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Summary: You should have this DVD:
Review: You should have this DVD if you have the following 3 things: A pulse, are a male, and a dvd player. That says it all basically, great twist ending, and beautiful quotes throughout the movie...watch for the subliminal messages in the beginning that hint the ending. After you watch this movie for the first time, give yourself some time to let it sink in and then watch it again. Every guy should own this DVD.
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Summary: Ideals of Success
Review: Fight Club is an intelligent, abrasive and complex story of a young man who's driven mad by the hollowness of his materialistic existence. This movie is constantly entertaining to me: the humor is sly, non-stop, ironic and paradoxical (see Brad Pitt's tirade about unfulfilled dreams and you'll understand). The technical achievements are first-rate (imaginative use of cgi to illustrate the contents of a trash can seemed highly appropriate for the themes explored in this story!) The action sequences are exciting and cringe-inducing at the same time. The actors are entirely believable in their circumstances. The best thing about this movie (more so than the book its based on) was that it led me to re-assess some of my beliefs about success and achievements in life. Isn't that what great artworks are suppose to do?
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Summary: Hit me, baby, one more time.
Review: "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." - Tyler Durden. This is one amazing film. Just keepin' the Fight Club pride alive with yet another 5-star rating. A very great film.
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Summary: Good filmmaking with a good story!
Review: If you want a movie that gives you that type of repulsed, what the hell are they gonna do now! type of movie than Fight Club is for you. It's a story of a man who's life falls in shambles but after he meets a stranger on a plane he buddies with him and the chaos that the two combine are able to brainwash every male being in their perimeter of contact. Alot of cool facts are discoverd in this film and I would put this under the mullholland drive, pulp fiction type of movie watcher. The cinematography is really good in the film and you can even see some surprising pop-ups on screen where you will have to keep on rewinding and looking back closely to see if they actually bleeped that image for a second....maybe they did maybe they didn't...only you can find out when you watch this film.
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Summary: You Have to See It to Believe It!
Review: Watching the film, "Fight Club" you are taken into the dark underworld of fighting for respect and honor. Overall, the movie is pretty good. The acting by Edward Norton and Brad Pitt is great (not to mention Brad Pitt's physique), and the movie really pulls you in to lives of the characters. The fight scenes are rather grisly, which will probably leave people turning away and wincing or peeking through their fingers. I don't want to give anything away, but the ending will leave you speechless. If I hadn't watched it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. For the ending alone, watch this movie!
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Summary: Great Film
Review: This is an wonderful film. Intelligent, well directed, great acting, and deeply symbolic. There is no need for me to go into detail here as I see many have more than adequatly described the plot and many of it's nuances. More so, becuase many of the points raised don't lend themselves to discussion in the space provided ( in which on could hardly do justice to one of it's themes. )
On the otherhand, I will point out that, as many have stated, people love or hate this film. ( some probably do both ). I will not decend to the egotism of those who say if you don't like it you aren't bright enough to understand it ( not that I am not that egotistical) but I did notice that most of the negative comments seem to reject the films world view.
Tyler clearly has a world view that many, particularly young ( perhaps predominently white ) men feel these days. Lack of purpose, no worthwhile goals ( other than a cool new car or nice furniture ), a society that trys to create our opinions for us. I unstand why this would bother some views. They may not understand it, they may think that such people, the favored childeren of society, are just being foolish, or perhaps they are afraid of a world were people reject the comfortable values that make their little sterile and safe society possible. ( More pessimistiacally, perhaps they fear the effects on accepting such values themselves.)
In anycase, the fact that one does not agree with the message of a film does not make it a bad film. ( You may as well condemn The Ten Commandments for being about religion ) The acting is outstanding, the direction is marvolouse, the vast majority of the dialog is sharp and in many cases very insightful, and ( for those who thought it was advocating all those things that scared them so much ) it spends it's last act with the "hero" trying to stop what is going on and recognizing the inhumanity of what "his" followers have become.
Agree or not. Empahize or not. But if you open your mind you may gain some insight into how some people see the trap that their lives have become. This film gives insight into the human condition of many young men in the modern world and, like that view or not, it may help you to understand some of things that drive people to the edge.
- post script am I the only one who thought that this was a modern Steppenwolf and that Tyler should have been a cute babe named Hermine?
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Summary: Naturally, written after the fact...
Review: Thankfully, I'd bought the double-disc edition before it went out of production. I'm not sure if the giddy fan boy in me could have gone without seeing how they made Edward Norton see a penguin on that second disc. The movie itself is a triumph, a nice little send-up of the corporate world in which we live. The Narrator (henceforth referred to as "Jack") lives a comfortable life: a good job with a "major" car company, a large apartment, plenty of cash, IKEA furniture ... oh, but wait. Jack can't sleep. For some reason or another, he suffers from insomnia. After finding solace in support groups and having that taken away from him, he meets an interest person named Tyler Durden who, after a hilarious incidence, opens his home, and his philosophies, to Jack. Tyler is the anti-yes-man. He hates everything about modern life, how everyone feel the need to fill their lives with garbage, how they're all led to believe they'll become millionaires and rock stars. It sickens him. In a world in which men have been stripped of their primal maleness, Tyler invites them into a world where they can give into their darker sides and fight it out with each other. Of course, Tyler has much deeper plans than that... Without wanting to give away much more of the plot, you will enjoy this movie if: you've ever looked at something you "have to" like with utter contempt and disbelief, if you've ever felt within you a need for something higher than modernized life, or just plain hate suits. Sometimes, granted, Tyler's teachings seem a little shaky, but this IS a movie (and an excellent book), not a guidebook. The movie is trying to make a point, not force you to bend to its will; that's what society does. As films go, this is probably in my top 10, definitely in my top 25 films of all time. Fincher does an amazing job directing, using CGI in inventive, sparing ways. Brad Pitt continued with his success on "Se7en" and pulls off a great Tyler. Ed Norton plays the perfect begrudged IKEA-boy. Helena Bonham Carter .... to be honest, I hated, despises her character the first time I saw this, but I find her more likable with each watching. The real surprise of this movie was Meat Loaf, who play sensitive bodybuilder Bob ... and almost outshines the two stars. As for special features, this is a pretty darn nice collection. Mostly short documentaries on how they did some of the special effects (the penguin, the plane, Jack's catalogue apartment, the ... two special effects shots for the ending) which are interesting. The fashion designs are ... pictures of clothes. Never very interesting except to see what Tyler could've been wearing (and he wore some crazy stuff in the film). The deleted scenes actually add a bit to the movie (Tyler quitting smoking in one of them (!)). The real gem of the second disc, at least, is the Publicity Gallery. The commercials and trailers are nothing too special, but the Public Service announcements are sidesplitting. Sadly, there are only two, but one features Ed and the other Brad telling the audience normal theatre going procedure (where the exits are, turn of cell phones) and then end with each saying something odd... I doubt I'll be allowed to repeat Tylers's, but Jack says, out of the blue "Remember: NO ONE has the right to touch you in your bathing suit area!" This is the one DVD collection in which the special features are equal to the film. The single-disc edition contains everything on the first disc, which is pretty much the commentary. Still, I think hunting down the double disc edition is well worth the $30 you may have to shell out to get it. I mean, what else are you going to spend it on? A duvet?
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Summary: Great book, but just a good movie
Review: For those of you that are not readers and havent had the chance to read the novel "Fight Club", then you probably like this movie, that is, if you like dark movies. I personally enjoyed it a lot, but did not feel that it was up to par with the outstanding book. The characters are perfectly played out. Pitt and Norton were outstanding. One thing that really gets to me about the flick though is that it leaves a lot of questions unanswered where in the book we get everything answered by the end. This special 2 disk set is great though. There is a lot of documentary sections that really help sum up those questions that need to be answered. Showing you several hidden parts of the movie, cut outs, and even the splices of Brad Pitt every twenty minutes or so, and even a Huge porn star Penis at the end of the movie. Its pretty ammusing. If this special edition still doesnt answer questions for you, then read the book. As most books turned into movies, there are some differences, but there are not a lot, which is nice. Enjoy your trip into the darkness of human life all around us.
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Summary: My favorite movie ever
Review: Fight Club is an in-your-face film which reflects reality and socilogy better than any other movie I can think of. It begins with the protagonist, his insomnia, and finding solace in attending support groups. He is also materialistic browsing through IKEA catalogues looking for the 'dining set that best defines him' and works at a lucrative job. His life is about to chance when he meets the eccentric and somewhat psychotic Tyler Durden on an airplane, and ends up living with him aftersome extenuating circumstances. Throughout the film, Durden (played brilliantly by Brad Pitt) and the protagonist (Ed Norton) form their own way of life, randomly being philosophical and observing human nature and obstentanious materialism, and the 'fight club' they started turn into a mini-army, and the ending of the film is one of the most surprising twists ever in a movie.
Adding to Norton and Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter plays the pessimistic ..., Marla Singer, who serves as a nuisance to the narrator but an object of Tyler's 'affection' (if you want to call it that). Surprisingly, Meat Loaf (that's right... that guy) plays Bob, a person whose life was destroyed by testicular cancer who is the protagonist's allie at Remaining Men Together (a support group for men w/ testicular cancer) and eventually joins the somewhat sadistic yet therapeudic ring of fight club.
This movie is destined to be a classic. Powerful dialogues, breathtaking performances, suspense at every scene, and a study in sociology and humanity, only a few movies have reached the intensity of Fight Club. It's a film that demands to be analyzed and seen many times for pleasure or observation.
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Summary: Guess again (!)
Review: First things first: You probably didn't understand this movie. David Fincher makes dark films that toss muddled characters together and Fate spins the wheel. Centrifugal force takes over. Don't get me wrong. The plot holds to logical conventions, reality may be stretched, but the otherworldiness of 'Seven', for example, [filmed] in a dreary, nameless city, doesn't overly tax credibility. In "Fight Club" the idea that Tyler and 'Jack' could spearhead a global movement of disaffected men with a penchant for thumping each other into senselessness, while a bit silly, isn't impossible to believe, given how men engage in the sorting out of the pecking order normally. Anyone who has watched 4 year old boys in a sandbox knows that aggression determines who keeps the shovel. But the movie is not about the Social Learning Theory of aggressive behavior. It's about how we arrive at what is worth fighting for, about emotional connectedness, about how we integrate conflicting agenda items into our consciousness. You can say all you want about the likeability of the characters. Personally, I wouldn't trust Marla or Jack or Tyler for a minute, but each character is playing out a role that typifies a point on everyones psychological map. Jack is in Siberia, in a consumerist gulag that has him prisoner to the Ikea catalog. Marla, though plenty attractive, is so damaged by life that she wanders from one self-help meeting to another ( as does Jack ), hoping to heal her invisible psychic wounds. Tyler is a glib, self-made philosopher/soap salesman whose motives seem to be mostly iconoclastic. The perfect trio. What happens in this film occurs because each character is impelled to pursue a fated role, not because he or she wants the inevitable outcome, but because each choice narrows the succeeding choices. In such a nihilist universe, love is destructive, not redeeming. I don't think this movie is enjoyable in conventional terms; it is abrupt, dangerous, eccentric as well as ironic and a little creepy. Given that caveat, it succeeds as entertainment because it doesn't try to entertain.
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