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Summary: Brutal
Review: Fight Club is brutaly violent, disturbing, gross, and one hell of a movie. I can't say I was much of a fan of Brad Pitt, but he shines here. As does Edward Norton. Helena Bonham Carter, who made some really boring Merchant Ivory movies in the past, holds her won with Pitt & Norton. And unlike the so called "surprise" in The Sixth Sense, Fight Club pulls off a surprise that knocked me for a loop. This movie kicks some major ass.
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Summary: Brilliant, life changing movie
Review: Stop everything you are doing and go see Fight Club, then see it again with pen and paper. I cannot even begin to describe the profundity and visceral power of the movie; sorry, "movie" is not an adequate term to describe this life changing, paradigm shifting, introspective journey. Semantics aside, Fight Club was 2.5 hours of intense adrenaline pumping mayhem that oscillated between intensely poignant and brutally disturbing. This "movie" is an unapologetic critique on the empty consumer/consumption/recycle idealogy that has defined our existence on this planet. It is not until you see this movie from the perspective of our pathologically insane protagonist do you really see your life and question YOUR sanity. Both Edward Norton and Brad Pitt give a tour de force performance; quite possibly the best in their lives. They symbolize the polar extremes of abandon-restraint, freedom-bondage and fantasy-reality; yet their distinctions are not entirely black and white, but instead meld into a weird Yin-Yang. You cannot help but to empathize with both characters because they reflect our conscious and subconscious desires. Their underground, anarchic lifestyle, existing at the edges of society affords them the ultimate freedom to live with impunity. The direction is sleek, the cinematography is graphic and the sex scenes are downright salacious. The fight scenes are graphic and brutal, but necessary. These are men emasculated by their meager pedestrian lives, regaining their sense of power through the spilling of blood and endurance of pain. Go see this movie, it will change your life.
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Summary: Daring film, scary directing, memorable torture.
Review: This film reminds me of a William Gibson novel: It's unfilmable. However, it looks like they actually pulled this one off.
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Summary: Highly Entertaining.
Review: This is one of coolest, most entertaining films of 1999. Edward Norton is great as a depressed, sleepless, white collar loser who discovers himself with the of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Durden, a fearless man who makes a sells soap, is the mirror image of Norton's character. The film has a good script, great actors, great (but bloody) fight scenes, and top-notch special effects. The film also plays like a two-hour, 19-minute music video.
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Summary: Not what you think its gonna be
Review: I thought this movie would be another hollywood flick where you get a guy girls will drool over and he beats up poeple...WRONG!This movie is so much more than that.It's pretty weird.It's hard to go into the storyline without ruining the ending.Be advised that some of the fighting is fairly graphic though.But it brings up a lot of good poins about how messed up our society is.We rely on TV and Calvin klein ads to tell us what we have to look like.But we're never gonna be in those ads.We'll never be tv stars or rock stars.This movie is about a group of guys rebelling against what society has made for them.Go rent it!
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Summary: A thrilling existential ride
Review: I loved this movie! From the opening credits right down to the supplementary footage included in the DVD, I was entranced. David Fincher really does stay true to the spirit of the book - with the exception of the ending (READ THE BOOK). The DVD has deleted scenes, director commentary on just about everything, and tons of information on how the special effects were created. Also, Edward Norton gives a spectacular performance opposite Helena Bonham Carter opposite Brad Pitt in this somewhat violent ride through the life and times of Tyler Durden. I didn't see this movie in the theater due to the poor ratings and rumors of it's misogynist portrayals of women, but how can you expect some ancient closed-minded critic to understand this movie? I don't want to give away too much, but lets just say that nothing is what it seems. Nothing. Sure, this movie's not for everyone, but would you rather watch one of those post-menopausal, coming of age, mid-life crisis movies? If so, go rent Steel Magnolias. If you want a scathing attack on consumerism and a look at the perils of conformity, then you need look no further.
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Summary: PSYCHOS
Review: One of the most often repeated critiques made about director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB is that the movie presents the apology of the violence and, among other ideas, defends the theory that today general aggressivity can only be controlled by letting people expressing verbally and physically this violence. In a way, we could become a new generation of Romans watching without guilt hyper-brutal movies in the same way than the ancient Romans were applauding the gladiators. Well, I admit that maybe some limited persons can feel an intense pleasure while watching the fights of FIGHT CLUB and what ? If only these scenes could prevent real incidents by offering to some of us the possibility to let our adrenaline flow freely, why not ! But FIGHT CLUB deserves a lot more than sterile discussions about this peculiar aspect of the movie. Firstly, director David FINCHER, along with his art director, has created a unique artistic vision of Edward Norton's sick point of view. From the beginning of the movie, the story is told from Norton's point of view which slowly deforms the reality and presents to the audience a world filled with the obsessions of the insomniac employee. Fincher, with a few arty effects and very good monologs, is able to create very quickly uneasiness and tension. With the apparition of Brad Pitt, the movie, little by little, gives up his critical and social dimension and becomes the repertoire of our most hidden fears or desires. When the Fight Club is replaced by the Mayhem Project, you are thrown into the world that director Don Siegel had so well described in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, a world where paranoia is the only rule. A DVD for your library. If you dare.
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Summary: Best of '99
Review: fight club. what can i say? a brilliant, hyperadrenal shotgun blast into the face of dead end, ant farm, postmodern american pseudo-culure that never forgets to satirize when it proselitizes. this film puts the black into black comedy with some of the most mean spirited and hilarious comic touches of all time. seamlessly directed and flawlessly acted, fight club is a movie everyone should see. and this includes women. most of the women i know who've seen it didn't care for it, and i don't feel particularly surprised by this, since the film is overbearingly testosterone edged. it most certainly is told from the perspective of the immasculated male, and is clearly targeted towards same. however, at the same time the film deftly pokes fun at just that kind of mentality, sometimes with subtlety, sometimes, quite frankly, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer (including an undeniable and roaringly funny homoerotic subtext that made me laugh so hard i very nearly vomited). many will tell you that, contrary to what you may have heard or gleaned about this movie, it does not glorify violence. well, actually, this is a half-truth. the film neither glorifies nor condemns violence but simply approaches it with an intelligence and a simpathetically honest eye toward the impulse to destroy, and be destroyed, that you almost never, ever see in movies anywhere; rather than getting its rocks off with it or, conversely, succumbing to the pressures to indulge in a sappy, saccharine, PSA mentality that tries only to deny the violent impulses within us all. i am jack's renewed faith in cinema.
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Summary: The REAL American Beauty, in all its ugliness!
Review: First rule of Fight Club?Watch it at least three times.Second rule: Do NOT talk about what it's "about".Third rule:Accept that all your preconceptionsabout "hip" contemporary "classics"are tired, conformist and badly in need of a wake-up call or, preferrably, a smack upside the head if you do not dig this true masterpiece! Other rules to viewing and appreciating and enjoying Fight Club:There are NO rules to it! This movie should bombard you with images, sounds, ideas -- and many of them will probably be UNACCEPTABLE to you. Which is the point. Fincher & Co. pull no punches here. This movie gets in your face and under your skin. You might hate it at first. Work on that reaction. In every way a one-of-a-kind moviethat, a few years from now, will belauded as one of those "seminal" works by the solons who ignored itin order to rhapsodize about hackneyed "boomer" fluff like American Beauty. (And yes, I am of that hypocritical generation!)Fight Club is the real McCoy.Accept no substitutes!
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Summary: A Beauty...
Review: "Fight Club" is a brilliant film. Most people think it is just a bunch of guys fighting the whole film, but it's not even close to that. If you watch this movie and pay close attention, it will pay off in the end, believe me. And that's not even metioning the bonus features, which are spectacular. Which include many deleted scenes. So take my word for it, and rent/buy it today.
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