"Abstinence is 100% safe, which is less of a percentage than..." "Whatever, I don't care, I don't major in math."

There are two reasons to love this weeks movie:
1. Brett Easton Ellis
2. Roger Avery

Brett is most famously known as writing the book “American Psycho” as well as “Less Than Zero”. The problem is, neither of those films really capture the spirit of the books they are based on. That is until Roger Avery came along.
You may not recognize the name, but you know his work. Roger Avery used to work in a video store with a buddy of his named Quentin Tarentino. They talked about movies and wrote screenplays together. One day Roger showed Quentin a script he was working on for a movie called “Pandemonium Reigns”. Quentin then started talking about a movie he was writing called “Reservoir Dogs”. The two then combined both screenplays into one movie, and Reservoir Dogs was truly born. After this success Roger went on to co-write True Romance, Killing Zoe, and Pulp Fiction with Quentin.
Eventually the two had a falling out (Mostly because Quentin was taking more and more of the credit) and Roger went out onto his own and made one of my all time favorite movies, based on a Brett Easton Ellis novel:

The Rules of Attraction.

Here’s a plot outline…
Camden College. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is the younger brother of depraved Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. He's also a drug dealer who owes a lot of money to "fellow" dealer Rupert Guest (Clifton Collins, Jr.), as well as a well-known womanizer, for he sleeps with nearly half of the female population on campus. Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon) is, technically, a virgin. She's saving herself for her shallow boyfriend, Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), who's left the States to backpack across Europe. Her slutty roommate, Lara (Jessica Biel), has the hots for Victor as well. Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), who used to date Lauren, is openly bisexual and attracted to Mitchell Allen (Thomas Ian Nicholas), who's dating Candice (Clare Kramer) to prove to Paul that he's not gay. Sean loves Lauren. Paul loves Sean. And Lauren may love Sean.

This would be a pretty standard affair if the characters weren’t so messed up in the head. This movie is vulgar, tragic, funny, violent, and morally corrupt.
Translation: It’s awesome.
Roger Avery has developed a cinematic style that is truly all his own. For someone that lived in the shadow of one of the most prolific filmmakers in our lifetimes, that’s an impressive feat.

Now…it’s disclaimer time. If any of the harshnesses in culture really bother you (i.e Rape, suicide, etc), don’t bother with this film. It’s going to push you…and not gently mind you. This movie walks up to you with a baseball bat and slugs you in the face.

It’s epic.