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Fight Club (1999)
Rate:
7
Viewed:
12/02, 1/24
1/24:
People, mostly the idiot fanboys, have been reading too much into Fight Club.
I remember seeing the movie over twenty years ago and thinking of nothing much. Checking out others'
opinions after my second viewing, I can only say, "Really?" Um, okay. Simply put, Fight Club is a catchy
movie with a catchy script and catchy performances by the two leads: Ed Norton and Brad Pitt. That's it.
I can see there's some philosophy going on which isn't far from what started the Reign of Terror during the French
Revolution. But this is the difference: the people en masse got tired of the monarch's wasteful spending. There were
other reasons including the estates system, 100% burden of taxes on the commoners, and the costly wars.
In Fight Club, it's merely dozens of people involved which isn't good enough. The issues are neither huge nor
widespread. Hence, the movie made no impact on the public back then and still doesn't. Then, there's the nonsensical script
that grows worse over time. When the moment comes to reveal the narrator and Tyler Durden are one and the same,
the show is essentially over. The rest of the way is rubbish.
Oh, yeah...the fights? That's great. Now, please see yourself as a willing participant. When somebody is beating the
shit out of your face, I want you to imagine how much it hurts. When your face is severely maligned and you've lost a
bunch of teeth, don't you wish you never did it for fun because you hate looking at yourself in the mirror the rest of
your life? By the way, good luck with the medical bills, and remember...Brad Pitt is still eternally handsome because
it's only a movie.
All in all, if Brad Pitt hadn't been cast, Fight Club would've never gone anywhere.