10 Movies You Constantly Have To Defend Hating

10. American Psycho

American Psycho, Mary Harron's adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, has garnered a huge cult following over the years and is widely considered to be a masterful piece of social satire, skewering a culture of greed, narcissism and consumerism. Christian Bale gives one of his most defining performances here, as the utterly despicable, irredeemable Patrick Bateman.

At least that's what everyone says about this film. I've tried to watch it several times now and haven't once managed to stay the course. From the outset, Bateman is unwatchably contemptible and the film flits directionlessly from one scene of nauseating unpleasantness to another. Watching Bateman murder a homeless man and kick his dog to death, abuse and mutilate a multitude of sex workers, and contemplate killing his secretary with a nail gun doesn't serve to justify any of American Psycho's intended satire.

However, any of these complaints will always be met with a chorus of "that's the whole point of the film, you just don't get it". And they're most likely right. On paper, the lack of any repercussion for the absolute worst that society has to offer sounds like an intriguing watch, but in execution it's just a miserable, arduous slog.