Fight Club (DVD)

The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack works in an office. Jack earns a decent salary. Jack has carefully selected every single item of furniture in his apartment, especially those displaying a Yin-Yang. Jack enjoys lying on his couch and watching mindless gameshow bullsh*t. Why? Because Jack is an insomniac. He is neither awake nor asleep at anytime ...
...The second rule of Fight Club is, You DO NOT talk about Fight Club. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack meets Tyler Durden, soap specialist. Tyler ‘frees’ Jack from his apartment, his job, his ‘hobby’ and of course his designer furniture. Tyler Durden says… ‘you are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not ...

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...in Twelve Monkeys and after Fight Club the memorable gypsy bare knuckle fighter in Snatch and here he was to prove that he was leaving his cute days far behind him and was ready to don the mantle of serious thespian. Ed Norton is also a major draw for the film as he is regarded as one of the most versatile and consummate actors working today. Jack (Norton) is a depressed urban loner, he hates his job, he hates his life and he pretty much hates the ...
...the formation of a secretive fight club, where people come and release pent up aggression by taking part in bare knuckle brawling. But this is only the beginning of a much wider plan that Durden is hatching. Many people have criticised the film for its apparent promotion of violence. The fight scenes are brutal and believable, sitting a long way from the slick and over choreographed moves that we have become used to. As the film progresses the fighting ...

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...so I decided to give Fight Club a try. It wasn’t what I expected at all, and I feel a bit of a fool for not having watched it already. So, with a title like that, what’s it all about? I have to admit that the first 20 minutes were very boring. I nearly switched it off. Basically it starts at the end, and then we are given a commentary as to how the film ended up at that place. Jack (played by Edward Norton), is a single guy, living ...
...also ask if they can fight too. They overtake the basement of the bar, make a few simple rules, and so Fight Club is born. It’s just a place where men come to fist fight with each other, and they love it. They love getting hit, they love dishing out hits. They are even given ‘homework assignments’, which are very funny. The film is very funny in places, and it had me laughing out loud. I’m not sure whether it is supposed ...

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The first rule of fight club is that you do not talk about fight club. Should I be obeying these rules, it would make for one very short opinion. So I guess I'll just waive it for now. ----------------------------- The story ----------------------------- A hopeless insomniac starts going crazy. With the help of Tyler Durgen, begins fight club. This is an underground boxing thing. Though the storyline does not feature heavily around the fightin. ...
...They hang out together, start fight club, which leads to project mayhem. Project mayhem is a little too far for the main character - it's mindless vandalism. However, he cannot stop Tyler, however hard he tries and however much he fights with his own concience. Enter the master plan, to blow up some banks. Erasing all money, starting from 0. Tylers idea. One must question how he actually managed to pull it off, but that is never shown, just the ...

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...cult-like gatherings known simply as Fight Club. The gatherings take on a militia-style format and soon spread through the country. But as it takes on a violent and suspicious twist, the hero of the piece takes an unlikely action that ends in a revelation that changes his entire perception of himself. David Fincher brings to life an utterly violent screen play that is loaded with testesterone and a musculinity to male bonding that very few films ...
...eventual killing machines. Fight Club's delving into the modern day obsession with materialism is acutely perceptive, drawing on the King of Material dross, Ikea, as its primary reference. Anybody who has a modern flat furnished from corner to ceiling in their furnishings will related good humouredly to the early references to the faceless super-store. This is a baseless society we are seeing, where people are searching for something to explain away, ...

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Fight Club is without a shadow of a doubt the best DVD I have ever purchased in the twelve months that I have used the system. It is the yardstick that all future DVD purchases I make will have to live up to and let me tell you, it's a near impossible act to follow with a truly great film and a second disk positively bursting with extras. I'll start with the film first. This whole film is laced with wit. It starts out with the stunning opening credits ...
...bar, Tyler asks him to fight him, not for any particular reason. After the fight Norton finds some sort of catharsis in the violence. After a few weeks other men join them in this combat and they go on to form 'Fight Club', a place where men can take out their frustrations on each other. The club's popularity grows but Tyler soon turns the idea into something far more sinister and the members turn into a small fascist army loyal to him. Norton tries ...

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...whole world has to be Fight Club. There's only one thing thats better than Fight Club on video...............Fight Club on DVD. The DVD is bursting with extras, but first a note on the film itself. Fight Club is a film unlike any other. It is unique, and it like no other film manages to capture its audience. It could change your life (maybe that’s a little over the top), but it does make you think. Not in the way that Schindlers' List makes ...
...film anyway. The film was Fight Club. 'You are not how much you have in the bank' I watched the film for the first time with absolutely no inclination of what to expect. So many times a film is hyped so much that it becomes a let down. Blair Witch Project suffered badly from this, whether Fight Club may have, or not, is something I cannot answer. As I sat through the films 133 minutes for the first time my view on it changed a number of times. Interesting, ...

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"The first rule of Fight Club is : Don't talk about Fight Club". Oh. Not even a few choice words for this review? Please? Okay, thanks. Never one to shy away from testing the more extreme boundaries of modern cinema's possibilities, David Fincher's latest foray into the dark underbelly of a troubled male psyche arrived amid a media brouhaha over the film's content. To wit : grown men, stripped to the waist, beating each other to a pulp with their ...
...take place in the movie, Fight Club is so much more than merely an excuse for some brutal macho posturing. In fact, the actual fighting is but a small part of the film, and not its real rasion d'etre. This is just one misconception of Fight Club, and anyone expecting such a movie will be a little surprised. Whether they will be satisfied is another matter entirely, but the reality is that Fight Club throws one or two curveballs during its 133 minutes. ...

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...to work to live. Fight club and Tyler Durden are a description of what it takes, hitting rock bottom! It is only when we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything, meaning that to act upon your wildest daydream and give it all up, you first need to have practically nothing to give up. Fight club is about how Brad Pitts character helps Edward Nortons character to hit bottom. The guy who wrote the novel on which the film is based (Chuck ...
...place a twist (which is a million times better than sixth sense and unbreakable put together)into a plot (which is as inventive as the matrix). He also has an eye for the world around him unlike any I have come across 'when you have insomnia, everything is a copy of a copy of a copy'. This film has a never ending supply of 'aaah, so thats what that was all about', even when seeing it for the thousandth time. The film changes tempo and point of view ...

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...the establishment of Hollywood fluff. Fight Club is one of these films. It doesn't care about Box Office grosses, it doesn't care about having beautiful looking stars and it certainly doesn't care what you think. Basically an insomniac (Edward Norton) and mysterious soap salesman (Brad Pitt) instigate an underground club where men come to channel their aggression into brutal fights as a way of therapy. Soon the 'fight club' concept catches on and ...
...two men and soon the fight club spirals in far more severe acts of chaos and anarchy that has a devastating effect on some of the people involved. This is a very male orientated film, except for Bonham Carter the only main characters are all male but that's what the film is about. Male disillusion with the state of the world and how everyone isn't content until they have possessions that make them feel good and have some kind of false safety net. ...

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...to do anything” A fight between Tyler and Jack becomes a weekly event and soon more people want to become involved. They begin using the basement of ‘Lou’s Place’, there are rules now and there is a name, “Fight Club”. One day Lou arrives and is very angry with what he has found; so angry he beats Tyler up. But shouting and screaming and bleeding all over Lou Tyler wins him around and they continue to use the basement. “We are all part of the same ...
...are fantastic, especially in the fight scenes. The music used in this film was chosen wonderfully. The opening track sets the mood for the entire film and the choice snippets of sound throughout add to the emotion of the cast and the viewer. The film was produced and released in 1999; its certified 18 as it contains frequent strong language, in frequent strong nudity and frequent strong violence references. The film is in colour and runs for 133 ...

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...unoriginal: Rule One of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club! Useful, non? I was introduced to this film by a friend on USENET with the warning that to get the most out of it one must avoid any prior knowledge or spoilers whatsoever, and if encountering conversations about Fight Club the correct course of action is to place one's hands over one's ears and run away shouting to avoid hearing anything that might spoil the film. Having ...
...to have heard anything about the plot, I splashed out on the 2-disc DVD, turned out all the lights in my house and sat down to watch 133 minutes of cinematic brilliance. For the reasons outlined above that is as much as I am going to tell you about the film, but since that wouldn't make for a very good review, I'd better talk about the DVD itself. For your money you get a nicely-presented box set with 2 DVDs and an interesting booklet (interspersed ...

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...you want to go. Fight Club for me is a true modern classic, just like the way that "Rebel without a cause" spoke to the youth of the 50's, Fight Club speaks to all of us Gen Xers looking for a reason. We all know "Jack" we have all been "Jack" and found ourselves scanning the shelves of Ikea - zombiefied, or eating a sushi for one from Marks and Sparks. I'm sure that we have all taken a little time to re-asses our lives, how we got to where we are ...
...want to go, Fight Club just takes these issues and puts them on the screen for you - BANG!! The nature of Fight Club means that it won't appeal to everyone, not everyone will "get" it, not everyone will agree with it, and some people will downright hate it, but for any of us that it connects with, it connects big style. The story concerns a nameless lead (Ed Norton) and his descent into a self-loathing hell, he can't sleep, he hates his job, he ...

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...in more ways than one. Fight Club is fantastic, from beginning to end, the scenery, both subliminal and actual, is amazing, with a script that bites at your throat and doesn't let go until the very last minute, in an explosive finale that will leave you truly breathless. The acting, including Helena Bonham Carter, Meatloaf and Jared Leto, is truly outstanding. The 2 disc set is packed with extras, including commentary from the director and the ...

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When I first heard of Fight Club, I wasn't particularly desperate to see it. 'Another run-of-the-mill action film', I thought. I was wrong. Watching it for the first time, I gradually started to realise that this was no ordinary film. Edward Norton stars as Jack, an insomniac who's life is becoming increasingly repetitive and boring. But everything changes when he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman who lives for the moment. Somehow ...
...pair form an underground fight club which becomes surprisingly successful. However, all is not quite what it seems... Pitt delivers arguably his best performance yet, while Norton's performance is also excellent. Helena Bonham Carter shines as Marla, Jack's suicidal friend, and even Meatloaf does well as Bob. Perhaps the most original aspect of this film is its twist, altering the entire plot in a completely unpredictable way. I was one of the ...

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