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since when does calling something "the new xxxxx" = it's better 
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Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:01 am to Carson123987
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psychopathic character who uses every buzzword in the book & satirical take on media instead of wall street
Yup. They're both satire on the way that the professional world works. Louis is a self motivated go getter and a team player looking out for the company. On the surface at least. He sells himself in every cliche textbook way that you could learn from a modern business school. His speech patterns were practically a recitation of a textbook.
Eta: I hadn't made the connection until you mentioned it, but I think the similarity in content of symbolism is spot on. American Psycho is to the 80's is what Nightcrawler is to the millenium.
This post was edited on 7/31/15 at 11:07 am
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:06 am to holden
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NO!!!...Nightcrawler sucked...top 10 worst movie I have ever seen.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:11 am to Breesus
The comparison isn't about quality. It's about the type of critique that it puts to society.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:14 am to Peazey
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Yup. They're both satire on the way that the professional world works. Louis is a self motivated go getter and a team player looking out for the company. On the surface at least. He sells himself in every cliche textbook way that you could learn from a modern business school. His speech patterns were practically a recitation of a textbook.
Eta: I hadn't made the connection until you mentioned it, but I think the similarity in content of symbolism is spot on. American Psycho is to the 80's is what Nightcrawler is to the millenium.
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Posted on 8/19/15 at 1:06 pm to Carson123987
Watched Nightcrawler last night on Netflix. Funny thing... I enjoyed it more than any of the Best Picture nominees.
The negative reviews on IMDB don't seem to grasp, IMV, that this was not supposed to be ultra-realistic but a dark comedy exaggeration of the evils of greed, narcissism, psychopathy, and voyeuristic journalism. Contrast that to, say, Gone Girl, which while meant to be plausible was totally preposterous, instead.
Thumbs up.
The negative reviews on IMDB don't seem to grasp, IMV, that this was not supposed to be ultra-realistic but a dark comedy exaggeration of the evils of greed, narcissism, psychopathy, and voyeuristic journalism. Contrast that to, say, Gone Girl, which while meant to be plausible was totally preposterous, instead.
Thumbs up.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 2:11 pm to Rex
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Gone Girl, which while meant to be plausible was totally preposterous, instead.
That one completely went over your head too then. It was a satire in and of itself as well.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 4:32 pm to CunningLinguist
Thank you. That is by far one of the most overrated pieces of shite I've sat through in a while.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 7:01 pm to ChargerDog91
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That one completely went over your head too then. It was a satire in and of itself as well.
I'm not buying Gone Girl was a satire.
This post was edited on 8/19/15 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 8/19/15 at 8:10 pm to Pectus
A lot of the point of Gone Girl was how the national media treats these real crime stories. Supposedly this is even more apparent in the book. There's some satire there.
Posted on 8/19/15 at 8:18 pm to Pectus
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I'm not buying Gone Girl was a satire.
I haven't read Gone Girl completely but the movie basically made fun of Nancy Grace and her lunatic fanbase that jumps on cases and makes terrible assumptions about people. The movie is a huge satire in the sense that the national media usually assumes the husband is always guilty. Whereas the story is the complete opposite.
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