Comment on Austin Butler Set to Star as Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s ‘American Psycho’ (EXCLUSIVE)

realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Another glorified sociopath that incels can fawn over while completely missing the underlying critique.

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s likely to happen, I’d expect either an over correction in the other direction or something straightforward and boring in the worst case scenarios

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    • 69420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m worried there won’t be enough Huey Lewis and the News references in the remake. Their early work was a little too New Wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. 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.

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