Comments on: Fight Club (1999)

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15 Favorite Directors « Cut The Crap Movie Reviews — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:02:24 +0000

[...] David Fincher Required Viewing: Seven, Fight Club [...]

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:09:56 +0000

1. Looks like a gotta review Se7en.
2. Ten “Finchian” themes? Man, tough question. Need some time to think about that one, first thing that comes to mind is that the human mind is a fucked up place. The other nine will come to me.
3. I like Benjamin Button. Not Fincher’s best movie by a long shot, but still, I dug it. Agree to disagree, Simon.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:20:36 +0000

1. Fight Club is by far the best Fincher movie. Don’t get me wrong, Se7en i shigh – possibly the same rating, but if they sat next to each other, Fight Club would win it. So much more visceral and dripping with the masculine sweat. All the grimy and grittyness of Se7en is nothing in cmparison to the vile world Norton lives in. The surreal sequences (the shopping bit, the movement through the brain, etc) – nothing like that in Se7en. You could maybe argue the story in Se7en is more ‘inspired’, but visually Fight Club takes the top.

2. Interesting description of ‘Finchian’ style – as (you can see clear as day in Panic Room) Fincher does look to Hitchcockian styles himself a fair few times. What would be your ten ‘Finchian’ common themes and threads?

3. For the record Benjamin Button lost Fincher ALOT of credability for me. I loved everything of his until that bomb of a movie. And to think it had the whole Brad Pitt/Fincher combo that worked so perfectly in Fight Club and Se7en but failed so majestically … a real shame.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:22:12 +0000

My all time favorite movie. I force myself to watch it once a year for reindoctrination (though it’s never a chore), and I introduced my girlfriend to it on the weekend of its 10th anniversary. She still loves me, but she thinks I’m a little sick…

By: Branden

Branden — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:20:56 +0000

This is probably one of the top 5 guy movies of all time with Shawshank Redemption, Field of Dreams, Godfather and Raging Bull.

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:30 +0000

Agreed, Zodiac is the bomb. Too bad it totally came and went when it was in theaters. Need to give that a re-watch, but I was a big fan of it when it came out. One of these days…

By: Ross McG

Ross McG — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:50:08 +0000

sweet review as usual, nice Meat Loaf sentence – the man’s a legend.
am with Jake Cole – Zodiac is da bomb

By: madhatter21

madhatter21 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:34 +0000

One of my all-time favorite movies based on one of my all-time favorite books. I for one believe that what makes this one is Finch, Chuck, and screenwriter Jim Uhls all coming together to turn this into something as scattered as the original novel, yet as focused as what the film would ultimately become.

Chuck writes some brilliant material, but it isn’t the easiest to adapt (see: CHOKE). Kudos to all involved for honing the material so well.

I also couldn’t agree with you more on how good Pitt is here. The guy embodies the rock star Tyler is supposed to be so perfectly, complete with his dark sense of humour. It’s almost impossible to imagine anyone else in the role.

Here’s to ten years of not talking about fight club!

By: Jake Cole

Jake Cole — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:48:40 +0000

It’s Fight Club-a-palooza around the interwebs it would seem. I agree that the movie is preferable to the source, as it omits some of Palahniuk’s “shocking for the sake of being shocking” passages and refines the book’s satire (of which there is a truckload and even more in the film). Zodiac’s my pick for Fincher’s best, but I really came around on this film after getting just how brilliant and merciless its comedy really was.