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AWFUL.... REALLY BIZARRE.... MINDLESS VIOLENCE
I'm sorry folks, I just didn't "get it." The acting was great and the story was original, and for that I give this movie 2 stars. But other than that, why watch this movie? It's just a bunch of bizarre, mindless violence. Is watching people beat each other's faces into a bloody pulp for fun supposed to be "art", perhaps?

Don't get me wrong - because I like actual boxing. But this wasn't boxing. This movie was just plain sadistic. Or masochistic, take your pick. It was one of the strangest and most outright bizarre movies ever.

Sorry people, I just didn't get it. NOT RECOMMENDED.


Very Frightening...not the Movie. Those Reviews...
Frightening - Not the movie, necessarily, which was definitely thought provoking, but what I read in the other reviews about how many people want to embrace a message it may contain as the key to salvation and freedom in our modern, Bourgeois society.

Its frightening to me how quickly the depressed, downtrodden, and lonely adopt violence toward, and destruction of other people as the solution to their ills. Reminds me of Nazis, or the KKK, al Qaeda, or any other organization seeking to hurt other people to make themselves feel better. Perhaps a few hundred of the prior reviewers might ask me to justify my position:

1. I judge everyone I meet with a simple test - who's needs are about to be met - mine or yours? While Brad, Ed, and the boys were tearing each other up I think the message was just peachy. Whatever floats your boat. But when they started terrorizing, maiming, and killing other people it became clear that they were meeting their own needs at the expense of everyone else. Way uncool. No, you say, way cool. Have you ever been a victum of violence? Apparently not. I'd ask you to withhold judgement until it happens to you.
2. Tyler says; "We are by-products of a life style 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." To combat their terrible insensitivity to what is important, the boys immediately snap into action, and suddenly become very much interested in murder and crime, - causing more of it.
3. I judge every society on how it treats those who are less powerful. I would have found the message more credible had it been wrapped in anything other than an all-start team of various ways to abuse power. While the Ed character occasionally cops a conscience (the scene when Brad terrorizes the store clerk), he is also particularly vile, invading the privacy of the support groups, mentally abusing the girl, nearly killing and permenantly maiming the other fighter near the end of the movie Why? "He was beautiful," and in general, preying on the weak and easily influenced.

I give "Fight Club" five stars for provoking thought (see terrorism comments below). But it was hard to overlook (one point taken away) and not be repulsed by the cheap, commercial display of nearly every conceivable way one person can diminish, dehumanize, and destroy another person as a surprisingly effective means of selling theater tickets.

What I took away from this movie was not how terrible our society is, but how great it can be - if we can find a way to confine Brad, Ed and the boys to their own basements. Better yet, finding a way of removing any reason for them to go down to the the basement in the first place.

If there was ever a movie that had something compelling so say about our society and where its going....its what this movie has to say about terrorism. Did you see the buildings get blown up, one after another in the last scene? Perhaps I was the only one who saw the twin towers. Are we to react with more violence, or something more fundamentally and compassionately human...

Final thought (among many): Imagine for a moment if all this "fight-clubbing" is exactly what we're seeing in the large recruitment of middle eastern terrorists. Tyler's message about the ugly banality of modern bourgeois society now seems cheap and banal itself. Perhaps something much more real and important - the starvation, poverty, abuse and neglect of vast numbers of people in middle eastern societies is a much greater, much more real threat, not something as superficial as "...500 channels of television..."

One of my favorites
Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are excellent in this movie, this is both of them at their best. The plot twists are exciting and unexpected. Each time I watch it I remember the first time and how surprised I was at the ending. An absolute must see for those that have not watched it before.

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