I am Jack's Fight Club: 10 years later thread

[Nivek]

FYI- The Spike Awards are on this sunday.

 

[Eggyman]

You wake up in Misc. Films.

Great thread, Nivek. Love the film, love the book. Massive Palahniuk fan

 

[Nivek]

Don't forget to watch Spike tonight if you are interested in Fight Club getting that special award tonight..

 

[Ratcrawler]

I'm wondering given the message of the movie, how did it effect your view of 9/11? Especially seeing those financial buildings collapse, and all the Terrorist scenes, given the Chaos after 9/11? One tin foil hat i worked with told me once it's a "flagged" film to the DHS, and just owning it and talking about blowing up buildings is usually enough to keep you held for a month. So that's why he didn't own it.

I love fiction that intimidates crazy people.

I didn't watch this movie until after 9/11. Frankly, I thought they had a way better reason to blow up towers than Al Queda did.

 

[Nivek]

BTW, anyone know anyone who tried to "start" a fight club after seeing this film?

I know a couple guys, it didn't end well...

 

[The Guard]

I had a friend who was in a fight club at a Catholic school in Michigan.

 

[Maximus One]

This movie is still in my top 5 along with Fear and Loathing n Las Vegas and Natural Born Killers

 

[AlteredEgo]

BTW, anyone know anyone who tried to "start" a fight club after seeing this film?

I know a couple guys, it didn't end well...

yeah, a couple of friends of mine. it was just light boxing gloves though... but they did have a swanky, run-down looking basement, so that was a plus. i tried it a couple times, and punched one of the kids in the crowd watching. t:

 

[Nivek]

One of my friends roommate's who was one of these backyard wrestler type's. Well, after he seen Fight Club, he decided to get with his Kitchen worker buddies and tried bareknuckle "boxing" underground fights. Well, long story short, he ended up just getting dumped at a hospital one night after one of his fights, had severe near-coma-inducing concussions and a wired jaw for a month. Never said "who" did it but we all knew how it happened. He kinda flaked out after that, and moved back north a soon as he healed up, telling his family he was mugged.

 

[Booznian]

Haha starting fight clubs. I remember a couple of friends of mine and myself did that one summer last year. We didn't take off our shirts, but we took off our shoes. B-)

 

[SuperFerret]

It was a good movie, but boy, am I glad I knew the twist at the end before I watched it. It would've pissed me off if I hadn't.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Did the fight with Lou the bar owner really happen or was that just "Rupert/Narrator" imagining that?

 

[Octoberist]

it was real.

 

[Nivek]

Best passive-agressive ****-up on film.

BTW- The Spike awards had a cool little tribute, they were introduced by Mel Gibson on a Horse. Then Brad, Ed, and David Fincher accepted the award, they read a couple bad reviews of Fight Club. Only a couple minutes long, but it was okay. The awards show itself was pretty funny, no wonder they showed it so late at night.

 

[chamber-music]

I wasn't old enough to see this movie in theaters when it came out but I saw it on tv a year or so later after my friend who had seen it was raving about what a great film it is.

God, I love this movie. It's definitely my all-time favorite. It's crazy how the perception of it changed so dramatically since its release, but I guess that happens with most cult classics.

Alot of critics where hating this movie when it came out so it was cool to see Brad, Ed, and David Fincher shoving it down the haters throats at the Spike Awards.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the book, which is even better than the movie. give some credit to palahniuk. hell of a writer.

Some times I can't tell if Palahniuk is writing satire or he really dislikes the modern world.

 

[블라스]

There's already some very cool and insightful comments here, so I'll just say that it doesn't matter how many times I watch this movie, I always love it. One of my most favorite movies ever.
I probably watch it once a month.

Btw, Irvin, from Lou's Tavern....man, that guy looked like Wolverine a lot more than Hugh Jackman. Check it out.

 

[Nivek]

Alot of critics where hating this movie when it came out so it was cool to see Brad, Ed, and David Fincher shoving it down the haters throats at the Spike Awards.

yeah, that was really good to see. I would hope Fox would get with it and reformat the awesome DVD from 9 years ago into an awesome Blu-ray package. But it's Fox...

 

[Maximus One]

Man I used to get drunk off my ass after this movie came out and try to start fight clubs with all my friends knowing I would get my ass kicked but nobody ever would. I felt so rejected

 

[thewhyteman]

I watched this movie almost every single day my first year of college back in 2000.
It was like another college course for me. Every single time I watched it I picked up something new. Till this day, I have yet to watch a movie that comes close to being as intricate and intelligent as FightClub. It's a destructive symphony that plays pure awesome with an overall message that becomes a philosophy. Its still my #1 favorite movie.

The Question..RAYMOND! Is what did you want to be?!?

The older I get, the more profound the importance of the message of Fight Club becomes. I see it everyday, people just going through the phases already laid out for them. Cultural lemmings consuming. All these people never finishing school to become a veterinarian.
Quite an influential movie for me.

 

[luke1234]

Great Movie, i dont think its Fincher's best but i still love it. Wished i caught it in theaters

 

[Octoberist]

I really think Fight Club and Se7en are the movies that really define Fincher's work.
Zodiac was good and maybe his most mature movie, but it also was the transitional movie into more mainstream entertainment. Like Ben Button (I liked it for what it was)

 

[Octoberist]

I really think Fight Club and Se7en are the movies that really define Fincher's work.
Zodiac was good and maybe his most mature movie, but it also was the transitional movie into more mainstream entertainment. Like Ben Button (I liked it for what it was)

 

[luke1234]

I really think Fight Club and Se7en are the movies that really define Fincher's work.
Zodiac was good and maybe his most mature movie, but it also was the transitional movie into more mainstream entertainment. Like Ben Button (I liked it for what it was)

i agree. I also liked Panic Room for what it was. It was a very detailed suspenseful thriller. Fincher is probably ranked in my top 3 modern directors. All his work is beautifully crafted. You can tell he is a perfectionist on the set, down to the very last tidbit of lighting.

 

[블라스]

Ugh, I haven't seen Zodiac

 

[luke1234]

Ugh, I haven't seen Zodiac

get on it, its great