Fight Club discussion (Spoilers)

[mikejet]

So, I couldn't find an older thread. It's out on BD. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it many many times and each time you appreciate it more if you like it.

Personally I think it's a brilliant film.

One of my uncle's really thinks about this movie a lot and compares the main character to a Christ like figure who has to die and is reborn again.

I've always loved Palahniuks works. I've read Invisible Monsters(a personal favorite), Survivor, and Lullaby.

There's something brutally honest about his work and a lot of the ideas expressed in the film. Like when I goto Ikea I feel different because I'm picking one piece of mass produced furniture that will be in my apartment because I picked it even though 100 people before me also bought it.

It's a very harsh film and I can understand people not liking it. My brother HATES it after they introduce Tyler. I know a lot of people that feel the same way like there are two movies in one.

So what are your thoughts?

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by mikejet

So, I couldn't find an older thread. It's out on BD. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it many many times and each time you appreciate it more if you like it.

Personally I think it's a brilliant film.

One of my uncle's really thinks about this movie a lot and compares the main character to a Christ like figure who has to die and is reborn again.

I've always loved Palahniuks works. I've read Invisible Monsters(a personal favorite), Survivor, and Lullaby.

There's something brutally honest about his work and a lot of the ideas expressed in the film. Like when I goto Ikea I feel different because I'm picking one piece of mass produced furniture that will be in my apartment because I picked it even though 100 people before me also bought it.

It's a very harsh film and I can understand people not liking it. My brother HATES it after they introduce Tyler. I know a lot of people that feel the same way like there are two movies in one.

So what are your thoughts?

Mikejet, what are the first and second rules about fight club, again? Honestly I think the point of this movie was lost on critics. Yes it's about man power and fight the power and all that other stuff but it's still an excellent movie.

[Q?]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Mikejet, what are the first and second rules about fight club, again? Honestly I think the point of this movie was lost on critics. Yes it's about man power and fight the power and all that other stuff but it's still an excellent movie.

Hey you beat me to it....

Seriously, one of my all time favourites too.
I just wish I could see this for the first time again, the ending was so mindblowing!

[progers13]

Originally Posted by Q!

Hey you beat me to it....

Seriously, one of my all time favourites too.
I just wish I could see this for the first time again, the ending was so mindblowing!

I envy those who are seeing it for the first time. I get more and more out of it with each viewing, but I still remember watching it for the first time. Very, very well made film.

On a side note, the lossless audio track on the blu-ray edition is outstanding. I remember a feeling of being underwhelmed with some parts of the DVD edition (specifically the plane collision and the ending). Not so with the blu. Those parts hit so hard and unexpectedly that I jumped from my chair.

[SDon1969]

Originally Posted by progers13

I envy those who are seeing it for the first time. I get more and more out of it with each viewing, but I still remember watching it for the first time. Very, very well made film.

Same here, I still remember seeing the ending for the first time. "Ahhhh, wow!", kind of like the first time I watched Memento. I love Fight Club, great stuff.

His name is Robert Paulson!

[mikejet]

I think one of my favorite parts is when he burned himself. That part always strikes a strong chord with me.

[ckent22]

Originally Posted by mikejet

So, I couldn't find an older thread. It's out on BD. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it many many times and each time you appreciate it more if you like it.

Personally I think it's a brilliant film.

One of my uncle's really thinks about this movie a lot and compares the main character to a Christ like figure who has to die and is reborn again.

I've always loved Palahniuks works. I've read Invisible Monsters(a personal favorite), Survivor, and Lullaby.

There's something brutally honest about his work and a lot of the ideas expressed in the film. Like when I goto Ikea I feel different because I'm picking one piece of mass produced furniture that will be in my apartment because I picked it even though 100 people before me also bought it.

It's a very harsh film and I can understand people not liking it. My brother HATES it after they introduce Tyler. I know a lot of people that feel the same way like there are two movies in one.

So what are your thoughts?

It's a very deep film and many people don't quite understand it fully. Interesting you brought up the Ikea part. I like that portion of the film. But, I think there's more then simply saying, well someone else has it too - more so being that we're told that we "need" it and other things like it persay.

Anyway, a reviewer on this site critiqued it as the motive for the fighting not really be explained...I thought that was interesting.

[Lord_Stewie]

Awesome twist to the movie, Awesome work by David Fincher, Awesome work by both Norton and Pitt. And to sum it up Awesome movie all together. For those who haven't seen it, they don't know what they are missing.

[mikejet]

I think the fighting is there simply because it's something they would never do in their ordinary lives. It's them trying to break the mold of ordinary. Which is why one of the first homework assignments was to start a fight with someone. Get others out of their shells.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I think the fighting is there simply because it's something they would never do in their ordinary lives. It's them trying to break the mold of ordinary. Which is why one of the first homework assignments was to start a fight with someone. Get others out of their shells.

and if it was "knitting club", would the film be a success? and yet, the philosophy in the film claims to be independent of the fighting. hmmmmm

i think we just put our thumb on fight club's major error: asserting a philophophy that yearns to be independent of the underlying club activity, and yet the films success rises or falls with the underlying club activity.

this is why i just like Fight CLub as purely an action thriller. i love it in that genre. beyond that...not so much.

[Blu-Benny]

i watched about half of it a long time ago....not long after it came out on dvd....and shut it off, thought it was stupid.

BUT....that's was when i was a teenager and my attn. span was a lot shorter!!

i've got the dvd sitting on my tv stand borrowed from a buddy waiting to be watched again this weekend sometime.

[CZAR]

Never seen it! Got Em!!

[Jeremy1983]

Originally Posted by Blu-Benny

i watched about half of it a long time ago....not long after it came out on dvd....and shut it off, thought it was stupid.

BUT....that's was when i was a teenager and my attn. span was a lot shorter!!

i've got the dvd sitting on my tv stand borrowed from a buddy waiting to be watched again this weekend sometime.

Fight Club is pretty good... but it's no Bad Boys II j/k

Fight Club is absolutely one of my top-5 favorite films of all time. It still feels culturally relevant after all these years and really set the course for the stellar careers of Pitt, Norton, and Fincher.

LOVE FIGHT CLUB

[Jmills]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

and if it was "knitting club", would the film be a success? and yet, the philosophy in the film claims to be independent of the fighting. hmmmmm

i think we just put our thumb on fight club's major error: asserting a philophophy that yearns to be independent of the underlying club activity, and yet the films success rises or falls with the underlying club activity.

this is why i just like Fight CLub as purely an action thriller. i love it in that genre. beyond that...not so much.

The fighting is an underlying message to the new male in society. That the male is now amongst women, maybe more so in relying on materialistic items while living a metro sexual lifestyle. The things that made us "models" for god has vanished and men look to fighting to bond and to feel as if they did when men were just that... men and to compensate for what they've lost in a generation being raised by women.

[Batman1980]

Had forgotten how long this movie is. Tired now so will finish it tomorrow for sure. Was even better than I remember it being and am 100% happy that I got it on blu-ray.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by Jmills

The fighting is an underlying message to the new male in society. That the male is now amongst women, maybe more so in relying on materialistic items while living a metro sexual lifestyle. The things that made us "models" for god has vanished and men look to fighting to bond and to feel as if they did when men were just that... men and to compensate for what they've lost in a generation being raised by women.

I honestly cannot fathom how some people do not see this. It's not the end of the world, but when you meet people who seem to have understood A Space Oddesey 2001, yet Fight Club goes over there heads it confuzzles me.

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by Jmills

The fighting is an underlying message to the new male in society. That the male is now amongst women, maybe more so in relying on materialistic items while living a metro sexual lifestyle. The things that made us "models" for god has vanished and men look to fighting to bond and to feel as if they did when men were just that... men and to compensate for what they've lost in a generation being raised by women.

yeah, the only problem is, how does joining a secret, cult club, with secret rules make you less free? and thus, offer a solution to an oppressive society? it doesnt. you're less free after joining the club than before you did.

but, of course, there is an intellectual rationalization for this: this is the way all men should be (as represented by durden). well, if it is the natural state of men to be zombie-walking drones without self will, then why the need to rebel from society in the first place?

durden (as put by ebert) sounds to me like a dude who just tripped over the nietzsche poster at borders. as i said before and will say again: i loved this as an action flick, but beyond that is where i'm put off. i will buy it, but not for its moral philosophical teaching.

[Porkchop Express]

I saw Fight Club in the theater, assuming the movie was just about fighting. I still to this day have never been so blown away by a movie before. When I got it on the dvd it was the first time I actually watched a movie with commentary on (I usually don't care for extras). I watched the movie so many times since then, I seem to pick up on something new with each viewing.

[Duffy12]

Originally Posted by mikejet

Personally I think it's a brilliant film.

Same here. Its in my TOP TEN favorite movie list. It was this movie that made all Fincher movies a must see for me after this one. This is my GREATEST blind buy ever when it first came out on DVD. I don't think that I will ever have another blind buy that equals this one.


Tyler Durden: Now, a question of etiquette - as I pass, do I give you the a** or the crotch?


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[doctorsteve]

Originally Posted by mikejet

So what are your thoughts?

Um... I was told we were NOT to talk about Fight Club.