I just saw Fight Club for the first time....

Marbles · « **on:** 5 Nov 2004, 09:50 pm »

What a sick, disturbed, mentally darranged (schizophrenia) movie ....... happy ending though

yeah, yeah, I'm OK

(just about blew my head off though

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JoshK · « **Reply #1 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 09:56 pm »

I love the movie, one of the few DVDs I own. I think it is quite intelligent actually but you probably have to watch it a couple time to gather it all in. Plus there are some weird sublimenal images on the DVD.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #2 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 09:59 pm »

I like the first half. IMO is goes off the rails badly. I've seen it a couple times, but it didn't do much for me. Although I hadn't realized how good an actor Norton was til that film.

gongos · « **Reply #3 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 10:26 pm »

Pointless, dopey, intellectually bankrupt, and hypocritical with a cheap shot, "I was only dreaming," trick ending. The original Dawn of the Dead, a horror movie for cripes sakes, has much more to say about the same subjects. Did I like it? Not really. I know most of my friends get all hot and sweaty about it. Must be all those cool punch sound effects.

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #4 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 10:28 pm »

I wasn't originally going to mention it, but in the Cheap Thrills Dept, the mid air crash is pretty spectacular sounding. Quite the workout for your subs.

Marbles · « **Reply #5 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 10:33 pm »

Quote from: gongos

Pointless, dopey, intellectually bankrupt, and hypocritical with a cheap shot, "I was only dreaming," trick ending.

He was schizophrentic and the only way to get rid of his alter ego was to kill it. He did this by shooting himself in the head

Schizophrenia is much different then dreaming or dream sequences IMO.

Yeah, yeah I'm OK

Josh, WRT the weird subliminals, I saw a few flashes throughout the movie, and I thought I had a bad quality DVD until we learned Tyler worked at a movie house. I never paused the DVD or moved it one frame at a time to see these subliminals, but they did give us a lot of clues in the movie itself as to what they could be

Rob Babcock · « **Reply #6 on:** 5 Nov 2004, 10:59 pm »

It also needed some better nudity from Helena Bonham Carter.

gongos · « **Reply #7 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 04:53 am »

Quote from: Marbles

He was schizophrentic and the only way to get rid of his alter ego was to kill it. He did this by shooting himself in the head Schizophrenia is much different then dreaming or dream sequences IMO.

The effect is the same as a dream sequence in nullifying what we thought was reality before and nothing more than a gimmick to make the movie seem smarter than it is.

bubba966 · « **Reply #8 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 04:56 am »

So, what took 'ya so long?

Fight Club is one of the best LD's ever pressed. Awesome disc. I don't think I have the DVD anymore. The DVD paled so in comparison to the LD that it wasn't worth keeping the DVD.

And I'll agree with Josh that it requires a few viewings to fully appreciate what's going on. I forget how many times Tyler makes an appearance in the film for just a frame or two. But I want to say it's 4 or 5 times.

lonewolfny42 · « **Reply #9 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 05:03 am »

For the first time ???

It's been here all the time....

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Carlman · « **Reply #10 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 03:23 pm »

Quote from: gongos

Pointless, dopey, intellectually bankrupt, and hypocritical with a cheap shot, "I was only dreaming," trick ending. The original Dawn of the Dead, a horror movie for cripes sakes, has much more to say about the same subjects. Did I like it? Not really. I know most of my friends get all hot and sweaty about it. Must be all those cool punch sound effects.

But it wasn't all a dream. He had to make up a person in his mind to make what he was doing OK. I'm sure 'Dawn of the Dead' is great for a horror movie but I haven't seen a horror film done as well as Fight Club.

Marbles · « **Reply #11 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 04:25 pm »

Gongos, no wonder you didn't like it.

You thought it was a dream. You missed out on the movie........

The whole movie was about mental illness, from his depression in the beginning, to his schizophrenia/split personality in the middle, to his Mayhem/ hurt himself catharsis, to finally killing off his other personality in the end.

At the very end we find that he healed himself by killing his other personality (and nearly killing himself).

And he got the babe too.

The only thing that wasn't real was the Brad Pitt charecter. All the other things were real, and Brad Pitt was quite real to Ed.

jakepunk · « **Reply #12 on:** 6 Nov 2004, 06:04 pm »

I saw it for the first time recently as well. The first act is the best part with its satire of moden airline travel and materialism. Anyone who has done lots of traveling can relate to the "Single Serving" lifestyle. The most priceless moment of the movie is when the airline baggage employee explains the subtlety between using the "indefinite article" versus the "possessive" when describing vibrating luggage!

And towards the end when the Project Mayhem airport worker replaces the airplane safety card with a modified version, it's worth the price of admission!