Comments on: Sternly-Worded, “The First Rule of ‘Fight Club’ Blu-Ray Secret” Wantonly Ignored; People This Is What Begat Project Mayhem

By: rakeback

rakeback — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:34:09 +0000

The chemistry between Brad Pitt and Edward Norton was really strong, and the surprise ending was as shocking as The Sixth Sense. This movie is a classic!

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:26 +0000

Fight Club the movie is certainly better than the book, i'll give it that.

I've only read that and started Choke which i hated and put down after the first chapter. That guy seems overrated.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:19 +0000

I read Fight Club before it became a movie and followed the movie before it was ever released. Therefore, once it was released, I loved the film long before it became the fanboy film it is today. I only say this to validate my opinion of it when I say it IS everything it's cracked up to be. Even I can admit it falls apart near the end, but I still think it's Fincher's masterwork, though Se7en and Zodiac aren't far behind.

And to add to the Zodiac love, YES, watch it again. Even though I liked it the first time I saw it, I too wondered if it would support repeat viewings, but I came across it on Showtime the other night at like 2 in the morning and still found myself enthralled til the credits. It can be tedious with all the facts and information it throws at you, but it's done so well, i found it all too be facsinating, especially since I knew very little about the Zodiac killer before hand. It is the JFK of serial killer movies. Also, watch the making of. Some of Fincher's attention to detail is beyond amazing. Like shooting some exteriors scenes full bluscreen ala Sin City because the houses didn't match the time period. Or adding all CGI blood in post production so he can have full control of every little drop and where it goes!!!

And to answer my own question...Drew Barrymore was on the cover of the magazine Ed Norton reads his "I am Jack's medula oblingata" quotes from while Brad Pitt rides a bicycle around him inside the house. She's apparently a close friend of Ed Norton, and might also be why they used Never Been Kissed as their joke.

By: kevinjagernauth

kevinjagernauth — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:05:29 +0000

Please watch "Zodiac" again. It is Fincher's best film bar none. A fascinating look at obsession from both from sides of an ongoing crime. I think the biggest failing in the selling of the film, was that it was pushed as a standard procedural when it's really not at all. It uses the structure but for entirely different purposes.

I think Fight Club is a lot of fun and while it didn't see it's nihilism through to the end (but to be fair the only way it could would be to end the movie one hour in) I think Fincher does the best job anybody could've with the material. I don't think it's a failure, but I don't think it's a masterpiece either.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:47:31 +0000

Lastly, Sharon Waxman's "Rebels On The Backlot" IS a great read, but I've heard a lot of it is pretty fabricated.

Given that her site the Wrap is pretty tawdry and gossipy (and often incorrect)...

Well, you do that math. Still a recommended book just to hear those stories (some of which are true, i.e., Spike Jonze DOES take forever to edit his movies, David O. Russell DOES veer off script a lot on set).

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:28 +0000

Oh, but Zodiac was like science homework and put me to sleep. Really anticlimactic and went nowhere. Everyone says i need to see it again, but not sure i wanna sit through 2/40 or however long it was again.

When I think of that movie I always think of the immortal words of Chevy Chase as playing President Ford on SNL, "Uhhh, It was my understanding that there would be no math involved in this debate..."

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:13 +0000

I don't fully agree with Tristan, but I think all his points are valid.

Plus Fight Club is so overrated (and does fall apart).

By: Tristan Eldritch

Tristan Eldritch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:23:19 +0000

Well, just to be contrary, Fight Club is an truly awful film. At a thematic level, it's completely adolessant: the most facile kind of self-destructing faux-nihilism imaginable. In narrative terms, its a disaster, becoming increasingly silly, cartoonish, and finally resorting to the worst staple of nineties movies: a contrived, unconvincing twist in which the protagonist turns out to also be the antagonist/or already dead/ or from the future, ect. Zodiac is in every sense a superior film, and by far Fincher's best. Well, that my two cents on Fight Club.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:56 +0000

Well it's kinda fitting seeing as though Barrymore was in Fight Club…anyone know where?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:43:42 +0000

Great movie. It was an instant classic–and I'm glad it's living on. There's a great story about the making of the movie and Fincher's start in a book called Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman–great reading. 🙂

The book also has stories on Paul Thomas Anderson, Tarantino, David O Russell–the guys who broke in at that time.