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1999 - Action/Adventure - David Fincher - English - 18 years and over - Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Edward Norton, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette more

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FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from...
more...group to group, he encounters another pretender, or "tourist," the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy.
Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity.





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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by steerpyke

Advantages: Ed Norton in a thoughtful film
Disadvantages: a bit brutal in places

...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 ... Read review

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30.07.2006
Fight Club, follow the rules....
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by rushed

Advantages: Excellent
Disadvantages: none

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 ... Read review

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12.02.2001
It Knocked 10 Colours of Laughter Out of Me
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by carolinesite

Advantages: Funny, not a boxing film as I had expected, good story, great twist
Disadvantages: Boring first 20 minutes

...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 ... Read review

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11.04.2001
The first rule....
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by C_W_Monkey

Advantages: original, amazingly well done film
Disadvantages: none

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. ... Read review

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10.03.2004
Fight to the death
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by bilbob20

Advantages: Great performances and stirring action sequences
Disadvantages: A lengthy running time

...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 ... Read review

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14.09.2007
I am Jacks smirking revenge
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by robbroome

Advantages: Great acting, script and direction. A mountain of extras.
Disadvantages: Twenty five notes is a little bit steep.

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 ... Read review

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20.08.2001
(03.10.2001)
Fight Me
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by real_rob_writer

Advantages: Great Film
Disadvantages: None

...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 ... Read review

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09.05.2001
I Am Jacks Exhausted DVD Player
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by EnglishPatient

Advantages: Superlative film, given the full DVD treatment. Extraordinary.
Disadvantages: The film's not to everyone's taste, and the depth of features might not interest casual viewers.

"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 ... Read review

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21.01.2001
(22.01.2001)
The first rule is, you must talk about Fight Club
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by pinkpanther

Advantages: It can be watched repeatedly
Disadvantages: I don't have the time to watch it repeatedly

Hmmm. Where to start? Ah Yes. The best film ever made, without a shadow of a doubt. Have you watched it? Good. Now go and watch it again. I guarantee you didn't see it fully the first time. I must have watched it over a thousand times and still there are angles to the plot which reveal themselves. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who is reading my opinion and hasn't seen the film, so I'll try to be as plain as possible in my descriptions. This ... Read review

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06.08.2001
don't fight it-buy it
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by utero

Advantages: great film, amazing extras, attention to detail
Disadvantages: R2 is cut and lacks some of the R1 extras

...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 ... Read review

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12.05.2001
Losing all hope is freedom
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by Bitter-Sweet

Advantages: Fantastically intelligent plot, very believable characters
Disadvantages: A film you need to watch twice

...you’re free 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 ... Read review

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12.03.2005
Rule One
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by charlie_pearce

Advantages: Film and DVD both excellent
Disadvantages: You will only get truly blown away by it once! ;-)

...be completely 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 ... Read review

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02.01.2001
I want you to hit me as hard as you can
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by MARKMAN

Advantages: Truly excellent on all levels
Disadvantages: I can't think of any

...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 and how we are going to get to where we want to go, Fight Club just takes these issues and puts them on the screen ... Read review

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06.02.2001
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Pugilistic Perfection
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by Chatshow

Advantages: Outstanding film, performances and cinematography
Disadvantages: A bit violent for some people

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are amazing in this adaptation of the book by Chuck Palahouk. Norton plays the disillusioned office worker who is just discovering the outside world thanks to his new best friend, played with malicious delight by Pitt. Pitt, as Tyler Durden, is everything that Norton's character, Jack, is not - outgoing, charismatic, powerful and, more than all of that, amazingly violent. It is from this that the "Fight Club", a club in ... Read review

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21.12.2000
If you haven't already, join the club
Review of Fight Club (DVD) by krabople

Advantages: Free bonus disc, original plot, excellent performances
Disadvantages: Perhaps slightly slow moving.

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 ... Read review

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