Fight Club

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Summary: DEVASTATING AND POWERFUL!
Review: This has to be one of the best movies ever made! Fight Club tells the tale of an insomniac who is losing his grip on reality. Then, he meets Tyler, and that is when all hell breaks out! The naration given by Edward Norton is powerful and haunting, and it makes the suspense and terror seem that more realistic. This is the kind of movie where you cannot tell the story to others too much without giving the whole movie away. The ending is one of the best I have ever seen in a movie since Usual Suspects. This is a powerful movie which will make you believe that chaos can end all existence. I think EVERYONE should see this movie. It is gruesome and violent at times, but it's worth it! It's a shame that I can only give it 5 stars. It really should be 100 stars, or even more! Fight Club is without a dobt one of the best movies ever made!

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Summary: Another from the same sadist who directed Seven.
Review: Do you enjoy feeling uncomfortable, unsettled, even disgusted? Do you giggle when made to squirm? Then this movie is for you.

When I saw Seven, I left the theatre thinking "why was I put through that?" I wondered "who enjoys seeing such pain?"

Fight Club is like Seven in an important respect: it shows a lot of human bodies being mistreated. In this movie, however, most of the people being mistreated _choose_ it.

UNfortunately, this movie is much more funny and entertaining than Seven. It's even insightful about what people do when their life has no meaning or purpose.

I don't mind a movie that jars your everyday sensibilities for some important purpose, but Fight Club, as a film, is fundamentally concerned with a destructive and self-destructive individual. The film blames his actions on a supposed materialistic soullessness of modern society (stupid old mistaken idea -- Yawn). Then it makes light of itself by being funny.

Be careful whom you laugh with.

Simply watching this movie is a self-destructive act. It is seductive and entertaining, while inciting hatred for good, productive people.

The movie itself is the cinematic incarnation of Tyler Durden himself. It appeals to your inner criminal.

Sadly, it is extremely well executed. The film is a technical masterpiece, worthy of study by future directors. Great skill has been applied to dull your sense that there's something wrong with what the film is advocating: the destruction of health and wealth. The final event in the film says it all.

Unlike the characters in this film, don't buy into the thrill of abuse. Don't choose to be mistreated. Don't see this film if you want to defend your life's purpose. If you do, then -- like the men in the film -- you'll be sucked just a little further into someone's dimented, destructive, _purposeless_ fantasy.

Contrary to what the film implies, "consumerism" (concern with achieving values) isn't sucking out our souls. What's doing it is nihilistic films like Fight Club.

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Summary: I am Jack's ultimate DVD
Review: There's something about this film that just draws you in, and there was a grandeur it possesed in the theatre that I was afraid would be lost on the DVD. This is one of those movies that you just HAVE to see in letterbox format, and that fact that it comes that way standard is fantastic! It is, in my opinion, the best home translation of a film I've seen to date. The second disc, chock full of goodies as it is, is one of the best arguments to get a DVD player yet! The story boards, the deleted scenes, the special effects footage. . .it's all great. Even the packaging of the DVD itself adds to the allure of the movie as a whole. But perhaps I've said too much. After all, the first rule of Fight Club is: You DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

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Summary: A Classic From Start To Finish!!!!!
Review: O.K., how can you beat it?......YOU CAN'T!!!!! This is my favorite movie next to "Star Wars". It's brilliant and has a major twist at the end. It's a dark comidy that keep's you on your toes and laughing getting slapped around while watching the sweaty, bloody fights throughout the movie!!!!!! When a White Collar Insomniac (Edward Norton) grows tired of his deja' vu' redundant everyday life he wants something new. Searching he find's a slippery soap salesman pshyco (Brad Pitt) who grabs him and throws him into a long and seeming endless adventure in the mind of a pshyco and their genoration. TWO WORDS: BUY IT!!!!!!!OR TWO WORDS: WATCH IT!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Modern Classic
Review: Surely, this film is appreciated by the teenage audiences. Its anti-consumerist / materialistic message is defined throughout the first half.. Those themes are on the minds of all rebel teens in the US. Surely, Norton is a slave to the system. A guy who isn't unique at all. Don't forget the cool fighting, and Brad Pitt.

But by the end of the film, in escaping all these things, Norton becomes just what he was trying to escape. Fincher expertly showcases this in the terrorist portion of the film. An endless cycle, no doubt. Years from now, rebellious teens will learn what Fight Club is really about.

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Summary: Huh.
Review: I had no idea how long this movie was going to be when I started watching it, and as the movie went on, I didn't even care. I was absolutely enthralled, intrigued.. pick any word out of the thesaurus for those and I was that, too.

Wow, what a movie. Cool. That's deep, man. I hear that. Wait.. what? um. ok. I'll accept that, sure, because I know this is more a commentary than a story. ..What?!

That was basically my train of thought during the movie. Surprisingly, though, it didn't hinder my enjoyment of it.. at first. But the more I thought about it and started questioning things, the more the immediate coolness of the movie fell apart.

I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone so I won't reveal much plot. But the revelations of the last half hour or so of the movie made me wonder why everything I'd witnessed before that even happened. The points that had seemed to be drilled into the audience's mind before were muddled with a few jarring and frankly unnecessary plot twists. Is this supposed to be a semi-realistic and semi-symbolic satire or just a very well-dressed shock flick with a few anti-capitalism rants to chew on? For movies that attack society as strongly as this one does, it's better to stick to the former.

I do have to say that the acting, especially from Norton, is great, and the cinematography and gritty atmosphere are perfect. It is by no means a bad movie, and it is quite entertaining; it just fails on the deeper levels.

Well, based on the sheer number of glowing reviews this movie has received, I'm sure the makers of this movie are reaping the benefits of our apparently capitalistic, shallow, depressed, nameless, and easily-assimilated society. That fact's sorta like the metaphorical urine in the fancy gourmet soup that is so often mentioned in this movie, huh? I love irony.

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Summary: Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds
Review: Appart the violence on it, it's not a movie on violence. What makes it a 5 stars? David Finch's direction, Brad Pitt is hilarious and great, Edward Norton magnificent, Helena Bonham Carter too. There are some travelling/macro/zoom out scenes that'll keep your finger on the rewind button. The scene where Norton fight with his boss is memorable. As is the catalog view of the world. The art direction is beautiful. Some fight scenes are hard, but they're fast, have a reason to be there and are not "butcher made". As I said, this is not a movie on violence, like Warriors is. The real fight, here, is personal. Can't say more. The extras are great, just like on the Se7en DVD, also directed by Fincher. There are making off of most interesting scenes, lots of commentaries, a funny faux products catalog and other things that'll keep you entertained for many times. I had some blockings against this movie, since and imbecil entered a cinema here in Sao Paulo with something like an Uzi and killed 3 people on a session of it. Well, after seeing the trailer on the web and watching it, I realized that that guy was much more than an imbecil: a psycho that was involved with drugs, family problems and much more and, thanks to all his mind blowing addictions and problems misunderstood this movie. In the box it's written that maybe you should watch it more than once (NYT). You can be sure you will.

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Summary: STUPID STUPID STUPID, and LONG!
Review: one of the worst movies I've seen in recent memory. You wonder about every word because the overvoice of Norton relentlessly spits out mind-numbingly enigmatic phrases that have ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANCE TO WHATS GOING ON. Pitt and Norton work well together right after they meet, but thats lost as Pitt builds an army and the story gets too convoluted(and retarded) for me to stay interested. After all this you have one of the worst, gimmicky endings in movie history. I HATE FIGHT CLUB! DOWN WITH CORPORATIONS!

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Summary: DEFINITELY THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!
Review: Well, this is one of the BEST movies I've ever seen. If you expected some bloody action, you will get it but it won't be the thing that you might have wanted; just killing and getting bad guys. No, it's not that kind of action movie. It has THEMES. That makes this movie very diffrent from those Stenven Seagal movies(obvious, isn't it?). I'm not saying this movie is for those who 'educated and knows stuffs' but for everyone! When you watch it, you WILL feel something, and you will think about it. That's what happened to me when i watched it first time(i watched this movie about 7 times ever since and i think i'm beginning to understand what i felt but..i won't tell ya, you figure it out by yerself). I'm not talking about the obvious theme; mankind's desire to return to the primitive life they once had long time ago, which is nothing but a cliche. However this movie has something else, more than that. So like i said, when you watch it, you will feel it. Go and grab one and you will thank me for that or you'll never know what you have missed.

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Summary: One of the best DVD films available!
Review: A film that truly takes advantage of the unlimited options available through DVD. Along with the standard additions to a good DVD (director's commentary, deleted scenes, sound options, etc.) it adds numerous additional options. FX commentary on the special effects, 4 different commentaries of the film!! (director, director & actors, etc.) and many more features that aren't normally put into DVDs.

The film itself is a great piece of cinema. Edward Norton, Jr. is one of the greatest actors today and does not disappoint with his performance in this movie. Brad Pitt, Helena Carter and others perform excellent acting jobs in this memorable film. A film that explores the "doldrums" of 24/7 consumer life; ignore the sometimes unrealistic fiction (ie numerous law-breaking acts with no police reaction, the Fight Club's contacts in every business in the city, etc.) and enjoy the film for the great piece of cinema it is. An ending that ranks right up with "The Sixth Sense" as far as surprise finishes.