Patrick isn't materialistic because he enjoys nice clothes or the finest restaurants, he's materialistic because he has to be better than everyone else
@@SaRENRampaiger No, fitting in has to do with being psychotic. Fitting in is one of the hardest thing when you are not like anyone else and has to cover what you truly do.
Nah the competition part is just part of being a man, its the obsession with the state of tools to the degree that undermine their purpose, that is sacrilege to life itself
It is a strange ending, but I've heard enough from the film-makers to know that Bateman was a murderous psychopath, it's just that everyone around him is so vapid and self-involved, that they don't notice or can't even tell each other apart. He finally got to the point where he doesn't even care anymore.
He begins losing his mind in the book through each chapter. Patrick Bateman’s character is also a pathological liar so most of the things in the book may not actually be true because it’s told in the first person.
That’s something this film does tbh I love watching people react to is because everytime both of the reactors have a different opinion on what occurs in the film
Apparently the studio (and some of the cast and crew) was very dissatisfied with Bale's performance while they were shooting, but you can clearly tell that Christian Bale knew exactly what the film needed in him and he committed to doing it that way.
It's cause the character Patrick Batemen himself is acting and trying to fit into society. So Bale is such a good actor, he was playing a character that was trying to fit in. People thought Patrick Bateman's poor acting was Christian's acting.
thats not true actually. they thought that he was a shitty actor and just to add on that he was the least payed (he was payed basically the minimum, even the makeup artists were payed more than him, and that didnt really help with their view on his acting), BUT when the movie finally came out they realized how fantastic his acting actually is
He actually did kill most, if not all, of those people. The director stated that he is actually a murderer He did kill Jared Leto's character, but it's ambiguous if that's actually Paul Allen or not since everyone in their business/yuppie world of Patrick are so similar in terms of clothing style and lifestyle that they constantly mistake everyone's names (i.e. other characters referring to Bateman as another person in passing). The only hallucination in my opinion is him killing the police officers at the end/the explosion of the police car after only a few bullets.
100% I personally believe that he did kill the real Paul Allen (since he had his apartment and the police were investigating), but the gentleman at the end actually had dinner with someone else and thought it was Paul Allen, like how you mentioned everyone getting everyone mixed up.
He did kill the real Paul Allen it seems that Patrick is the only one who knows about other people and what they do and doesn't mistake them for each other.
@@touchingisjustthefirststep Which brilliantly implies that only a psychopath would bother getting familiar with anyone in such a meaningless environment
@@nicholasking4067 what if the detective was imaginary too. You can interpret this movie three ways 1) he killed all 2) he killed some, some are imaginary 3) all of it is imaginary and all 3 are true and that was the idea behind a movie
My theory for the "I had dinner with Paul Allen 10 days ago" is that Carnes didn't actually have dinner with Paul, instead just like everyone else in that materialistic world thought the guy he had dinner with is Paul. Just like Paul thought Patrick is Marcus, and Carnes thought Patrick is Davis. It just highlights one of the film's most important thematics, which is people are self absorbed and self centered, that they don't even bother to remember other people's identities.
The detective even said when he first interviewed Patrick that someone said that he had dinner with Paul Allen but he mistaken someone alse for being him and he provided unreliable information
Such a fantastic film! I'm sure someone else will mention this, but they actually did three seperate takes for each of the interrogation scenes and mixed them together; one where Patrick isn't suspected at all, one where he's a suspect and one where they know he did it. It really makes those scenes special!
@@jeanb7158 meh, Ash is BEYOND ignorant…..clearly uneducated and not interested in anymore apparently. Those silly inane symbolisms…..and he almost ALWAYS misses the actual POINT of almost every scene or symbol, the girl usually Gets it FAST…..he’s the reason I stopped watching….don’t know why this was recommended ……o and there’s him telling us alllll about him,….like he’s not YA KNOW DESCRIBED IN THE TITLE . Guess Ash didn’t know the bare bones of a psychopath…..ugh. 🙄🤮 poor girl.
Bale is a sorely underrated comedic actor. He's not a zany, screwball comedian like Jim Carrey, or even the subtler types like a Steve Martin or Cary Grant in his heyday, but man when you give him some levity to work with, he can do a lot with it. This movie, American Hustle, and The Big Short among others. He's the only reason why I'm looking forward to the next Thor.
Bale in American Psycho: “You can always be thinner”. Bale in The Fighter: “I could probably be thinner “. Bale in The Machinist: “ Alright I think that’ll do it”.
Also to explain the end, he did kill everybody, and the lawyer says he had dinner with Paul Allen because in this world, everyone is similar. It’s those symbolisms you were talking about. The lawyer was just covering Patrick same as the real estate lady selling Paul’s place.
@@japython I’m sorry, you are referring to the end where Paul’s place is being painted and sold. As I said, the real estate lady just wanted to sell it meaning she was okay with removing dead bodies. You can tell this is true because when Patrick shows up, she becomes very cautious about him realizing it was he who committed those killings in Paul’s place even asking Patrick to leave. In the end this is a world of greed where anyone will do anything to get what they want. You could even say the character in the movie are more evil or troublesome than Patrick because they never catch on or even care about when he talks about his Psychotic alter ego
@@Kingvxmp yeah I need to sell this place so I'm just going to get rid of these countless numbers of literal truckloads of dismembered bodies because it would make the place easier to sell, said no real estate agent ever, I feel like the more likely scenario is that most if not all of the killings were simply a figment Patrick's imagination, vivid fantasies bleeding over into his reality, no different than his shootout with the police with is super Glock that can cause cars to explode.
One of my favorite things about this movie is that all of Defoe's scenes were filmed three ways; doesn't suspect Patrick, suspects Patrick, knows it was Patrick. Then it was all spliced together to make really interesting and disconcerting scenes.
It doesn't mean that he didn't kill Jared Leto's character. It's just that they keep forgetting each others names and who's who. This movie is kind of a cautionary tale about the path of modernity, nobody cares about anyone, people have affairs with each others friends, everyone's doing everything just so they can impress people they don't like, and it also shows the materialism that's oh so prevalent at the moment.
He’s also crazy and is hallucinating much of it. We don’t know what he really did and didn’t do. Unless you think the ATM actually told him to feed it a cat or a pistol magically materialized in his coat and blew up a cop car.
@@Gunnar001 Yeah, everyone's saying that that's all in his mind. I was thinking the same thing for the longest time, but I'm not sure anymore. Why would there be one, over the top, hallucination/vision and what does it mean..? That bit is truly absurd but so is the ending, right? He confesses everything and they're still like, no Pat, don't be silly, pretty surreal, if you ask me. Edit: The director definitely doesn't want everyone to think that it was all in Pat's head, but she kinda failed in that sense as there are far too many things that indicate that. She wanted it to be more open-ended.
That swerve at the end is one of my favorite ones in film. Christian Bale has had so many absolute bangers in his resumé, it's quite crazy! You should watch Equilibrium, a very underrated performance of his.
The book makes this movie look like a daycare... it has soooo many graphic details... it really kind messes you up😳😳😳 they did do a good job of showcasing his obsession with his routine, music, and restaurants... sometimes those things would go on for pages or even chapters
This is one of the most symbolic movies you've watched on the channel. A thing that a lot of reactors fail to remember is that no one knows who each other are because they are so self-obsessed. The lawyer THINKS he had dinner with Paul Allen twice because he doesn't care. He doesn't even know he is talking to Patrick. He thinks he's talking to someone else.
Y'all misread the ending, it's cool most people do the 1st time. The idea isn't that he didn't kill anyone. It's that everyone in the film is so self centered and all act the same that they can't tell each other apart. Remember Paul Allen never called him Patrick. Characters will constantly call each other by the wrong name throughout the film. The director has already come out and said that the kills are all real. They covered up his kills at the apartment and Paul is actually dead but no one noticed because they are all the same and to self centered to care or even properly remember each other's names or tell them apart. It was this culture that created Patrick in the 1st place and will enable him to keep killing. Patrick can do whatever he wants without repercussion.
God, just in the first two minutes of the video, you had me smiling so much! You guys are amongst my favorite reaction youtubers because you give off such cute and wholesome couple energy! Every video is a blessing. I wish you both the best.
He did kill all those people. The scene where he enters Paul Allens appartment near the ending proves it. The realestate woman asks him if hes there because of the add in the times to which he answers yes. She then tells him that there was no add in the times and asks him to leave without any trouble and never return. She basically just cleaned up after him because if word came out that a serial killer was stashing all his kills there the appartment would loose value. The Director also says she didnt intend that people would be all confused about that and had she known she would have made it more clear.
All that stuff DID happen! The book is a great exploration on the yuppie culture and the dark meaning around the killings, with much more detail and graphic things.
pretty sure i read somewhwere the screenwriter said there is a point in the film where it becomes more delusion. Personally i felt like the point was that he is an unreliable narrator and its deliberately ambiguous as to what is real and what isnt. I cant believe that all of it happened as some of the killings where so reckless that it would seem unrealistic and unbelievable that there would be know evidence of wrongdoing. Security cameras/passers by/the body count of people. The fact that an atm told him to feed it a cat shows there is definitely some delusion atleast. I always saw it as the book that is found with all his musings and drawings was where he lived out his fantasies.
@@jonahdube9033 Yea the stuff shooting at the police and killing the guy at the desk, obviously that didn't happen. Cars don't explode when you shoot them.
American Psycho is something I’ve been waiting for you both specifically to react to because y’all are nothing but pure entertainment. This video was fuckin hilarious the whole way through thank you & keep watching movies together
You guys had the right reaction first time through, this movie is hilarious. When I first watched this I thought it was a serious thriller, when really Bateman is a parody of American exceptionalism/materialism
Ash’s reaction to this movie was my reaction to this movie. I absolutely love this movie and have watched it multiple times. My favorite scene is the card scene. Hands down made it on my top 5 list of favorite movies 🎥 ❤
18:00 Fun fact: The director shot the detective's close-ups three times... Once to show he knows Patrick did it, once to show the detective is unsure whether or not Patrick did it, and once to show the detective thinks that Patrick is innocent. Then they edited all those shots together.
The different expressions on both of you during the different scenes really, really adds to the nuances of every scene. Both are heartfelt, both are wildly different. Exactly as the director intended.
He definitely killed people. It’s just everyone is so superficial that people don’t really know each other. For instance people thought bateman was Paul Allan. They all kind of look the same and act the same etc. the dude that lawyer had dinner with in London was just a random person like the rest of the Wall Street guys that he thought was Paul Allan lol. And yeah you were right about them wanting to sell the place so they covered up the bodies being found.
The thing about the business card scene that I really like is that it highlights both the general theme of the movie and two of Patrick's most defining traits. The theme being everyone is so materialistic and selfish they don't actually care about each other and constantly mistake everyone for someone else (notice everyone's card lists them all as the Vice President of the company), and Patrick being nonchalant and collected when committing brutal murder but then freaking out and panicking over tiny things like someone else having a better card/apartment than him or losing a dinner reservation, the other trait being him trying so hard to fit in and be "normal" it actually works and he ends up becoming as bland and forgettable as everyone else which just pisses him off even more.
you're my favorite Iranian... and you two are destined to be together and grow old and then fight IRL for 40+ years.. great movie.. great reaction.. i applaud you dropping your job and going for it.. cheers from america
I saw this when I was in high school in a packed theater & it was 1 of those movie experiences you always remember because it was a movie like no other movie & the audience were all like "what the hell did I just watch " 😂 I remember it got quite a few big laughs
He isn’t materialistic. He is completely obsessed with image. He mentioned where he lives first not because it's particularly nice but because it's very exclusive. A materialistic person cares about an item, Patrick only cares about the status that comes with owning the item. The business card scene is a perfect example.
No, it is not a fantasy. It is an allegory of how the 80's world, based in looks and status made impossible for people like Patrick to fail no matter how awful or bad they screw up, in the book the constant confussion between characters is a theme because everybody looks, cares for and acts the same. P.s. Hanna has moved up to the 2nd prettiest redhair girl in my book, can't tell how long Isla Fisher's reign is going to last at this point.
No. He really killed them. The book is much more graphic. It’s so good . Also this is the perfect satirical look at materialism and narcissism in the 80s. It’s partly why no one knows who anyone is and always mistaken as someone else. Because they are so self absorbed, and basically the same person. Just clones in the wheels of capitalism. And Patrick is the robot who’s starting to gain consciousness and seeing how shitty that world. And to him it needs to be destroyed.
38:23 Patrick didn't imagine it all, it's all real. The point of the lawyer saying he had dinner with Paul Allen, is that people in this world have so little interest in each other that they actually forget each other's names all the time (because who you are is defined by what you have, not by what people call you). He didn't have dinner with Paul Allen, he just confused him for someone else. In the novel, for a long time it is totally unclear who this Paul Allen character actually is, but the people he's being confused for are very real (and they do get very killed).
The book is one of the most horrific and disturbing things I’ve ever read. But is written so well that it’s kinda amazing. This movie, though I enjoy it, doesn’t compare to the book… as cliché as it is to say.
I've watched a lot of your videos now and was not subscribed so there you go I just did, but no bad comment after because you guys are so genuine and fun to watch. please keep doing your stuff and Ash is so funny, I hope he gets success for investing everything on youtube. you have my full support guys thank you for the content.
What I love about this movie is how its like made out to make you question wether he has done anything or whether its all just in his head because hes a psycho, when I rewatched it, right at the start hes just straight up psycho to the bar lady and she just doesnt hear him at all…did he really say it, or is it just what hes thinking? Great film and another great reaction, just followed your Instagram ash! 👏🏼💪🏼
Firstly, as a huge comic book fan myself I kinda feel Hannah is right, I don’t wanna see a million and one origin movies. Let’s keep the story going until the characters are too old etc . I’m with you Hannah, you have my backing
If you're a comic book fan you shouldn't respect such a naive opinion. She clearly has no idea what she is talking about, which she admits. Spiderman and the Amazing Spiderman are the only 2 Spiderman films that go over quite similar material. If you agree with her then your saying that Spiderman 2 etc was a waste of time, which it ultimately wasn't. Also, Batman from the 80's is nothing like the Nolan trilogy which doesn't rehash that storyline, nor does Burton's sequel or Forever or and Robin or The Batman or Natman vs Superman. So, I think, dear sir, you are full of shit. Her over simplifying of an entire genre is an insult. Nor one that she meant in a particularly harmful way but definitely one that should not be defended.
He says things straight forward and it's so absurd that people think he's being sarcastic whether as to if he were to try and hide it, he'd probably get caught. The fact that he's not hiding anything people wouldn't believe it.
Sweet baby jesus…you two have managed to make me laugh my butt off during your reactions to two of the most horrendously-thematic movies (this and Seven). Congratulations. ❤️
Christian Bale is a psychotically good actor: Out of the Furnace, Rescue Dawn, and Harsh Times are three of his best performances IMO, and most people rarely mention or react to them.
Imo, one of the most underrated quips in this movie is the “is that a gram?” Line from Bryce after Patrick opens his card holder. It’s so fast and hard to catch what he says on the first go so most people write it off as non-essential dialogue (which is true, but those people missed out on one of the greatest one-liners in movie history 😂😂)
8:12 I always love seeing people's reaction (especially from women) when Patrick tells his receptionist not to wear that outfit again. The callous and self-absorbed nature of demanding someone else dress in a way that suits THEIR preference... Oh man, that always hits a nerve lol
It is ambiguous as to whether he killed them. The director leans towards he did kill them. However Patrick does start losing his sanity towards the ends, so shooting the cop cars and stuff like that might be in his head. But the stuff before that was probably real.
We do know it all happened, the director has said so. She said she wishes it was more obvious and not ambiguous as it seems to be. Not in those exact words though.
@@L3onOfKings The ATM didn't really ask to be fed a stray cat, though, did it? And the police cars exploding so easily? At that point his perception of reality is suspect. I suppose that some delusional people might struggle with knowing the difference between what they actually did and what they only imagined. Personally, I tend to think 80-90% of it was real, with a 10-20% sprinkling of hallucination, with Patrick not being certain which memories were really daydreams. It all felt real to him. We, as the audience, don't really get any more rock-solid certainty than he does.
@@hollyodell4012 Yeah you're right, the ATM didn't say that, some of what he was experiencing was just in his mind. However, the murders were supposed to have happened. That is straight from the directors mouth in an interview I saw.
Patrick isn't materialistic because he enjoys nice clothes or the finest restaurants, he's materialistic because he has to be better than everyone else
And "Because, I'm trying...to....Fit....In."
@@SaRENRampaiger No, fitting in has to do with being psychotic. Fitting in is one of the hardest thing when you are not like anyone else and has to cover what you truly do.
@@revariox189 psychopathic
Ummm are you not going to talk about the business cards?
Nah the competition part is just part of being a man, its the obsession with the state of tools to the degree that undermine their purpose, that is sacrilege to life itself
It is a strange ending, but I've heard enough from the film-makers to know that Bateman was a murderous psychopath, it's just that everyone around him is so vapid and self-involved, that they don't notice or can't even tell each other apart. He finally got to the point where he doesn't even care anymore.
I think one of the film makers even expressed he regret that they made the ending seem so ambiguous and it wasn't their intention to do so
@@DillsyYourDaddy67 Yes, the the director. In the book it's a bit more obvious that he did kill people.
@@Fedorevsky I thought the book was more vague
@@BadgerBJJ no no no. The book is incredibly narrow in direction. The purpose is that he did kill them and the book does no job to hide it
He begins losing his mind in the book through each chapter. Patrick Bateman’s character is also a pathological liar so most of the things in the book may not actually be true because it’s told in the first person.
The business card scene is one of my favorite comedic scenes of all time
Bro honestly it kills me every time I watch it..it’s the close up to his face 😂
hilarious scene
I love how Ash is just totally honest, and Hannah gets worried about his sanity
😂😂😂 you’ve just explained our relationship
Hannah has such nice hair to complement her face, she really should tip her hairdresser!
That’s something this film does tbh I love watching people react to is because everytime both of the reactors have a different opinion on what occurs in the film
@@svenpoletka5236 wtf
@@wastingtime9004 Huh? It is okay if you disagree
Apparently the studio (and some of the cast and crew) was very dissatisfied with Bale's performance while they were shooting, but you can clearly tell that Christian Bale knew exactly what the film needed in him and he committed to doing it that way.
It's cause the character Patrick Batemen himself is acting and trying to fit into society. So Bale is such a good actor, he was playing a character that was trying to fit in. People thought Patrick Bateman's poor acting was Christian's acting.
Bale was only 25 at the time as well and barely being paid for the role, amazing confidence and self-belief
That's actually unbelievable. He's one of the greatest actors of the era
Yeah the other actors playing his yuppie friends didn’t get it either until they saw the final film going, OOOOOOHH….
thats not true actually. they thought that he was a shitty actor and just to add on that he was the least payed (he was payed basically the minimum, even the makeup artists were payed more than him, and that didnt really help with their view on his acting), BUT when the movie finally came out they realized how fantastic his acting actually is
He actually did kill most, if not all, of those people. The director stated that he is actually a murderer He did kill Jared Leto's character, but it's ambiguous if that's actually Paul Allen or not since everyone in their business/yuppie world of Patrick are so similar in terms of clothing style and lifestyle that they constantly mistake everyone's names (i.e. other characters referring to Bateman as another person in passing). The only hallucination in my opinion is him killing the police officers at the end/the explosion of the police car after only a few bullets.
Did the real Paul Allen leave without telling anyone then?
Who was Willem DaFriend looking for then? A different Paul Allen?
100% I personally believe that he did kill the real Paul Allen (since he had his apartment and the police were investigating), but the gentleman at the end actually had dinner with someone else and thought it was Paul Allen, like how you mentioned everyone getting everyone mixed up.
He did kill the real Paul Allen it seems that Patrick is the only one who knows about other people and what they do and doesn't mistake them for each other.
@@touchingisjustthefirststep Which brilliantly implies that only a psychopath would bother getting familiar with anyone in such a meaningless environment
@@nicholasking4067 what if the detective was imaginary too. You can interpret this movie three ways 1) he killed all 2) he killed some, some are imaginary 3) all of it is imaginary and all 3 are true and that was the idea behind a movie
Its crazy how the popularity of this movie has progressed over the years. Definitely a certified cult classic. Loved the video as always!!
you haven't seen it yet bro
Definitely the Huey Lewis and the News soundtrack
Memes have also helped it.
@@SDWorksYT for sure buddy! Some great ones out there lmaoo
Great that you loved the video, but don't forget to return it.
My theory for the "I had dinner with Paul Allen 10 days ago" is that Carnes didn't actually have dinner with Paul, instead just like everyone else in that materialistic world thought the guy he had dinner with is Paul. Just like Paul thought Patrick is Marcus, and Carnes thought Patrick is Davis. It just highlights one of the film's most important thematics, which is people are self absorbed and self centered, that they don't even bother to remember other people's identities.
That works pretty well.
Just like when the prostitutes said “you look familiar”. They all look the same.
Exactly
The detective even said when he first interviewed Patrick that someone said that he had dinner with Paul Allen but he mistaken someone alse for being him and he provided unreliable information
Sabrina don’t just stare at it, eat it!!
One of the best lines in the whole movie 😂
Hahaha trust me 😂😂
@@justtrustash every time I seen a reaction of the movie or watch it myself,it has me geeking from how matter of factly / nonchalant he says it 😂
didn't realize this was a silent film
Such a fantastic film! I'm sure someone else will mention this, but they actually did three seperate takes for each of the interrogation scenes and mixed them together; one where Patrick isn't suspected at all, one where he's a suspect and one where they know he did it. It really makes those scenes special!
I love that Ash was laughing because it is a dark comedy lol. That's the brilliance of the film.
Now let's see Paul Allen's movie reaction.
Look at that subtle off white coloring
@@MegaLaban12345 it even has a watermark
@@SmartPrice84 oh my god
Guys, don't just look at it, EAT it.
@@MegaLaban12345 The tasteful thickness of it
The thing is I totally relate to Ash laughing like this being obviously a Dark comedy and all.....
Hahaha glad I got people like you on the channel 😂
@@justtrustash Thanks bro, I’m glad we have your channel! I’m having a blast every time you both are perfect keep going!
"Dog gets stomped to death" Ash: 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂
Ummmmmyea…that’s what dark comedy kinda want…..so no your not edgy mmmk? 🙄😂🤣😂🤣 for real? Thanks for letting us know you laughed at jokes. 🤯
@@jeanb7158 meh, Ash is BEYOND ignorant…..clearly uneducated and not interested in anymore apparently. Those silly inane symbolisms…..and he almost ALWAYS misses the actual POINT of almost every scene or symbol, the girl usually Gets it FAST…..he’s the reason I stopped watching….don’t know why this was recommended ……o and there’s him telling us alllll about him,….like he’s not YA KNOW DESCRIBED IN THE TITLE . Guess Ash didn’t know the bare bones of a psychopath…..ugh. 🙄🤮 poor girl.
Bale is a sorely underrated comedic actor. He's not a zany, screwball comedian like Jim Carrey, or even the subtler types like a Steve Martin or Cary Grant in his heyday, but man when you give him some levity to work with, he can do a lot with it.
This movie, American Hustle, and The Big Short among others. He's the only reason why I'm looking forward to the next Thor.
The MCU squandered him I'm afraid.
Hannah I agree with you. They don’t need that many sequels.
Bale in American Psycho: “You can always be thinner”.
Bale in The Fighter: “I could probably be thinner “.
Bale in The Machinist: “ Alright I think that’ll do it”.
With all of his weight loss and weight gain for roles, I am surprised that he has not been seriously hospitalized.
@@AT-rr2xw Just comedically hospitalized.
Then after the Machinist: "I'm gonna get as big as possible to be Batman".
@@sticky4158 Yeah, But Never Returned to his Top Physique in American Psycho..
@@AT-rr2xw well he does have heart problems now, I've heard
Also to explain the end, he did kill everybody, and the lawyer says he had dinner with Paul Allen because in this world, everyone is similar. It’s those symbolisms you were talking about. The lawyer was just covering Patrick same as the real estate lady selling Paul’s place.
Yes.. ✅
But what about the Paul Allen's remodeled apartment?
@@japython I’m sorry, you are referring to the end where Paul’s place is being painted and sold. As I said, the real estate lady just wanted to sell it meaning she was okay with removing dead bodies. You can tell this is true because when Patrick shows up, she becomes very cautious about him realizing it was he who committed those killings in Paul’s place even asking Patrick to leave. In the end this is a world of greed where anyone will do anything to get what they want. You could even say the character in the movie are more evil or troublesome than Patrick because they never catch on or even care about when he talks about his Psychotic alter ego
Wowww!!! Mate is this actually true..that is even better
@@Kingvxmp yeah I need to sell this place so I'm just going to get rid of these countless numbers of literal truckloads of dismembered bodies because it would make the place easier to sell, said no real estate agent ever, I feel like the more likely scenario is that most if not all of the killings were simply a figment Patrick's imagination, vivid fantasies bleeding over into his reality, no different than his shootout with the police with is super Glock that can cause cars to explode.
One of my favorite things about this movie is that all of Defoe's scenes were filmed three ways; doesn't suspect Patrick, suspects Patrick, knows it was Patrick. Then it was all spliced together to make really interesting and disconcerting scenes.
Wow. In under 72 hours we had an Ash/Hannah reaction to ‘Seven’ and ‘American Psycho.’ 🥳
Just wait till the next one tonight 👀
Over the past few weeks this has become one of my favourite channels. You two are so perfect together.
Best reaction channel atm to be honest
The Team America reaction is awesome lol, had me laughing all the way through.
I don’t know who you are..but I could kiss your forehead mate, mad love to you ❤️
He can't kill Jean because she's the only one who has ever seen him as a person, notice everyone throughout the movie mistakes him for someone else.
Hannah: "YOU put some Fucking high heels on, you prick!" Lol!!
It doesn't mean that he didn't kill Jared Leto's character. It's just that they keep forgetting each others names and who's who. This movie is kind of a cautionary tale about the path of modernity, nobody cares about anyone, people have affairs with each others friends, everyone's doing everything just so they can impress people they don't like, and it also shows the materialism that's oh so prevalent at the moment.
He’s also crazy and is hallucinating much of it. We don’t know what he really did and didn’t do. Unless you think the ATM actually told him to feed it a cat or a pistol magically materialized in his coat and blew up a cop car.
@@Gunnar001 Yeah, everyone's saying that that's all in his mind. I was thinking the same thing for the longest time, but I'm not sure anymore. Why would there be one, over the top, hallucination/vision and what does it mean..? That bit is truly absurd but so is the ending, right? He confesses everything and they're still like, no Pat, don't be silly, pretty surreal, if you ask me.
Edit: The director definitely doesn't want everyone to think that it was all in Pat's head, but she kinda failed in that sense as there are far too many things that indicate that. She wanted it to be more open-ended.
@@Gunnar001 Plus didn't Dafoe's character said that Paul Allen had toothpaste, clothes, luggage missing? Sounds like he was gone somewhere, not dead.
@@adeptavatar9394 No, Patrick actually packed some of Paul’s stuff, so there wouldn’t be as much suspicion
@@kryss2056 Is that actually in the movie somewhere?
That swerve at the end is one of my favorite ones in film. Christian Bale has had so many absolute bangers in his resumé, it's quite crazy! You should watch Equilibrium, a very underrated performance of his.
have u seen "harsh times"?
Equilibrium is so much better than it has any right to be.
I agree equilibrium is a great movie and another amazing Christian Bale performance you guys should definitely watch it
Man I love Equilibrium.
Love Equilibrium! Another underrated gem
I've watched this movie before, but you two have made it even better & way funnier watching it again.
I love you mate! Thank you for this ❤️
Hannahs "oh fuck off" was so british I love it!
Hannahs reaction at “dont wear that outfit again” scene is why I subbed to this channel
“You go put some high heels on ya prick” LOLOLOLOOOOL
This movie is fuckin iconic. When he ran down the hallway of the apartment building butt ass naked I die laughing everytime lol 😂😂😂
I love the scene where Patrick Bateman says "That's right, I'm the American Psycho." Truly one of the movies ever
He didn't say that
@@B_baldyI’ve watched the movie like 12 times, its one of my favorite movies ever made. He NEVER says that.
@@ninja_tonyI'm pretty sure they are joking.....
@@ninja_tonybruh it’s a pretty famous joke about the movie
He said it in the post credit scene when hanibal lecter showed up.
The book makes this movie look like a daycare... it has soooo many graphic details... it really kind messes you up😳😳😳 they did do a good job of showcasing his obsession with his routine, music, and restaurants... sometimes those things would go on for pages or even chapters
It's the kind of book that you give a copy of, but wouldn't recommend. I love how people are just a collection of accesories.
I couldn't finish the book.
Yeah, the books is very... detailed
Sounds like a wild read lmfao
@@MrFredstt it is. I like grim shit but that book had me depressed and broken for a few days while I was reading it. You enter Patrick’s psyche
This is one of the most symbolic movies you've watched on the channel. A thing that a lot of reactors fail to remember is that no one knows who each other are because they are so self-obsessed. The lawyer THINKS he had dinner with Paul Allen twice because he doesn't care. He doesn't even know he is talking to Patrick. He thinks he's talking to someone else.
Y'all misread the ending, it's cool most people do the 1st time. The idea isn't that he didn't kill anyone. It's that everyone in the film is so self centered and all act the same that they can't tell each other apart. Remember Paul Allen never called him Patrick. Characters will constantly call each other by the wrong name throughout the film. The director has already come out and said that the kills are all real. They covered up his kills at the apartment and Paul is actually dead but no one noticed because they are all the same and to self centered to care or even properly remember each other's names or tell them apart. It was this culture that created Patrick in the 1st place and will enable him to keep killing. Patrick can do whatever he wants without repercussion.
I feel like men find this movie hysterical and women find this movie horrifying and this video demonstrates that dichotomy rather well
God, just in the first two minutes of the video, you had me smiling so much! You guys are amongst my favorite reaction youtubers because you give off such cute and wholesome couple energy! Every video is a blessing. I wish you both the best.
I like how she’s able to understand the film without constantly feeling the need to let everyone know that she understands the film.
“Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?”
It's one of the most accurate representation of psychopathy to this day. Cult classic.
That's official: your reactions are the best on RUclips. You crack me up badly!
"You're crazy I'm attracted to him" why thank you he's literally me.
He did kill all those people. The scene where he enters Paul Allens appartment near the ending proves it. The realestate woman asks him if hes there because of the add in the times to which he answers yes. She then tells him that there was no add in the times and asks him to leave without any trouble and never return. She basically just cleaned up after him because if word came out that a serial killer was stashing all his kills there the appartment would loose value. The Director also says she didnt intend that people would be all confused about that and had she known she would have made it more clear.
All that stuff DID happen!
The book is a great exploration on the yuppie culture and the dark meaning around the killings, with much more detail and graphic things.
I'm still not convinced ALL of it happened. There are a few things in the book that make it seem like some of it could be in his head.
pretty sure i read somewhwere the screenwriter said there is a point in the film where it becomes more delusion. Personally i felt like the point was that he is an unreliable narrator and its deliberately ambiguous as to what is real and what isnt. I cant believe that all of it happened as some of the killings where so reckless that it would seem unrealistic and unbelievable that there would be know evidence of wrongdoing. Security cameras/passers by/the body count of people. The fact that an atm told him to feed it a cat shows there is definitely some delusion atleast. I always saw it as the book that is found with all his musings and drawings was where he lived out his fantasies.
@@jonahdube9033 Yea the stuff shooting at the police and killing the guy at the desk, obviously that didn't happen. Cars don't explode when you shoot them.
Whats yuppie culture?
American Psycho is something I’ve been waiting for you both specifically to react to because y’all are nothing but pure entertainment. This video was fuckin hilarious the whole way through thank you & keep watching movies together
Omg. This is like the 5th video of yours I watched today, and I’m dying about the Fly. Shoo fly!!! You two are my favorite already!
Love this so much, thank for your beautiful message Nicole 👊🏽
You guys had the right reaction first time through, this movie is hilarious. When I first watched this I thought it was a serious thriller, when really Bateman is a parody of American exceptionalism/materialism
Congrats on the 50k Ash and Hanna, you guys deserve it, I'm doing great by the way Lol
😂😂 I love you mate, thank you
I love how easy it is for you to wind Hannah up. Also, since she hasn’t seen it, I would love to see her watch Texas chainsaw massacre.
You killed me with TCM 🤣🤣🤣
Ash’s reaction to this movie was my reaction to this movie. I absolutely love this movie and have watched it multiple times. My favorite scene is the card scene. Hands down made it on my top 5 list of favorite movies 🎥 ❤
18:00 Fun fact: The director shot the detective's close-ups three times... Once to show he knows Patrick did it, once to show the detective is unsure whether or not Patrick did it, and once to show the detective thinks that Patrick is innocent. Then they edited all those shots together.
I absolutely LOVE these reactions & how much fun you guys have!
You had me dead laughing at "You should be grateful, he didn't kill you!" :'D
I love you people. Your reactions is pure dopamine to my brain.
“YOU PUT SOME HIGH HEELS ON, YA PRIG!!”
Lmmfao
The different expressions on both of you during the different scenes really, really adds to the nuances of every scene. Both are heartfelt, both are wildly different. Exactly as the director intended.
Hannah's reaction when they are in the restroom! Lol!!
"This guy right here" is adorable. Love you both and I just subscribed.
He definitely killed people. It’s just everyone is so superficial that people don’t really know each other. For instance people thought bateman was Paul Allan. They all kind of look the same and act the same etc. the dude that lawyer had dinner with in London was just a random person like the rest of the Wall Street guys that he thought was Paul Allan lol. And yeah you were right about them wanting to sell the place so they covered up the bodies being found.
In the book, he killed some of them but not all of them. In the movie it's deliberately vague if he did any of it.
@@deeem2628 not true
Lol “definitely” …….
@@tylerbramhall6596 he did.
The thing about the business card scene that I really like is that it highlights both the general theme of the movie and two of Patrick's most defining traits. The theme being everyone is so materialistic and selfish they don't actually care about each other and constantly mistake everyone for someone else (notice everyone's card lists them all as the Vice President of the company), and Patrick being nonchalant and collected when committing brutal murder but then freaking out and panicking over tiny things like someone else having a better card/apartment than him or losing a dinner reservation, the other trait being him trying so hard to fit in and be "normal" it actually works and he ends up becoming as bland and forgettable as everyone else which just pisses him off even more.
Your girlfriend didn't get upset with Al's death, it was the dog's death that got a reaction out of her...very telling!
That's literally every female reactor who reacts to this movie lol
38:32 when you do something really bad in a dream but you wake up:
7:25 He's literally peeling a mask off his face as he's telling the audience the face he shows the world is a lie.
"This is big for him"
Ash being proud of Patrick for confessing is the funniest shit to me
This reaction is going to be great lol i can feel it .
@@thomassmart4088 No, you don't fool me
The hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me
you're
my favorite Iranian... and you two are destined to be together and grow old and then fight IRL for 40+ years.. great movie.. great reaction.. i applaud you dropping your job and going for it.. cheers from america
I saw this when I was in high school in a packed theater & it was 1 of those movie experiences you always remember because it was a movie like no other movie & the audience were all like "what the hell did I just watch " 😂 I remember it got quite a few big laughs
He isn’t materialistic. He is completely obsessed with image. He mentioned where he lives first not because it's particularly nice but because it's very exclusive. A materialistic person cares about an item, Patrick only cares about the status that comes with owning the item. The business card scene is a perfect example.
No, it is not a fantasy. It is an allegory of how the 80's world, based in looks and status made impossible for people like Patrick to fail no matter how awful or bad they screw up, in the book the constant confussion between characters is a theme because everybody looks, cares for and acts the same. P.s. Hanna has moved up to the 2nd prettiest redhair girl in my book, can't tell how long Isla Fisher's reign is going to last at this point.
It's not really an allegory, it's a pretty on-the-nose satire..
If this is how excited and crazy giddy he got with this film, imagine how he would with Basic Instinct! Try that one! LoL
American Psycho and Se7en?
you guys are on a roll.
always a great duo you guys are.
Funny, spontaneous and you think alike.
Keep up the good work.
No. He really killed them. The book is much more graphic. It’s so good .
Also this is the perfect satirical look at materialism and narcissism in the 80s. It’s partly why no one knows who anyone is and always mistaken as someone else. Because they are so self absorbed, and basically the same person. Just clones in the wheels of capitalism.
And Patrick is the robot who’s starting to gain consciousness and seeing how shitty that world. And to him it needs to be destroyed.
He literally me.
@@trevorclinton5692 then seek help. Asap
@@mellysomethingclever it's all in his head
@@ishowspeed2k it’s not……
@@aidangordon4544 how
You noticing that he mentioned his building before his name was something that flew right over my head
One of the funniest films I’ve ever seen
Honestly it is.
38:23 Patrick didn't imagine it all, it's all real. The point of the lawyer saying he had dinner with Paul Allen, is that people in this world have so little interest in each other that they actually forget each other's names all the time (because who you are is defined by what you have, not by what people call you). He didn't have dinner with Paul Allen, he just confused him for someone else. In the novel, for a long time it is totally unclear who this Paul Allen character actually is, but the people he's being confused for are very real (and they do get very killed).
The book is one of the most horrific and disturbing things I’ve ever read. But is written so well that it’s kinda amazing. This movie, though I enjoy it, doesn’t compare to the book… as cliché as it is to say.
Patrick kills the dog
HANNAH: 💀😭
ASH: "😂😂😂😂😂 LOOK BABY HE KILLED THE DOG 😂😂😂😂😂"
The book is so graphic that most people i know couldn’t finish it.
idk what that says about me then, since ive read it like a hundred times lmao
The book is incredible
I've watched a lot of your videos now and was not subscribed so there you go I just did, but no bad comment after because you guys are so genuine and fun to watch. please keep doing your stuff and Ash is so funny, I hope he gets success for investing everything on youtube. you have my full support guys thank you for the content.
Remove the video.. There is no sound :(
I hope you consider using your images on merch. Your expressions in those thumbnails are HILARIOUS!
I love Ash's sense of humor 🤣
My favorite scene has to be Green Goblin interrogating Batman (Patrick Batman) about the disappearance of Joker.
What I love about this movie is how its like made out to make you question wether he has done anything or whether its all just in his head because hes a psycho, when I rewatched it, right at the start hes just straight up psycho to the bar lady and she just doesnt hear him at all…did he really say it, or is it just what hes thinking? Great film and another great reaction, just followed your Instagram ash! 👏🏼💪🏼
"Mergers and acquisitions." 😉
I heard that Bale modeled Bateman's performance after Tom Cruise.
Firstly, as a huge comic book fan myself I kinda feel Hannah is right, I don’t wanna see a million and one origin movies. Let’s keep the story going until the characters are too old etc . I’m with you Hannah, you have my backing
If you're a comic book fan you shouldn't respect such a naive opinion. She clearly has no idea what she is talking about, which she admits. Spiderman and the Amazing Spiderman are the only 2 Spiderman films that go over quite similar material. If you agree with her then your saying that Spiderman 2 etc was a waste of time, which it ultimately wasn't. Also, Batman from the 80's is nothing like the Nolan trilogy which doesn't rehash that storyline, nor does Burton's sequel or Forever or and Robin or The Batman or Natman vs Superman. So, I think, dear sir, you are full of shit. Her over simplifying of an entire genre is an insult. Nor one that she meant in a particularly harmful way but definitely one that should not be defended.
He says things straight forward and it's so absurd that people think he's being sarcastic whether as to if he were to try and hide it, he'd probably get caught. The fact that he's not hiding anything people wouldn't believe it.
Sweet baby jesus…you two have managed to make me laugh my butt off during your reactions to two of the most horrendously-thematic movies (this and Seven). Congratulations. ❤️
My brother David..honour to have you on our channel ❤️
You guys are hysterical. Ash knows you are better than those others Hannah. I think you two are great together.
The dude at the end acts like paul allen isnt dead because Patricks father is their CEO
Just recently came across your chnanel and your guys reactions are the best! Cheers from New Jersey!
Christian Bale is a psychotically good actor: Out of the Furnace, Rescue Dawn, and Harsh Times are three of his best performances IMO, and most people rarely mention or react to them.
100% agree to all those performances. Totally underrated
He would make a good Homelander, don't you reckon?
I see a lot of similarities between Antony Starr's Homelander and Christain Bale's Bateman.
Red Dawn was amazing; yes, I agree that more reactors should watch it.
Imo, one of the most underrated quips in this movie is the “is that a gram?” Line from Bryce after Patrick opens his card holder. It’s so fast and hard to catch what he says on the first go so most people write it off as non-essential dialogue (which is true, but those people missed out on one of the greatest one-liners in movie history 😂😂)
8:12 I always love seeing people's reaction (especially from women) when Patrick tells his receptionist not to wear that outfit again. The callous and self-absorbed nature of demanding someone else dress in a way that suits THEIR preference... Oh man, that always hits a nerve lol
When a woman says "You are right," take note. It's like Halley's comet.
P.S. Ash, you killed this one, mate. That was hilarious.
It is ambiguous as to whether he killed them. The director leans towards he did kill them. However Patrick does start losing his sanity towards the ends, so shooting the cop cars and stuff like that might be in his head. But the stuff before that was probably real.
You guys are hilarious. The way she looks at you sometimes throughout the vid, priceless.
You guys are hilarious and fun to watch.
Probably the only time I've genuinely laughed at banter on a video like this, worth the sub
I've been looking forward to your reation to this all day. Especially the segment where the "Best Batman" hacks up the "Worst Joker."
Non è il peggior joker e manco il miglior batman
You guys have become one of my favorite react channels!!! Keep up the good work!
The ending is left ambiguous as we don't know if it's all a dream or it did happen. We don't know.
We do know it all happened, the director has said so. She said she wishes it was more obvious and not ambiguous as it seems to be. Not in those exact words though.
Actually we do know and it really did happen
@@L3onOfKings The ATM didn't really ask to be fed a stray cat, though, did it? And the police cars exploding so easily? At that point his perception of reality is suspect. I suppose that some delusional people might struggle with knowing the difference between what they actually did and what they only imagined. Personally, I tend to think 80-90% of it was real, with a 10-20% sprinkling of hallucination, with Patrick not being certain which memories were really daydreams. It all felt real to him. We, as the audience, don't really get any more rock-solid certainty than he does.
@@hollyodell4012 Yeah you're right, the ATM didn't say that, some of what he was experiencing was just in his mind. However, the murders were supposed to have happened. That is straight from the directors mouth in an interview I saw.