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Sorry. It is just bad.
The previous reviewers are all good people who obviously love cinema.

That said, this movie is really pretty terrible. I most sympathize with the reviewer who said that it wasted two hours of her life.

Honestly, folks, what is it about? The acting and cinematography are excellent. The dialogue is that "quirky and edgy" garbage that passes for "Literary" writing these days. (Read Hemingway to learn how people actually talk.)

But the plot is mindless. It's all about showing off how progressively weirder you can pile things up as a writer, but it is just plain nonsense. It reeks of Iowa School plotting. Or Irvine. Which is the only part of California technically located in Iowa.

Rent "The Station Agent" and see what a really good script can do for a really low budget movie.

The stuff in here, man...I about threw up. I kept waiting for a payoff, but it was just a lot of sadistic violence and an "apocalypse" payoff that comes from what, what? The doppelganger stuff doesn't work. There is no motivation. Boredom does not count. The notion that somehow bringing down New York "frees" debt slaves is stupid. Computers in Podunk have the information.

All in all, unless you are a very angry person stuck in a terrible and pathetic adolescence, this is not a decent movie. Too bad. I could see places where it might have worked.

If you like this movie, you'll love "Triumph of the Will." Just get real with your inner self.

Sorry!

An Excellent, And Unfortunately Misunderstood Film
"Fight Club" has many naysayers. They call it plotless, they call it pointless, some even call it fascist. They complain about the amazing amount of graphic violence, the plot's twists, and the film's lack of intelligence.

These people need to take a deep breath, count to three, and watch the movie over again. If they still can find nothing to like, they need to have their head checked.

"Fight Club" is one of the best films I've ever seen. Beyond it being one of the finest novel-to-screen adaptations ever, it is simply an astounding film. Everything about it is designed to shock the viewer out of complacency: the subliminals, the fantasy cutaways, even the brutal violence are really just punctuation marks, underscoring the movie's actual statements. Beneath the action movie facade, "Fight Club" is really an intellectual film.

"Fight Club" is about the modern American male, and the state of permanent angst and adolescence they've been forced into by a society which raises them without fathers, force-feeding them dead-end jobs, consumerist garbage and idiotic "everyone-is-special-in-their-own-way" psychology. What's interesting is that the film not only provides a counter-argument, but an argument against its own argument. It suggests a parallel extreme, wherein we would be forced back into another Dark Age, would be wrong as well.

The narrator in "Fight Club", who is nameless throughout the film, seeks to escape from the urban nightmare his life has become, as it causes him terrible insomnia. First, he tries attending support groups for people with lethal illnesses, despite his lack of any. This helps him to confront death and despair in a tangible way, and appreciate the fact that he's alive, curing his insomnia. That is, until he meets Marla Singer, a fellow faker who makes him unable to find the release he so desperately needs. Marla and the Narrator manage to come to an agreement about who can attend which group, but the damage has been done.

A little later, the Narrator meets Tyler Durden, a man who is the polar opposite of him. Tyler lives on the edge, making soap, being a waiter at fancy buffets (where he does various obscene things to the food), and changing reels at the movie theater (where he splices frames of dirty movies into kiddie pics). Something about Tyler is magnetic to the Narrator, and through a series of events the two come to live together, and create the eponymous Fight Clubs.

To tell anymore would spoil the movie's many delights; it's subversive, funny, thought-provoking, thrilling and consistantly entertaining. Fincher's direction takes major risks and constantly manages to succeed, and the thought that's been put into every frame is evident. The cinematography is excellent, the Dust Brothers music hip and appropriate, the writing stylized and snappy, capturing the novel's tone without being overly derivative. "Fight Club" is a masterpiece, the best Hollywood film in a very long time. Enter with an open mind, and you'll come out singing its praises.

Helena Bonham Carter - Please Comb Your Hair!
You'll enjoy this movie If you think "The Matrix" provides a viable world-view, that Keanu Reeves is a Christ-figure, and that Helena Bonham Carter is a sexy woman. If, however, you are a normal human being you will most likely think it sucked like I did. What the? Who the? Why the? I liked Edward Norton a lot in "Rounders" and "The Italian Job" but was just bored with him in this movie. Helena Bonham Carter managed to be irritating in every scene she was in. Seeing Meatloaf with large breasts almost put me over the edge. If you think this movie is deep please stop what you are doing immediately and get a life. By the time I stopped watching this movie at close to 1:00 A.M. I felt like I had been subjected to North Korean sleep-deprivation torture. It's now the next morning, I'm tired, and I'm angry I wasted my time on this movie! The first rule is "don't watch Fight Club"!

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