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Summary: Soap Is Cool!
Review: Fight Club is the best movie I've ever seen, but I didn't know that the first time I watched it. I knew that I liked it, but I wasn't sure whether I should feel a little guilty about that or not. At first viewing, it seemed that it was a little offensive and brutal. As I watched it a few more times, however, I came to realize that it is in fact a brilliant dark comedy. While this movie has gotten a lot of bad publicity about its violence and all, it you pay attention you actually notice that rarely is violence glorified, and is usually made fun of in some way or shown to be silly and excessive. In fact, anyone who says that it is filled with "gory sensationalized meaningless violence" has either never watched the movie or is incapable of seeing past the most obvious, superficial aspects of the film. While the movie appears to be about the struggle of "real men" against the emasculating forces of modern society (most namely the scourge of Scandinavian furniture), it is actually about the struggle within one particular man ("Jack") to discover himself. It is witty, original, and facinating. The more you watch it, the more you see and understand of both the plot and the underlying theme and purpose. Oh yeah, Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are flawless as well.That's the movie review. Now on the the DVD.
While the movie itself is fantastic, the DVD itself is even better. It is chocked full of special features, the best of which being the commentary track including David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. I could spend lots of time detailing all of my favorite features, but I can far more easily just say that they're all very cool. This fantastic movie and the peerless DVD make for a must buy.
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Summary: worst movie I've ever sat through
Review: don't bother to trash your mind thinking you're on some higher enlightened plane... this is just trash! Wish I could auto-erase the input to my mind. Submissions that "do not follow our guidelines will not be posted".... so this probably won't get posted... after all, the idea is to sell videos... right?
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Summary: I normally don't write negative reviews, and...
Review: ...I've always loved the kind of film that falls into the "thinking persons" category (i.e. American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, Pink Floyd's The Wall...etc), but this movie failed with flying colors! The idea was great, but the delivery was another story.
Any time a message that preaches anti-materialism or anti-conformism is brought to light is a good thing. But, those good messages (plus whatever else Fincher had in mind) were completely lost in a film that simply tried WAY too hard to be "dark" and "intellectual." David Fincher's other films like Seven and The Game were successfully and pleasantly "dark" & "intellectual", but Fight Club just made me want to hit somebody as hard as I could for DIFFERENT reasons!
I think I watched The Usual Suspects immediately after Fight Club just to see a REAL film made up of dark intelligence. And what ... was up with Meatloaf & his breasts?! THAT was a classic example of how a movie can sometimes include something disturbing JUST for the sake of being disturbing. Nothing more or less.
The ending was pretty cool (thus 2 stars instead of 1) with its unpredictable twist, but at the end of the day all I saw was a movie that tried too hard to be thought provoking and not hard enough to be...good.
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Summary: Disturbing but great
Review: This is a very good movie, but if you can't stomach violence and look past it to the deeper meaning of the film, then don't watch it. The movie is very well cast and very well directed. The story is entertaining and fast moving.
But this movie should make you think. It has a strict anti-materialism message to it that makes it rather intriguing (whether or not you agree). How many of us men in our late twentys - early thirtys have spent considerable time searching for the larger meaning of our lives? We have had soft lives with no great challenges and this movie really chronicals a group of men searching for a primal challenge and searching for an opportunity to be primative. It encourages people to break away from who they are (or who they have become) and turn into who they want to be. I will say that the creation of a "cult-army" of mislead souls was, to me, the most disturbing aspect of the movie - much more so than the violence.
This is a great movie - it should have won best picture if the Academy had any guts - but it is violent and disturbing for both the violence and other reasons and shouldn't be watched by people who don't want what they know to be real to be confronted.
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Summary: Mind blowingly good!
Review: This has to be the biggest surprise smash of '99. From the amazing brain-ride rollercoaster intro, throught to the explosive final sequence, this delievers on every level an then some! Pitt and Norton are both on top form as is Bonham Carter. The film's twist at the end beats the hell out of The Sixth Sense's! My new personal favourite: over taking Terminator 2!!!
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Summary: Highly flawed
Review: Fight Club is about a man, known only as the Narrator, (Edward Norton) who hates his boring life and has to find alternative ways to deal with his misery. One of the ways he copes is by becoming a tourist, but not in a traditional sense. This kind of tourist is someone who attends support groups even though he/she doesn't have any disease or affliction. He goes to support group meetings because he likes the coffee, the folded chairs, the crying, the sharing of feelings. He likes feeling special for once. The whole premise of this type of "tourism" has black humor value, but the film's handling of these scenes (especially the deadly unfunny topic of cancer) is more dumb than funny or really black for that matter.
While at a support group, he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another tourist. She looks like a heroin addict, wears the blackest make up one can wear without looking Goth, and dresses in clothes that were "once owned by the victim of a sex crime." Marla hates life like the Narrator, but copes with it by becoming suicidal and self- destructive, unlike the Narrator who becomes violent- a pretty clear statement about male and female aggression. While women take it out on themselves, men take it out on each other. But that's pretty much all one can say to describe Marla. She has no ambition, no motivation, and she doesn't really do anything. Marla is truly a nothing character, despite Helena Bonham Carter's fascinating performance. Her purpose is solely to gratuitously have sex and round out the edges of the plot.
After his apartment mysteriously burns down, the Narrator decides to call a soap salesman he met on a plane named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). He finds that Tyler is everything that he wants to be but can't. Tyler is muscular and good looking in a rugged way as opposed to Edward Norton's sniveling dweeb. Tyler works at his own pace; the Narrator sees himself as a white-collar slave. Tyler lives in a dilapidated house, an utter contrast to the Narrator's former IKEA shrine. Tyler is everything anti-consumerism, anti- greed, anti-conformity. After their first meeting, Tyler says something to the Narrator thatsurprises him. "Hit me" he says. The two then get into a fight, find the experience exhilarating, and start a literal "fight club" in the basement of Tyler's dilapidated house. Soon, scores of men across the unnamed city they live in start showing up to beat each other up.
The basic message I got from this film is that when men feel they aren't allowed to work out their aggressions, they become violent and insane. The target in this film is consumerism and conformity in the work place, which threaten a man's masculinity. Consumerism, according to Tyler, is the artificial hunter-gatherer sense of worth, and thus picks apart the biological foundation which gives worth to the male mind. To compensate for this confusion and subsequent loss of masculinity, these men need to beat each other up and get beaten up to feel the rugged pain that they've been denied their lives.
A question I found myself repeatedly asking was, could someone actually "enjoy" breaking their nose, punching their teeth out, and getting stitches? The purpose is to show the EXTREMES of male frustration, but it would have been better had David Fincher had actually made the violence glamorous. As it stands, the violence is graphic enough to be unwatchable, but also too unrealistic to take seriously (no one can kick and punch someone in the jaw repeatedly without breaking it in some way). Or maybe, just maybe, Fincher didn't have to show the violence at all. How brilliant would a movie with the main theme of violence be if it didn't have a lot of actual violence in it? Also if violence and mayhem is a common goal among men, how come most war veterans find themselves in trauma and shock at the evils of their own violence? And why don't these men enroll in
the army if they enjoy pointless violence so much? Though any movie that generates heavy discussion, is, by default, interesting, most of the questions Fight Club conjures are provoked about the basis of why the movie was made to explore these themes, not about the actual content itself. Thus it doesn't constitute as sufficient ambiguity.
Finally, the twist ending. Although surprising and cool, not that much of interest happens before then. However, the twist is so cool in fact, that I was almost tempted to forget how much I didn't enjoy the movie up to that point. Consider it a great ending to a sorely misguided movie.
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Summary: A perfect Pitch Black comedy.
Review: A young exective worker (Edward Norton in a standout darkly comic performance) has meet an unusual soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and the two has made an Fight Club is about Men facing thier emotions, once they fight thier system and anger are out. The cult society-Fight Club has become a bigger society and more ambitious and they cause Mayhem toward major companys. While the exective worker has fall in love with an odd woman named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) but the Cult Society are becoming dangerous careless and getting themselves into all kinds of trouble towards another people.
Directed by David Fincher (Se7en, The Game, Alien 3) made an very ambitious, dark comedy with a twist. This DVD's has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.40:1) transfer and an Strong Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Including four different running commentary tracks by the director, producer, writer, cast and film crew. Pakced with More Extras on the Second Disc. The most ambitious film of 1999. Digitally Mastered in THX Picture Quality and Sound. Super 35. Grade:A+.
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Summary: The best movie
Review: This movie is fantastic. The first time you watch it, you will more than likely be confused. But every time you watch it, you will notice little things that make it so much better. (13 times, & still improving).
It's got some good points, about money controlling your life. "You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not the car you drive. You are not your ...khakis. You have to give up, and realize that one day you WILL die. Until then you are useless."
If you only saw the previews, I recommend you watch this. The previews did it no justice. Because of the way the plot is written, it is nearly impossible to make a good preview. I originally saw the movie only because of Edward Norton, who in my opinion is an outstanding actor, but afterwards, I was incredibly pleased with the result.
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Summary: Loved this movie
Review: I would certainly agree with the critics that this is one of those movies that asks questions without answering them -- consumerism and the feminization of America are criticized but the alternative, Project Mayhem, isn't much better. But that really didn't bother me much as I thought the questions themselves were enough to carry the movie. Basically the idea is that the quest for material possessions in an effort to find happiness is doomed -- a man will only be happy when he's part of a team, hunting, fighting, and overcoming adversity.
The script is hilarious and just about everything is well done. Great movie.
