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Now, I think Fight Club is a great movie. I'm all for everyone having their own opinions, but personally I think it's great. Here's my addressal of some of the arguments for why this movie isn't good.

People seem to think that the movie is morally degraded by portraying violence as a good thing. Well? Nobody's effectively said why it's bad. It has a very cathartic quality to it, and besides which everyone who participated in violence towards other was willing and chose to. Far be it from anyone to say they can't do what they want, if they're consenting, right? Otherwise I don't see why violence = bad, other than our base instinct which shouldn't decide morality.

Terrorism? Do you realize what terrorism is?

Terrorism

n : the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
Now, as far as I can remember, nobody in the movie dies except for Robert Paulsen. And that was by the police. Everything else was done to empty buildings, causing no harm to any people other than to empty buildings as an attack against consumerism. Hardly terrorism if nobody dies, really.

And the most oft-repeated but most puzzling. Fascism? Do you even know what Fascism is, you kids with your high-school History credit trying to seem intellectual? Well. Effective use of the media to control people? If by destroying media you mean effectively using it than... Maybe? The corporatism and laissez-faire economic policies of Fascism are completely opposed by the message in the movie. And the authority portrayed by Project Mayhem is the goal itself, with the leader eventually kidnapped and is held accountable when he questions the project. Nationalism? Not at all. You'd hardly tell that the movie knew what a country was. Racism? Not at all, there were black members prominent.

Funny how all these people question the movie as being shallow and repetitive in its message, when most mainstream films/books hardly have any message, let alone question so effectively. And yet these people offer no idea what a good or deep message would be.

This movie is incredible
My husband got this movie for us to watch shortly after it came out on DVD. I did not want to watch it because I thought it would just be a bunch of violence. However, I watched it anyway because I figured I'd give it a chance and I'd still be spending time with the hubby. By the end of the movie, I was in tears. To this day, my husband still makes fun of me for crying at a movie that's not supposed to be a tear-jerker. But, I was so knocked off my feet by it. The next week, I checked the book out of the library and read it, too. If you have any brain cells at all, it's easy to look past the violence and fighting and read between the lines. The commentary it makes about modern society is powerful and real. All the visual effects, sound, etc. of the movie are awesome as well. This is one of my favorite movies, and I'm a "chick." It's not one to watch if you're in the mood for something light-hearted, though. Save it for when you're in a more philosophical state of mind.

Modern Classic - A Movie To Base Your Life On
This movie continues to increasingly strike home for me each time I watch it as I've gotten older and closer to the age of the main characters. As I've depressingly realized in my own lifestyle, material possesions tend to define my entire self image at times. And as this film tells us, we have to fight against that urge to conform to what our society would otherwise tell us to embody: a productive worker-bee drone that spends and consumes as much as possible while at the same time thinking as little as possible to accept the status quo.

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