Fight Club (Widescreen Edition) | Edward Norton, Brad Pitt

Fight Club (Widescreen Edition) | Edward Norton, Brad Pitt | A Winner!

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	Fight Club (Widescreen Edition) Edward Norton, Brad Pitt 20th Century Fox, 2002 average customer review:based on 1372 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12 Monkeys", "Seven"), Edward Norton ("Primal Fear," "American History X") and Helena Bonham Carter ("Mighty Aphrodite," "A Room With A View") turn in powerful "performances of which movie legends are made" (Chicago Tribune) in this action-packed hit. A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.

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THE BEST MOVIE EVER

This is the best movie ever!!! After years of watching this movie repeatedly, I finally got the collectors addition. Worth every 1 of the 10 dollars I spent!!!

A Winner!

As a female reviewer of this film, I'm definitely in the
minority. But I really enjoyed this movie....so much so
that I bought it for my best friend from college. His
response was basically, "What were you thinking?" I
think its one of the most creative, symbolically
loaded mixture of male angst and social commentary
I've ever seen. It's funny, scary, witty, creative, dark,
and utterly thought-provoking. I can't wait for the
female version of a movie like this to come out.
Thelma and Louise ran its course. If only film
makers were as daring when it comes to portraying
all the facets of being a woman in modern Western
society. Hopefully, for someone brave and willing
enough, Fight Club will lead the way.

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Right There

I know this is old news...my daughter introduced me to this movie several years ago...I just watched it again tonight....A great satire on modern american culture....Superb on on every level...should have been awarded the Oscar for best picture of the year.....clearly one of the best of the last ten years....

Brutal... but sort of hollow

Fight Club is one of the most beloved movies of all time. As of the writing of this, it currently sits at #23 on IMDb's fan-voted greatest movies list. Its Keyser Soze ending is even more famous than than the actual Keyser Soze ending. (If that last sentence means nothing to you, consider yourself priviliged to still have such a great cinematic discovery in front of you, and go rent The Usual Suspects).

I do not contest that Fight Club is great. It's unflinching in its portrayal of inner chaos manifested as brutal violence. It weaves a tapestry of cinema that simultaneously constructs two realities. It's a movie truly deserving of second viewing just so you can observe how intricately constructed the film is, particularly in ways you might not have noticed the full way through.

And yet, I walk away from a second viewing a little underwhelmed and with a few questions.

Why did it have to be so violent? Shock value does not make for good repeated viewings. That's why There's Something About Mary is one of the best comedies of all time only the first time you see it, among others. Perhaps the violence has some thought behind it and is there for thematic purposes? I can see how an argument would be made that the physical violence is a carefully constructed metaphor to the inner violence that takes place within Edward Norton's character.

But the movie is so gruesome that it's sometimes unpleasant to watch. I've made it through some supposedly hard-to-stomach scenes like the opening of Saving Private Ryan with nary a flinch, but I had to close my eyes or leave the room for a few scenes watching Fight Club again.

And the argument that the violence is symbolic doesn't sway me much, either, for a couple of reasons. First, even if some element of a movie serves a higher thematic purpose, it shouldn't be painful to watch. The scene when Edward Norton repeatedly smashes in that one guy's face could as well be Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, and I still wouldn't think too much of it. I don't want to see bloody, fractured remnants of a face no matter what.

Next, I've decided that Fight Club does not work too well as a movie with any moral or underlying purpose. It's pure plot-driven entertainment. As a thoughtful movie, it is a poseur, continually touching on philosophical issues without delving too deep. Just as it starts to get close to being penetrative and insightful, it takes a left turn and beats in a dozen different thoughts that contribute little, until all that's left is a mere bloody pulp of a thoughtful movie.

Every time I tried to get more out of the movie than just white-knuckle action and clever plot twists, I came away disappointed. But nearly every time I allowed myself to just get absorbed into the masterful stylistic experience, I had a blast. To credit the careful construction of the movie as anything less than masterful would be an unfair insult to it. Hollow though it is, Fight Club is still a great movie.

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