Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Fight Club is clearly one of the best movies that came out in 99. Brad Pitt and David Fincher team up again succesfully for a very pop cultured film with plenty of action and fight sequences. Edward Norton contuines to show his acting ablity as The Narrartor.

This is an absolutely original movie, unlike anything else. Its a satire with a really grim sense of humor. Designed to encourage thought rather than to just entertain. The situations are just presented straightforwardly & the audience is left to make up its own mind. I'm grateful somebody's making intelligent films like this & we get a choice & an occasional change of pace. This is quite possibly the weirdest mainstream movie out there & extremely worth the viewer's trouble. The 3 leads are fantastic & they all do a top-notch job. I read the book after seeing the flick & I'm glad I did it in that order. The movie's plot twist wasn't ruined for me beforehand & I got a better understanding from the book. For example, in the book its explained that Tyler Durden gets all his clothes from the lost-and-found at bus stations & so forth. So you see why he dresses so strangely. Again, only try this one if you're looking for something unusual.

I'm amazed at how few reviewers understand the message of this movie is:Modernity is inherently alienating and dehumanizing, ANY kind of re humanization is better than none or rather that it's inevitable that humans will eventually be thrust back together in more tribal-type relations and that although the form that this will take will often be ugly the process is both necessary and better than the alternative (the cube,the suburbs etc). The fight club doesn't represent the corruption of the characters, it is their salvation! The fact that they have to be saved in such an ugly way just high lites how pathetic their normal lives are. The fight club represents a true society albeit one that is very brutal and unsustainable (versus one like out own that is temporal,artificial ultimately irrelevant[since it really can't inform the future]). Maybe it's just because I have reading so much about Bedouins for the last 2 years but it just was very recognizable to me. The fact is that wherever or whenever you go, a real economy of human relations will have certain basic traits:it will be relatively small (50-200 people),it will have a hierarchy based on ability and needs, it will be efficient and it will be intimate. A beautiful,timely film.

Matt

It kind of scary in a "this is too familiar" way but it also has humor. Brad Pitt isn't a pretty boy in this one. His character is kind of cool but a little retarded and whacked out psychologically. Which I liked.
I love the story line except the ending but that did not mess up the rest of the movie, at all. It made sense though. The whole movie. As strange as it was-it reaches you on a deeper level without being deep or wishywashy/sappy. I'd say it's a dvd you'd want in your collection. I've seen it 3 times but now I'd like to have it on hand to watch again and again. Yeah, it's that kind of a movie.
ENJOY!!!!!

This is one of my top favorite movies. I have a lot of respect for Chuck Palahniuk's work, and this movie is VERY well adapted from the novel. It's gritty, sexy, and thought-provoking. Cover your eyes in some parts if you're not up for gun shot wounds and graphic fights.

Good stuff. Well done.