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One of the Greatest Films of Our Time
This film is an example of just how strong the media these days is controlled by conservative morals. Smothered by underpromotion, this film was shunned for terrorist allusions and other anarchist subject matter. Of course, as is par for the course with them, conservatives lacked the intellectual depth to see the true meaning behind this film, the metaphor of the desolation of a modern existence. Conservative viewers and media moguls saw the forest for trees. The violence, the bombings, the sex acts. Then they make their predictable logic jumps of what effects it would have on society.

For the controversy alone this film generates, and for its determination to become a succesful cult smash in light of the recent pathetic Victorian morals backlash, this is one of the defining films of my generation. Bold enough to still take risks and not be smothered by money-grubbing corporate hypocrites, right-wing religious folklore pushers, and inept governmental administrations. This film is a classic.

Everyone knows the story, despite the trailers at the time misbilling this as a film about bareknuckle boxing, or whatever. An isolated, disaffected young man, working a dead-end Wilmington, Delaware office job, is lured upon the burning of his apartment into the dangerous and complex world of Tyler Durden. Elaboration beyond this point would be detremential to a first-time viewer curious about this remarkable film.

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are a dynamite pair, and it was wise casting to accentuate the close friendship these two share in real life. David Fincher's directing style has ushered in a slew of copycats, the true mark of an impactful, brilliant director. But it is Helena Bonham Carter, a British and mostly classical actress playing very much against role here as the slightly whorish, mostly mentally unstable Marla Singer, that makes this film. There's a reason she won Best British Actress at England's version of the Oscars for this role. The conservative Academy shuns anything groundbreaking these days (see their pick of the cliched Gladiator as best picture over Traffic a few years back). The watered-down, sugarcoated American cinema, fearful of censorship and further violations of our freedom of speech and press, needs to step up to the plate with more films like this. And as for the Palahniuk novel on which this is based, it's suggested as an additional read to the film because it is very different in certain essential ways.

If you care about cinema and its current state of right-wing suppression at all, go and rent this film. Support revolutionaries not oppressed by Bush and his tyrants, and who refuse to be kept from their artistic instincts. Buy Fight Club and join the resistance against conservatism!

Tyler Durden - Every Mans Daydream
After Watching Fight Club I realized that I could relate to the movie. Now I don't mean I am able to relate to blowing up my own apartment or starting a seceret fight club in the basement of a bar or causing havoc all around the nation, no, I mean alot of the thinking that Narrator does in the movie I have thought the same to some extent as well. Fight Club is a wonderful movie when you see it the first time. However it is a thinking movie, meaning don't watch it with a bunch of your friends because youre bound to miss many important little details in the movie. Tyler Durden is by far my favorite when it comes to movie characters; His views on modern day society, specifically pertaining to the U.S. are views I can relate to and also find myself as a part of those views. To quote Tyler Durden "We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra." The movie takes you on a wonderful roller coaster of feelings and emotions, towards both Narrator and Tyler Durden. i believe this is one of Brad Pitt's best roles ever and I think a lot of people, when they think of Brad Pitt they also think Tyler Durden. I recommend this movie to anyone and everyone and they should probably go out and buy the movie because It will more than likely make their top 10.


Worth a Glance
This film is being sold with Pulp Fiction. Don't compare the two and expect fight club to be as good. You'll be let down. Admittedly it had some interesting concepts and was well acted but how it came together bothered me. It probably works much better in its book format. Though there are some scenes, like the scar-ing scene which work very well to have me on edge. But on the whole i couldn't rate this any better. 2.5 would be my prefered rating. It lacks pacing in many places and in many places you lack a reason to want to continue on through the film. I saw it because of the hype and was let down, but don't be fooled.
Its worth a glance if you have the time or its on TV but not for buying if you haven't seen it yet.
On the whole, Wholely unsatisfying. But it had potential.

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