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Summary: Too Brilliant for its own good.
Review: Fight Club is an astonishing movie, the cinematography is brilliant, the acting is teriffic, the story is delightfully bizzare, incredibly funny, and incredibly clever.However like the movie's narrator and primary protagonist, the story is too clever for its own good. My first viewing of the movie left me baffled and more than a little unsettled (yet incredibly entertained). You see this film has an ending that like Sixth Sense, will most likely be an incredible suprise. I'm not going to spoil either movie, but it must be said that like Sixth Sense, Fight Club stays true to two very different realaties, and repeated veiwing will show that the neither reality was fundamentaly violated. This is the great thing about the DVD, you can watch the movie enough to really understand the movie. One note, many people have seen Fight Club as extoling violence and nihlism. I would alter the alternate viewpoint that the movie's message is merely to demonize any lifestyle that would so deaden a person to feeling, that people would have to turn to fighting, and masochism to feel anything.
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Summary: Love it or hate it
Review: The first rule of fight club is that you love it. The second rule of fight club is you hate it. The problem with reveiwing this film is it appeals to you on many levels. To strip away the veneer. Bored insomniac meets wild charismatic salesman. Neither have been in a fight before so they fight. It gives them both a high they have never experienced. Soon others are involved and it spirals out of control. The film then becomes more deep as it explores the fears and thoughts and indeed the personas of the main characters. Many people have blasted the film for it's violence, but more people are wasted in the first few frames of your average Arnie or Bruce flick. It's funny, but not a comedy, it's unsettling but not scary. However when you have watched it two things will happen. You will want to watch it again and you will want to talk about it to someone irrespective of whether you think it is clever or peurile. And that is what entertainment is all about.
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Summary: Prepare to evacuate soul in 10...9...8...
Review: This movie will change your life. If you have never even seen it...buy the DVD. Even if you have a small collection, everyone will be asking you to borrow this dvd. It is that great. Just putting the movie aside, the dvd is number one. It has great packaging, great supplementary, and four great tracks. Even one with Chuck Palahniuk, the writer of Fight Club. The movie has a great theme. Do not end up being a spacemonkey! "You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die." That theme is backed with great acting by Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, two great actors. And even Meatloaf Aday! Buy it now!!
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Summary: *WOW!*
Review: When I first heard about this movie, I didn't want to see it. I thought it would be a long, drawn-out testosterone party where men find fulfillment through hitting each other. And in a way, I was right: the film is about two men who found a secret society in which men can find emotional/spiritual release through pounding on each other in a dark basement. However, on this one I was much more wrong than right, and what makes my situation unique is that I have rarely been so delighted to be wrong! *Fight Club* is about much more than boxing. It is a priceless look into the psyche of one man, and perhaps of men in general. It all begins when the Our Hero can't sleep. He complains to his doctor, who sends him to support groups to see some people with *real* problems, and soon Our Hero is a AA/CODA/Menwithoutcojones junkie. The groups enable him to vent some of his frustration at the fact that his life has no meaning that he can see. While attending several support groups on a rotational schedule, he meets Marla, a scruffy chick who attends because "It's cheaper than a movie and they have free coffee". She disturbs him and angers him, but his reaction to her is *nothing* compared to his reaction to Tyler Durden, a mysterious man he meets on a plane who spends his time making his own soap and living in the moment. They bond immediately, and one night, Tyler asks for Our Hero to hit him. He has never been in a fight and wants the experience. Things snowball from there. Pretty soon, they are fighting every night, and then other men join them and pretty soon, Fight Club is born. From a small, secret club in the basement of Lou's Tavern, it then grows into a nationwide organziation bent on chaos and destruction, and only Our Hero has the power to stop it. What is so priceless about this movie is how the fights show a little bit about how people behave when their lives are stagnant. The hero loses everything when his apartment blows up, and is so dead emotionally that he doesn't much care. Tyler has nothing at all, but he is strong and alive and hell-bent on simply *being*. The men who join Fight Club are also looking for meaning and purpose in their own lives, and Tyler provides them with that meaning. The act of fighting galvanzies them, makes them feel like they can change their lives and it makes them feel strong and capable of handling anything. It also lets them bond closely with each other, and has--ironically enough--that support-group atmosphere where it helps so much to know there are others like you. As Fight Club getts bigger and crazier, Marla emerges as an unlikely catalyst of reason, who finally pulls the hero away from insanity and back to who he truly is. I won't give the ending away...i'll just say if you haven't seen it, DO SO!
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Summary: Whoa!
Review: This is a film unlike any film that I have ever seen before! The storyline and just about every other element of this film is totally different and unique. You can't put all of it into words: you just simply have to see it to believe it. The cinematography is Oscar caliber, and the performances are excellent! Buy it today, and see what you think! Take caution: This film contains graphic violence which may be very disturbing to some viewers.
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Summary: Great?-Horrible? Either way-it provokes a reaction
Review: I don't really plan on joining the intense debate surrounding this film about it's value,because I think that the debate itself is the greatest testament there is.I can't think of a film in recent memory that has stirred up opinins with more ferocity(except perhaps South Park),and I think that is just as important as the film itself.Great art can,and should be provocative,and challenge our views on things,and in these homogenized,P.C. times films like "Fight Club" that come out swinging and go out on a very long limb in the spirit of free thought are of tremendous significance.Social commentary aside,my take on the film itself is that it's a supurbly executed extended metaphor on one man's epic struggle with his own psyche,ego-vs.altar-ego,conciousness vs.id,what have you.It has a stellar cast:Brad Pitt,rugged anti-hero charisma personified,Ed Norton,the best pure actor of his time,and Helena Bonham Carter,blasting free of her Merchant/Ivory corset with abrasive vigor.Director David Fincher,the visionary wunderkind behind Alien 3 and Seven presents the hallucinatory smart-bomb of a film with an elegently decaying grandure,all damp,sultry atmosphere and paranoid,edge-of-(in)sanity jump cuts.The DVD is impressively mounted,with a unique slip-case and two discs full of goodies,including special effects sequences,art work,tv spots and illuminating commentary by the director and cast.Highly recommended to fans of the film,and those who like to watch something that actually makes them think and feel.
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Summary: Starts as black comedy/satire and goes....where?
Review: I didn't know what to expect with this. Pitt's one of Hollywood's golden boys and Edward Norton has always impressed me. About the first two thirds of the film had me laughing. It was a brilliant satire, of self-help mania, of meaningless materialism, maybe even of violence. The characters are bizarre,for example one guy with a formidable set of breasts brought on by hormone injections to make up for his testicular cancer (He was a member of one of the 12-step groups), and Norton himself leads a pretty meaningless life, a leading point of the film. The story takes a turn when Norton, who reflects that he doesn't really belong in the 12-step groups he's attending, runs into a young woman who uses the meetings in the same way, i.e., something to do. Their fun began with her convoluted interaction with Norton and took off after Norton moved in with Brad Pitt's character; she and Pitt shook the whole neighborhood with their earthquake sex. To that point it made me laugh several times. The fight club itself began with a challenge of Pitt to Norton. It developoed as a caricature of consermerism, sort of fraternity. It was super-violent,clandestine, etc. I needn't repeat what countless other reviewers--most of whom have love it--said. Up to this point, one of the funniest, and most worthwhile portions of the film was to see Edward Norton beat himself up! It was hysterical, and got him out of his work with benefits, a little like Kevin Spacey's character getting out of his job in "American Beauty." After it was about 2/3 over, however, the film took a turn to I don't know where. It seems to want to become a psycho-drama. People see Norton and say that he's Pitt. Is he one person who's created the identity that he wishes he were? After the scene in which Norton blew his brains out to eliminate that alter ego--and lived!--it ends. I wouldn't discourage people from seeing this, if for no other reason, the first over half of the film made me laugh. But I don't see a classic here, as some critics have called it.
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Summary: Fight Club Doesn't pull punches
Review: Fight Club is a movie that you either love or hate, there doesn't seem to be a middle here. The movie is about a guy who loses everything, then meets Tyler Durden. Durden is everything this man isn't, attractive, charismatic, muscular. Together they start a Fight CLub, where men who have no hope can go and beat each other up. Before long fight clubs are every and Durden decides to step the plan up a notch. Only our narrator can stop him, if he can discover the truth in time. Artistically, this movie is astounding, making use of brilliant visual effects. THe actors are talented and David Fincher is an incredible director. SOme of the themes of the movie have bothered people and others couldn't find a plot or theme at all. Still, love or hate the movie, you can't argue with the beautiful presentation on the DVD. Perfect sound, good picuter, and two DVDs of extras, some fluff, some very informative about the movie and the efforts that went into making a movie. The four commentaries are brilliant as well.
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Summary: Worth WAtchin
Review: This movie is phat, I hiered it from the video store tha other week and I loved it. Next time i'm at tha video store I'm gonna get it out again cuz itz a true classic!
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Summary: Love it or hate it... Fight Club will be a classic.
Review: For those of you that haven't seen Fight Club or even heard about it, get a copy of the DVD and watch it immediately... then watch it again. Fight Club requires multiple viewings. Regardless of what type of person you are, you will have a powerful reaction to what you see. Some movies are made to simply entertain and make money but Fight Club is one of those rare movies that will leave you pondering a few things. In this way, Fight Club is similiar to such classics as A Clockwork Orange and Taxi Driver. Love it or hate it, you will have an opinion about Fight Club and you'll have to ponder this movie to decide where you stand on the matter. Most men will love Fight Club because, well, all men have a Tyler Durden inside... of course, some of you guys have buried your poor Tyler so deeply in politically correct rhetoric and Oprah Book Club sentiments that you wouldn't recognize your manhood or any of your natural limbic, hunter-gatherer instincts if you found it floating in a bowl of chowder. So be a man! Watch Fight Club and make up your own mind about it. I'll bet you see some of yourself in the movie. And you women out there, watch Fight Club to learn something about men and what makes us tick or at least vibrate a little.
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