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Summary: The first rule of Fight Club is...
Review: ...do *NOT* talk about Fight Club. Well, I'm sorry, I have to.As we open Fight Club, we're introduced to our un-named narrator, played by Edward Norton. The Narrator is going through life as it is scheduled, nothing out of the ordinary except for his long, insomnia-ridden sleepless nights. He stays awake looking through endless magazines and infomercials looking for those special possesions that will make his life complete. Then, by chance, he realizes something: If he attends support groups (for which he doesn't really have the problems), he can find inner peace, and sleep at night. He joins every group he can find, and sleeps like a baby. His life is going perfect, until Marla. She was also a tourist, going to every group for whatever reason. Our Narrator can find no peace with another faker present, and so his life falls to shambles again. Then, he meets Tyler Durden, whose conversation style and way of taking what he wants is fascinating to Edward Norton's character. Durden and the Narrater find a new form of entertainment to fulfill their lives, they fight. Men watch them, and they fight too. Soon enough, it becomes a weekly meeting (or... beating) in a local bar's basement. Everything is going great in life. And then, Marla screws our Narrator again. She and Tyler fall into an affair which affects everything our Narrator knows, including their Fight Club. It grows into a national cult, and spirals out of his control, leading to a climax you won't believe, and you'll have to watch the film again and again to understand. --- A great modern film from the director of the astonishing Se7en, Fight Club is a love or hate film. It's definitely a must-see at least once for everyone, as it is filled with action, dark humor, and suspense. Great acting from both Norton and Pitt, as well as several supporting actors. Beware if you're faint of heart of stomach, some of the fights are brutal... ... but so is the mindf--- you'll experience from watching this flick.
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Summary: Amazingly Overrated
Review: I cannot believe some of the reviews that this film gets.This isnt a bad film but its annoys me when i see people trying to compare A Clockwork Orange to this film,please dont there is NO comparision.Ive seen this twice because apparrantly your supposed to understand better the more you watch it and pick up on new things in the film.This isnt so.When i saw it it for the first time i thought to myself at the end that this film just didnt make sense.In the ending of the Usual Suspects the whole film gets turned around on its head by a shocking revelation. The same thing happens in Fight Club but it DOESNT work.The fact that Brad Pitts character didnt exist after all can only be used so much in covering up the many holes in the plot.This is why, when i saw this film for the second time it didnt make more sense to me , it made me realise that this film doesnt work.The whole idea of the Fight Club being started was because some guys saw Pitt and Nortons character fighting in the car park, but we then learn that Pitt and Norton are the same person if this is so, then surely the 'Fight Club' would be about beating yourself up.Because in reality Norton was just beating himself up.There are so many more flaws in this film it is quite unbelievble and the fact that Pitt and Norton are the same person cannot cover them all up which i think the writers hoped it would.Things like the 2 Fight Club members in the car reacting to BOTH Pitt and Nortons character at the SAME time.You can clearly see that they both physically react to Norton and Pitt you may think this strange considering that Pitt and Norton are the same guy. I think most of the the fans of this film only like it because of the 'cool' fighting and violence.I can assure you that i dont mind the violence in this film at all and have seen and liked films much more violent than this but you cannot call this a great film because the fight scenes are cool. OVERRATED
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Summary: Pure Nihilism
Review: This film starts out with an interesting premise about a guy who's searching for meaning in his ordinary, boring life of conformity. It could have been a thoughtful film. Instead, it descends into a display of mindless anarchy and nihilism. This is an ugly film. Please don't waste your money and more importantly, your mind on this.
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Summary: War against society
Review: Mindblowing. In a word, that is the movie known as Fight Club. I suppose I can understand those who think Fight Club is only about inebriated morons getting together and beating each other to a pulp. But of course they could not be further from the truth. Fight Club does an amazing job of anaylyzing the state of soceity and questions mans place in soceity through impressive visulas and witty dialouge. Don't be deceived, Fight Club is much, much more than gruesome violence. ...
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Summary: It's NOT about FIGHTING!
Review: I got so much garbage from people with low IQs just pointing out this movie was 'all about fighting'. It's not. This movie shows the buildup and allure of commercialization in today's society. It also has a great storyline, cinematography, and a GREAT ending. Some scenes are graphic, but this movie's flow and storyline more than makes up for it. Buy this one today folks.
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Summary: Suprising
Review: The title of this movie divides people into two groups: the people who believe that there is nothing to the script other than a group of idiots beating the ... (literally) out of each other, and those people who actually took the time to discover that the previous assumption is totally false. A friend told me I absolutely HAD to see this movie, so I rented it. Not paying attention to the first 20 minutes, imagine my surpise to suddenly be stricken completly confused by what I was hearing. I immediately rewound it and began it again, giving it the attention it deserved. After it was over, I rewound it again and watched it. It was perhaps the 5th or 6th viewing that I finally took everything in. Not to say that I didn't comprehend it; the plot is quite understandable. But it is unbelievable how many subtle points indicate everything that is to come. Similar to the opening of "The Sixth Sense": pay proper attention, and the solution is easily predictable. However, "Fight Club" has not much to do with a group of men getting together and venting frustrations by bare-knuckle fighting (with draws connections to Brad Pitt's role in "Snatch"). The fighting is only incedential. It serves simply as a method of finding people who meet certain characteristics to perform certain activities. Almost everything about the movie makes you wince: from the fighting itself, to the camera work beautifully expressing the disgusting conditions surrounding the characters, to the final scene during which you sit there in amazement and total awe. It's at the same time hard to believe and completely understandable. There is no other way everything would have happened, and yet you sit there in a stupor because you are still upset at yourself for believing the same thing I did. I happen to only be 17 years of age at the time I'm writing this review, and I have not seen as many movies, obviously, as the people who wrote the published, professional reviews of this movie, but my hat off to the director, producer, actors, screenwriters, and scriptwriters involved in the making of this movie, along with the open-minded people who actually took the time to absorb this movie for what it is: a perfect piece of cinema that forces you to realize that these things are not only possible, but they do happen. In fact, a friend of mine recently moved from Wisconsin told me that there was an attempt in his town to ban this movie because people were reinacting many of the characters' activities. Similar in fact to the reaction in England of Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange." And how many people are still talking about that movie?
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Summary: A spectacular movie and soap...
Review: David Fincher is one of Hollywood's most precise directors, putting together CGI and live action to make perfect flowing shots. That is only one good part of Fight Club... Now to the action...
So what do you say about one of the most twisted movies out there that isn't by Kubrick or Pasolini? A lot. Fight club is beautifully shot with elegance and brutality. It uses dark and mystifying colors to vividly portray the action on screen. Fincher also uses CGI to extend shot through buildings (also seen in PANIC ROOM). As for the acting in this movie, it can't get better. Edward Norton (one of the most predominate young actors in Hollywood) is wonderful, as always. He brings his character to life and brings you right inside his head. Brad Pitt brings out the true distortedness of his character and makes you believe in his mayhem. The plot is very complex and will throw you way off at the end. It progresses slowly and don't be thrown off by the title. Only 17% of the film is action based and has little fighting, this of course doesn't mean its bad, its just not for sleepers. This movie is beyond excellent but I feel that Fincher has done better with SE7EN so therefore it will not receive an A+. -- A- The key factors that make this a good movie are...
1. The wonderful boldness of Fincher's settings and style.
2. The incredible shots constructed by Fincher.
3. The marvelous acting of Pitt and Norton.
4. The wonderful story by Chuck Palahniuk. And to the DVD...
One thing to note right away is that you should make sure what dvd you are buying. There are two versions, the first being the 1-disc and the second being the 2-disc. I highly suggest that you go for the three or four dollars extra and buy the 2-disc set. The following review is for the 2-disc set... This is a wonderful DVD and is very cool if you're a fan of this movie. It has everything you can ask for commentaries (four of them!), deleted scenes, outtakes, and behind the scenes featurettes (a whopping 17 of them!). It also includes production art and conceptual art, oh and did I mention a merchandise catalogue? The menus are very cool and so is the background music. This DVD is very enjoyable and well done. -- A+ You'll like this movie if you liked the following: Fight Club (novel), Se7en, Panic Room, Requiem for a Dream, A Clock Work Orange, and Memento.
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Summary: Style over Substance
Review: Fight Club is an odd film. It's visually and styilistically impressive. There are many great shots, like when the main charecter is seen walking through a catalouge, or the entertainment brought by the icey cavern and the penguin who encourages Norton to "slide!" And the sciript is full of great lines, like tyler's well done prophesy of the new world order However, the film falls on some levels. The goal of Durden makes the movie seem somewhat pretentious. And the film just has a somewhat, <i>wrong</i> feel to it, in an indescribable way. Of course, that could have been what they sought However the style of the film is great.
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Summary: it coulda been a contender
Review: Beautiful, intricate, inventive filmmaking until the climax -- when a dumb-as-a-brick ending spoils the whole thing. But still absolutely worth seeing for the knockout performances, great writing, awesome cinematography and ferocious momentum of the plot. Skates brilliantly along the edge of reality -- until those last few minutes, when it just throws in the towel. You'll groan. But see it anyway.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This movie is amazing; Great story, Great actors, and the dvd has many bonuses. It is the story of how men get fed up with the rules of their nation and try to do something about it. They start a club where men can fight and let out their anger. the club named "fight-club" slowly gets more and more intense until it is out of control and the narrator (played by Edward Norton) tries to stop what he and his friends have made. There are plenty of funny moments and lots of sick humor as well. this story really bends the bar between what is fiction and reality, what do I mean??? GO SEE THE MOVIE! PS. I have yet to read it, but hear the book is very good as well.
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