Okay…so, first of all, I have to say that I read the book, American Psycho, a couple weeks before the movie…and I am SO glad I did! I mean, I’m usually glad, but this time, I was REALLY glad.
I loved the book…I thought Bret Easton Ellis was incredibly descriptive, really creative (in the wrongest ways :P) and I just thought it was really well written.
It did lack a plot…it didn’t really go anywhere, but that didn’t even matter, honestly, it wasn’t about that for me. I couldn’t help but laugh every time he would bring up something about killings and it would either be misheard or ignored :P
There was a point where I considered that none of the killings were happening…especially when the fact that the lawyer had lunch with Paul Owens multiple times through his death. But, then it kinda clued in…something else I found amusing…the fact that they were constantly mistaking people for others…something which actually made the book so confusing for me at the beginning.
Now, onto the movie…I’ve been putting this off…cause, I have to say, I was a bit disappointed. It may be sick, but I didn’t think it was near graphic enough.
Also, I don’t think Christian Bale was right at all for the part…I thought he should be more pompous and less monotonous.
Best part of the movie was Willem Dafoe…hands down! That guy was the perfect touch…I loved it.
I mean…I think the conclusion that you are eventually supposed to come down to is…who is crazy? Is it society? Or is it Patrick?
As I said before, I do think that Patrick actually committed the murders, but I’m not sure who is to blame? Society or Patrick? I tend to lean towards society…I do think that Bateman was fucked…but society definitely did not help. I don’t know, I really don’t know lol…
Urghh…so, I was just kinda frustrated by this movie. I still wanted to add more…but I really don’t feel like bitching any more…and a lot of what I have left is just that :/
I’m going to focus on the book…
Book: 9.3/10
Movie: 7.0/10
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Antichrist
Mkay. Antichrist. Made in 2009…which is a lot…recenter? Than I had expected. The only two actors in the movie, if you exclude the baby that’s in it for five minutes and the groups of women with their faces blurred out that are in it for five minutes, are Willem Dafoe, who plays the “him” and another actress…I’d never heard of her, so, like usual, I don’t remember her name…in case you didn’t guess, she plays the “her”.
The basic idea is that this couple’s baby falls out of a window and dies while they are having sex. Afterward, the female is not dealing with it well at all. Being a psychiatrist, the husband takes his wife case on himself, and decides to take her somewhere that she is afraid of. It’s a forest called Eden, where they have a cabin and where his wife had spent a great deal of time with her son, working on a book she was writing about gynocide. Things just go south from there, as the husband figures things out about his wife, and she gets out of control.
One thing that I really liked about this movie was that it was divided into six…a prologue, four chapters, and an epilogue. I didn’t like the whole chapter thing at first…but it really came to make sense in the end.
The prologue and epilogue are in black and white…and the prologue is when the couple are having sex and the baby dies. The first chapter is called Grief. The part of the story where they are still at home dealing with their baby’s death is included in this chapter. At the very end, they decide to leave for the forest. The chapter ends with a deer with a stillborn baby hanging out of the womb…
Chapter two is called Pain. It’s basically her treatment at the cabin, getting better and worse…this chapter ends with him seeing a fox like, eating itself.
Chapter three is where it really picked up for me. Dafoe catches on that something is weird. And it turns out, that by going through her books and notes, he realizes that while she was up here trying to write against gynocide, she actually ended up believing that it was true and just and necessary. So, shit happens and he ends up having his genitals smashed by a piece of wood, gets knocked out (obviously…like, shit) and drills a hole in his leg and screws a weight to him so he can’t escape. There is a lot more graphic torture and shit going on in this chapter…but I’m going to skip to the end where Dafoe is trying to smash a crow in the head and kill it with a stone.
The last chapter is called the three beggars. Which kinda pulls everything together. Part of the woman’s study notes included information on the three beggars. Which are the Deer (Grief) the Fox (Pain) and the Crow (Despair). I really liked how they worked that. The woman told Dafoe that the three beggars were coming, and when they did, someone needed to die. I thought it was pretty obvious at this point that she was going to be the one to die. Despite what she did to him…
The prologue consists of Dafoe, limping through the forest, and suddenly, hundreds of women with their faces blurred out come up to greet him.
So, I thought that this movie was actually really really disturbing. I mean, I’ve seen a lot. A lot that have claimed to be ‘most disturbing of the year’ or ‘of all time’. But this one, I would actually consider to live up to that statement.
I thought it was clever how she prevented both her son and her husband from leaving her. Earlier in the movie she says something about her son trying to leave…wander about…when they were in the cabin in the summer, and from photos, Dafoe sees that she began butting his boots on the wrong feet…perhaps to cripple him, or prevent him from leaving? Later in the movie she does something similar to Dafoe, drilling a hole in his leg and attaching a weight to him.
She seems all emotion, all self centered, and not at all intelligent…where as I feel like they made him, for the most part, generally emotionless, concerned more for others than himself, and extremely intelligent. It was interesting…and verging on annoying, the entire time, he kept his doctorly composure.
This is one of the only movies that I have seen in my life that I have felt like I needed to turn away from. Actually, I think I did…when the girl cuts her clit off…man…I could not fucking watch that haha…other than that, I watched the entire thing, but I don’t think I have felt the urge to look away from the screen that much in a looooong time, if ever.
8.1/10
The basic idea is that this couple’s baby falls out of a window and dies while they are having sex. Afterward, the female is not dealing with it well at all. Being a psychiatrist, the husband takes his wife case on himself, and decides to take her somewhere that she is afraid of. It’s a forest called Eden, where they have a cabin and where his wife had spent a great deal of time with her son, working on a book she was writing about gynocide. Things just go south from there, as the husband figures things out about his wife, and she gets out of control.
One thing that I really liked about this movie was that it was divided into six…a prologue, four chapters, and an epilogue. I didn’t like the whole chapter thing at first…but it really came to make sense in the end.
The prologue and epilogue are in black and white…and the prologue is when the couple are having sex and the baby dies. The first chapter is called Grief. The part of the story where they are still at home dealing with their baby’s death is included in this chapter. At the very end, they decide to leave for the forest. The chapter ends with a deer with a stillborn baby hanging out of the womb…
Chapter two is called Pain. It’s basically her treatment at the cabin, getting better and worse…this chapter ends with him seeing a fox like, eating itself.
Chapter three is where it really picked up for me. Dafoe catches on that something is weird. And it turns out, that by going through her books and notes, he realizes that while she was up here trying to write against gynocide, she actually ended up believing that it was true and just and necessary. So, shit happens and he ends up having his genitals smashed by a piece of wood, gets knocked out (obviously…like, shit) and drills a hole in his leg and screws a weight to him so he can’t escape. There is a lot more graphic torture and shit going on in this chapter…but I’m going to skip to the end where Dafoe is trying to smash a crow in the head and kill it with a stone.
The last chapter is called the three beggars. Which kinda pulls everything together. Part of the woman’s study notes included information on the three beggars. Which are the Deer (Grief) the Fox (Pain) and the Crow (Despair). I really liked how they worked that. The woman told Dafoe that the three beggars were coming, and when they did, someone needed to die. I thought it was pretty obvious at this point that she was going to be the one to die. Despite what she did to him…
The prologue consists of Dafoe, limping through the forest, and suddenly, hundreds of women with their faces blurred out come up to greet him.
So, I thought that this movie was actually really really disturbing. I mean, I’ve seen a lot. A lot that have claimed to be ‘most disturbing of the year’ or ‘of all time’. But this one, I would actually consider to live up to that statement.
I thought it was clever how she prevented both her son and her husband from leaving her. Earlier in the movie she says something about her son trying to leave…wander about…when they were in the cabin in the summer, and from photos, Dafoe sees that she began butting his boots on the wrong feet…perhaps to cripple him, or prevent him from leaving? Later in the movie she does something similar to Dafoe, drilling a hole in his leg and attaching a weight to him.
She seems all emotion, all self centered, and not at all intelligent…where as I feel like they made him, for the most part, generally emotionless, concerned more for others than himself, and extremely intelligent. It was interesting…and verging on annoying, the entire time, he kept his doctorly composure.
This is one of the only movies that I have seen in my life that I have felt like I needed to turn away from. Actually, I think I did…when the girl cuts her clit off…man…I could not fucking watch that haha…other than that, I watched the entire thing, but I don’t think I have felt the urge to look away from the screen that much in a looooong time, if ever.
8.1/10
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Apocalypse Now
Mkay. So…last night I watched Apocalypse Now. Loooooong movie. Bad idea to start watching it at like 1:30 in the morning lol. You’ll be up all night…Not that I wouldn’t have been anyway :P
So, basically, this Captain in the Vietnam war is sent on this secret mission sort of thing. It doesn’t technically exist…it’s to eliminate one of their own men…a Colonel who has apparently gone insane and is controlling a huge amount of people.
My favourite character was the camouflage guy!! I loved him…and he saved da puppayy XD
Speaking of which, I totally got distracted and have no idea what ended up happening to the puppy…I don’t know if I’d want to know…
I wasn’t a huge fan of the Captain…he seemed a little too cold…I mean, I guess its kind of understandable.
He’s being sent on this mission…to destroy one of their own men, basically because mankind find it incredibly difficult to be able to accept something that they can’t understand and can’t control…in this case Kurtz. Anyway, bam. He gets ‘eliminated’, a scene that I really enjoyed.
I liked how they kept Kurtz in the shadows for the first two thirds of the confrontation. It reminded me of the Elephant Man, how we’re kept from seeing his face until we were well into the movie…
Anyway, that was random.
I liked how they flashed back and forth from the Captain interrogating Kurtz to a scene with a tribe sacrificing a bull.
Which I found out a little while after watching the film was actually real. They got this local tribe, and filmed them during one of their rituals, which included the sacrifice of a bull…they didn’t stage it…they documented it…intense shit.
I also loved how the farther the Captain’s boat made it down the river the crazier and more hectic things became. The closer he got to Kurtz, the more chaos ensued.
It was different than the typical war movie…It reminded me more of…Full Metal Jacket maybe?
Where it focused more on the psychological aspects of the war then most war movies do, which is great, I like that.
Ohh…and I finally got to hear where the famous line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” came from (:
Speaking of quotes…another one I liked kinda just popped into my head. Spoken by Kurtz, about a snail scrawling along the edge of a razor…lemme find it.
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.
8.5/10
So, basically, this Captain in the Vietnam war is sent on this secret mission sort of thing. It doesn’t technically exist…it’s to eliminate one of their own men…a Colonel who has apparently gone insane and is controlling a huge amount of people.
My favourite character was the camouflage guy!! I loved him…and he saved da puppayy XD
Speaking of which, I totally got distracted and have no idea what ended up happening to the puppy…I don’t know if I’d want to know…
I wasn’t a huge fan of the Captain…he seemed a little too cold…I mean, I guess its kind of understandable.
He’s being sent on this mission…to destroy one of their own men, basically because mankind find it incredibly difficult to be able to accept something that they can’t understand and can’t control…in this case Kurtz. Anyway, bam. He gets ‘eliminated’, a scene that I really enjoyed.
I liked how they kept Kurtz in the shadows for the first two thirds of the confrontation. It reminded me of the Elephant Man, how we’re kept from seeing his face until we were well into the movie…
Anyway, that was random.
I liked how they flashed back and forth from the Captain interrogating Kurtz to a scene with a tribe sacrificing a bull.
Which I found out a little while after watching the film was actually real. They got this local tribe, and filmed them during one of their rituals, which included the sacrifice of a bull…they didn’t stage it…they documented it…intense shit.
I also loved how the farther the Captain’s boat made it down the river the crazier and more hectic things became. The closer he got to Kurtz, the more chaos ensued.
It was different than the typical war movie…It reminded me more of…Full Metal Jacket maybe?
Where it focused more on the psychological aspects of the war then most war movies do, which is great, I like that.
Ohh…and I finally got to hear where the famous line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” came from (:
Speaking of quotes…another one I liked kinda just popped into my head. Spoken by Kurtz, about a snail scrawling along the edge of a razor…lemme find it.
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.
8.5/10
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