Fight Club

TwoShedsJackson

Now this, omg!!!! wasnt quite sure what to expect, but i wasn't expecting a brilliant satire on rampant consumerism, with plenty of good kickings thrown in

My vote for best credit sequence/opening shot ever too, this is simply an amazing film, y'all go to it now y'hear??

SantaHoe

Yes master...
Saw the trailer for it; Kick @55!

the celtic tiger

best film of the year so far........(including star wars, go and american pie!!!!"!)
tct

Trojan

Ok, ok.

This kicks ass.

If you haven't seen this film go see it. Tonight!

This film kicks ass.

Al.

PS. You are still all muppets.

PPS. This film kicks ass.

TwoShedsJackson

Nice to hear the Pixies in full on stereo at the end

the celtic tiger

the pixies, the pixies are coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,oh cruel world, why do you ache me so.......................................the pixies will restore balance to the land of the hurtling moon,,,,oh why, why do you dismay!!!!!!
tct

Hecate

i'll never look at soap the same way again

Stephen

I loved it - weird, but damn good
Check out http://www.fightclub.co.uk - nice site

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Excelsior

sure thing Mr Mullen.
Where do I start?
I expected much from this movie. Dave Fincher is top class, and the genius I meet every day TCT told me it rocked. So myself and El Presidente went to see it on Tuesday.
I must state that Fincher will be around for a long time. This movie really hums along nicely at the beginning. The intro is sh.it cool on a very high level. The inserted frames are excellent- initially I thought it was the crappy ster century projection. (Their sound by the way sucked ass as usual)
But, and this is a big but, all the elements didnt come together. As with so many movies recently it strolls along effortlessly and then leaves us with an anti-climax and a residue of non goodness. This movie needed to depict savagery, but it didn't need to show graphic violence, especially so profusely. There is an imp ortant distinction. That kind of unneccesary gore is not just adolescent, it's an example of bad movie making. It shows a lack of confidence, it removes focus from the task at hand- its just irrelevant.
The twist, Bradd Pitt is Ed Norton is clever, and should of worked, but maybe it came as too much of a surprise. However, it just didnt gel. I have found no one to endorse the viability of the split personality. It's core to the movie, but people can't quite believe it. They feel as if it was tacked on at the end.
The visuals are stunniung, as is the soundtrack (MORE PIXIES EVERYWHERE) but I thought the end special effects could have been better.
Great acting, good movie taht promised an incredible amount and delivered enough to keep me very happy.
8 out of ten.
Okay ANdy?
I gotta go to a business lecture. Dr TOm Dowling makes me feel warm downstairs!
KEvin

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WhiteWashMan

try going to a movie without expectations.
go and see a movie for pleasures worth and you will never be disappointed

even circle of friends or batman 4 is entertaining if you go in that frame of mind

doesnt make for very good critic mind you, but you get your 5 bucks worth!

Excelsior

Go to enough movies like that, say twice a week, every week, and you naturally compare. Go see Seven and the Game and enjoy them, obviously youre gonna rate Fincher's next movie.
If you dont like ppl posting opinions you're gonna continue to have dificulties WWMan.

WhiteWashMan

ahh you misunderstand.
tis not an opinion thing
i just find you will enjoy films more if you go without listening to the stuff that surrounds them

whats the point of going to a film if you think youre not going to like it?
of course you have expectations, but i know for example some plp went to the blair witch determined to prove it wasnt the best horro that had come out in years.
whats the point of that?
why bother going if you are determined not to enjoy it?
waste of a fiver imo.
go to enjoy, doesnt mean you wont come out saying what a load of crap.
go unbiased and make your opinion afterwards.

wasnt aware that fincher did game.

was a bit of a boring film. seven was much better. bit too rainy for most of it, but hey...

TwoShedsJackson

Batman 4, oh come on Eamo, no matter how drunk you are or what frame of mind you go in that film is the biggest pile of steaming horse $hite in history.

Trojan

Ah cmon, anything is class when you're drunk, anyone seen Tarzan?

Draco

I expected sh1te from batman 4, got it and enjoyed it. The same thing with Vampires. If you go with low expectations, they'll more than like be reached. High expectations tend to shatter like cheap glass dropped from a great height.

Draco.

El_Presidente

Exelcior, anything to add???

mewso

Fincher is an odd one if you ask me. Alien3 and Seven were excellent but The Game was so silly. Twas o.k. but these so-called "clever" films coming out of america are never quite as clever as anything you've ever seen in Europe. The Game just got too "clever" for it's own good.

M

El_Presidente

WWman

Sorry, bit the Blair Witch Project was utter, utter ****e.

I went with an open mind and was sorely dissapointed.

Oh My God!!! Piles of Rocks!!! Twigs!!!!

LoLth

Godzilla was a complete rip off of tons of other monster flicks (godzilla ones aside) right down to the rip of of King Kong at the end. But, when I went to see it I was determined to ignore the similarities and watch the film.

I loved it! go figure.

Excelsior

I think that I expected much from the movie because fincher has admittedly alot of style. Along with that, the celtic tiger, a man's whose opinion is worth alot in my book said it was a1. and it was, a really good movie. its just andy asked to share my dissection, so i did.
Bond tomorrow. whoo-hoo.
speaking of eu m,ovies being better. anyone seen the german movie funny games yet>
thats scary the way i hoped b**** w**** would be.
rent it this week

Victor

Eh, bump.

I think about this occasionally. I had long noticed that there is 'paper' theme in the story - Paper Street, Paperman Hotel, etc.

Tyler wants back to paper wants to point out the changes since the loss of paper, none of this electronic records stuff, which can be blown up with a few tonnes of soap.

How would Tyler see 2017?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iC0YXspJRM

longshanks

An 18 year bump. Good stuff.

Frank Bullitt

I saw this and thought "They better not be remaking this".

Sad Professor

I kinda connected the various paper reference to the photocopier scene and Norton complaining about everything being "copy of a copy of copy", etc. But it's an interesting reading and fits with Tyler's dislike of consumer products. In retrospect, the way Tyler connected this back to the processes of financialisation and financial institutions was ahead of its time.

I think it would be impossible to remake Fight Club at the moment. It's too tied to that era, especially the toxic lad/frat boy culture that typified late Gen Xers and early Millennials. The next generation probably won't understand the movie at all.