Fight Club: WTF?

[Schadenfreude]

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

Especially read Invisible Monsters.

Let me guess.

Protagonist = Jaded twenty/thirty-something
Setting = City, full of jaded twenty/thirty somethings

Plot = Protagonist thinks everyone else is a dick, may or may not think that he's a dick, and has issues. Something interesting might happen, but there's not much character development to speak of, just the occasional descriptions of gore, just for the sake of describing gore. Goes on for 200~300 pages.

Am I wrong?

 

[Toasthead]

great flick!

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

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

Especially read Invisible Monsters.

Let me guess.

Protagonist = Jaded twenty/thirty-something
Setting = City, full of jaded twenty/thirty somethings

Plot = Protagonist thinks everyone else is a dick, may or may not think that he's a dick, and has issues. Something interesting might happen, but there's not much character development to speak of, just the occasional descriptions of gore, just for the sake of describing gore. Goes on for 200~300 pages.

Am I wrong?

Um yeah completely.

 

[alkemyst]

first rule of Fight Club....

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
first rule of Fight Club....

...beat the sh!t out of alkemyst

 

[BrokenVisage]

I am Jacks complete lack of surprise.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: tami
yes, it is a great movie.

Fixed

 

[JackBurton]

That movie sucked major ass!

 

[creedog]

Probably my favorite movie.


And I am over 30 (if only by about 8 months)

 

[Albis]

wierd but great!

 

[KeyserSoze]

Sig.

 

[DanJ]

WHAT YEAR IS IT??

 

[eyecandy86]

Originally posted by: necine
The book's better.

 

[thomsbrain]

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.

you hit the nail on the head. i've been saying this for years, but no one listens. they think fight club is A) the best and most profound story in the world, and B) fight club's message is to celebrate nihilism. if you can't even get the story, how can you say it's good?

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: eyecandy86

Originally posted by: necine
The book's better.

I wish I could read

 

[SWScorch]

I saw it a few months ago. Didn't think it was all that great. It certainly wasn't bad, but didn't live up to all the hype surrounding it. I'll probably watch it again to fully absorb everything though.

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
I saw it a few months ago. Didn't think it was all that great. It certainly wasn't bad, but didn't live up to all the hype surrounding it. I'll probably watch it again to fully absorb everything though.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

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.

you hit the nail on the head. i've been saying this for years, but no one listens. they think fight club is A) the best and most profound story in the world, and B) fight club's message is to celebrate nihilism. if you can't even get the story, how can you say it's good?

Great minds man, great minds.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

I thought the move was great!!! I must have seen the movie a dozen times before I ever noticed the penis in the background while the buildings are blowing up at the end. It was so creepy the first time I noticed it. I was like did I just see that?

 

[imthebadguy]

<---NEVER SEEN IT

 

[Legendary]

The first rule of Fight Club is you do NOT talk about Fight Club.
/obligatory in any Fight Club thread

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: redly1
I would love to have seen it in the theater...especially the first time
oh well

Saw it in the theater twice. I love that movie. Pixies at the end rule!

 

[creedog]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete

Originally posted by: redly1
I would love to have seen it in the theater...especially the first time
oh well

Saw it in the theater twice. I love that movie. Pixies at the end rule!

Probably my favorite band.......

 

[jamesbond007]

Definitely my all-time favorite movie. My girlfriend thinks I'm whacko for liking it so much...kinda freaks her out.

 

[SP33Demon]

Sound file.

"Well, I gotta tell ya, 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 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. It might be someone you've known for years, someone very very close to you."