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Summary: Sets the standards for dvds
Review: Fight Club the movie was, in my opinion, an excellent film. Whether or not you like the picture itself is up to you. If you liked the film though you should absolutely pick up the two disk dvd.Many films released these days are just rushed to dvd and do so little to take advantage of everything that a dvd can do. Not so with Fight Club. Not only do you get a large selection of truly interesting commentaries by the stars, David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk (the author of the novel Fight Club), and others on the first disk, you also get an entire second disk full of features. You pay a little more for this second disk but believe me, it is worth every penny. It contains music videos, internet and tv spots from the advertising campaign for Fight Club (nearly all of which I missed the first time around and some of which are downright hilarious), the presskit (also hilarious), a long interview with Edward Norton, deleted scenes, explanations of the subtle and efffective special effects, and more! With the commentaries and all the other extra features there is at least another dozen fresh hours of entertainment and insight into the film. The bottom line is this: If you liked the film, Fight Club, then the dvd will be a crown jewel in your collection.
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Summary: Glad I gave in!
Review: My brother-in-law loaned us the "Fight Club" DVD about 3 months ago and I kept putting off viewing it because of my preconceived notions about the film. From seeing the previews, I had the idea that the film glorified fighting: I recalled a scene where Brad Pitt's character announces an 'assignment' --to go out and start a fight with a stranger. My reaction at the time was extremely negative. I thought it was, at best, stupid, and at worst, completely irresponsible. Damn was I wrong! When my wife asked me if we were "ever" going to watch the DVD, I reluctantly gave in. A little over two hours later I had to admit: I LOVED it! Ed Norton plays the "Narrator." When the film opens, Norton has the barrel of a gun inserted in his mouth, courtesy of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt.) Norton (as the Narrator) explains how he's arrived at this less-than-pleasant point in his life, and the film flashes back to a time shortly before Narrator meets Durden. We learn that Narrator works for a "major" automobile manufacturer in a position of questionable moral standing. Though it evidently pays well, (based upon his very well-decorated, upscale apartment), it involves making judgements for the company as to whether or not to recall autos based upon a mathematical formula that calculates the cost of lawsuits vs. the cost of actually fixing the problem. In a nutshell, if the lawsuits are cheaper, people die. This disturbs Narrator, but not so much that he's willing to give up the perks of the job. Returning from one of his frequent cross-country business trips, he winds up sitting next to Durden. Striking up a conversation, he learns that Durden is somewhat mysterious, even to the point of holding back what he does for a living, although he ultimately reveals that he's a manufacturer of hand-made soap, and gives Narrator a card. Good thing. Because when Narrator gets home from the airport, he finds that all of his beloved possessions are scattered around the foot of his apartment building, having been blown out the windows by a terrific explosion. Having no place to spend the night, he calls his new friend, they meet for a couple of beers, and upon leaving the bar, Durden eggs him on about "not asking" if he can stay at his place. While at first he denies that was the intent of his having called him, he finally gives in and asks Durden if he'd mind. He wouldn't. But before they go walking off to Durden's house, Durden asks Narrator to hit him. Hard. Narrator looks at him as if he's insane, but after being asked a couple of times, Narrator finally give in and clocks him in the ear. Durden returns the punch and they end up both 'going at it.' Much to his surprise, Narrator finds that the fight was absolutely exhilarating. And thus begins a very strange, but very well-done movie.
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Summary: Think for yourself.... and remember to pay attention...
Review: This film is an almost perfect example of how to thwart convention in film-making... From the stylised camera-work to the 'herrings' throughout it allows you to be both entertained and challenged throughout. After the climax of the film you are left with many questions, and subsequent viewings are likely to reveal even more... To say more would be to spoil the film, something I hate doing (and hate being done to me even more).
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Summary: Fight Club delivers a TKO
Review: Synopsis: A young auto industry analyst finds an antidote to the boredom and emptiness of his life by participating in a brutal underground sport called Fight Club. As more and more disaffected men begin setting up clubs in urban centers everywhere, the movement takes a sinister turn, ultimately expressing itself in apocalyptic violence. Fight Club includes a surprise twist that may make you think of other movies like The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game. But the surprise here is not built in with the cleverness and subtlety of The Sixth Sense - you won't be tempted, for instance, to go winding back through the movie trying to find clues. And that's all right: because while The Sixth Sense gets its creepy power from subtlety and sophistication, Fight Club's calling cards are brutality, attitude and corrosive humor. Like the desperate contestants in the pastime that gives the movie its name, Fight Club throws a fusillade of punches hoping that enough of them will land to make it a winner. Ultimately it succeeds. The story's narrator (Edward Norton) is a twentysomething who investigates auto accidents for his employer, an unnamed car company. It's his job to calculate whether enough consumers will die horrible deaths as a result of the automobiles' defects to make it financially worthwhile for the company to initiate recalls. Not surprisingly, the young man has trouble sleeping; he spends his bouts of insomnia poring over catalogs from places like Ikea, compulsively furnishing his apartment in a quest for emotional satisfaction. For a while he finds some human comfort by frequenting cancer and disease support groups, feigning illness in order to connect with the other attendees - but that's ruined when the groups are infiltrated by another "tourist," played to cynical perfection by Helena Bonham-Carter. Finally, on one of his frequent business trips, the narrator encounters a challenging, wildly unconventional soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) - and his life takes a radical turn. The core of Fight Club is the tension between the charismatic Tyler Durden, a nihilist whose antisocial behavior spins ever more perilously out of control, and the narrator, an ambivalent character with one foot in the fight clubs and the other still in the button-down world of corporate conventionalism. Edward Norton does a beautiful job with the lead role, convincingly embodying both sides of the conflicted young man; he provides the movie with its emotional core, and holds his own even when sharing the screen with his incandescent costars. Pitt gives the film its ferocious energy and sense of danger, in much the same way Tom Cruise lit up an earlier Brad Pitt movie, Interview With the Vampire. For the part of the hard-bitten, consumptive looking Marla, Bonham-Carter provides just enough vulnerability to make her sympathetic by the movie's end without compromising her character. Insofar as it focuses on the narrator's eccentric quest for human connection, Fight Club is a brilliant film. The metaphor of reaching out and touching other human beings with a bloody fist is not only inspired satire - it is oddly fitting as an emblem of our culture's increasing social clumsiness. (The only way to break through anyone's carapace of possessions, arm's-length communication devices and 21st century intellectual reserve is to beat his head against a concrete floor.) Unfortunately, the movie eventually runs short of material in the fight clubs and shifts its attention to "Project Mayhem" - wherein Tyler Durden's nihilistic vision becomes the linchpin of an improbably vast underground movement. At this point, Fight Club loses its power and focus. It is also around this time in the film that we are let in on the surprise I mentioned at the outset. Although the surprise does shed interesting light on the character of the narrator, it doesn't manage to save the last twenty minutes or so of plot development. Despite its faults, though, Fight Club is well worth seeing. Its rawness, edgy humor, and exciting performances easily compensate for the late failures of the plot.
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Summary: The BEST movie i have ever seen!!
Review: After months of hearing the hype for this film i finally gave in to the pressure and bought the DVD. WOW!!.....This is honestly the best movie i have ever seen! I have watched it at least 40 times now and EVERY time I see something else that I missed.
Without ruining the ending, let me simply say that if you think this is a macho movie about fighting, you are dead wrong. It's psychological. It's deep. After watching it many times you start to see the simple wisdom hidden in it. The lines are uttered on one level but resonate on many deeper planes...
Tyler is pushing Ed Norton to wake up and see things as they really are. But he won't. And we can all relate to him. We are educated, have good jobs, a good life, but something is missing...
This is a great film, not simply guys fighting.
And the DVD is excellent. you can view the movie with the director, actors, scene designers, and writers. You learn a lot from that. plus, on location filming of the movie and all the publicity that went along with it. After watching everything this DVD has to offer, you will know more than you thought you ever wanted to know...
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Summary: INCREDIBLE
Review: this movie is an experience of its own, and it is probably one of the only movies that literally changes the way you think about things. even if not enjoyed by the viewer, it still opens a lot of things up to his or her mind. with one of the best scores of all time by the dust brothers, and such a dark, sarcastic and scary yet genius attitude, this movie could not have been better.
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Summary: The Perfect way of releasing a DVD
Review: Without being a so called "Special Edition", this DVD is way much better than a few SE I own, 1st: you get a great movie, with great audio and subtitles even in spanish!!....2nd: A whole lot of extras, included a second DVD, 3rd: a great nice packaging, OK this doesn't help much to improve the experience, but it's a great package, the moment you check it you'll know I'm right! Get it Now! Run Forrest run & get a copy today! This is the 2 DVD's version.
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Summary: best movie eva made
Review: this movie is the best ive ever seen. norton is off the hook, and pitt is great, as usual. if u have seen this movie and didnt laugh at least once, you didnt get it. i guess my sense of humor is just warped.
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Summary: In Chuck We Trust
Review: This movie was not as good as the book ... but yet this movie was prefectly done. If you enjoy this movie read the book it is a mind opening experiance. Fight Club over all is an eye opening experiance. Calling it a movie is an understatment. It's messages teach people that in this world where we are only told to consume and buy that rejecting that philosophy leads to true enlightenment so Recycle your Pets and Fertalise you lawn with motor oil
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Summary: thought provoking
Review: the reviewer wfparish (sorry if i spelled that incorrectly) hit the nail right on thehead, quite possibly the greatest aspect of this movie is that it WILL make you think, make you question how you live, and quetion the benefits of society, especially the one in which we live. That, i think, is one of the reasons why so many people don't like this movie. Many people don't like to have their beliefs challenged, which this movie wil do. Also, so many people are shocked by the violence in here, but throughout the enitre movie *one* person dies. These same people sat through the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan where dozens to hundreds of people were brutally killed without complaining. The violence just comes in a different context, which is entirely justified in terms of the movie.
The men who go to fight club, go for a reason. They go, knowing that they WILL get beaten up. But they also go, and this is the motivating factor, to FEEL. They live their lives feeling nothing, just doing the same *meaningless* stuff day after day. They ae searching for something, for happiness ultimately, and the path society tells them to take to be happy isn't working. Fight club provides them with raw emotion, and they take this to be happiness. As Fight Club spirals out of control and into Project Mayhem, we see the consequences of the path the protagonst took to escape the *evils* of society. Is the path he took the only possible path? no. And that's another complaint many have. Norton's character didn't have to do what he did, go through everything he went through, and thus could have saved many people a lot of pain. But my answer is that he DID have to do what he did. He even said himself that he did not know how to change the live he was leading, he only knew that he was sick of it, as so many people are (which is why so many people joined him in his cause). What he did wasn't ncessairily RIGHT, but the question you should ask yourself is this. Is what he did, and what he became ultimately, better than the life he would have led if he would've remained in his little cubicle? The answr may surprse you. i think the main idea this movie tries to instill in you is that you should not blindly follow.
The movie attacks corporate America, sayng that people are *wasting* their lives away in cublicles. It attacks the media, and their attempts (quite often successful) to make us conform. After looking at a Calvin Klein ad of a muscular man in underwear, Pitt as Tyler Durden says, "Self improvement is masturbation. Self destruction, might be the answer." whether or not you see this as true,is up to you and you alone. I'm not even going to state my opinion, because it doesnt matter. what matters is that you see this movie, which is unbelivable. And don't let this review make you think that you'll be bored out of you mind. i just tried to delve deeper into what the movie is trying to say. It is extremely entertaining, David Fincher has yet again done a tremendous job, and David Uhls brought the book to the screen splendidly, retaining much of the comedy that lightens an otherwise rather dark movie. Ed Norton, and Brad Pitt both give amazing performances, as does Helena Bonham Carter. The DVD itself comes packed extremely well, complete with a pamphlet entitled "how to start a fight" that has many of hollywood's opinions on the movie, and the story of how it came to be made. In short, you should defintely watch this movie *at least* once, no matter who you are. ...
Very Highly Recommended
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