Just saw "Fight Club" tonight for the first time...

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Posted: 10/26/2006 11:21:57 PM EDT

and it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be - but it was pretty good.

A lot of the social pressures that Jack talks about in the film make pretty solid fodder for lampooning and the creation of the displaced youth of the movie.

There's a lot of brain-impaired socialist falderal that Tyler Durden comes up with. The fact that he's made to seem like a nutcase at the ass end of it all is a final blow to the Leftist message.

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:25:51 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
and it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be - but it was pretty good.

A lot of the social pressures that Jack talks about in the film make pretty solid fodder for lampooning and the creation of the displaced youth of the movie.

There's a lot of brain-impaired socialist falderal that Tyler Durden comes up with. The fact that he's made to seem like a nutcase at the ass end of it all is a final blow to the Leftist message.

The first rule of fight club, is you do not talk about fight club.

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:28:23 PM EDT

[#2]

"Bob had bitch tits."

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:28:34 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Quoted:
and it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be - but it was pretty good.

A lot of the social pressures that Jack talks about in the film make pretty solid fodder for lampooning and the creation of the displaced youth of the movie.

There's a lot of brain-impaired socialist falderal that Tyler Durden comes up with. The fact that he's made to seem like a nutcase at the ass end of it all is a final blow to the Leftist message.

The first rule of fight club, is you do not talk about fight club.

And the Second rule?

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:30:32 PM EDT

[#4]

Everyone fights.

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:39:52 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
and it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be - but it was pretty good.

A lot of the social pressures that Jack talks about in the film make pretty solid fodder for lampooning and the creation of the displaced youth of the movie.

There's a lot of brain-impaired socialist falderal that Tyler Durden comes up with. The fact that he's made to seem like a nutcase at the ass end of it all is a final blow to the Leftist message.

The first rule of fight club, is you do not talk about fight club.

And the Second rule?

you do not talk about fight club!!

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:45:51 PM EDT

[#6]

Good movie. While a lot of people embraced the ass kicking and catch phrases, I thought it was a pretty good social commentary. Actually I've always considered it to be "Office Space" done another way - when I tell people that I usually get a

look, though.

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:54:17 PM EDT

[#7]

I thought it was about soap

and recruiting sheeple

Posted: 10/26/2006 11:59:26 PM EDT

[#8]

FIGHT CLUB RULES

1st Rule - You do not talk about Fight Club
2nd Rule - You DO NOT talk about Fight Club
3rd Rule - If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the fight IS over
4th Rule - Only two guys to a fight
5th Rule - One fight at a time
6th Rule - No shirts, no shoes
7th Rule - Fights will go on AS LONG AS they have to
8th Rule - If this is your first night at Fight Club, you HAVE to fight

Posted: 10/27/2006 12:06:59 AM EDT

[#9]

what a great movie

Posted: 10/27/2006 12:14:19 AM EDT

[#10]

I see in Fight Club, the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And, I see squandering. God damn it! An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables: slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing car and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man--no purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . . . but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact and we're very, very pissed off.
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Posted: 10/27/2006 12:25:15 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

I see in Fight Club, the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And, I see squandering. God damn it! An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables: slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing car and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man--no purpose or place. We have no great war. No great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . . . but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact and we're very, very pissed off.
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An excellent quote, and yet, so very true.

Posted: 10/27/2006 12:28:38 AM EDT

[#12]

Try reading Fight Club.

Posted: 10/27/2006 12:35:53 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
"Bob had bitch tits."

"His name was Robert Paulson....."

Posted: 10/27/2006 12:58:06 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Actually I've always considered it to be "Office Space" done another way

One of the best observations on the movie I have heard yet.
I totally see where you are coming from on this.

I think one of my favorite parts is when he is explaining the process of a cost benefit analysis of an auto manufacturer issuing a recall..."a major one"

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:11:05 AM EDT

[#15]

You are not your fucking Khakis.

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:27:38 AM EDT

[#16]

My favorite quote is

"How embarrassing. A refrigerator full of condiments and no food".

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:31:13 AM EDT

[#17]

"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school"

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:31:38 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . . . but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact and we're very, very pissed off.
-----

Somehow that last part rings hollow with Brad Pitt saying it...

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:33:38 AM EDT

[#19]

All of the guy who wrote it chuck something I cant spell) books are strange.

Like to see some others made into movies

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:36:32 AM EDT

[#20]

"Where is my mind?"

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:37:01 AM EDT

[#21]

Fight Club is such an incredibly gay movie. Gay as in homoerotic, not lame.

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:38:08 AM EDT

[#22]

Originally Posted By KC-130 FLT ENG:
"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school"

Top 10 movie quote! Actually Fight Club has about 3 top 10 movie quotes.

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:38:10 AM EDT

[#23]

"Why did you do it?""

"I felt like destroying something beautiful."

CJ

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:40:37 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
"Bob had bitch tits."

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:45:52 AM EDT

[#25]

I like Palahniuk's writing but the movie was too gay for me.

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:50:05 AM EDT

[#26]

Posted: 10/27/2006 6:57:18 AM EDT

[#27]

"Old School" was made to be like Fight Club but funny. I think there are references in Old School to Fight Club.

I love the PowerPoint meeting where he just smiles and his gums are all bloody and his jaw is wired shut.

"You are the all seeing all dancing crap of the world"

-JTP

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:05:10 AM EDT

[#28]

The older I get the more seriously I take that movie.

The language is over the top as well as the violence ... but the social commentary in Fight Club is biting and true, particularly for white collar guys. We're taught to neuter our natural instincts and not to do many things that come naturally to us. When someone weaker and smaller than you, yet in a position of "power", offends you, you just bite your lip and take it. How do you release that pent up energy and disillusionment? Well, some of us play(ed) hockey

... Taken to an extreme, someone starts a "Fight Club".

I don't own the movie but have debated picking it up in the bargain bin. There are a lot of poignant scenes in the movie.

Side note: I know a guy that was an uncredited extra in one of the fight club scenes and does appear in the final cut of the film. He came back from Cali talking about this great movie he was a part of. We were all like "Whatever dude!" ... Turns out he was.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:15:30 AM EDT

[#29]

Originally Posted By KC-130 FLT ENG:
"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school"

That was the redo of that line...the original line was deemed too controversal.

The original line was:

"I want to have your abortion"

(No, not kidding..)

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:20:12 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Good movie. While a lot of people embraced the ass kicking and catch phrases, I thought it was a pretty good social commentary. Actually I've always considered it to be "Office Space" done another way - when I tell people that I usually get a

look, though.

Totally agree with you. I tell people it's office space on steroids. It's also a total guy movie that speaks to all of us. It's our generations Taxi Driver.

It's amazing how the violence isn't that bad. I think most people are offended by the content/message, not the violence. That's just a simple scapegoat.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:31:51 AM EDT

[#31]

The book > the movie

That book is one of my all time favorites...my favorite underlying theme:
Stop living your life the way you've been told to live it by family, society, etc....live the way you want to live, accomplish the things you want to accomplish.

Posted: 10/27/2006 7:36:42 AM EDT

[#32]

Fight Club is an awesome movie. Just because it was written by a gay guy doesn't mean the movie is homoerotic.

You guys are reading waaaaaaaay too much into it. With that said, I want to kill every panda that won't screw to save its species!

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:15:07 AM EDT

[#33]

Oh, it's pretty homoerotic, the book far more so. That said, it's a great movie.

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:21:56 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Oh, it's pretty homoerotic, the book far more so. That said, it's a great movie.

Projection?

I guess UFC must be homoerotic too because two guys in speedos spend fiften minutes on the ground grinding their junk together?

SBG

Posted: 10/27/2006 9:23:25 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Try reading Fight Club.

I did, I liked it better than the movie.

Space Monkey!

Posted: 10/27/2006 10:26:04 AM EDT

[#36]

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Projection?

The theme of Jack's unrequited man crush on Tyler seemed to come through pretty clearly in the movie, and it's just about spelled out in the book. It's not exactly gay, but homoerotic seems like an accurate way to describe it. One (rather reactionary) way to read the final scene, where Jack shoots Tyler, is as a repudiation of his adolescent crush in favor of mature heterosexuality with Marla.

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I guess UFC must be homoerotic too because two guys in speedos spend fiften minutes on the ground grinding their junk together?

I wouldn't know. I don't watch that ghey stuff.

Posted: 10/27/2006 10:39:35 AM EDT

[#37]

Some wallpapers for your viewing pleasure.

Posted: 10/27/2006 11:04:13 AM EDT

[#38]

WOW, I honeslty thought it was one of the worst movies ever made, and was just happy I didnt spend money to watch it.

Posted: 10/27/2006 11:14:16 AM EDT

[#39]

One of my all time favorite movies...

Like some of you on this thread, I liked the message and point it was trying to make as much as I liked the ass kicking scenes.

~Dg84

Posted: 10/27/2006 11:16:42 AM EDT

[#40]

I always thought the choice of guns to name was interesting

If I were you, I'd be very careful who you show that to. Because the person that wrote that is dangerous. And you never know when this button-down Oxford cloth psycho might come to work with an armalite ar-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon stocking from office to office pumping round after around into co-workers. It could be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.

Posted: 10/27/2006 11:17:51 AM EDT

[#41]

fuckin awsome movie....top 10 easy.

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:40:16 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
and it wasn't exactly what I thought it would be - but it was pretty good.

A lot of the social pressures that Jack talks about in the film make pretty solid fodder for lampooning and the creation of the displaced youth of the movie.

There's a lot of brain-impaired socialist falderal that Tyler Durden comes up with. The fact that he's made to seem like a nutcase at the ass end of it all is a final blow to the Leftist message.

This is my new favorite post about the message of fight club. There IS a lot of socialist, victimist drivel in there, hidden around a lot of cool footage of fight scenes that make no sense. I give it a 2.5 for originality, but it's off it's rocker for sure.

You'd be amazed at how many people find it's 'message' appealing, for some reason, without really understanding it in the first place.

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:43:37 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
The book > the movie

That book is one of my all time favorites...my favorite underlying theme:
Stop living your life the way you've been told to live it by family, society, etc....live the way you want to live, accomplish the things you want to accomplish.

You forgot "blame the credit card companies and the advertisers for your problems", and "wouldn't a hunter/gatherer society really be best for us all"

sheesh....

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:44:25 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Try reading Fight Club.

I fucking love Chuck Palahniuk. I am so hooked on his stuff.

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:46:40 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
"Old School" was made to be like Fight Club but funny. I think there are references in Old School to Fight Club.

I love the PowerPoint meeting where he just smiles and his gums are all bloody and his jaw is wired shut.

You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick.

Posted: 10/27/2006 1:49:07 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Originally Posted By KC-130 FLT ENG:
"I haven't been fucked like that since grade school"

Top 10 movie quote! Actually Fight Club has about 3 top 10 movie quotes.

the irony is that the original line was, "I want to have your abortion"

ETA: fuck, Ed beat me.

<--Tyler Durden

Posted: 10/27/2006 2:10:22 PM EDT

[#47]

'I wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species, I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe Smoke."

- Tyler Durden
- Fight club