American Psycho Uncut
Feb.15, 2007 in
Film
I recently watched the Uncut version of American Psycho. Although I’ve never seen it, I have the feeling that the cut version is much much better, partly because many friends praised the original as this dark sadistic piece. This uncut version was just too long, too intense, and too graphic. The graphic scenes detracted from the overall effect.
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February 15th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
The “regular” version was about 1/5 the graphicness of the book. So even if they upped the ante, it still wasn’t close. [Think Misery the movie vs Misery the book then turn to 11]
This to this day has been the only book that’s made me cringe.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:05 am
DC Dan - I totally agree with you. When I first heard that they would make the movie I really couldn’t get my head around how they could pull it off. The sex and violence were both very graphic and in places made me feel quite sick. Although I could not put the book down and is one of a handful that I have felt compeled to re-read.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I have a feeling that the movie could have been good if Stanley Kubrick had directed it. It felt very much like a 90s version of Clockwork Orange due to its own “ultraviolence.” However, it had none of the stylization or operatic moments needed to balance out the brutality.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:05 am
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