Fight Club: WTF?

[TitanDiddly]

 

[tami]

yes, it is a weird movie.

 

[dighn]

what?

 

[jdiddy]

Don't tell me your just barely saw it?

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: jdiddy
Don't tell me your just barely saw it?

Just now.

 

[gshock888]

Originally posted by: dighn
what?

YEAH! OKAY!

 

[Chubbychubchub]

i saw it when i was about 17, the age when you take "Fight Club" seriously and write school essays about the nihilistic philosophy presented in the film. now i just find it entertaining.

 

[CRXican]

excellent movie

watch it a couple more times

it's very philosophical

 

[Mo0o]

Good movie.

 

[RU482]

I would love to have seen it in the theater...especially the first time
oh well

 

[gsaldivar]

Originally posted by: Chubbychubchub
i saw it when i was about 17, the age when you take "Fight Club" seriously and write school essays about the nihilistic philosophy presented in the film. now i just find it entertaining.

:thumbsup:

 

[Chubbychubchub]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar

Originally posted by: Chubbychubchub
i saw it when i was about 17, the age when you take "Fight Club" seriously and write school essays about the nihilistic philosophy presented in the film. now i just find it entertaining.

:thumbsup:

my friends and other people i knew from school went thru the same phase, hehe. about 1/3 of school essays related "fight club" in some way

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Chubbychubchub
i saw it when i was about 17, the age when you take "Fight Club" seriously and write school essays about the nihilistic philosophy presented in the film. now i just find it entertaining.

Originally posted by: CRXican
excellent movie

watch it a couple more times

it's very philosophical

 

[ThePresence]

I want you to hit me as hard as you can.

 

[edro]

"If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you'll be dead."

 

[Sphexi]

Maybe he's talking about the crappy game that JUST came out based on the movie?

 

[Kadarin]

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake..

 

[SaturnX]

The book is absolutely great as well, the author, Chuck Palahniuk, is a very dark writer, most if not all his books, have the same dark comedy in them, absolutely great!

--Mark

 

[DeMeo]

hey! stop talking about this!

Remember rulle #1... Shhhhh....

 

[necine]

The book's better.

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: necine
The book's better.

your moms better

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: necine
The book's better.

It's great, but my least favorite by him. He's an amazing writer.


edit: Well Diary was pretty lame now that I think about it.

 

[Scarpozzi]

You're not your fvcking khakis!

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: SaturnX
The book is absolutely great as well, the author, Chuck Palahniuk, is a very dark writer, most if not all his books, have the same dark comedy in them, absolutely great!

--Mark

Meh. I read three of his books, Lullaby, Fight Club, and one more, I can't think of it at the moment - but they are absolutely dreadful - there's no variance in the characters! Utter drivel - if he's the one leading the new age of writers, I'd politely say "no" and would happily curl up in bed with my Gogol and Hegel.

This is one of the few times where the movie's better than the book.

As far as the movie's concerned, it's not the nihilism that you're supposed to absorb at the end of the movie - it's just a "coming-of-age" story, with a inner-conflict spin on it. If the goal of the damn movie was nihilism, then Tyler Durden would end up winning. At the end the protagonist realizes his hubris and defeats the mighty antagonist - how is that nihilistic?

The only the that nihilism lead to in the movie was perpetual self-destruction.

Probably reading a bit more into it than most of you guys, but it is one of my favorite movies . . . I wouldn't say that it's "Philosophical" per se, but a fun movie nontheless.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: SaturnX
The book is absolutely great as well, the author, Chuck Palahniuk, is a very dark writer, most if not all his books, have the same dark comedy in them, absolutely great!

--Mark

Meh. I read three of his books, Lullaby, Fight Club, and one more, I can't think of it at the moment - but they are absolutely dreadful - there's no variance in the characters! Utter drivel - if he's the one leading the new age of writers, I'd politely say "no" and would happily curl up in bed with my Gogol and Hegel.

This is one of the few times where the movie's better than the book.

As far as the movie's concerned, it's not the nihilism that you're supposed to absorb at the end of the movie - it's just a "coming-of-age" story, with a inner-conflict spin on it. If the goal of the damn movie was nihilism, then Tyler Durden would end up winning. At the end the protagonist realizes his hubris and defeats the mighty antagonist - how is that nihilistic?

The only the that nihilism lead to in the movie was perpetual self-destruction.

Probably reading a bit more into it than most of you guys, but it is one of my favorite movies . . . I wouldn't say that it's "Philosophical" per se, but a fun movie nontheless.

Read Survivor and Invisible Monsters. Those are the superior choices. The ones you listed are sub-par compared to them.

Especially read Invisible Monsters.