Yar, you be here: Fight Club > Customer Reviews

Fight Club Customer Reviews (79 - 81 of 146 Reviews)

"You met me at a very strange time in my life."
Edward Norton's character "Jack" lives a lackluster, dreary 9 to 5 job in a cubicle typical of corporate America today. Jack can't sleep, ends up going to group help meetings, faking any type of condition to get a release, in the form of a good cry. He meets another fraud in Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) and it ruins it for him. They agree to split the meetings so they don't have to see each other. Then, on the way back on a business flight, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Jack gets Tyler's business card and when Jack finds his apartment has been blown to pieces, he calls Tyler. They end up meeting for drinks and then at Tyler's request having a fight. They bond and Jack is invited to live with Tyler.
Tyler lives in an abandoned house, a real dump. Things start happening that affect Jack profoundly. The fighting eventually builds into a cult following and becomes Fight Club. The common line is "we are a generation of men raised by women." Profound statements by Tyler seem to flow like a river. Jack has a meeting with the boss due to Jacks failing performance at work and the resulting scene is one of my favorites. The Club turns into a rowdy group, causing chaos across the city. Fight Club grows and eventually moves to other cities.
Tyler ends up with Marla after a plead for help during a suicide attempt, Jack hates her. Tyler starts "Project Mayhem" without Jack's knowledge and the extremes that this action is leading to are more than Jack wants to deal with. The ending is a big twist and begs one to see the movie again to see where the twist should have been a known during the movie.
The fascinating cinematography, the rapid pace, the plot development and the unbelievable acting just cannot be fully appreciated in one viewing, making this one of my most watched DVDs. Edward Norton's narration is perfect and I watch the movie to listen to his narration as much as anything else. Brad Pitt has the ability to portray the Alpha male to a tee and his personal style exemplifies Tyler Durden.

Thought provoking film for today's 30-something generation
A generation raised by single women and no great depression, world war, or cause to take on.

No identity for men to pursue, a world of meaningless, cubicled jobs, massive consumerism, and pursuit of material gratification.

Fight Club touches on a lot of modern feelings the average 20 and 30-something generation of American males struggle with, and when these inner-feelings of despair and hopelessness are opened up by an underground organization by a semi-psychotic leader who attracts a nationwide organization of fighting, rebelling men who've had enough, it becomes a violent, powerful rush of meaning for the average male in modern times.

Erasing the debt record by which many of us are enslaved by becomes the ultimate goal and this generation's major cause, defines their identity, and makes them heroes...at least that what "Project Mayhem" attempts to do.

For 10 minutes in a dark, dirty basement, a man can be a gladiator again, and earn the respect of his peers in a raw, physically violent, but satisfying and rewarding act of pain and suffering that opens up their most basic and primitive human nature. Eventually this ritual leads to an organized army of rebels who have every-day, boring, dull jobs and lifestyles and let's them become someone they can be proud of and feel good about. They let everything go and ditch their creature comforts to be guerrilla terrorists bent on destroying corporate culture without murdering people, until one of their own gets killed.

Fight Club is a suprisingly inspirational and philosophical film with a great performance from Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, and a disturbing look at our society's woes and hidden circles of despair for men who are forced into being meaningless nodes in the mass consumerism of America. It's what could happen when the grown up children who once dreamed of being a rock star, doctor, lawyer, or "anything they want to be," feel they were lied to and betrayed by the elite upper-class and 1% of our society that dictates what we do ultimately under the guise of a "free country where you can be anything you want."

A powerful film and one worth owning to watch again and again that says a whole hell of a lot about the travesty of our modern lifestyle. And certainly a favorite film for those who identify with the plight of those who aren't super-athletes, scholars, rich pop stars, or brought up in upper-class families where success was guaranteed, no matter how hard you work or good you may be at your dull, mindless, repetitive day job.

Destined to be a classic.

Quirky, twisted and uncomfortable - but fine filmmaking
This video is weird, provocative and totally consuming. It kept me intrigued for its full 140 minutes and when it was over I thought about it for a long time.

Edward Norton stars as the unnamed narrator who cannot find peace in his life in spite of his perfectly furnished condo. Brad Pitt plays the charismatic bad boy Tyler Durden, who changes the narrator's perspective forever. Together they form a fight club, an underground support group for disaffected males who pummel each other into ecstatic enlightenment. It's a twisted black comedy that intensifies in its violence and its meaning.

Ed Norton is one of the finest actors around today and it's amazing that he didn't receive an academy award nomination for this role. He acts with his whole body, knowing just when to wince or open his eyes in rounded wonder. We see his character shift back and forth, experience pain, pleasure and fear as well as all the nuances of emotion that a human being is capable of.

Brad Pitt's performance is more one dimensional but he also gives a fine performance. And Helena Bonlam Carter as the chain-smoking woman in their lives has a small but significant role.

I tried to read the novel by Chuck Palahuniuk several years ago but never got past the first chapter. I found it dark and depressing and hard to follow. However, as a screenplay and assisted by the writing skills of Jim Uhls, this wordy and strange novel takes on a whole new life. David Fincher, the director, brilliantly shot the fight sequences shadowed in darkness, but still full of blood and gore.

There's a surprise at the end of Fight Club which was very much in context with the plot although it takes the viewer into a different sense of reality. It certainly made me want to view the film again to catch all the little hints that must have been dropped along the way and that I missed. I couldn't help thinking about it later and I expect I will continue to do so for a long time.

This is a quirky, twisted and dark film recommended only for those who are willing to experience some uncomfortable moments. So be prepared for the discomfort as you enjoy some good filmmaking.

Previous Page

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49

Next Page