Best Breakup Ever

[Gorvi]

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It's so cold it's priceless, the line at 50 seconds in really seals it. That's also a great movie that everyone should watch. :)

Oh, and NSFW for the language.

[Karak]

I have not seen the movie. But...that seems like the Reese character is a total snob and he is fed up. It doesn't seem all that cold. In fact it seems perfectly legit. But again I haven't seen it. I am not sure how I missed it. I am not a huge Bale fan except for Reign of Fire(Dragons wee). Maybe I should try to catch this.

[Gorvi]

I have not seen the movie. But...that seems like the Reese character is a total snob and he is fed up. It doesn't seem all that cold. In fact it seems perfectly legit. But again I haven't seen it. I am not sure how I missed it. I am not a huge Bale fan except for Reign of Fire(Dragons wee). Maybe I should try to catch this.
Maybe you have to know the character I guess. He's an exec vp in the 80's who is murders people as a hobby. It's a damn good movie based on a damn good book, I'd recommend it without reservation. For some reason that line ("You're not terribly important to me") just gets me.

[Handmade.Mercury]

"... I have to return some videotapes."

[National Kato]

"...I have to return some videotapes."

Oh, and for anyone who has read the book, I only have one thing to say: starving rats.

[Gorvi]

"...I have to return some videotapes."

Oh, and for anyone who has read the book, I only have one thing to say: starving rats.
Yeah, that's one part of the book I'll never forget.

[Vandabo]

I have not seen the movie. But...that seems like the Reese character is a total snob and he is fed up. It doesn't seem all that cold. In fact it seems perfectly legit. But again I haven't seen it. I am not sure how I missed it. I am not a huge Bale fan except for Reign of Fire(Dragons wee). Maybe I should try to catch this.

I'm surprised there is someone on this forum that hasn't seen this, as it seems like people reference it quite a bit and it's just one of those cult type movies that people around here have all seen.

That said, I thought it was good, but don't hold it to the same heights as many do. There are some great lines/moments though...

[Dorkandproudofit]

Actually, this (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=15901) is the best breakup ever.

[TrackZero]

"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe."

[Serapth]

I am not a huge Bale fan except for Reign of Fire(Dragons wee). Maybe I should try to catch this.

LOL, do you live in opposite land? Did you like all the GodFather films but the first one? Is Ringo your favorite Beatle?

[Serapth]

That last bit is a bit unfair, as I think Ringo actually is my fav Beatle, seems like less of a stuck up douchebag.

[Gorvi]

Actually, this (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=15901) is the best breakup ever.
Yeah, I don't know about that one. There's just something wrong about that.

[Scaryfaced]

LOL, do you live in opposite land? Did you like all the GodFather films but the first one? Is Ringo your favorite Beatle?

The real reason to like that film is the one and only McConaughey. Who has the giant balls to leap attack a dragon armed with a pick axe? McConaughey, that's who.

[KillerMcDead]

Man I LOVE this film.

"In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself...Hey Paul! AAAAAAHHHHHH! TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD!"

[biosc1]

"... I have to return some videotapes."

This was a common phrase for my friends and I for many years instead of the the usual "See you later", it would be "Um...I have to return some...videotapes".

[Hawkzombie]

Fucking hell you had to bring up the rats.

I actually bought the book, read it in a night, and returned it. I saw what the author was doing with the book's message (how everyone is so wrapped up in themselves with their commercialism that no one can see the forest for the trees, and no one even thinks this guy is a serial killer when he's obviously got a few screws loose, etc) but it really didn't grab me. The violence was gritty and visceral, and very in your face, but I dunno...

Something about the book just felt off to me. It was enjoyable once. But I don't really want to read it again, ever.

We'll just blame the rats. Or maybe the power drill.

[johnperkins21]

I absolutely love this movie.

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[digitalErich]

I alwats interpreted it that none if it (the violence I mean) acutally happened.

[Hawkzombie]

There was that side of things as well. Was he simply a psycho in his own mind, responding to the droll, boring life he'd been living with no real change from his activities? Was he so overwhelmed by the oppressive boredom and tedium that he enacted this rich, violent fantasy life?

I dunno.

[darkbase]

I always liked this video.

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I recently read the book and I was so surprised. That was no holds barred, straight up serial killer shit. "Starved rat," man, Kato, that fucking... just whoa. Girlfriend and I were disgusted, but we still loved the book for some reason.

[Hawkzombie]

Ok, that's creepy how much he looks like Bale.

[Xerxes]

Whoa darkbase, I was just about to post that. I wanted to make "return some videos" my excuse to just leave. Get tired of people asking where you going.

[Hawkzombie]

We should bring it back.

[bapenguin]

Loved the book, loved the movie.

To the topic at hand, I think what Gorvi said is true - "You're just not important to me" pretty much drives the stake right into the heart.

[Karak]

So I just watched this movie.
But I am not sure I get it.
There isn't really a story so much as him just...being weird. I thought it might be a Falling Down kind of thing, but nothing really seemed to show that. Then I thought it might be about a yuppy just degenerating into chaos but there wasn't much of that.
Then...it ended.
It didn't seem to go anywhere at all. I will watch it again some other time but for now chalk me up as one who didn't "get" whatever was supposed to be got. I am glad I at least got a chance to watch it.

[Hawkzombie]

So I just watched this movie.
But I am not sure I get it.
There isn't really a story so much as him just...being weird. I thought it might be a Falling Down kind of thing, but nothing really seemed to show that. Then I thought it might be about a yuppy just degenerating into chaos but there wasn't much of that.
Then...it ended.
It didn't seem to go anywhere at all. I will watch it again some other time but for now chalk me up as one who didn't "get" whatever was supposed to be got. I am glad I at least got a chance to watch it.

I'd say read the book, but from what I understand the movie is rather faithful to the book.

[digitalErich]

Well, the book was written in a stream-of-consciousness from the main character, with him eventually breaking the 4th wall. His lecture about 80's music (took the form of a Phil Collins discussion in the movie) was directed a the reader in the book, from what I recall. This is why the movie feels kind of odd.

The book has an unreliable narrator in the main character, this is the same as in the movie, which is why you see and hear things that don't happen (in my mind at least).

[Hawkzombie]

I think I need to re-read the book and watch the movie.

What I got was he did the crimes and violent acts up to a point. Eventually his own madness overtook him and that's where we got things like cop cars exploding with a single bullet and ATMs demanding strays.

But the line is so blurred, that even the reader can't tell where it happens exactly, or if it happened before the book even started.

[Karak]

I think I need to re-read the book and watch the movie.

What I got was he did the crimes and violent acts up to a point. Eventually his own madness overtook him and that's where we got things like cop cars exploding with a single bullet and ATMs demanding strays.

But the line is so blurred, that even the reader can't tell where it happens exactly, or if it happened before the book even started.

Ya I didn't hate it or anything. I just didn't "get" it. I think many of these movies, if you miss, you really never get into the jive. Or at least it is harder to get into the jive of the movie. Sadly I just didn't get much.

I did like the secretary seeing his pics, but even that I had no real idea, cause there was the kid music and her seeing the pics, and him going whacko in the bar at the end. Sort of disjointed.

[KamaItachi]

I think I need to re-read the book and watch the movie.

What I got was he did the crimes and violent acts up to a point. Eventually his own madness overtook him and that's where we got things like cop cars exploding with a single bullet and ATMs demanding strays.

But the line is so blurred, that even the reader can't tell where it happens exactly, or if it happened before the book even started.

I think both stand on their own, but I think I preferred the film. Bale is great and I think his deliovery is hilarious, like him looking at the exploding cop car then back at his gun when he really looses it. I'd say by about halfway he just descends into total madness and hallucinary craziness, but that he has acted out some of the events.

I'd say the whole "there was no ad in the times" meeting was the event of him actually comitting some sort of terrible crime, but the powers that be (namely his dad) covering up for him.

In the book it's strongly hinted that his family have had to deal with the fallout of him raping and abusing his household staff in the past.