People Didn't Understand That This Was Dark Humour | Wiki Weekends

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[@DEVIANT-FRACTURE]

"HIS NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON"

[@pisspoorplutocracy9055]

"HIS NAME WAS ROBERT PAULSON"

[@DivineFalcon]

I always find it hilarious when people claim Bateman is a confident, masculine man, when it is consistently shown throughout the movie just how pathologically obsessed he is with how other people sees him. Like Karl points out, the VERY first line of dialogue shows how shallow and superficial he is.

[@CabbageSalesman]

Well if I was to guess, they are probably just as shallow but want to convince themselves and others they are "alpha" so they constantly keep saying that patrick Bateman is until people accept or believe it

[@Ryzard]

They never watched the media lmao

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

17:25 - that reminds me a little of when The Dark Knight came out I saw someone online commenting about how they were confused by people laughing at the Joker's antics; the implication I got is (especially as they compared it to Wall-E) they just don't get dark humour, or that laughter does not inherently mean an endorsement of something, sometimes laughter is a defence mechanism with dark subjects.

[@jojotheswede8444]

I watched American psycho for the first last year with my little brother, we laughed so much at it.

[@Nevyn515]

My little brother was considering watching the movie for the first time a week or two ago. I basically said it’s OK but not as good as people say it is. He’s 38.

[@ZombieWilfred]

11:33 Me: "His name was Robert Paulson!" They literally chant that in the movie! 😂

[@bobspldbckwrds]

Are you aware of the concept of a "tee-up"?

[@danielled8665]

Migraine hat is better than ice pack mask for the headaches btw. As a frequent migraine sufferer, i have this black beanine looking hat that can pull over your eyes, compresses, and the whole thing is an ice pack. Its incredible.

[@thexbigxgreen]

I love how Lucas's "Hello there!" serves interchangeably as a greeting and a goodbye 😂

[@Iris_and_or_George]

25:14 A saying I now sometimes use that I've only ever heard Karl say is perfect for describing Dafoe. "He chews the scenery in every scene he plays in."

[@domomitsune5920]

I still don't understand American psycho, and I have watched it so many times I can't remember anymore. All I remember is Jerry Lewis, in the scene where he cuts up the guy on newspapers while wearing plastic covering to prevent the splashing of blood on his clothes. I still don't know if any of the events actually happened, or if he entirely imagined everything.

[@justindenney-hall5875]

It shouldn't be a surprise he didn't appear in the second one because aside from how misguided and bad it was, Christian Bale even refused to appear in "The rules of attraction" which unlike "American Psycho 2" which was just a modified version of an already existing script that wasn't originally related to "American Psycho", "The rules of attraction" was actually based on a novel by the same author and the main character is the younger brother of Patrick Bateman who appears briefly in the story.

[@davidscott4919]

🏧s be like: Feed me a stray cat

[@marcofioretti6908]

Me and my friends watched American Psycho already knowing it was a "comedy" and we had a lot of fun

[@hoodieinfestation]

I believe in the beginning of Glamorama, another book by Ellis, there is a scene outside a nightclub where the main character meets Patrick, has a chat, and Bateman has blood on his collar. Not an admission of guilt but always struck me as evidence that Bateman is in fact a killer in the book.

[@josephbeavers6060]

It's a different Morgan Freeman... I'm sad now

[@WillBinge]

@@josephbeavers6060 I feel robbed, as if it was the other one, he could have narrated the sequel and made it twice as good.

[@CallMeDinggus]

That was fookin Meatloaf?!?!?!?

[@jimmybarnett6393]

See this is why i love fact fiend and wiki weekends, i had no idea there was a sequel to American psycho until now, just like i never knew there was a sequel novel to Forrest gump until they made a video about it

[@arnaudmenard5114]

I feel Batman likes hockey.

[@justunderreality]

I always had the interpretation that Bateman was an untrustworthy narrator, but he was telling the truth about what he did. The real "psychopathy" was everyone else that was covering it KNOWING what happened because they needed to keep the machine grinding away.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

The business card thing: I saw a parody where they replaced the business cards with vapes

[@TheWizardOfGore89]

You can always hit the bricks after an atm commands you to feed it souls.

[@AngelGrilz]

They don’t know what a sigma is They’re old now

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

This is one of the most impact cinema stories of recent mempry. The greatest impact it left on me is that I wear an ice face mask now

[@MasterElements]

I have a sleep mask that is the same thing and it helps immensely with my migraines.

[@RHCole]

15:51 Always. Trust. Your gut.

[@CasLok88]

Christian Bale as the batman who laughs

[@Weenerneenerchickendinner]

I know that people don’t get dark humor. I just don’t understand how people don’t get dark humor. From my perspective Its like not understanding why you’re wet when you stand in the rain.

[@charlesmondragon4144]

It's a critique of neo-liberalism. Nothing matters and it is empty as an ideology, nihilistic by nature, yet based on one single thing. Infinite growth. Based on one thing only, one-uping everyone around you. Individual exceptionalism is the cornerstone of neo-liberalism and proto-fascist ideologies.

[@alsisworld6892]

The Morgan J. Freeman that directed American psycho 2 is not the actor Morgan Freeman of Shawshank Redemption fame.

[@Nevyn515]

About film critics, just remember that they want to seem like experts with expert opinions you should listen to, so what many of them do is see what the popular opinion is then say the opposite to try to make their review seems more elite. The ones that aren’t bought and paid for or shills, the Mark Kermode types. If their opinions about the movie were the same as the majority then as far as they’re concerned they would just be one of the regular movie viewers. But not me they think, I’m not a regular movie viewer, I’m an elite movie viewer, one of the view, which makes me edgy and cool and correct and you should listen to what I say. That’s why I never pay attention to the critics score for whether a movie might be worth watching but the audience score, because they tend to score it based on whether it’s any good to watch, not stroking their ego while waxing poetic about behind the scenes stuff or shot composition etc.

[@wikiweekends]

Most actual film critics that are hired for their roles are done so because they usually have some level of qualification to talk about the subject. Just because cinematography and media literacy doesn't matter to everyone, it does still usually make for a better understanding of the movie. I'm not here to defend every critic, god knows that there's now a shit ton of contrarians out there, but it's hard to build any kind of established career out of just going against the mainstream, or going too hard/soft on everything you review, because most people will pick up on the gimmick. Also, it's pretty hard to go against the popular opinion when most reviewers have an advanced screening and an embargo to hit that's usually before public screenings even happen. Media re-evaluation plays an important role in the discussion, but don't just listen to the people online that blindly complain about critics because they can't be arsed to understand the media they watch past a surface level. - Lucas

[@apex2000]

People really failed to notice Fight Club was a bad situation?

[@dangeldoll]

as a Designer, we had the Business Cards in class, in Typography, and our teacher ripped them out on how Bad all these are, even the Lettering was bad, many times the kerning is wrong, there are upper case and lower case mistakes in spelling, the logo is inconsistent in it self, and not consistent with other cards either, no business allows that, there are multiple mistakes in just the spelling! spelling mistakes on a business card of these vice presidents and ceo’s! it was hilarious to watch, we had a field day, just ripping on how bad they were, also many terms they used in the movie were just fake, non-language used just to sound so profound when they were so obsessive about their business cards, those were not real terminology 70% of the time, it was just a movie prop, and the language was just to show how much these yuppies were materialistic on ridiculous details, but all those details are all wrong, so to designers this scene is hilarious on a whole other level!

[@kylecorwin6231]

AP 2 was directed by Morgan J. Freeman, not THE Morgan Freeman.

[@landminefrisbee5838]

Fact: 99% of men quit getting into car park fistfights right before the fight that will fix everything wrong with their lives.

[@mjp121]

I would have watched a Heath Ledger Batman- god the good die young

[@Scriven42]

The video tapes thing was stolen from Lois and Clark I think...

[@Nimrod336]

Your never in ny feed anymore..what he to your main channel

[@WillBinge]

Comments help increase engagement on a video.

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

Nuh uh

[@brianwhorton5619]

Replies are also pretty good I'm told. Engagement!! 😃

[@andiel7043]

Red Hulk please marketing works great work Karl and Lucas

[@MannyTheMan86]

@5:47 i once tried to "remove myself" when i was in my teens. I had the ligature marks on my neck for a week. No one asked me how i was and just assumed i had some gym accident that would put a mark around neck

[@danielreed4050]

Red hulk episodes would be dope

[@arghjayem]

05:01 I’d say it was closer to Starship Troopers in the way it’s been misperceived. It’s a satire of the eighties Wall Street culture that was kinda glorified by films like well Wall Street just as Starship Troopers was a satire on the american military industrial complex and ideas of patriotism.

[@Br1330]

Black is not the absence of color, people who say that are not just annoying their wrong too.

[@VickUwU]

The point of the meme is that Bateman is pathetic. But 14 year olds take it seriously for some reason

[@Iris_and_or_George]

I actually enjoyed AP2, but that's probably caused by my then gf looking like Mia Kunis😅

[@Iris_and_or_George]

A small thing I always liked is the last line of the movie. "What's the point of committing the perfect crime, if no one knows about it."

[@VincentVanHalen55]

Omg first I did it

[@VincentVanHalen55]

Never thought it would actually happen. Had to do it

[@mayonaise000]

Good for you. I hope you're able to ride this high ​@@VincentVanHalen55

[@rymonddog2317]

Funny how I saw this on the day I listened to the old Karl's Corner about how pointless comments like this are and how he added it to the banned words in fact fiend comments😂

[@Madara8989]

@@rymonddog2317 It's only pointless to the channel owner; to the commenter, the value is in feeling special for leaving their mark to prove that they were one of the first people to view a video.

[@VincentVanHalen55]

@rymonddog2317 I agree it's silly. It's just funny to me that I've watched KZbin for 10+ years and never seen that so opportunity was there haha. Had to do it for the joke