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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0024543007609 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: October 31, 2000 Running Time: 139 minutes Sales Rank: 2419 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1999
Amazon.com essential video: All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown
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Rating: - Fight Club Steelbook Edition
The movie edition is the special edition with all the special features - just enclosed in a thin metal casing. I was impressed that the metal casing is the exact same dimensions as a typical plastic dvd casing. It just seems more substantial and fitting for a movie of this calibre. I will definitely buy the Steelbook edition of Man on Fire, and I wish more movies were available in this casing. The movie itself is great, and the special features are very deep with several commentaries and loads of behind the scenes extras. I recommend this version for anyone who likes Fight Club considering ... Read More
Rating: - The most intelligent movie ever made! Seriously.
I RARELY watch the same movie twice... so of course I wouldn't go to the same movie twice in the theatre. I did for Fight Club. 2 times in the theatre, every time it's on TV and finally I bought the Collector's Edition DVD, which I've watched twice so far.
The movie is an intelligent view of what we have become as consumers. The fighting is a symbol for the anger that we have to deal with and keep inside every day. If someone told you that this movie sucks because it's about a bunch of people who are angry so they decided to create an underground fight club, ignore him/her.
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Rating: - Don't sign me up for the fan club
An anonymous worker in an automobile company (Edward Norton), thoroughly stricken by ennui over his faceless consumer identity, rebels against society when he falls under the influence of the charismatic and subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Soon, the two are forming "fight clubs," where men beat each other senseless, and spearheading an anarchistic guerilla group.
This film has a great first act and shows signs of becoming a first-rate indictment of our commercial culture (never mind the irony that it comes in the form of a big Hollywood movie). Unfortunately, it derails about the ... Read More
Rating: - Disgusting
Brad Pitt is disgusting. His wife is disgusting. This movie is disgusting.
And if you like this movie, you're disgusting.
Rating: - One of my favorites
Fight Club was one those films which fall into the category of "loved it or hated it "
I stand with the former loved it
The premise of the film is to fight back
Psychological and physical violence both leave scars
Both will heal over time, but the mental scars go deeper
Fight Club gives people the chance to come face to face with the antagonist, be it a stranger or someone you have known all of your life
Stranger's sometimes have more control over your life than you do
Fight Club has a nice plot twist and is always throwing in new little subplots' to keep you ... Read More
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