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Fight Club-another reason to own a DVD player.
If any DVD was produced on the same level as the Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition and the Toy Story 3-Disc box set, it is this DVD. Fight Club is not only a VERY well produced DVD, but the supplemental material will keep you busy for LITERALLY hours. You will finally have a reason to 'break in' that angle button on your remote. As a story, Fight Club takes a more cerebral approach to ones thought processes. Containing many cool effects, Fight Club may make the average movie viewer pop a few Excedrins while trying to figure out the point of the film. While many may finish the movie in total confusion, mostly everyone will agree that Fight Club is a unique movie experience. When I received the DVD package, I was instantly impressed with the graphic design of the outer package, the discs themselves and the booklet that is included. Initially, this DVD comes off as a "special edition" rather then a simple "movie release on DVD". Whoever created the graphics on the cover and throughout the booklet has a very active imagination. Disc one has the film, disc two has the supplemental material. ** Pause the third FBI WARNING at the beginning of the disc....it is quite funny** Disc one offers you your usual "chapters" choices with 'moving' scenes (like The Matrix), audio setup for Dolby surround for both a 2 speaker setups and 5.1 setups in English and Spanish. This is also a THX certified DVD, so it includes a THX setup screen. Disc one also gives you the choice of several audio commentaries to listen to throughout the film, including David Fincher, Bradd Pitt, Ed Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, the novelist and the screenwriter, the Director of Photography, Visual Effects Supervisor and a couple of others. In a nutshell, you have a choice to listen to A LOT of people, a great addition to this DVD. Picture quality of Fight Club was incredible. Overall, the picture is moody and dark with beautiful blacks and wonderful color detail. It is beautifully photographed with incredible shadow detail and crystal clear highlights. Sound quality was equally impressive. Being THX certified, you can expect nothing less then awesome. Edward Nortons voice-over sounds very live, as though he's sitting right in front of you. The sound has beautiful detail, with stereo separation being impressively realistic and the music and dialogue recorded incredibly well. Surround detail is amazing with some scenes having deep bass that will make the neighbors call the cops. Disc two will stay in your DVD player for a long time. The supplemental material includes crew and cast information. behind the scenes of the production, the visual effects and on-location footage with commentaires and multiple angles.......WOW! Disc two also contains seven deleted scenes as well as trailers, TV spots, music videos, an interview with Edward Norton and a bunch of storyboards, visual effects stills, paintings and many other additions to keep your fingers happy on that remote. The Producers of this DVD should be applauded....not only is the picture and sound quality top-notch, but the graphical elements and the supplemental materials included are fantastic and incredibly entertaining. I highly recommend this DVD for those who enjoyed this movie in the theatre, who are curious about the film, or those simply interested in seeing what a superb DVD release is all about. Enjoy!

The First Rule of Fight Club is: Don't Take It Too Seriously
Viewed under the right conditions by the right person, this movie is an absolute treat. Viewed by the wrong person or by someone not in the right frame of mind, the movie's darkly comedic undertones can easily be missed amidst the brutal violence and coarse language. That said, I viewed this movie under optimal conditions and with an open mind. As a result, I stumbled upon one of my favorite films of all-time.

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton really strut their comedic stuff in this movie, as both are brilliant in their roles. Helena Bonham Carter and Meatloaf also manage to steal scenes throughout this perfectly cast film. The entire cast walks the comedic line brilliantly without ever becoming campy, a feat for which David Fincher can take a significant amount of the credit.

In Fight Club, Fincher truly shows his directorial genius in distilling Chuck Palahniuk's great but somewhat disjointed novel into a compelling, hilarious, and coherent storyline. Although Fincher's version neglects some of Palahniuk's fundamental vision (the ultimate futility of nihilism, in particular), he captures the overall spirit of the noval and makes the story linear enough that movie audiences can follow the character from IKEA-loving corporate drone to anarchistic mastermind. With the blackest of humor, Fincher decries everything that is wrong with modern society, from corporate America's cornflower-blue ties and action items to the emasculation and isolation of the American male to the evils of consumerism. All important messages for people in the oft targeted 18-49 demographic.

I have viewed the film with a number of other people, and my observation has been that people under 40 tend to view the film as brilliant and visionary, while people over 40 tend to take it too literally. That is why I titled this review: the first rule of fight club is, don't take Fight Club too seriously. Revel in the main character's insomnia and schizophrenia, and try to get Palahniuk & Fincher's serious messages at the same time, understanding that those messages are conveyed through extreme hyperbole.

Finally, if you have the opportunity, be sure to listen to the Fincher commentary on the film, as it is probably one of the most insightful commentary tracks on any DVD currently on the market. Fincher gives tremendous insight into the details of making this film that are interesting and pertinent enough to captivate anyone, from the most serious film student to the most casual viewer of films. Watch this and enjoy!

Everyman into Uberman ...
'Fight Club' is definitely a film you either identify with, or identify against. Within the story is a portrayal of the modern everyman going through life in a self obsessed daze with limited resources. Ed Norton plays the worker bee of cubicle trask researching auto-accidents for an auto company contemplating recalls for their mistaken engineerings. Being surrounded by death trivialized by corporate economics he loses his identity and longs to have his life taken (portrayed in an amazing fantasy plane crash scene). He then meets one of the motivators out of his dull, cloisted life - Tyler Derden (Brad Pitt) who is a self styled, enigmatic, charismatic rebel creating designer soap using discarded fat from liposuction clinics. Together these two team up to revive men from their modern, materialistic malaise in society and return them to lively, combative, comradeship in socialist fight clubs that sweep the country and turn into Derden's personal tool to destroy the materialistic world that holds men in financial and emotional paralysis.

On the inside of the special edition booklet and box are many slags from popular press against the movie and the X-generation by old, out of touch critics from less contemporary eras. This is a modern tale for the modern everyman surrounded by images and objects portraying lifestyles we will never be able to obtain. Men caught in a world outside their control, and immasculated by pop and industrial culture. Either you live this life and instantly identify strongly, or are priviledged beyond the frustrations of western culture and find the statements and actions, implied and stated, as brutal, nonsensical, and ridiculous. 'Fight Club', for the empathetic, provides an ideal fantasy of escape, tribal ritual, acceptance, organization and achievement under the guise of greater good while utilizing animalistic, hostile methods. Almost every scene in the movie is littered with this kind of double meaning, and obfuscated morality that can easily repulse and intrigue the viewer. The most validating message is that the pathetic everyman caught in this whirl of ambitious reorganization of male power is actually the uberman who makes it happen; saying anyone has the power to change the world for better or worse. Finch, Palachniuk, Pitt, Norton and the rest of the cast and crew combine for powerful acting, dialogue, cinematography, editing and story that creates one of the most memorable and insightful celluloid statements of the 90's. Not the perfect film, but damn close.

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