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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2010 0:47:26 GMT -5
Guys we are breaking the first two rules of Fight Club in this thread. You're not suppose to talk about Fight Club!
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Mar 26, 2010 1:45:14 GMT -5
This was the movie that convinced me that Brad Pitt can be a great actor and not just a handsome face (Note, this was before I saw Se7en).
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Post by -Lithium- on Mar 26, 2010 2:49:47 GMT -5
Probably David Fincher's second best film, right behind Seven. The only thing I dislike about Fight Club are the idiot frat boys who just saw violence and blood and turned it into a movie for meathead idiots. It's one of the most intellectually compelling films to ever come out of it's generation of movies. Definitely agreed. I also hate when racists watch American History X and are like "OMG CURBSTOMP" and completely ignore everything else... |
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Post by Feyrhausen on Mar 26, 2010 6:49:08 GMT -5
For Xmas my wife got me a first edition hardback copy of the book, personally autographed to me by Chuck Palahniuk.
Oh, the movie, awesome. One of my favorites.
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Post by MAGGLE on Mar 26, 2010 7:54:45 GMT -5
You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world!
But seriously, easily in my Top 10 of my favorite movies
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Post by BxB on Mar 26, 2010 8:10:11 GMT -5
When people say they don't like the ending do some of you guys mean you don't like that it was the same person or you don't like the very ending where the buildings blow up and he shoots him self in the mouth? The second bit, him shooting himself in the mouth and being able to survive. I didn't see the first bit coming and I was very impressed when they started explaining it. I saw it last year, I liked it a lot but the ending was awful. |
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Post by Baixo Astral on Mar 26, 2010 8:13:55 GMT -5
Interesting because I hate it and think its terrible. I can understand that. I really think it's one of those that there's not a lotta middle ground, you either REALLY like it, or REALLY don't. It's okay  |
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Mar 26, 2010 13:00:58 GMT -5
When people say they don't like the ending do some of you guys mean you don't like that it was the same person or you don't like the very ending where the buildings blow up and he shoots him self in the mouth? The second bit, him shooting himself in the mouth and being able to survive. I didn't see the first bit coming and I was very impressed when they started explaining it. I saw it last year, I liked it a lot but the ending was awful. It's actually quite plausible to live through a gunshot wound like that. the bullet came out the back of his head next to his ear, so it completely missed his spine, or any vital area. |
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Post by The Peoples Elbow on Mar 26, 2010 13:29:49 GMT -5
This is so weird. I was just thinking about this movie about an hour ago. It popped up in my head out of the blue. I remember wishing I looked like Brad Pitt did as Tyler.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 26, 2010 15:39:41 GMT -5
I can understand that. I really think it's one of those that there's not a lotta middle ground, you either REALLY like it, or REALLY don't. It's okay Heh. jerk. |
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Post by Metalheadbanger Man on Mar 26, 2010 15:43:16 GMT -5
I think its Fincher's worst film, personally. Didn't really enjoy it at all.
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Mar 26, 2010 16:01:23 GMT -5
When people say they don't like the ending do some of you guys mean you don't like that it was the same person or you don't like the very ending where the buildings blow up and he shoots him self in the mouth? I love the twist that they are the same person. Leaving aside the unlikelihood of surviving a gunshot wound to the throat, and leaving aside the unlikelihood of a guy doing car recalls knowing how to build bombs, {Spoiler}how in the hell does shooting yourself in the throat cure multiple personalities/schizophrenia? |
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Mar 26, 2010 16:40:22 GMT -5
Mental illness is largely based on the individual's experience. That's why pshychology and psychiatry can't really be considered sciences. You can't consistently produce repeatable results. In the case of the protagonist, his alter-ego died probably because the physical act of shooting himself in the mouth was symbolic of his desire to be rid of his alter-ego. In theory, since the alter-ego was created out of a subconscious desire to be someone else, he was killing that other person and deciding to be the person he was.
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Post by nm on Mar 26, 2010 16:53:11 GMT -5
That movie was nuts. I thought it was boring because I saw it when I was like 14, I'm gonna have to watch it again someday.
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Post by -Lithium- on Mar 26, 2010 17:03:44 GMT -5
When people say they don't like the ending do some of you guys mean you don't like that it was the same person or you don't like the very ending where the buildings blow up and he shoots him self in the mouth? I love the twist that they are the same person. Leaving aside the unlikelihood of surviving a gunshot wound to the throat, and leaving aside the unlikelihood of a guy doing car recalls knowing how to build bombs, {Spoiler}how in the hell does shooting yourself in the throat cure multiple personalities/schizophrenia? He shot through his cheek, and that initiative was enough to get rid of Tyler... |
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Mar 26, 2010 17:20:21 GMT -5
Mental illness is largely based on the individual's experience. That's why pshychology and psychiatry can't really be considered sciences. You can't consistently produce repeatable results. Tell the Psychologists that then. I think it's very unbelievable that pointing a gun at oneself so as to seriously damage the throat, but blow the brains out of your multiple personality... who also talks to you, can cure you of this. Especially when you were cognizant of the fact previously that he is a creation in your mind, and that wasn't enough. What kind of psychosis, ever in recorded history, required a patient to shoot the delusion in order to be cured? You're right that it's symbolic, but only in a cinematic or literary sense. But the style of the movie seemed to be hyper realistic (as far as I remember). If you want to go with the sort of dream logic that is required, the movie should follow more like that. |
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Mar 27, 2010 0:57:17 GMT -5
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Post by Parrish on Mar 27, 2010 1:07:14 GMT -5
Amazing movie....cant stand Bonham Carter though, but thats in anything she does
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Post by Rorschach on Mar 27, 2010 2:29:10 GMT -5
Mental illness is largely based on the individual's experience. That's why pshychology and psychiatry can't really be considered sciences. You can't consistently produce repeatable results. Tell the Psychologists that then. I think it's very unbelievable that pointing a gun at oneself so as to seriously damage the throat, but blow the brains out of your multiple personality... who also talks to you, can cure you of this. Especially when you were cognizant of the fact previously that he is a creation in your mind, and that wasn't enough. What kind of psychosis, ever in recorded history, required a patient to shoot the delusion in order to be cured? You're right that it's symbolic, but only in a cinematic or literary sense. But the style of the movie seemed to be hyper realistic (as far as I remember). If you want to go with the sort of dream logic that is required, the movie should follow more like that. Actually, you'd be surprised at the effects that trauma of ANY sort can have on the psyche. You have heard of the case of the worker whose head was pierced by an iron pipe, yet who survived that accident, only to show a marked change in personality after the accident? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_GageSomething like THAT could have been what Fincher intended with that ending. |
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