Sundays film debate - Fight Club
Discussion
The first DVD I ever bought many years ago and have just re-watched for the first time in maybe 4 years.
What a film, forgot how much I enjoy it.
For some reason it seems to have just picked-up on the consumer culture of the late 90's, a film that speaks to every man trudging the 9-5 life.
I used to enjoy it for the fights and wit, but now it kind of makes me feel lucky that I spend my days playing with track cars and BBQ'ing while I look for a new career rather than going to a job I hate everyday.
Anyway as per the Matrix it's a decade old now and also in my Top Ten films ever.
Thankfully unlike the Matrix it didn't spawn to godawful sequals.
We can either debate here or beat the crap into each other in the basement of a bar.
and jeez, I'm not gay but I can see why the ladeees love Brad Pitt
What a film, forgot how much I enjoy it.
For some reason it seems to have just picked-up on the consumer culture of the late 90's, a film that speaks to every man trudging the 9-5 life.
I used to enjoy it for the fights and wit, but now it kind of makes me feel lucky that I spend my days playing with track cars and BBQ'ing while I look for a new career rather than going to a job I hate everyday.
Anyway as per the Matrix it's a decade old now and also in my Top Ten films ever.
Thankfully unlike the Matrix it didn't spawn to godawful sequals.
We can either debate here or beat the crap into each other in the basement of a bar.
and jeez, I'm not gay but I can see why the ladeees love Brad Pitt
Edited by T89 Callan on Sunday 9th August 03:52
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
I had a bizarre conversation with someone about Fight CLub recently and when I tried to explain that the two main leads were one in the same, they looked at me as if I were mad! (apart from the obvious of course)
Now is it just me or is it not obvious that they are one? The moment when it started dawning on Ed Norton near the end was obvious wasn't it? Or is it just me?
Anyway, we agreed to disagree and I suggested he watch the film again - and especially the ending....
Or am I going mad?
I had a bizarre conversation with someone about Fight CLub recently and when I tried to explain that the two main leads were one in the same, they looked at me as if I were mad! (apart from the obvious of course)
Now is it just me or is it not obvious that they are one? The moment when it started dawning on Ed Norton near the end was obvious wasn't it? Or is it just me?
Anyway, we agreed to disagree and I suggested he watch the film again - and especially the ending....
Or am I going mad?
Slaav said:
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
I had a bizarre conversation with someone about Fight CLub recently and when I tried to explain that the two main leads were one in the same, they looked at me as if I were mad! (apart from the obvious of course)
Now is it just me or is it not obvious that they are one? The moment when it started dawning on Ed Norton near the end was obvious wasn't it? Or is it just me?
Anyway, we agreed to disagree and I suggested he watch the film again - and especially the ending....
Or am I going mad?
You are not going mad. You were clearly talking to a complete idiot.I had a bizarre conversation with someone about Fight CLub recently and when I tried to explain that the two main leads were one in the same, they looked at me as if I were mad! (apart from the obvious of course)
Now is it just me or is it not obvious that they are one? The moment when it started dawning on Ed Norton near the end was obvious wasn't it? Or is it just me?
Anyway, we agreed to disagree and I suggested he watch the film again - and especially the ending....
Or am I going mad?
It's a great film with very few flaws IMO. I'm not sure how people fail to 'get it' as Tyler explains to the Narrator exactly what's going on.
Possibly my favourite part:
Narrator:
You're making a big mistake, fellas.
Police Officer 1:
You said you'd say that.
Narrator:
I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer 2:
You told us you'd say that, too.
Narrator:
All right, I am Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order: we're aborting this mission right now.
Police Officer 1:
You said you would definitely say that.
The Narrator has no friends, his work life is void of anything meaningful and all he's done is ticked off the boxes of 'aspirational' things that others feel they should advise people like the Narrator to do.
There aren't many people who can't relate to this IMO. I can't see it dating due to lack of tacky CGI.
Possibly my favourite part:
Narrator:
You're making a big mistake, fellas.
Police Officer 1:
You said you'd say that.
Narrator:
I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer 2:
You told us you'd say that, too.
Narrator:
All right, I am Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order: we're aborting this mission right now.
Police Officer 1:
You said you would definitely say that.
The Narrator has no friends, his work life is void of anything meaningful and all he's done is ticked off the boxes of 'aspirational' things that others feel they should advise people like the Narrator to do.
There aren't many people who can't relate to this IMO. I can't see it dating due to lack of tacky CGI.
OllieWinchester said:
I love the way there are little frames spliced into the film, just like Tyler does in the cinema with the porn....
Is this one of those things where you say that, and everybody goes off to have a look, and 90 minutes later sit there feeling retarded because they didnt see them, watch it again in slow motion and then realise you're taking the piss?pokethepope said:
OllieWinchester said:
I love the way there are little frames spliced into the film, just like Tyler does in the cinema with the porn....
Is this one of those things where you say that, and everybody goes off to have a look, and 90 minutes later sit there feeling retarded because they didnt see them, watch it again in slow motion and then realise you're taking the piss?Also anyone who does not realise that they're the same person is a complete idiot.
T89 Callan said:
pokethepope said:
OllieWinchester said:
I love the way there are little frames spliced into the film, just like Tyler does in the cinema with the porn....
Is this one of those things where you say that, and everybody goes off to have a look, and 90 minutes later sit there feeling retarded because they didnt see them, watch it again in slow motion and then realise you're taking the piss?RDE said:
I might be being a dolt, but I don't understand the significance of "Tyler, listen to me very carefully. My eyes are open." at the end.
Can anyone explain to the hard of thinking?
I took it as related to the statement at the beginning of the film when Norton says something like "when you're an insomniac you're never really awake and never really asleep" hence the Tyler Durden delusion.Can anyone explain to the hard of thinking?
Thus at that point at the end he is actually awake and aware of the Tyler Durden delusion and his eyes are open.
That was my interpretation anyway.
h tits'Favourite line?
Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous. And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
Well, I gotta tell you: I'd be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that... is dangerous. And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you've known for years. Someone very, very close to you.
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