Why does Christian Bale get lead roles?

[IdolEyes787]

Satire can be funny, and even be classic comedy; however, it doesn't have to be.

So sayeth the dictionaries but give me an example of any satire that didn't intend some humour connected to it.
Swift's stuff is the closest that I can think of but I figure he was still trying to be funny but was just awfully British .

[megabyteme]

So sayeth the dictionaries but give me an example of any satire that didn't intend some humour connected to it.
Swift's stuff is the closest that I can think of but I figure he was still trying to be funny but was just awfully British .

Some humor? That sets the definition of comedy pretty low, doesn't it?

I did take a peek at Amazon's classification of American Psycho, and it is listed under Comedy>Satire

Let's look at the primary reason for the film... I do not believe it was meant to make people laugh about the '80s, nor murder. The author's original message remained intact. Granted, there were some "zany" scenes, but those were more high-budget horror-comedy (as opposed to ,say, Toxic Avenger). The vast majority of the show deals with looking at the superficial- as you said, "empty" life of the yuppie.

I believe we could watch the movie together, and both get all of the concepts in it. Is classification that important when we both "get it"- unlike our clueless thread "contributor", macky?

[IdolEyes787]

I'm sure that I get I whole lot less than I think I do.
Anyway even though you were ( probably ) yolking film's a subjective and not a absolute medium so anyone's opinions are as valid as anyone else's.

[mjmacky]

Inside Job <--- a much more interesting film about investment greed/power. I lack the innate interest in personal narratives of the rich, but when they as an institution are mass fucking people, I'd like to have the facts on that.
MBM, if you were someone I didn't like, I could really enjoy to hear about how much money you wasted on buying an American Psycho Bluray disc. But that not being the case, I'd just like to extend my condolences and let you know I'm here for you. Now at first, you may not want to accept my help, but I'm going to get you through this buddy.

[clocker]

Inside Job is a documentary, American Psycho is fiction.
I caught a distinctly Batemanesque vibe from some of the heads interviewed though.

[megabyteme]

MBM, if you were someone I didn't like, I could really enjoy to hear about how much money you wasted on buying an American Psycho Bluray disc. But that not being the case, I'd just like to extend my condolences and let you know I'm here for you. Now at first, you may not want to accept my help, but I'm going to get you through this buddy.

Actually, I got 5 free blu-rays with my PS3 purchase. I did however, choose American Psycho because the film does have substantial merit. If I could get you a movie-goers version of a white cane, I would.

[clocker]

Blind movie goers have a special cane?
I did not know that.

[stoi]

I thought the film of American Psycho was absolute garbage, but i did just read the book a few months before i seen the film, and the book scared the shit out of me (I can read King and Herbert etc and nothing scares me, but this bloody did) I had to put the book down for 3 months, it wasnt so much horror, it was the fact i was seeing what he was seeing, IE: I was sort of him, and seeing it in 1st person, not 3rd person, and it really did scare the crap out of me lol (only book to ever do that).

and the film missed out a hell of lot, but then it would have been far too gruesome to put it in. spoilers below of 2 things that spring to mind.

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He takes a car jack, puts it in a prostitutes mouth, jacks her mouth open so her jaw breaks, reaches inside and pulls her insides out.
He captures a rat and doesnt feed it for 2 months (or so) gets another prostitute, ties her up, puts the rat on her stomach and covers it with a pan or something, well only way out is to eat her alive (this is the point i had to put the book down lol)

it has been a few years since i read the book so those may be a bit sketchy at best, but if you do like the film, and have not read the book, do so, but try to read it as you are him, and not looking at him from the outside, and it will scare the crap out of you lol

as for Christian Bale, hes not that bad, he plays an OK batman (but what do you really expect from batman, its not going to be Patrick Stewart reciting hamlet on stage is it).

another spoiler for what i think it was all about.

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PS: I will have to read the book again, but this is the way i see it, he was cracking up with the pressures of his job and social life, he wanted to kill people, but he never actually did any of it, it was all in his head, as at the end the guy who he axed came back (i think or at least was seen in london or something) and his secretary found drawings and writings of what he thought he was doing in his desk.

[mr. nails]

So I FINALLY checked out American Psycho, I've had too many people recommend it. It was a huge fucking waste of time. Not only was the movie bad...

really? i loved it. i've always thought that was one of his best roles and quite frankly imo that's what CB does best. sux that u didn't like it.

[megabyteme]

Spoiler: Show

He takes a car jack, puts it in a prostitutes mouth, jacks her mouth open so her jaw breaks, reaches inside and pulls her insides out.
He captures a rat and doesnt feed it for 2 months (or so) gets another prostitute, ties her up, puts the rat on her stomach and covers it with a pan or something, well only way out is to eat her alive (this is the point i had to put the book down lol)

it has been a few years since i read the book so those may be a bit sketchy at best, but if you do like the film, and have not read the book, do so, but try to read it as you are him, and not looking at him from the outside, and it will scare the crap out of you lol

as for Christian Bale, hes not that bad, he plays an OK batman (but what do you really expect from batman, its not going to be Patrick Stewart reciting hamlet on stage is it).

another spoiler for what i think it was all about.

Spoiler: Show

PS: I will have to read the book again, but this is the way i see it, he was cracking up with the pressures of his job and social life, he wanted to kill people, but he never actually did any of it, it was all in his head, as at the end the guy who he axed came back (i think or at least was seen in london or something) and his secretary found drawings and writings of what he thought he was doing in his desk.

I do think I will give the book a shot when life settles down a bit.

As for the second spoiler, That is the case with both versions. Nothing ever gets clarified...