Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! 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.
[raises axe above head]
Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!
[he bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]
Patrick Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!
"Don't just stare at it, EAT IT."
10/10 movie/book
Posted by: RyRy | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 06:29 PM
In a fair world, someone would actually do that to Jared Leto.
Posted by: Steve | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 07:41 PM
Ha....
Posted by: Travis Keller | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 08:18 PM
thats what happens when you send your kids to Exeter or Dalton
Posted by: james | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Seeing Jared Leto get stabbed in the head repeatedly with an axe never ceases to amuse me.
Posted by: Ali D | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 11:26 PM
It's too bad they didn't actually show the axe penetrating the cranium. If you're bored you can play a drinking game with this movie. Every time Bateman kills someone you take a drink.
Posted by: Stoney | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 11:51 PM
I admit, I like Huey Lewis better than Elvis Costello..
Posted by: shelbot | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 05:18 AM
I LOVE that movie, and that has to be at least one of the the best scenes in the movie.
Posted by: Sarah Michelle | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 07:14 AM
I rather enjoy his Phil Collins "Sussudio" diatribe -- wish I sounded that smart about music all the time.
Posted by: Nick | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 07:54 AM
still love chainsaw part, what a way to go tho by "hip to be square" death, a Huey
death
Posted by: only_u | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 04:29 PM
Great movie, better book though. I've also got Lunar Park by the same guy. Pretty swish.
Posted by: Cameron | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 01:20 AM
Dude this movie rocks I have seen well over 200 times!!!!
Posted by: Donato | Thursday, June 07, 2007 at 07:21 PM
haha. you'd be pretty sober from that drinking game until the feed me a kitten shootout.
Posted by: erich von falkenhayn | Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 12:49 PM
okay i rented this and got trashed watching it..
pretty fucking killer.
it was nice to see jared leto get axed. haha.
SPOILER WARNING:
i like the end, where we dont know whether or not its all in his head and he is just a rich insane guy or if he actually got away with it all because of how wealthy his family is and how perfect he is in society's eyes, as the super yuppster.
his enthusiasm for rod stewart, whitney houston, and phil collins really did make the movie and was the characters only reedeming quality. haha.
Posted by: mr. hell | Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 06:27 PM
John Cale does the soundtrack!
this movie rules!
just got tanked and watched it again.
patrick bateman is a complicated character with many names and faces.
i like it at the beginning when he is behind all the oppressed and dating the girl from the aclu.
Posted by: mr. hell | Monday, June 11, 2007 at 12:38 AM
I know someone who had to read the American Psycho novel for a class. Apparently the movie was extremely tame compared to the book. Now I'm wondering about the author who wrote that book!
Posted by: Sarah Michelle | Monday, June 11, 2007 at 09:40 AM
yeah man, if you dig on the movie you should check out the book fer sure. it's good stuff. bret easton ellis is a badass author.
by the by, jared leto would've stopped that axe with his astrological advantages. you know that everything 30 seconds to mars represents is true, right?
Posted by: mlk | Monday, June 11, 2007 at 03:06 PM
I love it when he feeds his idiot girlfriend a chocolate-coated urinal cake.
'It's so... so... minty...'
I saw 30 Seconds to Mars at Download this weekend.
Not as lame as Satellite Party...
Posted by: Thomas Jerome | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 05:43 AM
i just like the fact that he takes jared leto's body to the dump in a jean-paul gaultier bag...
Posted by: jfwhiteside | Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 09:59 AM
... and tries to stuff a cat through the slot of an ATM. hurr hurr.
stomping the homeless guy's dog, though? -that was a little too cruel for me.
Posted by: finn | Monday, June 18, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Travis should post my Phil Collins remix: myspace.com/obeliskmusik
Posted by: shelbot | Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 05:27 AM