Synopsis
We all run on instinct
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
The Rules of Attraction
2002 Directed by Roger Avary
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IT SUCKS COOOOOOOOOOOOOCK
This fucking film. This film is the most perfect representation of a Bret Easton Ellis book, the style is uncanny. It is disjointed, it is meandering and there are no good people, but that's fine.
This film brought Shannyn Sossamon to my attention (she's never far from it now), it had Ian Sommerholder before he was EVERYWHERE with his creepy eyes, tiny Jay Baruchel, James Van Der Beek's best acting role (it really opened my eyes and taught me to not be judgemental just because someones been in something corny).
The camerawork is excellent and experimental, the split screens the jumps in time the backwards work is all flawless and just suits the work to a tee. The dialogue is spot on, just everything man.
Plus you know, TOMANDANDY.
(p.s kip pardue)
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Back in the day, before he became obsessed with Fifty Shades of Grey and casual homophobia, Bret Easton Ellis was an interesting writer with a number of interesting things to say. The Rules of Attraction, arguably his most famous and accomplished novel outside of American Psycho, was one of my favourite books as a teenager. As a godless sodomite born into a family of amoral atheists, I needed something to act as a bible and, for a while, The Rules of Attraction filled that void. I felt like I “got” it more than anything else I’d ever read and, more importantly, I felt like it “got” me too. It was the book that I always turned to when I…
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A brilliantly made film.
This is probably America's Trainspotting.
Roger Avary shows some very exciting direction. The cast are all excellent and together they bring us a breathtaking story told in breathtaking style.
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Around 4am last night Richard & I decided that watching Rules of Attraction would be interesting with the commentary of everyone's least favorite comedian Carrot Top and while what he contributed to the film wasn't interesting, it WAS most certainly, absolutely 100% revolting, but I haven't laughed that much in a long time, sure, the laughing was more to ease some of the uncomfortable & icky feelings associated with picturing Carrot Top salivating over all of the women in the movie & saying things like "Need a computer with a hole in it, glad i'm not the only one masturbating to internet porn," but whatever, I don't know, sometimes you make bad decisions that late at night and sometimes you're too tired to mind.
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"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you" is the most honest thing a fictional character has ever said.
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"Ummm, Gangbang 101, Freebase Tutorial, and Oral Sex Workshop" -Dick
Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film centers around Patrick Bateman's younger brother and his college friends bizarre mating rituals that mix sex, drugs, music and mayhem in a kaleidoscopic story about three students entangled in a curiously surreal romantic triangle...
As the movie went by I kept thinking about Tarantino, I kept thinking that if Tarantino were to make a teenage soap opera it may end up looking something like this. Dialogue heavy... I mean here is a legitimate monologue from the film:
"Took a charter flight on a DC-10 to London. Landed at Heathrow. Took a cab to the city center. Don't let people lie…
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Impressive with a terrific cast but I think not really knowing anything about this film played against it for me. I think I've missed my shot with this one. If I'd seen this when I was I younger I'd flip out over it.
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Perfectly shows that self-obsessed, horny, one-track-mind that you have at the end of your teens and your early twenties.
Not only does this have a killer soundtrack and a great early 00s cast but it just really raises the standard of college movies. It's a shame you didn't really see anything else from this genre reach this level since.
I really like this movie, I love the lack of consequence or the responsibility that all the characters have. You know too many people like this.
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When I was 16, my English teacher gave me a copy of Less Than Zero. I had written a feature length screenplay about two college-aged junkies who deal with an unwanted pregnancy. I gave it to her for feedback. My teacher wisely told me to tone down the profanity in the dialogue, but she saw an affinity between myself and Ellis. She gave me the book, a copy with the classic sunglasses cover, which she found to be very important. I recently watched the film adaptation of Less Than Zero for the first time. It's only sort of like the book, but it made me realize how formative an influence Bret Easton Ellis was on me. My first encounter with…
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Look I accept that I'm not the target Audience for this movie but I can't imagine anyone actually being a target audience for it either
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true to the style of the book, but stripped of all the gayness. The film neutered Paul and denies him any reciprocation.
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