Fight Club

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Summary: More than a movie. Much more.
Review: I believe that 'Fight Club' is second only to the awe-inspiring Kubrick masterpiece '2001: A Space Odyssey'. There are actually some surprising similarities between these two standout films - both are a visual and psychological journey that will leave the viewer amazed and disturbed. Pay no attention to the maniacs who rave about this movie. Pay no attention to the maniacs who attacked this movie. Just pay attention to 'Fight Club', for it deserves your entire alert mind.

Read other reviews for a plot summary - I would rather bring up some rarely mentioned facts about this film. This movie was based from a groundbreaking novel by Chuck Palahnuik, which deserves as much praise as it's theatrical counterpart. 'Fight Club' has an extremely enviable soundtrack, featuring a complete score by the Dust Brothers. Their work, a blend of techno and atmospheric ambience, feeds perfectly to the chaos and brooding terror of 'Fight Club'. I should also mention that Tom Waits also appears, as well as the best and siglemost inspirational band of all time - The Pixies. Fans such as myself will be euphoric upon hearing Black, Santiago, Deal, and Lovering used perfectly (I won't ruin which song is featured in the film), as they should.

Movies often not seen because of bad word-of-mouth: 'Moulin Rogue', 'Requiem For A Dream', and now 'Fight Club'.

Ignore the gossip. Watch 'Fight Club'.

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Summary: Understand the world first
Review: The movie will appeal to some, disgust others with encouragement. The movie is set around a man's world where commercial laws exist and everything within his touch is fashionable and exotic. His apartment is full of cool stuff that he bought with his cubicle job and everything is new as well as retro. When he discovers that he's just another fish in the ocean, he starts losing sleep and going crazy. He finds therapy in going to seminars for people who are pregnant, or for men that have breasts. This man likes being there so that he can feel superior and well about himself.
Everything goes well until a newcomer comes, and forces him out of it because she's going for the same reason, to feel well. The man feels bad again until he meets an interesting man with a personality exactly the same as his, but wilder and more courageous. The man is a soap salesman and a live wire, to say. When the cubicle man's rich decorated apartment blows up, he stays with the wild man. The cubicle man's name is Jack and he narrates the story. The names aren't important seeing as the story will spin out of control later of course.
One night the crazy man asks cubicle boy to hit him. He wants to be hit. Eventually they start attacking each other often for therapy which starts a club of cubicle dorks who are not out of the ordinary. Soon a trend starts, and that's when it gets weird. If you enjoy strange, modern tales that make little to no sense, get this movie. If you don't enjoy good film, violence, strange plot, and weird scenes, don't get this movie. Either way, this movie is very good and a movie that is fresh on the mind unlike movies today.

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Summary: I am Khaled's review of this utterly, utterly brilliant film
Review: Every once in a while, you see a film that actually gives you something to really think about long after you leave the movie theater. Brad Pitt's and Edward Norton's superb performance will captivate you through this unabashedly anti-establishment movie all the way through. The pace of the movie can seem somewhat slow at times, but that is only because the director is probably preparing for something really special. The graphics and the music/sound effects add to the ambience that one can only expect from a movie this unique. And add to that a script where the writer is willing to challenge just about everything we take from granted in our urban societies, and you've got something that will keep your mind twisting for a long time after you see this film. And if you thought that was all, check this out: the film has a storyline with completely unexpected events that just keep getting more shocking towards the end of the film. Among the many things this film will give you to think about is what kind of minds came together to produce this absolutely twisted and yet remarkable piece of work. The verdict: GO GET IT!!

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Summary: "Don't Believe the Hype."
Review: I came into this--having been told by several of my fellow young white male acquaintances that it was a life-changing film--expecting something on the magnitude of Citizen Kane, or at least Boogie Nights.

(And I'm sure those are the people who are going to rate this review badly. You know who you are.)

I was sadly disappointed.

The usually magnificent Edward Norton is wasted here. Helena Bonham Carter shows range in a role that is the antithesis of her earlier career, and also that she can handle an American accent. Brad Pitt is merely a showpiece to spout pseudophilosophies based on freedom through testosterone flow.

In fact, the whole movie is like that, and near the end, it completely loses control of itself. The "discovery" at the end was not earth-shattering or particularly surprising, given the clues throughout. It seemed to me simply a contrivance, trying to be something that changes your outlook on the film a la Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects.

Unfortunately, by that time, I was already bored.

And unlike my friends, I was not impressed by the revelation of "cigarette burns," (spots in the upper right corner of a film that tell the projectionist when to change reels) as I had worked in A/V in college and knew about them already. They spoke of these as if they were some deeply guarded secret instead of a way for a person to do the job more efficiently.

Nor was I entertained by the subliminal porn inserted into the children's film. Making a little girl cry is not my idea of humor.

That said, the special effects used in the fight sequences were definitely gruesome enough to get the point. And David Fincher, as a director, knows where to put a camera to get the best angle on a scene.

But life-changing? Not on your life.

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Summary: Great movie ruined by a crushingly disappointing weak ending
Review: I hated this film. I use the word "hated" because I was having such a great time watching it, and then there's this ridiculousy unfortunate ending that does a horrible diservice to the rest of the material. If you're the type of person that gets irked when the flick you're watching winds up having no pay-off whatsoever, avoid this

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Summary: Provocative, thoughtful and compelling film
Review: Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel, is an excellent adaption of his book. There are so many themes, feelings and human sensitivities touched upon it can be a bit overwhelming at first, making it a good film to watch more than once.

The violence during the fight scenes were brutal at times and fairly disturbing. But it almost seemed necessary in order to immerse a person into the emotional state it put the character's in. Yet I can see where some of the younger, macho crowd might think it's "cool, dude" and associate the film's title with the fight scenes alone, making it worth their while...unfortunately.

Ultimately Fight Club grows on you and creates sympathy for the characters in the film, moving you to cheer them on inside. Pitt and Norton were great choices for the cast leads.

It's an interesting and thought provoking story, something you don't see much in film today honestly. It questions our values, family structures, religions, and touches our inner-demons.

Death is a major part of the story, dealing with it, accepting it, and of course the waiters, clerks, cubicle slaves, security guards, beat cops and other servants of the rich find some meaning in life, something to look forward to and be proud of, outside of their dull, redundant, consuming, sitcom-watching lives, in a most bizarre fashion.

The film has a little of everything; comedy, tragedy, drama, and suspense. If you are going to watch a film made in the last 3 years, watch Fight Club, highly recommended. There's simply too much to talk about in a simple review here, and most of it has been said already, but I wanted to give the film, and the story, it's props.

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Summary: Best movie ever
Review: I personally feel this trip though the mind of an insomniac portrays possibly the best movie ever. Just remember the first rule of Project Mayhem is dont ask questions....just buy this dvd.

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Summary: In 'Fight Club' genre = all
Review: In 1999 we were all spoilt with some of the best films Hollywood had to offer. Amongst this soup of fantastic film came a movie so odd, deranged and fantastic that it found immediate success.

'Fight Club' was the brainchild of David Fincher in his quest to make one of his favourite novels into a film. The result was fantastic; the film exceeded all expectations. It turned out to be a novel that was hard to put in a category. Too realistic to be an action film, too crazy to be a drama, too dark to be a 'happy-go-lucky' comedy. So where does that leave the viewer???

A postmodern, black comedy dealing with the masculine need to fight and the power of one man to break through all sense of responcibility and live vicariously through an alter ego, namely 'Tyler Durden'

The film is an utter mind bend from the get go, in which the audience is treated to a montage, and trip though Jack's brain where we finally end on the barrel of a gun. There are few that can boast they saw the ending coming. I won't say if you havent seen it go and see it.

The performances are great Edward Norton is shining as ever and Brad Pitt is fantastic as Tyler Durden. Their perfomances make 'Fight Club' a great film, that could have been a sub-par film if not dealt with by actors of such a high callibre.

Well....how to conclude??? JUST SEE FIGHT CLUB!!!! See it again if you have, and see it for the first time and become hooked.
Unfortunately for me by writing this review I broke the first 2 rules of fight club.....I TALKED ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!!!!

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Summary: Thought provoking film for today's 30-something generation
Review: A generation raised by single women and no great depression, world war, or cause to take on.

No identity for men to pursue, a world of meaningless, cubicled jobs, massive consumerism, and pursuit of material gratification.

Fight Club touches on a lot of modern feelings the average 20 and 30-something generation of American males struggle with, and when these inner-feelings of despair and hopelessness are opened up by an underground organization by a semi-psychotic leader who attracts a nationwide organization of fighting, rebelling men who've had enough, it becomes a violent, powerful rush of meaning for the average male in modern times.

Erasing the debt record by which many of us are enslaved by becomes the ultimate goal and this generation's major cause, defines their identity, and makes them heroes...at least that what "Project Mayhem" attempts to do.

For 10 minutes in a dark, dirty basement, a man can be a gladiator again, and earn the respect of his peers in a raw, physically violent, but satisfying and rewarding act of pain and suffering that opens up their most basic and primitive human nature. Eventually this ritual leads to an organized army of rebels who have every-day, boring, dull jobs and lifestyles and let's them become someone they can be proud of and feel good about. They let everything go and ditch their creature comforts to be guerrilla terrorists bent on destroying corporate culture without murdering people, until one of their own gets killed.

Fight Club is a suprisingly inspirational and philosophical film with a great performance from Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and a disturbing look at our society's woes and hidden circles of despair for men who are forced into being meaningless nodes in the mass consumerism of America. It's what could happen when the grown up children who once dreamed of being a rock star, doctor, lawyer, or "anything they want to be," feel they were lied to and betrayed by the elite upper-class and 1% of our society that dictates what we do ultimately under the guise of a "free country where you can be anything you want."

A powerful film and one worth owning to watch again and again that says a whole hell of a lot about the travesty of our modern lifestyle. And certainly a favorite film for those who identify with the plight of those who aren't super-athletes, scholars, rich pop stars, or brought up in upper-class families where success was guaranteed, no matter how hard you work or good you may be at your dull, mindless, repetitive day job.

Destined to be a classic.

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Summary: Highest Marks for Making Us Think
Review: Any movie which stirs up as much thought and reflection as seen in these reviews is doing something right. Too violent for my tastes, but you'll be chewing on the plot long after viewing the movie. The DVD special features are superb though they will give your DVD player and television a workout. I've got a "smart" television and it had a hard time with some of the frame splicing.