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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: Excellent movie! One of the most important I've ever seen! A "must see"!
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Summary: The Best Movie I've Ever Seen
Review: This is my favorite movie. When I first saw the advertisements for this movie, I figured it was a stupid boxing movie (not to mention that I think Brad Pitt is way over-rated) so I didn't go to see it at the cinema. A couple of years later, I was up late at night and had nothing to do, so I watched it on HBO(or one of those similar channels). I'd forgotten the ads so I had no expectations. I just watched it unfold, seemingly leading nowhere in the first half hour. I've never enjoyed a non-adrenaline movie as much as I did this one. Edward Norton's performance is wonderful. The scene called "Jack's Smirking Revenge" on the dvd, is by itself worthy of an Oscar. Norton is believable in every second of the movie. The story is also brilliant. I read the book a while later and loved it, although I think I would be less pleased with the movie if I'd read the book first. Then I read Chuck Palahniuk's other novels. The man is a genius. Survivor, my absolute favorite novel of all time, is satire at its best. Oh yeah, the quality of the dvd is very good too.
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Summary: after some time...
Review: I've realized how this film was well-executed, it entertains, and it makes you think. So why only three stars? Because it was based off a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, who - in my honest opinion - is basically a walking, talking advertisement for the Landmark Forum. Far be it from me to knock the film on it's own merits, but I know many people in the world have taken "Durden-isms" to heart. I've found that this film is realistically the anti-thesis to all of the philosphies abound in it, as we see the main character begin to drift away from his ideological contemporaries. I feel as though this film, arm-in-arm with "The Matrix" (created by the Wachowski Bros - also members of the Landmark Forum), are indirect advertisements for the Landmark Forum, in that they undermine the value of subversion by betraying the respective 'revolutions' at the end of both plots. The nearly apparent statement made here is that "resistance is futile." Not that I take Fight Club seriously as a philosphy, but I think I'll stick with my genuine appreciation for revolution and subversion, and not hand it over to a cult posing as a corporation so that it can pretend to be the "cool" place to be.
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Summary: Waste
Review: What an incredible waste of talent. This is Hollywood at it's worst - trying to be cute and profound at the same time.
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Summary: A Delectable Serving of Cellulite
Review: In a world where the underdog never expresses themselves or the fury they mask. In this brilliant film, a collection of low class losers become so powerful, they in literally bring cooperate America down to it's knees. Fight club is a witty, humorous inventive film that captivates the mind, as well as the freedom that total release brings, along with slow deterioration and pointlessness an aimless life will bring. Brad Pitt delivers a comical and raw role as a free spirit intent on exposing the true horror and misdirection this material world brings. He loves to move place to place, and to mutilate the body, to invoke a state of complete freedom and valance. He despises the 'things' such as jewelry, entertainment devices, and the economics of the current first world countries. He in fact shows the true irony and stupidity of the wealthy when he sells rich overweight woman their own fat back to them in the form of expensive deodorant soap. Edward Norton plays the middle class hard working man, doing duty cover-ups for a deceptive car company. When he tries to find meaning in a variety of support groups, which in turn make him feel the pain of others to mask his own empty life. Then he finds another woman has the same idea, and that is when he begins to lose his new found solution. After a series of business trips, he finds a witty friend and finds that he is his new best friend. After at a traumatic event, he realizes that fighting is a strangely releasing thing, and that he loses all of his fear and doubt about the future. As the fight club grows, Edward finds that he is no longer holding such a close on his friend, as Brad begins to have an affair with his old suicidal friend. Eventually, the group spirals out of control, as does Pitt, when death exposes the group for the dangerous cult it is. It is then when Pitt disappear and seemingly starts more destructive groups in other cities when Edward Norton finds out that the battle against this insanity literally lays within his own mind. Though I did not like the twist in this movie, the ending was still satisfying, though while I was blown away by the nerve, wit, and humor during 80% of the movie. The dialoge was absolutely intelligent and witty. This movie is absolutely excellent, a psychological masterpiece, and a joy for any movie lover.
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Summary: Nietzsche for Dummies
Review: Fight Club is an excellent portrayal of what happens when men face up to the stupid, mean, and vulgar degredation they put up with as cogs in the machine of modern life. It is a very possible reaction to Radiohead's OK Computer, the best musical elaboration of the post-modern mundane mass of herd men - "let down and hanging around."
Anomie or nihilism should be a justifiably much larger concern for the modern individual. Just look at the stupid commercials for yogurt that talk about women getting ready to go to work - all lining up to head off to the grist. Feminism - the women want misery! Quit running around and sit down and face your own life, face up to how meaningless most of what you do is.
Watch Fight Club, see what I'm talking about, and then go read the real thing: Nietzsche. That's all Fight Club is, Nietzsche for dummies. Nietzsche's ideas are so novel and challanging that most fans of Fight Club can overlook the nonsensical climax and enjoy the social commentary. That is my recommendation. Read Nietzsche. If you need to watch Fight Club along the way, fine. It is a mediocre movie with a controversial and mind boggling philosophy that makes most viewers think it more than it is.
Ironically Fight Club came out almost 100 years after Nietzsche died.
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Summary: Stunning
Review: Easily Makes the Top Five movies of all time list. Flawless. Absolutely flawless. I believe this movie was completely mis- marketed at its initial release and goes far beyond just a "Van Damme Tourney Fighter" movie (Oh yea, you know it: Bloodsport, The Quest, The Quest 2, Street Fighter; was it just me or were these movies all exactly the same?)This movie delves extremely deep into the general concensus of the working class mind and produces a fanatical satire of grand proportions. The bloogy fight are just an added bonus. This is one of the most daring films I have ever seen, including tiny details that cannot possibly be dissected or understood until the second time you see it. Brilliant. If you like this, go see: Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Pi, Memento, The Cube and Minority Report.
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Summary: You'll never see it coming
Review: Wow. This shockingly honest, brutal movie will suck you in until it finishes. It tells the truth about the meaningless existence of the average person, and the end will hit you harder than if you were a member of the club. Not only that, but it is hilarious, too. Yup, wow pretty much explains it.
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Summary: Losing all hope was freedom!
Review: Is this the best film ever made? Well, probobaly not, but it's definetely one of them.
I saw this film a few years ago on a friends wide screen T.V. The mood was right. We were all alone for the whole night (The first time a bunch of us had had a sleepover without the unnessacery disadvantage of parents) and although it was a Sunday our minds were at ease since it was a holiday the next day and no school would follow. I swear by this film, the two hours and fifteen minutes before it began, I was to some extent a different person.
I'm sure that it had lessons that were just around the corner for me anyway, but this just happened to be the way that I discovered them. (I was only 14).
This film is not for stupid people. Although I'm sure that there is a hint of vanity in that comment I still mean every bit of it. If your into brand names and conformity then this film will do one of two things. Insult you beyond your wildest dreams to the extent were you will stop watching it and go around telling everyone what a crappy film it is (that makes you a stupid person) or it will open your eyes and make you think differently about life and opportunities all together.
Don't get me wrong, It is possible that the film just won't do it for you. You may say it's stating the obvious, the point that it's trying to make is too vague and is not put across properly with a bunch of guys beating on each other night after night. And thats perfectly fine. If you didnt like it then you didnt like it. Just don't start telling people that it's crap when you know full well that it's not.
Anyway, maybe I'm going a little over over the top with the whole life changing experience thing, but if you havent seen it then there's only one way to find out whether I am or not.
I saw it for the twentieth time recently (Sad I know but that is during a period of over three years) and I'm still noticing new things. For example when Tyler checks his teeth after throwing Jack through the rearview mirror, that represents how thoughts such as vanity are slowly creeping back into him. No matter how far you go you will always come back to your old roots eventually. (There that's for all you people who say that it portrays nothing but that we should all give up on life and call it a day.)
Like in so many of these reviews I'm beginning to ramble, so I'll finish by saying that if you havent seen it yet then do yourself a favour and get hold of it.
And if it doesn't get you within the first five minutes, then you might as well turn it off.
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Summary: First Rule of Fight Club---buy the film
Review: Heck, you don't even have to be a Brad Pitt fan to enjoy this movie (though I must admit, the shirtless and covered in blood look really works for him...)
The Cast: We have a hard hitting, off the wall, home-made dynamite and soap producer. A therapy/help session - addicted insomniac. The beautiful chain smoking beauty that comes between tham, and the underground bloody mayhem of Fight Club.
This is a great movie, well cast and superbly acted. If you're not especially fond of wanton violence nd lots of blood, then I wouldn't say this movie is for you. However, it's not completely superficial. There's a lot going on underneath the surface, clues to the excellent twist at the end. You'll need to watch it again, just to pick them out. So, we've got cute guys, shirtless and beating each other up as a form of therapy, a psychological twist that will make your head spin and lots of mayhem on the side for fun. A formula for a witty and thought-provoking film. (Even if the only thoughts that are provoked are: "Wow, Brad Pitt is really really cute!") As the box says: Mischief
Mayhem
Soap. Welcome to Fight Club.
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