[ARCHIVED THREAD] - FIGHT CLUB (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/21/2011 11:02:10 PM EDT
Overrated or Underrated Discuss |
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Once you get beyond the fighting, the anti-materialism, and the revolutionary smokescreens, the movie is one of the best visualizations of the concepts of identity, existentialism, and self-determination ever produced.
Roger Ebert needs to go back and watch it again. |
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Quoted: Once you get beyond the fighting, the anti-materialism, and the revolutionary smokescreens, the movie is one of the best visualizations of the concepts of identity, existentialism, and self-determination ever produced. Roger Ebert needs to go back and watch it again. No doubt. If you're not into the film, you're not thinking very deep. |
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I don't really like brad pit. I think he's boring
but even I liked this one. fav scene: WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! Ok, you are now firing a gun at your 'imaginary friend' near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE! (which I like only slightly better than my other fav brad scene... the one where he gets hit by the car in Meet Joe Boring Black) 
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Once you get beyond the fighting, the anti-materialism, and the revolutionary smokescreens, the movie is one of the best visualizations of the concepts of identity, existentialism, and self-determination ever produced. .... I agree. I think I watched it at the right time in my life. For some reason, I consider it the best movie I've seen. |
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Quoted: I don't really like brad pit. I think he's boring but even I liked this one. fav scene: WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! Ok, you are now firing a gun at your 'imaginary friend' near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE! (which I like only slightly better than my other fav brad scene... the one where he gets hit by the car in Meet Joe Boring Black) The yellow rubber gloves were the funniest scene in the whole movie  |
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I liked it. First time I saw it, I was blown away by the twist in the hotel room near the end. Some say they saw it coming, I did not.
Also, there are many good points (if you ignore the anti-materialism). The scene where Tyler robs the convenience store clerk was very well done. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Book > Movie It had a better ending.. This. However, the movie does it some justice. I don't think it is too overrated. It flopped at the box office. Some of my favorite movies were box office flops. True but as someone stated above it was a cult movie that just blew up. I have to admit I didn't see it until 2001 and then read the book. To me it's a good story and the movie is pretty good compared to the book. Do I obsess over it? No. I wouldn't say it's overrated but it is definitely more popular than it was originally and maybe a bit over analyzed. |
| "Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles." |
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Book > Movie It had a better ending.. Even Chuck, who wrote the book, disagrees. He says the movie is much better than the book. Hadn't heard that but it's true. The book was kind of fuzzy in parts, the movie had clarity. Fav scene: Ed Norton in Helena Bonham Carter's bedroom. He sees a gigantic dildo waving around on the dresser. Her: "Oh don't worry that's not a threat to you!" |
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This movie came out just in time (I was in high school) to open my eyes to a lot of things. Always one of my favorites. I came here to post allmost exactly this. So I guess same. Oh and its an underrated film by most people and over anaylized by others. |
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On a side note, I went to Office Max a couple of years ago to pick up some blank mailing labels for my printer. While standing in line to pay, I glanced at the package and got a surprise. Check out the address on the front. http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212/toddmart68/tyler20durden20labels.jpg That's awesome. Oh and Bob had bitch tits. |
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On a side note, I went to Office Max a couple of years ago to pick up some blank mailing labels for my printer. While standing in line to pay, I glanced at the package and got a surprise. Check out the address on the front. http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212/toddmart68/tyler20durden20labels.jpg That's awesome. Oh and Bob had bitch tits. And a name.... |
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On a side note, I went to Office Max a couple of years ago to pick up some blank mailing labels for my printer. While standing in line to pay, I glanced at the package and got a surprise. Check out the address on the front. http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t212/toddmart68/tyler20durden20labels.jpg That's awesome. Oh and Bob had bitch tits. And a name.... His name was Robert Paulson...His name... |
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Fight Club came out in 1999, right in the midst of dot-com boom, where every "twenty-something" can become an instant millionaire, who barely, if at all, knew about the threats of global nuclear war. On top of that, it was the first generation that was raised substantially by single parents, so things they talked about in the movie resonated. However, on 9/11, all that existential angst turned into so much yuppy whine. And if that wasn't enough, within 6 years of that, the world economy imploded. You want a "Great War", a "Great Depression", Tyler Durden? Here you go. |