Fight Club

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Summary: I couldn't cry...so once again, I couldn't sleep
Review: I am Jack's story:
Fight Club is about total chaos and anarchy set in the modern-day world. You know the place. There is a gun pointed straight into our mouths and for a second, we see nothing but...wait, let me start eairlier...This is the story of a no-name individual (let's call him Jack) who feels, well, stuck. He lives in a very respectable apartment with some very respectable clothes and furniture with a very "respectable" job. Jack has spent the last six months of his life with insomnia. He can't sleep, nor can he keep a clear idea of what's going on around him. As he says, "everything is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy..." I am Jack's life, and I'm ending one minute at a time.

I am Jack's solution:
Along come the support groups...Cancer, tumors, trauma, Jack has none of these things, but for some reason, feeling the pain of others who do helps him sleep. Jack starts attending as many of these sessions as possible in an attempt to feel the world around him. He lets go, and cries with the victims of these groups. And, as he so eloquently puts it, "Babies don't sleep this well..." It seems that Jack is cured until Marla Singer comes along. Marla is a tourist to these groups just like Jack, and she reflects his lie. "I couldn't cry...so once again, I couldn't sleep."

I am Jack's call for help:
We wake up on an airplane on the way home from a business trip. We stare at our single-serving peanuts and our single serving cup of coffee. Next to us, a man spouts his incredibly cynical, yet subtly brilliant views on the world. Meet Tyler Durdin...I am Jack's need for friendship...Tyler and Jack have an interesting conversation for the rest of the flight, and Jack leaves and arrives home to find his apartment in flames...I am Jack's complete and utter numbness...Jack decides to call up Tyler for a place to stay for reasons that are unclear to both us and Jack.

I am Jack's new life:
We meet up with Tyler in Lou's Tavern discussing the next step for Jack. What happens now?...I am Jack's inflamed sense of confusion...Outside the bar, Tyler discusses things that Jack can do to help himself, including offering Jack shelter at his home. Jack accepts and off we go..."I want you to hit me as hard as you can."

I am Jack's thoughts:
Fight Club is one of those rare films that was recommended to me by some friends of mine, who told me how cool and mind-blowing it was. The thing that makes it different from all of those other movies is that I actually ended up loving this film for everything it is and everything it tries to be (most of my friends' tastes compared to mine are drastically different). This film is sheer brilliance, and it sends a very strong and clear message to everybody: One needs to accept their life as it is and do what they can to make it better for themselves and others around them.

I am Jack's DVD, and I am worth every penny.

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Summary: fight club as music video
Review: not bad but not nearly as good as the book nor as good a flick as it could have been. lots of showoff gimmicks starting with the totally unnecessary opening shots of the narrator's gullet. the madonna-like voguing of bonham carter. the chic shots. the convenient collapsing therefore simplification of the plot. very dumbed down for whose benefit. pitt would have been perfect with a better director. mostly he adds too much spin & kills the real sense of tyler.

palahniuk is a genius. fincher caters to the masses.

i'd rather see a jarmusch version.

or david lynch

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Summary: A psychological and philosophical masterpiece
Review: Listen and watch carefully. every time you watch this movie you will see and learn something new. A beautiful and sick slant on society. This movie is not for the stupid however. If you think its about guys fighting, stop watching and go back to sleep.

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Summary: I wish I could give 6 stars
Review: This is my favorite movie of all time. It goes away from the book occasonally, but it is still great. The sceans in the movie that weren't in the book are brillient. The screen writer mush have had a huge understanding of the meaning of the book. The acting was terriffic, Brat Pitt and Edword Noten did a great job. This is a great movie and should be watched by everybody at least once (but you'll want to watch it again, trust me).

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Summary: hilarious movie if your not an uptight square.
Review: FIGHT CLUB is one of my favorite movies of all time. why you ask?.. because it has everything.. great acting, great cast, great story(very inovative). i dont see why this movie had alot of bad reviews when it was realesed in theaters. i think it's maybe because all the film critics that bashed this film are uptight squares who can't see past this movie's over the top concept...
i recomend you to see FIGHT CLUB for yourself, i guarantee you
it will be one of your most memorable movies you'll ever see.

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Summary: The only movie that's better than the book it's based on...
Review: This movie accomplishes the difficult tasks of being thoroughly entertaining while providing the viewer with something to think about. The story itself is great, and appeals to that little (at least) bit of anarchist in all of us, and Brad Pitt and Edward Norton do wonderful jobs with their respective characters.

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Summary: "TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY!"
Review: FIGHT CLUB is absolutely mind-blowing. It is thought-provoking. This film has its audiences on the edge of their seats and thinking about the film long after they have watched it. It tells the story of the anonymous and main character, portrayed in this film by Edward Norton, whose life is boring and monotonous. He is an insomniac...he's miserable...he is destined for a breakdown...until his life takes a sudden change when he meets the wildest man he's ever met...his best friend. When Norton's character's apartment explodes without explanation, he is forced to take up residence with Tyler Durden. Together, the two commit a series of acts of vandalism and sessions of bloody fist-fights, which come with certain rules, of course. As more and more people join, a group forms...an army...a club of vandals that worship their leaders and are convinced that they are being rescued from misery...or something they can't even identify...and find the acts of vandalism that they commit acts of setting those who "are still stuck" free. At least that is their excuse...or Durden's. As the movie goes on, their infamous fight club morphs into Project Mayhem, and as their acts grow more and more violent and outrageous, one can only wonder..."how far is too far?" As Edward Norton's character is shot into a world that he isn't prepared to face, he will find himself unraveling a mystery that will blow the minds of any of the film's audiences, people will find themselves mesmerized by the miraculous and amazing story that is not as obvious or flat as the marketing may make it seem. The film goes deeper than any unsespecting viewer can ever expect...with unbelievable twists and turns that explode onto the screen with stylistic vision of brilliant and artistic director, David Fincher, whose work includes the films,SEVEN and PANIC ROOM. That combined with the amazing acting talents of such actors as Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, whose portrayals of the characters fit perfectly with the right wit and humor that makes this film what it is. This piece of art also contains a great amount of special effects. The film, of course, contains a great amount of violence for the intense fighting scenes and other important scenes, which is necessary, being that the film is after all called FIGHT CLUB.

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Summary: Greatest Movie Ever Filmed!!!
Review: FightClub (FC) isn't a movie. It's a superbly well-portrayed philosophy. A culmination of the all the events that led to the excesses of capitalism, this movie smashes them all, in their face. It is impossible for someone who has never seen this movie to read a review and decide on buying the DVD. You just have to see the movie, in case you missed it, you just have to buy the DVD. Well, let me just start by quoting a line from this masterpiece, "How much do you know about yourself, when you've never been in a fight?". How much can you base your joy upon someone else's deeds (reviews) when you never saw the movie yourself?

FC is the Taxi Driver of the 2000s. It portrays all the decadence from the evils of excess materialism. Unfortunately, capitalism is a cause for this excess. Not to say its an evil in itself but as Thorstein Veblen pointed out many decades ago, the greatest enemy of capitalism is not communism or the trade unions, it is the heartless, money-spinning, corporations. Galbraith pointed out in the fifties that companies change consumer preferences through advertising. Tyler Durder in FC says "You are not your khakis". This movie is as much about understanding economics as it is about entertainment. Dont define yourself by the CK name on your sleeve, or the Ralph Lauren, who is getting free advertising when ever you show his name off your clothes. every young man can associte the IKEA nesting habbit shown in the movie. its sadly true about new galaxies being named after super corporations because they are taking over our lives. Demand seems to have stopped driving supply, its supply that is driving demand. I am sure this movie would make J B Say quite happy for that point. And its true, ever wondered why people who buy a $ 100,000 machine say they bought it for "Engineering"? I am sure these guys dont understand how their airconditioners work forget the car.

The dialogues in the movie make the movie worth watchin many times over. "Sooner or later, the things you own, end up owning you", "I found freedon, losing all hope was freedom". well there are so many lines like that in the movie, you would want to get the screenplay.

The casting is just perfect. the actors never give you the impression that they are acting, which is how it shhould be. Brad Pitt, Ed Norton and Helena Bonham deliver the performance of their lives. A feature film cannot get better than this. David Fincher is not only detailed at the micro level (the opening credits of human brain anatomy or the scene were Ed Nortons flats gets filled with furniture) also at the macro level (Ed Norton realizing that he is Tyler Durden and the way script progresses from Project Mayhem to the end). What a movie! Fincher is one of the best directors of Hollywood.

Well, credit goes to Jim Ulhs for the awesome screenplay and Chuck Palahniuk for writing the great book with the same name. This movie rules! Fincher, Ulhs and Palahniuk gave us something that we could cherish till we die. the ending is poetic, with a mind-blowing song from The Pixies enthralling you while saying " Where is my mind", so apt!!!

Watch it, watch it again and agiin, you will never be the same. this movie is a beatiful mix of philosophy, economics, psychology, all set in high-powered fightclub atmosphere. This movie brings great joy and great pain at teh same time (that awesome feeling). well, let me finish with a line from the movie " Its only after you lost everything, you are free to do anything"....

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Summary: How we wound up here
Review: I was looking to buy the film, having seen it many times before, and was stunned by the release date, 1999. Although the film's prescience is perhaps better attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, it is still remarkable for the insights it provides into the psychology of the terrorists we face today. While the obvious parallel is to antiglobalization hooligans, the film more acutely explains the attractiveness of the bankrupt nihilism of Al Queda and similar groups. The rage that fuels Fight Club is a product not of disenfranchisement but of disaffection. So too the brain trust of Al Queda are not the downtrodden but rather aimless thrill seekers unable to find their place in a modern world consumed with consumption. Even the jarring schizophrenic split that seems almost gratuitous on first viewing of the film makes sense, seems true, given the real world fight club of Sept 11 wherein men ostensibly of the modern world, educated and capable of productive lives, resort to acts of suicidal mass murder. Despite its brilliant psychological insights, I must leave off one star for its failure to provide a more tangible resolution. Or perhaps George Bush is right, and the only way to bridge the divide is by means of the barrel of a gun.

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Summary: Another David Fincher Masterpiece
Review: Seven, The Game, Panic Room and Fight Club are each David Fincher's films. Fight Club and Seven stand out the most, The Game was fantastic, and Panic Room was certainly suspenseful. Fight Club was such a great role for Edward Norton. There was not a single scene that he was in where he didn't just draw me into his character completely. Brad Pitt's role was just plain fun, and Helena Bonham Carter was mysterious. Fight Club was an unforgettable film with unforgettable elements. This is certainly not something that kids should see, for its R rating reflects strong graphic brutal violence, language and some sexuality including prolonged sequences where moaning is heard throughout a house. As a whole, Fight Club is one of the most amazing films that I have ever seen and I strongly recommend it, especially for fans of anyone in the cast or of David Fincher.