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Summary: Great pick
Review: Fight club is the grossest, weirdest, most confusingly brilliant movie I've ever seen. Incredibly intense. Fast paced. Intelligent. It is all these things and more. Also a surprise twist at the end of the film will make you think about the story in a completely different mindset.
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Summary: A Twisted Comedy-Drama That Goes All Out!
Review: I love this movie! A great black comedy-drama that asks "What do you want out of life?" This movie is the best directed movie I've seen and is definitely in my Top Ten. This movie is very well-acted, well-directed, and has a very clever and twisted plot. The movie follows a nameless, forsaken man (Edward Norton) that hates his job and sees nothing out of life. On a plane, he meets an anarchist that makes and sells soap, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). The two create a club called "Fight Club" that invites other forsaken men to release their tension by beating each other's brains out. Tyler keeps wanting to take the club up a notch and ends up creating a terroist army to abolish credit card companies to rid debt. This movie will leave you saying "Holy [junk]!"
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Summary: a learning experience
Review: in my personal humble opnion, this movie has a plethora of things to be learned about on many many different subjects - the most important (to me) being ourselves. a rollercoaster of mentally intriguing situations, conversations, ideas, forshadowings. the flow of this movie is superb but the fast pacedness of it begs that you watch it again to see the things you undoubtedly missed the first time through. i really got my money's worth with this dvd because it really is one that you can watch and watch again.
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Summary: I am Jack's lame attempt at being clever
Review: Buy this DVD. Buy it right now. If you have seen it, you should already own it. If you haven't seen it, buy it so you can finally understand what the hell everyone else is talking about.Outstanding performances by Brad Pitt, Ed Norton, and Helena Bonham-Carter. Buy it.
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Summary: A Masterpiece of satire and insanity
Review: A Clockwork Orange meets Taxi Driver. And nearly as brilliant as both those films. Fincher has arrived.
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Summary: Tyler Durden, Tyler Durden!!
Review: This movie is genius. I'm a woman and I found this movie great! Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are wonderful, and Helena Bohnam Carter is sensational as the neurotic Marla. The fight scenes are so real I wanted to jump up and yell stop! This movie is a gem and a must see. The movie begins with Ed Norton a normal guy who just cant sleep. So, he gets intertwined in the lives of support groups during his late night hours and they help him sleep like a baby. While faking every illness that the others in the groups have he meets Marla. She even participates in a testicular cancer group. The nerve of this women, but she figures hey she doesnt have testicles, why not. Just as neurotic as he is they begin divying up the groups. But things begin to occure in Norton's life that he just cant explain after a plane ride where he meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. All the wild signs point to one man...Tyler Durden. Tyler seems to be an excentric soap manufacturer but he is so much more. Having Tyler in Norton's life helps him change for the best and for the worst. This movie is a must see!
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Summary: Beyond outstanding
Review: Fight Club is the kind of film that you will watch and then see it again... and again. It has so many hidden layers of social criticism that I was just impressed and fascinated with what the director intended to convey in this (beautifully shot) work of art. The direction is perfect, the acting is flawless (even Meat Loaf and Jared Leto put on some wonderful performances), the storyline is twisted, intelligent, and carried out at the right pace. What makes Fight Club the great movie that all reviews below tout it to be? Its radical criticism of modern consumerism is just one of many reasons. Another one is its call for intelligent anarchy, one which seeks to awaken the modern man from the robotic position that social norms have designed and assigened to him. One more reason would be the fact that it deals with one of humanity's primal insticts: violence. Its depiction of violence as an art and a release from modern stagnation makes this movie, without a doubt, one of the best flicks of the past decade (and, certainly, of all time). As far as this DVD goes, it is worth every penny that we pay for it. The original and artsy packaging is just one reason. The extras and quality of the DVD itself is the other. It is definitely worth buying. Just renting wouldn' allow the viewer for further exploration of this brilliant film.
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Summary: A movie that will change the way you think...
Review: ... once you get over the violence in the film. Yes, the movie contains a lot of violence and other sorts of disgusting stuff (bags of fat from a lyposuction clinic, etc.) - which is intentional, but you'd have to watch the movie a few times to get over these things and get to the points it raises. I think that 'Fight Club' is somehow similar to 'Dead Poets Society' in its message about how wrong conformity is. But where 'Dead Poets Society' is very naive and is plainly from the teen age point of view, 'Fight Club' is the adult version of the same theme, more cynical and disillusioned. 'Dead Poets Society' gives you some hope when it ends, even after Neal is dead, and you see Mr. Keating leaving the classroom after being fired, because his message would 'live on' with his remaining students. While in 'Fight Club', on the other hand the ending is seemingly happy - 'Jack' has gotten Tyler 'under control' (I'm trying not to spoil this for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet), but we all realize that all the damage that's already done has to be fixed, and that the 'Space Monkeys' are still around to do some more. I think the movie goes beyond showing us in what a 'rotten' society we live in. Even though Tyler tries to build a completely opposite kind of society, but instead of creating a 'perfect' society based on lessons learned from mistakes we've made, he gets a very similar society, that suffers from the same problems that ours does. Does the phrase 'group of nameless people dressed the same' describe Tyler's 'Space Monkeys' or what he sees as 'slaves with white collars'? Tyler can only give 'Jack' a view of his problems - not find a solution for them. Even when he tries, 'Jack' finds himself in the same place he started in. In one of the commentaries someone says that Marla is the equivalnet of 'Jack' only she has her life under control. Only when he makes peace with Marla, does he start to actually solve his problems, and not expect someone else to do it for him.
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Summary: excellent movie
Review: This movie gives you motivation to do something about your life. I love the message of "You are in control of your own destiny, do sometrhing about it NOW".
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Summary: Not about violence, or plot twist
Review: I actually didn't like this movie very much the first time I watched it. When it came out on dvd I thought I'd watch it again and it improved with age. I read the book and for the first time I actually preferred the movie to the book. The book filled a couple of gaps the movie glossed over too quickly, but also had a lot of wasted energy it seamed. The movie version is a very efficient and streamlined (yet true to the original) treatment. The two complaints you'll here most about this movie relate to; (1)the violence, and (2)the plot twist. The complaints about the violence are generally just pathetic. It plays a major role in the movie. Gory, in-your-face, violence. It is a symptom of the problem he is telling you about. Violence is a suppressed human trait. Suppressed to the point that when it gets out the individual can become an opened Pandora's box. This movie treats you like an adult. You'll see blood, teeth getting knocked out and more blood. But a lot of people would rather have the violence take place off camera--where it's safer. They don't want to be confronted with "upsetting" visual stimuli. No no no, show me happy things and pretty colors and people who don't bleed or get hurt when they should--that makes me a better person because I ignore problems and live in my fantasy world. If that's how you feel of course you didn't like this movie. This movie is specifically making fun of you. Several times there is a character looking out of the screen directly at you and telling you he hates you. You are what this movie is about, you are the problem. It's Okay though, you won't mind once you get home and turn on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and snuggle safely into the many "versatile solutions for modern living" you have surrounded yourself with. Many people condemn "Fight Club" as a violent movie, but that is not what this movie is about. The violence is a symptom of the problems pointed out in "Fight Club." It starts out as a release for the characters, but eventually gets out of hand. The people complaining about the violence in the movie are saying the same thing the movie is--VIOLENCE BAD!!!. Although only one of these entities actually has the guts to even look at the problem, the other is hiding from it. How many people are killed every day? People killed in wars, or in a crime, but these critics don't complain about them--it's more important to them what actors look like when they pretend to fight on screen. That's what I mean by pathetic, and I believe it is preemptively addressed in this movie as well. Then there is the big plot twist, and to be perfectly honest I don't really like it that much either. However, to all the people trying to say that this movie is stealing it from other movies. It may interest you to know that "Fight Club" was a book first. A book with no interest in becoming a movie. So if you're going to say it was stolen from something at least name a book. I originally thought the story (book or movie) probably would have been stronger without the plot twist, and the necessary modifications to the end that would mean. The more I thought about that, however, the more convinced I became that it wouldn't work without it. Once you see it that way then you can appreciate the device, because it simply couldn't be any other way. This movie has its problems, but it has some very strong points as well. I highly recommend it.
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