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The way American Psycho 2 feels like a Disney Channel Original Movie

I can't highly recommend the book enough. Fucking hilarious. In 1 particular scene in there in a restaurant and I think its Van Patten keeps going on and on about how they should order a Red Snapper Pizza. Patrick has a freak out and yells at him "Nobody likes the fucking pizza here! Its too fucking brittle!!!" Van Patten goes silent and then disappers from the book for like 50 pages after that. Then he randomly shows up in Patrick's office with a stack of newspaper reviews and demands Patrick apologize about the pizza. It's the most psychotic thing ever

I like how just saying "oh yeah Jared Leto" is funny enough on its own like no joke needed

American Psycho 2 has one of the worst scores I've heard in a film.

Willem Dafoe did 3 different styles for 3 different takes of him talking to Christian Bale. They ended up using a splice of all 3 takes to give you that true sense of not really knowing what angle Willem had on him. Perfectly casted imo.

3:35 I love the fact that Adum is so completely disconnected from heterosexuality that he referred to a married woman as a husband first, then a girlfriend, before finally remembering what a wife is.

My favorite thing about American Psycho isn't memes. It's the fact that an expert in typeface and printing did a KZfaq video analyzing the business card scene, and pointed out that literally every single one is horribly, hilariously flawed in some way. I just love the fact that every single one of them are a Vice President of something. Holy shit, these edits are unreal. The fucking cake destroyed me.

Always baffling how Patrick Bateman became a personality character, when his whole point is that he is vapid and forgettable

I really like the detail that every time Patrick Bateman plays music for someone, he talks over it by parroting some magazine review. Not his real opinion, of course, but the most _effective_ opinion.

The contrast between these two films is insanely funny.

Another way to interpret the post-shooting spree story in American Psycho is that Patrick Bateman's complete inability to relate to any other human being has him legitimately terrified and confused as to why they're all seemingly ignoring or outright covering up his crimes.

Genuinely, I would love to see YMS talk about more movies that he appreciates or that he considers to be better and better the more he thinks about them.

Psychologists aren't forbidden from reporting anything, they just can't legally be compelled. You can lose your license if you share it for fun, but technically they are supposed to report it when they think someone is actively a risk to other people(or section 5150 if they are actively a danger to themselves), so they won't lose their license for reporting the crime(and it's not breaking any laws)

The director filmed multiple takes of Dafoe all with a different theme. Some intimidating, some kind, some questioning and then intercut them to add to the uncomfortableness of the scenes with him.

Bale gets his rightful praise for his legendary performance, but I think Mary Harron's direction and Guinevere Turner's screenplay are sorely overlooked. There's also an extra layer of having two women direct/write this movie considering its subject. I don't think the Oliver Stone/DiCaprio combo would've been as memorable had the studio gone with that duo as intended.

The blood trail missing from the og film is one of many inconsistencies purposefully put in the movie because the movie is from Patrick's perspective and the idea is that his perception of events is... questionable. It is entirely possible that the entire murder spree is wholly within Patrick's head and he just makes it up just to pretend his life has more going on than being a soulless WallStreet business dude.

Adam really made the watch along of American Psycho 2 so hilarious. When he played his recorder along with the soundtrack, I couldn’t stop laughing.

I kinda like the idea that all the events of the story are literally true. They're not metaphors, it's not all in Patrick's head, he really did kill all those people. However, the world he lives in just doesn't care. It accepts wanton violence. Embraces it, even. It's a cutthroat business. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Greed is good. What if those weren't just catchphrases, but literally true? In that kind of world, what's one more murder on the pile? It's nothing. It's not anything at all. Patrick's despair comes from him realizing that for all his monstrosity, he is utterly ineffectual. He receives no judgement, he receives no praise, people don't even know who he is. Villains often commit violence as an act of rage against the world, but in American Psycho, Patrick's rage is nothing more than a tantrum.

The author of the Novel, Bret Easton Ellis, has written a bunch of stories coming from his Silicon Valley/Rich Californian perspective and a lot of them have similar themes. It often boils down to characters constantly abusing drugs (pharmaceutical and otherwise) to cover up their psychiatric disorders, a sociopathic drive for wealth and social status, and a general listlessness when it comes to finding purpose or meaning. Theres a bunch of humor regarding Patrick constantly being mistaken for someone else in the book as well, because he and all of his yuppie friends all drive the same cars and wear the same clothes, and have similar meaningless job titles. You could honestly interpret this chain of events as being a fever dream or an actual rampage and the theme would be the same - Patrick's existential torture in the center of a faceless void of wealth and status.

It all started with a man who had to return some videotapes... The rest is history.

Bateman is such a good character Glen Howerton has been playing him for 20 years.

The first one is genuinely one of the funniest movies ever made

American Psycho 2 is like a bizarre Disney Channel version of, idk, Jennifer's Body

The way I've always understood American psycho 1 was, everyone was too caught up in their own rich extravagant lifestyles to even see the serial killer literally right in front of them [sometimes even telling them straight up that he kills people, they still don't believe it, lol] and Patrick Batemen desperately wants the satisfaction of being this big scary killer, and the fact no one pays attention pisses him off even more. actually pretty funny in a meta sense. Him being confused for other people is because of the idea that all rich businessmen have the same clothes, hair, lifestyle so he constantly isn't even recognized as himself which also pisses him off I think.

6:22 One thing I noticed immediately about that exchange (several exchanges in this movie for that matter) is that that line works both for the fact that he's an asshole yuppie that doesn't want her to dirty up his glass table, but also as a serial killer who's planning to kill her in a few minutes he doesn't want her to leave any DNA samples.

I don't think I've ever seen you give a film 10/10 before, and didn't think it would be American Psycho! It was great watching your reactions - I react the same way every time I watch it. One of the funniest movies ever made and Christian Bale is incredible like you said. Thanks for the reminder to rewatch it

Patrick Bateman, the internet’s SECOND poster boy for “Literally Me.”

So this is how Adam reacts to a movie that is a 10/10 for him

Notice how Patrick says where he lives before introducing himself. He's more concerned with showing off his fancy home than with the audience acknowledging him as a person.

The music from American Psycho 2 sounds like royalty-free music they'd use on tiktoks.

The amount of memes this movie produced is kinda beautiful and insane. Almost every scene is already a meme or could be a potential meme.

I would highly recommend the novel, there's a running theme throughout the book of Patrick never describing the people he is around in his business and personal life by there personality or actual facial details, instead he describes them based entirely on what brand there clothes and accessories are. the brings home the idea that he doesn't see anyone around him as a actual people and instead just concepts of people.

I've watched this movie so many times and I really don't believe he killed even one person.

I always thought that the Jared Leto character was someone else pretending to be Paul Allen. Everyone is always switching personas for an advantage or confusing people for others. So he just murdered some other coworker. Then that murder will go unnoticed because of they all look the same. Then I also think that Patrick actually murdered a bunch of people in Paul Allen's appartment. Then Paul's family assumed that Paul was a murderer and covered it up. That's why that lady is trying to shew away Patrick.

“I am become American Psycho” - Patrick Bateman

Something about walking into your living room late for your straight-to-DVD movie is hilarious to me

I've always loved the fact that the three people Patrick decided not to kill are the ones that offered him some type of actual love/care.

My interpretation of the “Paul Allen’s Place” scene was that he had been using it as his place to lure victims but obviously had never been paying any bills there so it eventually had to become vacant, the realtor found his memorabilia & just cleaned it up just to sell the place. She made him bluff about the ad in the paper just to see who he might really be but in fear of her own life she let him go..

Oh my god Bateman does sound exactly like Fuentes I'll never unhear that

Between American Psycho and Nightcrawler I really don't know which one I love more. They're just astounding evil character pieces that start from opposite sides, the first from complete success and the second from total failure.

"Directed by Morgan Freeman" absolutely killed me lol

I love whenever he brings up serial killer trivia. The mask fully slips and, for once, Patrick allows himself to say something purely on the basis that he's interested in the subject matter, i.e. just being himself, and the fact that everyone, even his "friends", looks at him like a weirdo after doing that shows how no one in his life really knows him or understands him. Poor guy.

My favorite interpretation I’ve heard of American psycho is that he *genuinely* cares about music. He talks about it and no one listens. I think emp lemon has a good video on the subject

A masterpiece and a master piss

40:39 that sound effect has got to literally be the same as the one Soulja Boy uses in Crank That. As soon as I heard that sound, my brain went "YOUUUUU"

"I simply am not there." ...all of the yuppies have practically the same exact suit, glasses, haircut, business cards, and even the same position (Vice President) at the same firm. Nobody knows who he is, they constantly get his name wrong, and his lawyer at the end doesn't even believe him when he tells him he's Patrick Bateman. All of the bodies at Paul Allen''s place were gone with no explanation, and his lawyer claims that he'd just had lunch with Paul. Nothing he "does" gets noticed by anyone with a name. He shoots a cop car and it blows up in a huge fireball. He starts to realize that nobody knows who he is. By the end he is having a full-on identity crisis in the most literal sense. He's starting to lose his grip of what's real and what isn't. He isn't afraid of being caught and the repercussions - he flaunts his actions, and near the end he's actively TRYING to get caught.....and realizing he can't. His confession is laughed off as a joke. People hear his name and think the exact same as any other Allen or Smith or Halverson... just another name, just a thought, an idea. You may think you know who he is, you might hear his name, have his card, even know a joke or two about him... but you don't actually know him. Hell, for all we know, he might not even exist. He is simply not there.

*Severed head appears in fridge Adam: “Lol nice.”

Adding to your point about Bateman's personality being all facade with no substance, I don't think the film's violent events are simply hyperbolized, but they are absolutely fantastical. Bateman wants to be noticed, to stand out. He blends in so perfectly with his crowd as to be indistinguishable, so he's imagining all the things he could do to set himself apart, first by literally killing the competition, then by becoming a serial murderer of prostitutes, then by staging a one-man massacre. These are the ways in which Bateman imagines he could find a way out of his empty, pointless rut. He never does any of them. He just fixates on them, jots them down in his puerile little notebook, and immerses himself in the fantasies to the point of being uncertain of whether or not he's actually done them. He's just waiting, yearning for the day that he actually loses control of himself and one of his drug binges turns into something that will get him the slightest bit of personalized attention from the people he cares about getting attention from, even if it's only for a moment.

I agree that 'how he keeps getting away with it' isn't really the point, but i do think it directly connects with the 'i am not there' aspect that you discuss too. throughout the movie people overtly turn a blind eye to obviously horrific things. the dry cleaner, the couple watching him load a body into the car. I think the idea is that at this level of power and privilege, the world will cover for you because your lies hold up their lies (think of the hospital "i could shoot you and everyone would lie for me" monologue from Sin City). I think the best representation of this is the real estate agent in paul allen's apartment at the end of the movie. Of course this scene could be interpreted as gaps of logic because of the main character's madness, but it could also be seen as the real estate agent hiding the terrible things because it would impact the future sales of the condo. It's purposely ambiguous, but watch the scene again with that context in mind. With that context, it gets added to the long list of scenes in the movie where a person is ignoring a horrible thing the main character does for their own various reasons. "I am simply not there" because my actions do not impact the world, the world simply reassembles itself around whatever actions i take.

I hope someone, somewhere is able to recapture the intoxicating mix of drama and hilarity of American Psycho, but I’m not holding out hope.

It's really neat to hear Adum talk about a movie he likes for once in one of these videos. And a movie he hates, in the same Video. Great stuff!

It’s nice seeing Adum comment on movies he genuinely loves… followed by movies he finds hilarious for unintended reasons

I think he was experiencing shame and not guilt. Shame is being upset with how people are seeing you, vs guilt is inward reflection with regret involving self acknowledgement of the problem.

One of my favorite facts is that Willem DaFoe has said that they filmed his scenes multiple times, where he knew Patrick was the killer, where he treated him as a suspect but wasn’t sure, and where he didn’t suspect Patrick at all but was obligated to interview him anyway. Then when editing, they cut these scenes together to show even Patrick wasnt sure what exactly the detective was thinking

They made a movie about Scoot? Bonus joke: imagine what will annoy Scoot more, being compared to Patrick Bateman or being called American.

I remember I watched this movie WAAAAAAAAAY back then because of your horror film recomendations for Halloween, I watched it a bunch of times after that. It was kinda surreal seeing this movie make such a come back as a cult classic because of memes.

idk if this is where the director was going but according to psychoanalysis the only way a psycopath can "feel" guilt is by paranoid hallucinations of punishment

My interpretation is that it is still all a metaphor, but in universe it all happened. I think the metaphor is that the most powerful people can do anything and get away with it like it never happened. They are all just the same empty, meaningless vessels. That's why he "isn't there". This is also supported by the fact that through the whole movie, nobody does actual work. They are just there for status. But that's why it was all covered up. He killed people who basically didn't matter. His confession meant nothing because this is the status quo.

You know what's funny? The adaptation of Rules of Attraction, another novel by Bret Easton Ellis , which takes place in the same universe as American Psycho, was released the same year. Patrick Bateman was supposed to be a character in it but they cut his scenes. So, unlike All American Girl, this movie actually had a reason to be connected to American Psycho, and yet it wasn't. Also, i find it weird how American Psycho 2 has a scene with Shatner's character taking Diazepam, considering that Shatner had found his wife dead with high amounts of Diazepam in her blood 3 years prior.

Misidentification is a theme throughout. People use the wrong names for other people all the time. He even misidentifies the serial killer “head on a stick” quote (Ed Kemper said that, not Ed Gein. Gein was the inspiration for Texas Chainsaw).

I interpreted the ending being that Patrick realized that he, as a serial killer, was more humane than his corporate colleagues. His coworkers simply could not care at all that someone they worked with vanished. Patrick fixated on Paul Allen's above-and-beyond business card, but his coworkers forgot that Paul Allen existed the minute he disappeared. Paul Allen's death was also kept under wraps because it would have tanked the value of his apartment, given that the realtor tells Patrick to leave when he asks if this is Paul Allen's apartment. The film's ending includes the coworkers looking at the TV to watch Ronald Reagan, the current president, as Patrick is still soaking in the apathy of his coworkers, implying to me that the whole movie's message was that Reaganism was a bigger societal plague than serial killers.

People who worked on production and with Bale have said that he’s literally capable of sweating on demand. Which is something I’ve genuinely never heard about anyone before.

American Psycho (the book and the movie) covers very similar thematic ground to Being There (the book and the movie), even though they're superficially a lot different. Also important to keep in mign that Bret Easton Ellis deliberately wrote the original novel without any murders at all, only the surface-level conversations between characters, the album reviews, etc., and then wrote the murder sequences AFTERWARD. The dishotomy between interior and exterior in the film is so fundamental that it goes right back to the originall writing process of the novel.

Still amazing how American Psycho 2 much like Son of the Mask are actual official bootlegs

The real sequel pairing is the rules of attraction and American psycho

super entertaining to watch! thank you so much for your work! You help me to find something that gives me joy haha

The fact that Fuentes does the discount Bateman vibe is such a dggL

I think at the ending when he goes to Paul Allens place, and the closet is empty, its because the realiter who is trying to sell the house has cleaned up the mess. Theres paint cans and brushes. Her greed has overtaken the value of life. When every character is confronted with humanity in this film, they all reject it

I didn't know Patrick Bateman was uncut.

There is a nice analysis connecting the movie to Baudrillard and postmodernism, that the world in which Bateman lives in is precisely a world in which he doesn't exist. Everything is just for show, so nobody can notice that a homicidal maniac exists among them.

William Shatner is actually generally good across the six Star Trek films with the original cast, Wrath of Khan naturally being his high point

Idk what's going through your mind Adum but it feels like you're back to the way you use to do videos, f*cking luv everything you do, man ❤

The entire point if Patrick Bateman is how he's miles up his own ass, to a degree that he's unrelatable, and how alien everyone else seems through his eyes. From his point of view, he feels contantly hounded by powers that seek to end him, and when he finally stops seeing himself as untouchable and learns a TINY bit of regret, he realizes how unseen and unimportant he really is. And it's what he fears most.

I think Mika Kunis reached her apex mountain with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and she’s never really topped that.

Saw your notes on this on Pateron. Happy this is here now!

I felt since my first watching of American Psycho that i understood the ending and the film overall, but your interpretation of the film being more related to american consumerism and the need to keep reaching a higher status than those around you makes so much sense i am now gonna adopt it as my own.

i think the circus music in american psycho 2 is actually a metaphor for life

I’m so happy I was there on Twitch to witness Adum’s legendary recording of the pixelated/black and white explanation. Peak comedy

I heard William Dafoe did three takes. One that he knew Patrick Bateman was the killer, one that he suspected and one that he didn't have a clue. With the power of editing you also get confused if the cop knows what's going on.

You can tell a film sequel is truly something 'special' when the portion dedicated to the first film is only a third of the Let's Watch double-feature.

A lot of the music in American Psycho 2 feels like soundtrack to the original Fable in the whimsical scenes early on. It just feels so tonally dissonant...

always an absolute joy to listen to Adams magnificent flute skills.

“It’s stainless steel.” Dude, 99% of metal cutlery is stainless steel.

To add onto the ending, idk if it was the director or the writer of the novel, but they interpreted the first film’s ending as real, and what actually happened is after Patrick’s call to his lawyer, they scrambled to Paul Allen’s place to clean it, find an alibi, and gaslight Patrick into believing none of it happened. At Paul’s place when the listing woman is there, she recognizes Patrick and is able to get him to leave

Well done. Would have been a fun Adum and Pals, too.

Ah YMS; you're awesome!!! I just love you and Rags senses of humor... I can relate to you guys haha

Not that you'd care, but I think this is your best video that I have seen. Thank you

We're trying to build a lot of tension in this scene so be sure to use music from the Sims 3

Patrick: *Do you like Phil Collins?* Canadians in Nova Scotia: *Baaaaam!*

Just what i needed today lol

AAAH THE SOUND EFFECT AT THE END IS SO FUNNY

You guys rock, 🤘 I love to think that patrick bateman is batman, he just took the e off his last name.

I like the movie because you can’t tell when he starts or if he is has been imagining everything the whole time. You’re just slowly absorbed into the insanity with Patrick and drawing the line is impossible.

Smashin' that like button exclusively for that recorder jam!!!

I've been WAITING for this one💞💞💞

The message American Psycho is going for is that we all live in a world where everyone is constantly being mistaken for one another. Everyone only cares about themselves and their image. We then follow and see how a psychopath is treated and how a psychopath acts in such a world. All these fake people are just the same, it’s a fantastic concept and it’s executed really well.

Adum, I am glad you find the movie literally based on my life enjoyable.

i think the score in the sequel was trying to go for a "murder,she wrote" thing which would make sense if the music was written for its original script

I legit lost it when he shoots that old lady, we hear a mario coin noise, then it cuts to Adam grinning with glee at the scene like its the best thing he's seen all week. Not judging his reaction, but it all flowed so perfectly I lost composure.