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Summary: Wonderful movie!!!
Review: This whole movie has such an incredible look to it, very stylistic. I haven't seen any other movies that David Fincher has directed, but judging from this I'd have to say that he's awesome. The movie has some differences than the book, nothing too big. A lot of the dialogue is almost directly from the book. There are a few tracks of commentary, including Chuck Palahniuk and the main stars and those are interesting to listen to. Some of the behind-the-scenes features are amusing and I'm so glad that make-up features, costume sketches and multi angles are included.
I'm a big fan of the movie so I guess I'm a bit biased, but I do think that the actors are amazing, and the plot is just so wonderfully twisted that I can't see how someone couldn't enjoy this movie. Make soap!
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Summary: Overrated crap
Review: "Everything's missing in Fight Club, especially a point.""You're either going to love it or hate it." Bloody mess of a guy film loses its battle to have any real meaning." "Fight Club is a work of prevailing violence." "Fight Club is a distinctively dense and often hilarious film, but in the end it's nonsense."
-- Andrew O'Hehir, SALON.COM "If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "If the first rule of Fight Club is 'Nobody talks about Fight Club,' a fitting subsection might be 'Why would anyone want to?'"
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES "If you want a movie that makes sense and doesn't make you chuckle at its sophomoric satire, laugh this one right off your list."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST "Terribly underwhelming." "Fight Club is an empty shout of 'To hell with it all!'"
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL "As artistically fascinating as the movie may be, the spiritual sickness that it depicts is, at the very least, distasteful." "Laughably ludicrous." I think that sopports my point but if you want it in my own words. It just plianly had no point. Why does this charater do these sick things and why this charater is still alive. Honestly anyone who was invaled with this project deserves to be hanged and tared and feathered or worse. Unlike other stinkers which you can make fun of like ohh say Battleflied: Earth, Dungeon & Dragons or the remake of The Huauting you can't even make fun of the damn thing it takes itself too damn serouisly for it's own good. I once saw this trash compared to John Carpenter's The Thing and all I have to say is "How dare he?" Do yourself a favor and rent a good movie like "Clerks", "The Princess Bride", "Princess Mononoke" or "Forest Gump". It was hard to find a movie to top my worst film ever but thanks to you bastards Brad Pitt and Fincher you've done it. Thanks for taking 2 hours of my life I can't get back. Hollywood scum.
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Summary: Fight Club is the "Taxi Driver" of our times.
Review: Fight Club is the "Taxi Driver" of our times and Ed Norton is the DeNiro of his generation. I missed this when it first came out largely due to the panning of critics. Shame on me. I saw it on cable about halfway through so all the surprises weren't so surprising. Finally I rented it and saw it all...twice. I disagree that the Fight Club turns into a facist group as they don't really have a political ideology worked out. If anything they're more Nihilistic than anything, particulary anarchist.
They're are some wonderful ideas in the film, ie, when Pitt tells Norton that soap was created by the ashes of heroes. There's more but that's all I'll say on that.
The real lesson of this film is the dangers of young men without positive male role models in their lives growing up in a consumer culture - Yes, you need fathers! The film argues that manhood is learned and not intrinsic and that without these role models, young men will follow anybody who seems to know what they are talking about. The danger is that they may follow the wrong person. This we already know ie Gangs, Army. It's just well presented here.
On another note, I'm currently reading the book. It's equally great. The lack of description only adds to it. I also got the soundtrack. It's great.
Fight Club is destined to become a cult classic like Taxi Driver. Ask about, you'll find it doesn't take long for a group of guys to start talking about fight club, thereby breaking the first two rules. See it, and you will too.
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Summary: Well, it didn't make sense, but it was COOL.
Review: One day ago you were just a nobody who everybody looked down at, then the next day, you find out out that you are not just that loser who goes to Depression Thearopies every day to cry in other men's arms, but this new born King with an army of loyal bald-heads all over the nation fighting for you. The movie was not logical, but it did make me admire the strange story of those silly people: Through fighting, what comes out is not just blood and tears, but all those emotions that you have been hiding, all those things that have made you unable to sleep; By unleashing those forces, the man is reborned, with nothing but that animal instinct that releases the sinful world of its deeds with a sense of a new found justice. Watch the movie, and you will understand what I am talking about. FIGHT CLUB>>
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Summary: Clever - but points off for pulling punches.
Review: Fincher is always interesting - and he can get away with using actors I loathe (Pitt, Michael Douglas). He seems to occupy that margin of acceptable "darkness" just between Tim Burton and David Lynch: multiplex audiences may think they're having a really edgy experience. It's pretty much all affect, though. Still, there's greatness in in his work, even if it's impossible to take too seriously. There is some real originaliy in this bizarrely homoerotic/apocalyptic fable. The first half hour is a bit too CGI happy, and Pitt's true identity comes as a bit of a clichéd letdown, but there's probably no more worthy target for satire than testosterone culture. It's way too bad it has to end on such a cutsey note - as if the producers were afraid of letting the audience walk out feeling the sting the material cries out for.
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Summary: Clever - but points off for pulling punches.
Review: Fincher is always interesting - and he can get away with using actors I loathe (Pitt, Michael Douglas). He seems to occupy that margin of acceptable "darkness" just between Tim Burton and David Lynch: multiplex audiences may think they're having a really edgy experience. It's pretty much all affect, though. Still, there's greatness in in his work, even if it's impossible to take too seriously. There is some real originaliy in this bizarrely homoerotic/apocalyptic fable. The first half hour is a bit too CGI happy, and Pitt's true identity comes as a bit of a cliche letdown, but there's probably no more worthy target for satire than testosterone culture. It's way too bad it has to end on such a cutsey note - as if the producers were afraid of letting the audience walk out feeling the sting the material cries out for. Still, has there been another recent Hollywood film remotely this interesting? This towers miles above the usual crud.
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Summary: one of the few essential DVD purchases...
Review: A truly innovative film with an intelligent script, great performances and a style like no other. As a DVD package this is exemplary. The quality of the medium allows you to watch the film with great picture and sound. The superb extras allow you to dip into numerous aspects of the movie and making of it. Very well put together this is an essential purchase for anyone with a DVD player. Oh, and this movie has the second best ending ever!
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Summary: Movie for Whackos and Weirdos
Review: Jack is employed by a major car manufacturer to evaluate whether recall of their vehicles is necessary. A fairly normal job, you'd think. But Jack is not normal. Far from it. Jack is a chronic insomniac. In his own words: 'Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.' (Just one of the many brilliant quotes from this movie). To cure his insomnia, Jack joins support groups - for anything. Be it testicular cancer patients who've lost their privates or leukoma patients who just want to be laid one more time before they die, Jack goes to them all. And strangely, finds that this gives him blessed sleep at night. That is, until Marlo shows up - a ... who fakes disease to join these groups. Jack is back to being an insomniac again until he meets Tyler, a soap salesman, who blows up Jack's apartment (but you'll only figure that out later). The two of them begin 'Fight Club' - a club where middle/low class people come to...fight each other. Might sound stupid, but eventually the two of them build a network that spans the entire USA. The movie has a surprise at the end, which I won't spoil. It's one of those movies which you can watch a thousand times and still not grasp the meaning of everything. But it's got a great story line, plenty of great quotes and two great actors (Brad Pitt & Edward Norton). Oh, and watch out for the porn clip at the end when the buildings are blowing up...they don't put NU18 for nothing...
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Summary: Nobody seems to get the hook of this movie
Review: You need to really pay attention to the dialog in this film. There is so much symbolism and themes in this film that it is easy to miss the bottom-line. That is the only reason I would'nt give this film 5 stars, it trys to do too much. If you like movies that make you think and leave you feeling uneasy, this is for you. You think the movie is about men finding liberation through violence. The irony is that the movies not about that at all. You have to watch it yourself, but most people miss the point. If you can't handle abiguity this movie will really irritate you. Especially disturbing to me was the dialog between Ed Norton and the female character where they are discussing which days they will attend the victims groups, spooky. Remember the old saying its ok to talk to yourself as long as you don't answer back. Watch this movie twice and again, pay attention to the dialog.
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Summary: "Step forward...into the cave..."
Review: "With insomnia, nothing's real?" [What's that flash beside the copier???] [What's that flash beside the doctor?] [What's that flash in the first meeting of the testicular cancer support group?] "Everything's a copy of a copy of a copy." "Like so many others, I had become a slave." * * * * * * * * * There is much in this film to suggest that a deep reading of Plato's *Republic* -- especially the section dealing with the two different levels of reality and the myth of the Cave -- is an essential starting point for understanding the perspective of this film. "I want you to go on to picture the enlightenment -- or ignorance -- of our human condition somewhat as follows. Imagine an underground chamber like a cave, with an entrance open to the daylight, and running a long way underground. In that chamber are men who have been prisoners there -- since they were children, their legs and necks being so fastened that they can only look straight ahead of them and cannot turn their heads. Behind them and above them a fire is burning, and between the fire and the prisoners runs a road, in front of which a curtain-wall has been built, like the screen at puppet shows between the operators and their audience, above which they show their puppets." (Plato; trans. H.D.P. Lee) "We are shown the ascent of the mind from illusion to pure philosophy, and the difficulties which accompany its progress. And the philosopher, when he has achieved the supreme vision, is required to return to the cave and serve his fellows [by telling them about the Truth which he has seen...], his very unwillingness to do so being his chief qualification [for they do not want to listen... the knowledge of the Truth hurts their ears, disturbs their illusions...questions their living and their lives...]. As [Francis M.] Cornford pointed out [in his edition of *The Republic*], the best way to understand the simile [of the cave]is to replace 'the clumsier apparatus' of the cave by the cinema [the movie theater!!]. It is the moral and intellectual condition of the average man from which Plato starts; and though clearly the ordinary man knows the difference between substance and shadow in the physical world, the simile suggests that his moral and intellectual opinions often bear as little relation to the truth as the average film does to real life." -- H.D.P. Lee, *The Republic.* * * * * * * * * *
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