Fight Club

vinny

vinny

The Living Force
The first rule of fight club is: "you do not talk about fight club"

The second rule of fight club is: "you DO NOT talk about fight club!"

If this isn't just the greatest film about split personalites and little i's going off and doing their own thing when you're not looking, then I don't know what is. Wicked film.
 
I can watch that movie again and again. The best mix of some insights into our civilization and human condition, rebelious spirit and anger I've ever seen. A masterpiece.
 
sleepyvinny said:
If this isn't just the greatest film about split personalites and little i's going off and doing their own thing when you're not looking, then I don't know what is. Wicked film.
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I thought it was about conscious suffering?? ;)

-Harrison
 
"I am Jack's total lack of surprise."

This post is anart's total appreciation of this film.

;)
 
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s*** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. " Tyler Durden

What a great piece of movie dialogue! Has anyone read the book? Its something I keep meaning to get around to as the books are usually better than the movie versions - especially when the subject matter relates to conciousness or whats going on in people's heads. I think thats why there's never been a really good movie adaption of a Stephen King book, no wait, Shawshank Redemption, damn there goes that theory:) Well that one was narrated in the third person, so maybe thats the difference - Green Mile? Ok, so theres never been a great Stephen King adaption that wasnt set in a deep south, depression era prison. There. (swoons)
 
Barry said:
Has anyone read the book? Its something I keep meaning to get around to as the books are usually better than the movie versions - especially when the subject matter relates to conciousness or whats going on in people's heads.
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Chuck Palahniuk, the author, said he was embarassed he'd written the book after Fincher made such a great movie out of it.
 
I read the book before the I saw the movie.
The book was good, but the movie was done so well that it doesn't even compare.
If anyone other than Fincher had made that movie I don't think it would have worked.


"We're consumers. We're by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty -- these things don't concern me. What concerns me is celebrity magazines, televeision with five hundred channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra."
 
Yeah, I suppose it must happen occasionally that the movie ends up better than the book. Thanks for that info Harrison - doesnt get much plainer than when the Author says the movie is better!
 
Excellent movie, at first I was in state of shock, second time I watched it again in state of shock but at once everything was perfectly revealed and clear (must be watched on empty stomach, I asked my self could 3d STS movie show the truth without being bloody and full of violence, obviously not since living in 3d sts world).
 
jubazo said:
Excellent movie, at first I was in state of shock, second time I watched it again in state of shock but at once everything was perfectly revealed and clear (must be watched on empty stomach, I asked my self could 3d STS movie show the truth without being bloody and full of violence, obviously not since living in 3d sts world).
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The fighting is an integral part of the story, in that the protagonist is using various means and methods to find happiness and escape his depression/insomnia. The creation of the fight club is just one of these instances. It's the feeling of pain that awakens him finally, and begins the process of personality disintegration. Also, remember that this was a book first, and that while many liberties were taken in re-creating it for cinema, it would not have been wise to ditch the violence since it was integral to the story. My point is, the violence was there before it was made into a movie. So, you can't blame the industry for it. It's Palahniuk's fault. ;)
 
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