film: fight club

[Epic_Epidemic]

Def. in my top 5 of all time. Used to watch it about every week back in the day.
The book was great too. Can't wait until the Choke movie comes out (Aug 28 according to the imdb).

 

[Edvard Munch]

I find "Fight Club" good, but I also find it sophmoric. The message is clear and the philosophy imposed is quite demanding of long stretches of getting back to an adolescent self that was illogically rebellious. I think that's good in some ways, but the development of it is very disregarding of other elements of life.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I find "Fight Club" good, but I also find it sophmoric. The message is clear and the philosophy imposed is quite demanding of long stretches of getting back to an adolescent self that was illogically rebellious. I think that's good in some ways, but the development of it is very disregarding of other elements of life.

Put down the Theosarus and give a real opinion.8) 8) 8)

 

[His Name Is Frank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fGUjKVP8A
Found this guy in the Resevoir Dogs thread. He re-enacts the Raymond scene from Fight Club and does a damn good job.

 

[AuraithX]

Very good movie. The surprise ending is what made the movie for me, like the same way The Sixth Sense did.

 

[L2R]

fight club >>>>> the sixth sense
and i like the sixth sense
a bit

 

[flat line]

Ed Norton is one of the best actors ever. end of story. The guys rocks. The only other movie that I like as much is The Machinist with Christen Bale. If you have not watched this movie treat yourself.

 

[L2R]

and watching this with a head full of acid years back, i found many glaringly clear metaphors throughout it, and since then, i've still yet to get a reasonable response to one of them: what the fuck was up with the journals in the paper street house? as a plot device, and a point specifically given time in a film, what was their purpose?

i am still awaiting a response.

 

[archduke]

*shrug*

It's a movie about identity. Not only what it means to be Tyler Durden, but what it means to be human. (Thus Tyler's efforts to strip away at any effect that society has had upon the men in Project Mayhem and bring them back to their naturally brutish selves, as Hobbes would put it.)

I voted 5 stars.

 

[QuestionEverything]

Just watched this again for the first time in several years. I appreciated it even more this time around.

I have to agree that Marla as a character completely changes once you realize what's actually going on - possibly even more than Tyler himself.

 

[L2R]

as per a recent post of mine inthe "last film you saw" thread

feeling antsy cuz i haven't really enjoyed a film in a while i cracked open my well worn dvd of

i dunno, from a filmmaking point of view i loved every minute of it, but storywise, i never really paid much attention to its absurdity. i dunno if this is a result of watching it more maturely or if i'm going through a cynical phase in my film appreciation, but taken at face value, there are too many nonsensical and ridiculous points that this film relies upon to get to it's few substantial points.

i'm saddened. dunno whether it's cuz i used to love this film or i don't really any more.

 

[welshmick]

Recently read the book - weird or what ?

 

[coldasice]

I adore this book and for once, it's one of those cases where the movie didn't toally fuck up the book.
The movie is well shot, extremely well scripted (loving Brad Pitt as Tyler - no-one plays a good crazy like Brad Pitt :D - anyone seen him doing his crazy thing in Twelve Monkeys too? He's amazing in that too) and totally captures the message the book tried to get across.

I watched it for the first time about 3 years ago and then I burnt my hand (accidentally with lye after a washing machine meltdown thing that happened in my mates house, don't ask - and how the lye got involved is even more confusing!) and it reminded me to watch it again which I did two weeks ago and I STILL love it.

Also - What an outro tune - Pixies - Where is my mind? - Perfect for the closing scene. %)