:edit: Oh, no spoiler tags? Must have been thinking of ETS. Please try not to read the first paragraph if you haven't seen American Psycho.
Coma79 posted:And as for american pyscho it was great, up until the ending... [spoiler]I did however hear a rumor that there was an alternate ending(or the books original ending) in which it turned out bates really did do it all[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Er, he did do it all, in both versions. If otherwise, it would spoil an important part of the satire. One of the filmmakers, I think it may have been Mary Harron, said it was a failing of the film that this wasn't made more clear.[/spoiler]
Personally I was stunned the first time I heard anyone come away with that interpretation, but it does seem to be a common one.
Anyway, I think American Psycho is
amazing and easily my second favourite film ever, behind only Alien. Chainsaw-sharp satire, perfectly executed.
On topic, my list...
-Badlands (Love Malick's films, aside from Days of Heaven which I haven't seen, but didn't find this one particularly evocative, moving or thought provoking, with barely an iota of the technical brilliance in his later films. And of course being Malick it's not like there's a taut narrative to carry it through.)
-Jersey Girl (It was a stinker - Kevin Smith knows it, the world knows it. Subsequent fast food comedy Clerks 2 provided a great deal more drama and pathos.)
-Harry Potter 2 (Not had a particular emotional investment in the series since the final book came out, but Chamber of Secrets was my favourite instalment at that time, and Chris Colombus
slaughtered it. The material had great potential for hair-raising fear/suspense and soaring heroism, yet the film was saturated with Colombus' trademark childishness. I wonder what one of the later directors would have made of it.)
-..4 (Goblet of Fire ended up feeling rather like the book, in that it meandered around aimlessly for hundreds of pages/minutes before serving up a hellacious, perfectly realised ending. GoF was saddled with some tricky material for most of the running time, but it managed even worse than I was expecting - the book, at least, did a great job of evoking teenage anxiety at being singled out. The film was essentially just "woo, dragons! Woo, fish!" for the buttock-obliterating timespan until the admittedly awesome finale.)
Aside from the obvious Matrix Reloaded, that's all I can think of right now. Selective memory is marvellous.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2012 10:52AM by DrVertigo.
