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How to fight yourself
I've read the book and seen the movie. The book is much better.
As usual, Brad Pitt gives an exceptional performance as Edward Norton's make believe other half. What starts out as a simple meeting on a plane, ends up as a full blown 'club' where the characters basically beat the hell out of each other. After a while, you start seeing people popping up all over the city with bandages on them but it must all be kept a secret. As the fighting dies down, the 'gang' start to dabble in more dangerous ventures. All living in 'Tylers' house, they hang around making plans for their next plot. This is an excellent movie and book. Very entertaining and although the ending was a little disappointing to me (shooting one's head up the side works wonders), I still fully recommend it.

Dismembers Only
Though stylish and well crafted, it would be hard to find a more disingenuous, manipulative, and hideous movie than Fight Club. Imagine a film that showed beautiful people eating a fabulous, decadent meal, savoring every luscious mouthful - then, five minutes before the end, a spokesman for the American Heart Association came on screen with a warning that high fat foods cause heart attacks. Or, imagine a film showing scantily clad women in provocative poses until, five minutes before the end, a representative from N.O.W. came on screen and warned that we live in a sexist society and, simply by watching this trash, viewers are validating her point. Such is the awe-inspiring hypocrisy of Fight Club, a film that purports to be a cautionary tale about violence but is in fact a tutorial in it. The basic premise, that urban man has lost touch with his inner Neanderthal, is an interesting one, and would have served as the basis of a good movie. To see how a better director approached the idea of innate violence, revisit Clockwork Orange, a masterpiece that director Fincher (Se7en - a much better movie) has certainly studied. Kubrick's chilling adaptation of the Burgess novel came complete with skinheads, one of many similarities between the two works. The second act of Fight Club is an orgy of brute violence with absolutely no redeeming qualities, and the third act offers one of the shabbiest, cheapest, and stupidest "reveals" - or "aha" moments - in the history of recent film. Ed Norton is a really fine actor, but his performance is wasted. Brad Pitt, by contrast, doesn't get beaten up nearly enough to redeem this abomination. Should have used the club on the director.

Someting to say
Still the only movie that, for me, describes the experiences of my generation-our values dictated by consumerism and badly in need of violent negation in order to bring us back to ourselves. It's also VERY funny, very stylish, mischevious and the acting (Bonham Carter just gets better every time you watch it) is transfixing. Makes Fincher's follow-up (Panic Room) seem kind of empty.

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