[Movies] Fight Club

[Neeshka]

So I finally watched Fight Club a few days ago.

What do you guys think of this movie ?

[peggleftw]

its a good film, slightly overrated, but still a nice watch.

[Naidia]

It was good, I won't praise it for being something I don't see it as though.

[Butterland]

I liked. Like most Brad Pitt movies.

[Gallahadd]

it's a good film, but the book is a trillion times better. The ending makes more sence, Tyler's motivations are clearer and most important Meatloaf isn't in it.

[fartman69]

Probably my favorite movie ever made =), I can watch that movie right after watching that movie lol.

[jk5834]

One of my favorites, though I still think it's a bit overrated. I've yet to read the book, but it's on my to-do list.

[Bathory]

Great the first time around, I've watched it so many times though, I really can't bring myself to watch it again. And if I do, I stop at project mayhem.

I really love the cinematography. The heavy contrast, the dark cityscapes and overall tones of the movie. And brad pitt + edward norton are a damn good team.

[Ihnasir]

Definitely one of my favorites. I'll watch it every little bit, but it never gets old and you always catch something new.

[Gaexion Ramza Beoulve]

Very good.

Make a poll.

[Neeshka]

Personally I have very mixed feelings about the movie. There's a bunch of stylish cinematography and direction - the scene where his apartment blows up from the oven gas, the fight scene with the fat goon leader, and some of the climactic scenes near the window at the end.

The film starts out quite dull with edward norton acting out a boring officer worker who has insomnia and randomly goes to support groups. He comes off as a whiny entitled pseudo-pretentious "special snowflake" type character. This goes on for about 30-40 minutes and if you can't relate to this character (I know I couldn't), you just feel hopelessly lost and bored. The man with breasts, the cancer support groups. The support groups themselves are shown in a very negative light and it's almost sad how the movie pokes fun at them. Making fun of people with cancer doesn't seem to be good form in any context, sorry.
There's a heavy dose of edward norton's almost reptilian narration constantly spouting nonsense and peculiar philosophies.

Anyhow after that he meets tyler, this is where the movie takes off. This is probably the movies high point, with the pinnacle of the movie being the fight scene between tyler and the mafioso owner of the bar.

After this it's just a total downward spiral. Tyler's messages get completely lost and everything goes into an extremist, anarchist and nihilistic direction. The fight club becomes a group of people just beating each other senseless and not a friendly boxing club type affair. Tyler is supposed to be against the "drones" of modern society but he forms groups that are even worse than the drones; and seem robotic and emotionless. There's just no conviction in their cause; all they care about is blindly following Tyler and taking orders. They keep parroting the same empty philosophies.

There's the constant fear of loss of masculinity, a bizarre set of scenes with meatloaf who is a fat man with breasts, and just a constant stream of machismo pornography with ironically contrasting homoerotic undertones. People line up to get beaten up by tyler durden. Are they masochistic ? The whole film starts becoming a total incoherent mess.
Then there's the completely pathetic project athena/mayhem, the acid burn scene and random vandalism for no reason.
Ultimately their group becomes an annoying group of anarchist gnats with no real significance or impact at all.


And then there's the final revelation and ending. Turns out Tyler is just is crazy loon with Dissociative Identity Disorder; who cannot control his baser instincts which are in fact wrong

This cop-out of an ending completely invalidates any kind of message the film has.

The penguin scene at the start, the aeroplane crash scene, the acid burn hallucination scene are all just intentionally pretentious and forced; having no real deeper meaning at all.

The film is just tons of style without any substance.

Anyway that's just my opinion. I see a lot of people really like this film, but I just don't get it. Maybe I'm too old for this kind of movie; or I never really bought into any of the crap philosophies that this film projects, hard to say really.

[Vantheus]

It's a great movie if you actually understand it, too many think it's about fighting though.

[FreshBoy]

the fight club does not exist

[Crazykeven]

I enjoyed it, but I already knew the twist before watching it which kinda changes how i was watching it.

[Solidito]

One of my favorate films, i loved it tbh. Didn't see the twist coming at all.

[Bozzna]

9,5/10

its in my top 10 list for sure

[Frostyqt]

The first rule... it has been broken.

[Demonakat]

damn good movie. not something i like to watch every day, but there aren't any movies like that for me. it's definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it, and even if you have, still worth a watch!
the book is great as well, but then again, chuck palahniuk is probably my favorite author. ever.

[Neeshka]

It's a great movie if you actually understand it, too many think it's about fighting though.

Is there really that much to understand ? Anyone can see that it's not about fighting.

[FreshBoy]

Is there really that much to understand ? Anyone can see that it's not about fighting.

wtf u talking

he killed that dude
it was about murder, revenge and remorse.
it was all about blood and gore.