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Summary: If you're thinking of adding this movie to your collection..
Review: Don't. Why are you collecting movies anyway? Does it make you feel better?... more complete?... then maybe you should borrow it from a friend. Don't you have a library card? If your flesh is being burnt by lye you can't stop the pain with water - you need an acid, like vinegar. This is an analogy. The pain of existence can't be stopped with neutral action, it takes proactive - and like acid - potentially destructive action before the pain can be neutralized.If this sounds like nonsense, if you are threatened by these ideas, then you should come by next Thursday for our weekly meeting. It's called Fight Club. Stop serving your corporate masters and start living. Sell your sports utility vehicle. Quit your job. Buy a pair of leather pants. Open your eyes. Got an addiction? Try Choke. Also by Chuck Palahniuk.
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Summary: Fight Club
Review: One of the most enthrawling films I have seen.Right up my Street.I felt as if I was in there living and most worryingly feeling the reality.
Superbly written and potrayed.Camera work 1st class.
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Summary: Let me tell you about Tyler Durden... he had a plan.
Review: When I saw this movie for the first time on televison I was saddend that I didn't catch it in theaters when it was out. It's an intelligent movie and it's not just about a bunch of guys wailing on each other just for the sake of fighting. It's got a great director, great cast, great acting and a great storyline. As soon as the dvd hit the shelves I went out and got my copy. The plot of this movie is easy to understand (for most people) but hard to put into only 1000 words and I know my review will not do the film justice but I will try my best. Edward Nortons character "Jack" works for a major car company writing up reports about car accidents (that might have been caused by the manufacturer he works for) so his boss's can decide if a recall is needed on the automobile. If the recall is more expensive then paying off the soon-to-be victims families, they don't do one. He lives a dull, mundane life (like many of us) at his 9 to 5 cubicle and middle class apartment. He suffers from insomnia and asks his doctor for anything that well help him, claiming he is in pain. The doctor suggest that if Jack wants to see people in pain he should go to a support group for men dealing with testicular cancer. Jack goes to the meetings pretending he's sick and in them finds freedom and starts to cry, for him losing all hope was freedom. Now that Jack can cry, Jack can sleep. He goes to his testicular cancer mettings and on the way he drops by tuberculosis meetings, blood parasite meetings, sickle cell, lymphoma, bowel cancer, and so on and so forth. This is his vacation, this is his addiction. Then one day at his testicular cancer meeting he sees Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), and she ruins it for him. He's seen her at his other meetings knowing that she suffers from nothing, (same as him) and he can't cry if there is another faker around. He can't cry so there fore he can't sleep, so he confronts her. They tell one another they'll expose each other as frauds and then decide to split up the meetings. On one of Jacks flights back from an accident he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). He and Tyler talk about work, the exit procedure on the plane and how to make napalm from gasoline and orange juice concentrate (is it possible, I doubt it). Tyler makes and sells soap for a living and gives Jack his business card. Jack and Tyler part ways, then when Jack gets back to his apartment he notices something different about it, its been blown up. He doesn't know why but he calls Tyler. They meet at a bar and after a few pitchers of beer Jack apprehensivly asks Tyler if he could stay with him. Tyler says yes on one condition, he wants Jack to hit him as hard as he can. This is were we get to know more about Tyler Durden. As Tyler and Jack fight, they also bond. Jack moves in with Tyler and they live together in a dilapidated house in the warehouse district of town. Every weekend they go to the parking lot of the bar and they fight while on-lookers either join in or watch. And that's how Fight Club is born. They move the club to the basement of the bar and that's were they have their weekly fights. The group gets bigger every week as more people join. Tyler gives his weekly sermon about our life and our jobs. How we were thought to believe growing up that one day we would be rich and famous and happy. How were a generation of men raised by women. That "our fathers were our models for god, if our fathers bailed what does that tell you about god? You have to consider the possibility that god does not like you, he never wanted you, in all probability he hates you". Fight Club gets bigger and Tyler gets an army. Tyler is nihilistic and he sends his army to run some errands, from blowing up computer stores to destroying corperate art and coffe chaines to bashing in the new VW Bug. He is also sleeping with Marla after saving her from commiting suicide. Jack hates Marla so he's not to happy about that. Tyler has changed Fight Club to Project: Mayhem. There mission is basicly to destroy corperate america. Jack had been left out of Project: Mayhem but by the time he finds out about their plans, Tyler has disppeared. Jack travles around the country looking for Tyler knowing were to go only by the ticket stubs he left behind. Tylers been busy creating Fight Clubs around the country. When Jack finally catchs up with him, he is shocked to find out the truth behind everthing. Now there were a few things I left out like Bob (played by Meatloaf) or who blew up Jacks place but you'll find out about all that when you see the movie. I suggest if your not to religous or don't mind violence then go out and get the 2-disc dvd. The movie is no more or less violent then "Rocky", "Braveheart", "The Matrix" or any other movie with violence in it out there. The 2-disc has more features and commentaries from almost everyone involved including the writer of the book Chuck Palahniuk. And for those who said the ending reminded them about what happened in NYC, you have to remember that this movie was made in 1999, two years before. They tried to make the vans under the buildings into .... rent-a-car vans to remind people of what happened to the TWC in '92 but the people at .....wouldn't give the ok. They thought it was in bad taste.
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Summary: One of the best movies in years
Review: A side-splitting comedy, a heart-pounding thriller and a thought-provoking social statement all at once, Fight Club requires several watches to comprehend (it'd also be better to read the book before seeing this). But once you fully understand the plot and take it all in, you'll be astonished at the brilliance of this film. The movie begins with our narrator, Jack, staring at a gun sticking right in his mouth; "People are always asking me, do I know Tyler Durden?" he tells us. I won't say anything more so as not to risk spoiling anything. The acting is superb (particularly from Edward Norton, who plays Jack). The film is full of explosive ideas as well; for instance, there are many anti-consumerism messages. Brad Pitt's character points out to Norton that "the things you own end up owning you." A little bit ironic considering how well this movie was advertised and marketed by FOX, but ah well. I really can't think of much else to say about this movie; I'm starting to get writer's block so I'll stop here before I start to ramble incoherently. Let me just say that if you haven't seen this movie, you simply haven't lived.
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Summary: i am jacks awesome movie
Review: #33 if u like violence u will love this movie. the fight scenes are the most realistic i have ever seen on film(except no1 broke any bones and when u see these guys punch each other u think they would). brad pitt is one of the best actors today. this is easily his best movie acting wise(movie wise seven is better), edward norton is always great too. acting is good, plot is interesting, well written, and i really like the ending too. i really need to read the book also. there are some really cool points and little things in this movie. be sure to watch right after the last scene of the movie is over and right before the credits, pause it if u have too.
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Summary: Shocking the burghers; energizing the proles
Review: Director David Fincher, who brought us into the extraordinarily depraved serial-killer world of Se7en (1995), fires up the shock cauldron again with this high testosterone examination of our primal need to seek adrenaline highs through physical violence. Indeed, the message is we are not really alive unless we are involved in something extreme. Ed Norton plays the Narrator, a corporate-structure clog with insomnia who gets off (and finds the arms of Morpheus) by going to therapy groups for people with cancer, disfigurement, drug addiction, etc. The idea is that seeing the misery of others affords him a catharsis that clears the neuro-emotional blockage and allows him to relax enough to get some sleep. But after a while he begins to notice Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter-no relation to Hillary Rodham Clinton) hanging out at some of the meetings. Her hair and eyes are black widow black, all the better to set off her white skin, giving her a witchy/sexy allure that ought to excite Norton's deadened neurons. (I know she excited mine.) But instead what her presence at the talk-therapy sessions does is remind him that he isn't really suffering like the others, and once again he has insomnia. Meanwhile he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) a handsome and virile beauty soap salesman who is quick with the banter and has the confidence of a demi-god, something Norton's character lacks. They become best buds (and a bit more) after Durden introduces him to the full-out adrenaline rush of getting your face pounded in. As the fight club scenes unfold, getting more and more ridiculous with each bone-crunching punch and each darkening pool of blood, more and more young men join the club allowing Tyler Durden to become a charismatic leader of human sheep dressed in black. However I am compelled to point out that the fisticuffing sheep couldn't even stand the injury to their hands from one punch, let alone the repeated blows to face, head and body. But never mind. There's a lot more to this movie than phony fight scenes. The strange thing is a lot of the scenes are funny! Somehow humor adheres to Fincher's street mayhem, rock-the-house sex, and body-slamming/bone-cracking absurdities. Not only that but the acting, particularly by Norton and Pitt, is excellent. Norton's confused and determined whimsy is nicely off-set by Pitt's brazen pathology. The story plays out well with some nice surprises and some good tension. You will not be bored. Philosophically speaking too there is more than a grain of truth in the thesis: we really are divorced to some extent from our primal nature. We are domestic animals who have domesticated ourselves. A return to the jungle (for example, by watching this film) energizes us and reminds us that part of our nature is largely incompatible with civilization. Be forewarned however that this is a grossly violent movie that is difficult to watch at times. Fincher's primary intent is to shock, and he works hard at that. The scene at the back alley of a liposuction clinic as our boys are dumpster-diving for soap ingredients is particularly gross. I won't describe what happens there, but if you can stand that sort of thing, watch and be beguiled or revolted, but first, send the kiddies to bed.
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Summary: This is a great movie
Review: If you like movies such as Shawshank Redemption, you will like this movie
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Summary: If you say you can't review a movie is that still a review?
Review: I finally got around to watching "Fight Club." I put off the experience mainly because I knew I was going to have a hard time relating to any guy wanting to engage in bare knuckled fisticuff on a regular basis, even if the guy was played by Edward Norton. Going into the film there were, of course, two things that I knew about Fight Club, namely that Rule #1 was that you do not talk about "Fight Club" and that Rule #2 was that you do not talk about "Fight Club." I announced that I have a movie to watch but that, obviously, I could not tell anybody about it, which pretty much gave it away. Of course, now that I have watched "Fight Club" I realize that Brad Pitt's character was not just talking to the guys who came to join Fight Club, but he was talking to the audience as well. In other words, now I get it. Norton plays our Narrator, a disillusioned young man who has trouble sleeping and gets addicted to the emotional catharsis of support groups. Unfortunately he is not the only pretender at such meetings and infuriated by the presence of Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), who refuses to go away. He works out an uneasy compromise with her, but the who thing is ruined for him and his insomina is returning. Then he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and everything changes. So here is today's quandry: how do you review "Fight Club" without giving away anything when, according to the Heisenberg Principle, making the effort to not give anything away can give things away? If you compare "Fight Club" to other films that immediately spring to mind as soon as it is over that is going too be too much information, but then saying that there is something to give away can give it away anyway. Ironically, identifying the type of audience that would enjoy this film takes away the ability of such people to fully enjoy it. So it ends up being a lot easier to write a review of "Fight Club" avocating not seeing the film than it would be to the other way around, so I am not even going to try. On the off chance you have seen the movie and have read this far, I would say that I do not think there is anything deep and meaningful happening in this film. The idea that is is a glorification of fascism does not ring true because the dyanmic of facism--whether we are talking Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or Peronist Argentina--is the struggle towards order. If you want to insist on talking about "Fight Club" in those terms, then the film is about the struggle towards choas. Violence coupled with blind obedience is not unique to fascism, but I appreciate that it is an easy term of disparagement to toss around. Consequently, "Fight Club" is more engaging than provocative and likely to become a cult favorite rather than required viewing.
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Summary: I can only echo others' comments...
Review: "If you don't like this movie, you must be in denial."
"...you must be a consumerist tool."
"...you must not have the balls to accept reality." Great reasons to see a movie? Well, they're the only reasons to see Fight Club. Read a few of the 5-star reviews. Notice that no one who says, "This movie made me think," can quite articulate WHAT it made them think? Notice how defensive and snarly they get at the thought that anyone might NOT think it was the premier social statement of our time? Anyone who buys into this mess enough to call it a great piece of cultural commentary is in bigger denial than anyone in the film. See it only if you really believe not seeing it will turn you into a sissy-man.
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Summary: Psychological Violence
Review: Do you enjoy movies that brim with psychological suspense and an almost incomprehensible plot?? Whether your answer is yes or no, you should currently have a list of movies engraved within your memory that fit the criteria. Are you grasping for answers?? Here are, in my opinion, several flicks that fit the bill. (""Plulp Fiction,"" ... ""Memento,,"" ... ""Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas,"" ... "The Last Broadcast,,"" ... ""The Ring,,""... ""True Romance"" ... "Resevoir Dogs""... "Four Rooms""... ""The Usual Suspects""... ""Seven""... ""The Game""... ""Dead Presidents""... ""Apocalypse Now""... take your pick... and enjoy.
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