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Summary: Fight Club the best movie in the last five years.
Review: This movie is a new cult classic that follows in the tradition of Pulp Fiction and Se7en. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt's acting in the movie is additictive in their use of dialogue and skills. If you have seen the previews of this movie it is nothing like that, this is a thrilling action, drama, love, comedy. I would recommend buying this movie.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS AWSOME
Review: THIS MOVIE IS AN EXTREMELY DETAILED POINT OF VIEW OF A LOSER'S MIND AND HIS LIFE TRANSFORMING INTO AN ANARCHIST STRONG IN BELIEVE, IT HAS A STRANGE TWIST TO IT, SAD BUT TRUE MESSAGES, AND ENOUGH HUMOR TO KEEP YOURSELF ENTERTAINED
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Summary: Fight Club will change the way you see things
Review: When I first rented this movie I thought I was watching another one of those low grade movies that I fill my lazy weekends with. But the introduction to the movie grabbed me by the shirt and pulled me right in. After that I was hooked on the story of an insomniac and his terrorist soap-making friend. The casting was perfect, and even Meatloaf pulled off an outstanding performace. After watching the movie, my first impulse was to watch it again. If you can comprehend everything that is going on in the movie with one viewing, you weren't paying enough attention. We have Ed Norton narrating the story as an unnamed character. We have Brad Pitt playing TYLER DURDEN, one of the best written/played characters I have ever seen in movies. He makes soap. We have Helena Bonham Carter, who plays a burnout druggie that just happens to ruin Norton's life =). Then we have Meatloaf playing an issuous man named Bob. The four of them alone, not to mention other actors like Leto, made me wonder why the movie wasn't up for any oscars but special effects. Perhaps it is that the academy is not ready for such an enlightening film. If you are open minded about it, this film could really change your life... Now with that said, you should be wondering why I haven't told you much about the actual film... What a complex masterpiece. Before we even see Mr. Durden, he is placed into the film subliminally four times! This is fitting for the film since Tyler Durden has a job as a projection splicer (he takes the reels of a movie and connects them into the finished product). Norton narrates the downward spiral he is watching his life travel, Tyler and Marla (Carter) change all that. While Marla has found new reason to live through Tyler, Tyler gives to Norton a reason to live as well. Tyler calls this Fight Club, a place where all your deep seeded rage can come forth with no consequences short of personal injury. We have Bob playing a mother figure to Norton while he finds his way through life. Join him and see just what it is like to change the course of society. The anti-social tendancies of the Fight Club group may be another reason why the film wasn't so openly accepted by the self-concious reviewers. I say forget them, make your own decisions and don't base them entirely off of a media name. You will see on this site that a bunch of reviewers love this move, and you should at least try it out. I think it can really change a person, have fun =).
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Summary: Movie of the Year
Review: Went i put the movie in i was looking for a beat then up movie but what i got was a comedy, action, drama. The first half of the movie is funny as hell. The second half is more serious. It was so good that i watched it with my sis,who generly doesn't like these kind of movie one of my all time favorites. If you won't cause of what u heard u are way wrong this is an American classic!
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Summary: Punchy
Review: An interesting and disturbing take on postmodern corporate America. The camera work was innovative, and the story centers around a nameless narrator (Ed Norton) who has trouble sleeping and is generally wallowing in a mindless, pointless consumerist existence. He tries group therapy, which helps for awhile, until he runs into Tyler (Brad Pitt), and with him, discovers that beating up and being beaten up restores meaning to his life. It snowballs from there. I don't want to spoil anything. The screenwriter may have cobbled together some of Hakim Bey's works on "Poetic Terrorism" and "Ontological Anarchism" for this one, coupled with either fascist and/or Bolshevik organizational methods (Fight Club itself, and the later Operation: Mayhem). Maybe a fusion of them all, coupled with some conspiracy theory touches here and there. There are a lot of fun effects throughout this movie, and Brad Pitt and Ed Norton do a great job, as does Helena Bonham Carter. The comments on the consumer culture are the most valuable in this one, and it's clear who the writer thinks the real enemy is - it's not so much about men rediscovering lost libidos as it is attacking corporate America itself. After the riots in Seattle and elsewhere, it seems oddly prescient. It's a long movie (139 minutes), so bring plenty of popcorn. I don't know if the message of the movie will stay with you long after watching it, but for a Hollywood flick, it's not bad.
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Summary: This is one of the best movie I have ever seen!
Review: I loved this movie, I have seen so many movie lately but none compare to this! I loved it! Anyone with an open mind should see this movie and find out what I am talking about.
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Summary: A Dark Holiday
Review: Fight Club is one of those rare films I have seen that, even though the environment of the story is borderline hellish, I would love to be encompassed in. It's the story of one everyday joe (A nameless Edward Norton) and his stale, stagnant, lackluster life which is slowly spiralling out of control. He suffers from insomnia, which he finds relief from by going to self-help groups and twelve step programs. His new lifestyle is destroyed by the entrance of Marla (Helena Bonham Carter in all her strung out, gothic-esque glory) who is also faking her way through the meetings...even testicular cancer support groups. On a random business trip, Norton meets the straightforward, dynamic, and psychotic Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, looking like an utter thrift store reject) who immediately changes his life. In order to release their own repressed hostilities, Norton and Pitt begin to fight each other...and other men who are attracted to the concept. Thus Fight Club was born. As time goes on Tyler begins a destructive relationship with Marla and begins to assemble an army in order to bring the materialistic culture he despises to it's knees. It spirals more and more out of control until, in a very literal sense, Norton's world comes crashing down. I found that though the story was dark and the world within most inhospitable, I would very much enjoy a holiday in this world that Pitt and Norton carve out for themselves. This, like American Beauty, holds a dark and hyper-realistic mirror up to our own world and gives one pause...pause in which we wonder what seethes just under the surface of society.
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Summary: complex, different, amazing
Review: when i walked out of the theatre after seeing Fight Club, i didn't know what to think about it; my mind was consumed by regressive, overwhelming thoughts...but as i started to understand exactly what was going on in my head, i realized that this movie is one of the greatest movies i have ever seen. if you don't think this is your kind of movie, you are WRONG!it's a movie that everyone can watch: it's funny, violent, romantic (in a twisted way), action packed. what more could anybody ask for?
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Summary: When Directors Attack
Review: David Fincher has made a career out of exposing the darkest corners of man's mind. "Seven" and "The Game" are excellent films, the director was totally in control and therefore the stories worked, no matter how non plausible the plot was. And then there's "Fight Club," which could have been a great film. The ideas of disillusionment, self-pity, the overwhelming results of consumerism on the human mind can be observed beneath the film's murky exterior. I didn't find the fighting sequences exploitive at all. If anything, they seemed like an indictment on the male ego. Couldn't these guys just take a chill pill? Jeez. The acting is superb, with Edward Norton giving yet another powerful performance (every time I see him I feel like someone in the 70s might have felt upon first seeing De Niro in "Taxi Driver" or Pacino in "Dog Day Afternoon")and Brad Pitt finding redemption after fiascos like "Meet Joe Black." Helena Bonham Carter is nothing short of a revelation with a flawless American accent; if Brad Pitt is the embodiment of male cool, Carter's Marla is the wildest female character of the year. All is well then, right? Well, not exactly. The film wanders around, uncertain of which way to take and at the end takes a huge cop out a la "Devil's Advocate." I felt cheated at the end. Why can't contemporary filmmakers follow through on their ideas...maybe because it is a big budget studio picture, or maybe the sneak preview's ratings were too low. After watching it, I thought back on Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and I wondered how different my reaction to it would have been had good ol' Stanley chosen to hand Alex redemption at the film's end. I would have felt the exact same way I did after "Fight Club." For all the testosterone in the world could not keep Fincher from reediming a character who was ultimately too weak and contemptuos to handle reality.
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Summary: Thought-provoking film
Review: I really did not want to see this movie, and after I saw it, I really didn't know what to think of it at first. First of all, whether you liked or hated the movie, it really does make you think about our society and how out of control it is. After thinking about it for awhile, I really do like it and plan on ordering it. What so many critics just do not understand is that the movie is not about a bunch of guys releasing their anger and tension by fighting: it is a very important warning to our society and how it is so wrapped up in materialism and consumerism that it is basically dead. The acting was amazing: boy, has Brad Pitt really come a long way from his Cool World and Thelma and Louise days--he was absolutely wonderful as the psychotic Tyler Durden. And Edward Norton-I keep gaining more and more respect for this actor. Ever since his debut in Primal Fear, he has proven that he is one of the best actors in hollywood today. All I can say,is David Fincher, you are a genious! I do recommend that everyone sees this movie. Also, check out the soundtrack...it is amazing and full of energy!
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