
Kissinger lived to be 100 years old by the way, and died, unpunished, of old age as one history's most successful mass murderers
Kissinger makes commies seethe to no end so he's good in my book.
Can't bring myself to support Kissinger but checked
>Le commentary!
Nah, I just like Bateman because he's funny and kills women lmao
Sticking a stray cat in the card hole
You're so wealthy
You're so popular
I just wanna be your sigma
Fricking come here
Give me Paul's card
REZERVATION FUR ZWEI AT DUBZIA
cringe thread. try actually being funny instead of spamming the dubs meme like a ledditor
Joe is a pretty honorable President
I've been trying to find an analysis video on the film I watched a while back but I can't find it anywhere, I swear it had at least a few hundred thousand views to but its nowhere in the search results. It gave one of the best arguments for the murders all being real that I've seen, does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Paul did have the better business card
>there are people out there who unironically live like this.
nuclear annihilation can't come soon enough
>the fricking mask
If this was made recently frick this guy. I can respect the cleanliness but Jesus dude. You live in a city. Grow some fricking balls.
What a homo.
playing baldur's gate3 so at least made in the last 5 months
I should be cautious because I don't think that's America. But in the USA only liberal douchebags wear the mask. I hate masks so much.
>I don't think that's America.
You are correct! The Eiffel Tower is in France.
No it's not it's in Las Vegas.
I wasn't really looking at the background.
This video is dishonest, go to the Eiffel Tower and you will see what France looks like. And why this white guy lives in a tower.
>So, as I terrorize Cinemaphile, I will feed its anons dubs to poison their souls...
>off by one
I truly understand the depth of my failure
Bateman is just the modern day office roastie, prove me wrong
So, it's a dubs thread?
Would.
the movie is actually about me