Fight Club vs MEMENTO

[OverMyHead]

Which is a better overall film, and had better execution?

 

[Secret_Riddle]

Probably fight club but its hard to compare these 2. Memento is excellent.

 

[Fanticon]

Why are these two being compared? How bout neither and The Machinist sucked majorly.

 

[blind_fury]

Fight Club is a classic.

Memento is worth watching once.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Memento.

Hands down

and not taking anything away from fight club, but seriously Memento is literally one of the 10-20 best films ever made

 

[FaT_tONle]

Fight Club... better twist than the sixth sense

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Fight Club
It's so lovely twisted. With great performances and cinematography to boot.

 

[Rez]

That's not saying much, fat.

 

[BatMatt]

Memento, I'm afraid I don't see what lots of others do in Fight Club, although I did enjoy it and am glad to own it

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I can't compare the two. They are better for different reasons.

 

[Mr. Credible]

considering that the 2 films are really nothing alike, i don't see a reason to compare them, but fight club is hands down my favorite movie, so yeah...

and the machinist wasn't very good. the only thing memorable about it was bale's weightloss.

 

[blind_fury]

Tyler Durden: [whispering] "Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception."

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Tyler Durden: "Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!"

**********

Tyler Durden: "**** damnation, man! **** redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!"
Narrator: "OK. Give me some water!"
Tyler Durden: "Listen, you can run water over your hand and make it worse or..."
[shouts]
Tyler Durden: "look at me... or you can use vinegar and neutralize the burn."
Narrator: "Please let me have it... *Please*!"
Tyler Durden: "First you have to give up, first you have to *know*... not fear... *know*... that someday you're gonna die "

************

[after vigorous sex with Tyler Durden]
Marla Singer: "My God. I haven't been ****ed like that since grade school."

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Tyler Durden: "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 **** 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."

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Tyler Durden: "The things you own end up owning you."



I can't believe Memento is winning.

 

[blind_fury]

Tyler Durden: If you could fight anyone, who would you fight?
Narrator: I'd fight my boss, prob'ly.
Tyler Durden: Really.
Narrator: Yeah, why, who would you fight?
Tyler Durden: I'd fight my dad.
Narrator: I don't know my dad. I mean, I know him, but... he left when I was like six years old. Married this other woman, had some other kids. He like did this every six years, he goes to a new city and starts a new family.
Tyler Durden: ****er's setting up franchises.

 

[Cinemaman]

Both movies are in my TOP5 (FC - #1, Memento #5)

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Tyler Durden: "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 **** 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."

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Tyler Durden: "The things you own end up owning you."

One of the best speeches in film IMO. So depressingly true.

That and that alone is the reasong I'm voting this above the excellent Memento.

 

[Killgore]

Fight Club is a movie that sums up a generation, like Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, American Graffiti and The Big Chill. Memento is a great, no, exceptional piece of cinema, but Fight Club transcends being a movie.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Fight Club is a movie that sums up a generation, like Rebel Without a Cause, Easy Rider, American Graffiti and The Big Chill. Memento is a great, no, exceptional piece of cinema, but Fight Club transcends being a movie.

What?

Yeah split personalities, and terrorisim sure summed up my years growing up

 

[Hades]

considering that the 2 films are really nothing alike, i don't see a reason to compare them, but fight club is hands down my favorite movie, so yeah...

and the machinist wasn't very good. the only thing memorable about it was bale's weightloss.

I liked it....I thought the imagery was great.

 

[jaydawg]

Momento. Fight Club was awesome, but Momento was infinitely more interesting.

 

[Killgore]

What?

Yeah split personalities, and terrorisim sure summed up my years growing up

It's only ostensibly about those things. Just like easy rider isn't really about motorcycle riding. Fight Club is about the cynical world view held by Gen-X, a generation of men raised by women, a generation following a materialistic and spiritually dead decade. It's about consumer culture, corporate culture and pop culture defining a generation. It's about men finding their way in a politically correct society that has stripped them of their purpose. The themes of Fight Club are the same themes seen in both Trainspotting and American Beauty.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

People who dismissed it as a stupid movie about guys fighting really made my head bulge and pop off back when it came out.
I've since learned just to avoid talking to people who lack the ability to see deeper than the surface.

 

[Killgore]

People who dismissed it as a stupid movie about guys fighting really made my head bulge and pop off back when it came out.
I've since learned just to avoid talking to people who lack the ability to see deeper than the surface.

The reason you're one of the five people I care to talk to here.

:heart:

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I don't understand the point of the pool, the two movies basically have nothing in common. The being said, I voted Memento, didn't really like Fight Club all that much.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

both GREAT but FC FTW