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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 4, 2018 14:26:07 GMT
Thoughts?
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jul 4, 2018 14:33:01 GMT
A once beloved favourite that has fallen from my good graces.
Its opening half is still blissfully impressive, but the second half is a total mess. I still give it acting wins for Pitt and Bonham Carter, as their performances transcend the dismal decline in quality.
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Post by thomasjerome on Jul 4, 2018 14:34:34 GMT
Never liked it. The acting is good, though.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 4, 2018 14:34:50 GMT
Outside Pitt and Carter, I fucking hate this movie.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 4, 2018 15:24:41 GMT
It's fun, but it encapsulates everything wrong with 1990s Hollywood. The first half is extremely impressive, and the second half is a bunch of terrible "gotcha" twists that make no sense in any way.
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Post by Viced on Jul 4, 2018 15:26:02 GMT
I'm scared to re-watch it.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jul 4, 2018 16:40:54 GMT
A really great dissection of repressed masculine aggression and how it manifests today. You can substitute the fight club setting with r/incels, various 4chan boards, or really anywhere on the internet where a bunch of really hateful and lonely dudes gang up just to bitch with each other and harass people. Tyler Durden isn't all that different from Elliot Rodger, but the real clever conceit of the film is it allows you to identify with the Narrator's disillusionment with consumer culture and make Tyler serve as a perfect antidote to all that and a legitimately positive influence. That is, of course, until he decides to replace the consumer-driven mentality with one wherein he is exalted to a god-like status and decides to pour his frustrations out onto the rest of the world. Because it's not enough for them to just decide the things that make them feel empty aren't important, they've got to lash back out at a world that made them feel so empty to begin with.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 4, 2018 16:44:51 GMT
I'm scared to re-watch it. This |
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Post by jakesully on Jul 4, 2018 17:43:53 GMT
Love this film. IMO its a great very dark / nihilistic comedy featuring some very good performances by Pitt/Norton & Carter . But I can completely understand how some folks would be turned off by it.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 4, 2018 18:03:09 GMT
I've seen it a few times, and each time I always find it to be rather smug, overly impressed with itself, and visually ugly. First saw it in high school when it was the "best movie everrr" to all the dudebros, when ironically it's satirizing people like them.
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Post by no on Jul 4, 2018 18:51:46 GMT
It's pretty good: well-made, visceral, funny, and consistently compelling. I guess more people are catching on to how satirical it really is so I won't get into that. It turns out popular movies can be good too.
That said, I am growing in my taste and by default, as much as I like Fight Club, my attention is directed more towards other films.
1999 is a good year for film but I think I like Eyes Wide Shut most, followed by The Blair Witch Project, Julien Donkey-Boy, and probably Audition. Boys Don't Cry is good too. As is Cremaster 2 and Naked Under the Moon. Not sure where Fight Club would fit in now. I am sort of interested in revisiting it, so perhaps I will rediscover an interest in it.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 5, 2018 0:29:14 GMT
It's pretty good: well-made, visceral, funny, and consistently compelling. I guess more people are catching on to how satirical it really is so I won't get into that. It turns out popular movies can be good too. That said, I am growing in my taste and by default, as much as I like Fight Club, my attention is directed more towards other films. 1999 is a good year for film but I think I like Eyes Wide Shut most, followed by The Blair Witch Project, Julien Donkey-Boy, and probably Audition. Boys Don't Cry is good too. As is Cremaster 2 and Naked Under the Moon. Not sure where Fight Club would fit in now. I am sort of interested in revisiting it, so perhaps I will rediscover an interest in it. I literally haven't seen any of these. All the same, '99 boasts two of my all time favorites: Rosetta and Galaxy Quest. You're reminding me how uneducated I am, though. |
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Post by no on Jul 5, 2018 9:02:34 GMT
I literally haven't seen any of these. All the same, '99 boasts two of my all time favorites: Rosetta and Galaxy Quest. You're reminding me how uneducated I am, though. Well, I haven't seen either of those. Don't sweat it. Naked Under the Moon and Cremaster 2 are kinda obscure. Check out Audition though. |
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Post by countjohn on Jul 6, 2018 3:06:45 GMT
This is one of those movies where it's reputation suffers due to it having a "misguided fandom" that don't get that it's satire. It's got great black comedy, Norton/Pitt/Carter are all fantastic, and it's Fincher's best directed movie. Really nothing to complain about and close to perfect for me.
In the vein of what other posters have said, I don't see how you can say it's "dated" or not relevant to today. It feels like the whole world is full of Tyler Durdens getting worshiped by throngs of losers.
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Post by tastytomatoes on Jul 6, 2018 8:44:37 GMT
Very rewatchable and the screenplay is genious. If anything, Fight Club has become more relevant into the future, but it's pretty easy that viewers completely misunderstand the movie. Just how many movies fully embrace their satire?
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Post by getclutch on Jul 8, 2018 3:19:26 GMT
One of David Fincher's finest. The story, acting, directing..etc all blend together perfectly to create a memorable experience.
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Post by AKenjiB on Jul 9, 2018 2:41:48 GMT
Phenomenal. The performances are all fantastic and I love the way it plays with audience’s expectations, portraying Durden as being likable and charming, making the viewer empathize with the narrator and supporting his decisions, but then everything is horrifically subverted in the 2nd half. Lovely visual style, unique storytelling decisions, and a lot of interesting ideas explored. I definitely feel that the film has relevance today, but even if it didn’t, I would still appreciate it as a major part of the 1990s.
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Post by Film Socialism on Jul 9, 2018 6:49:18 GMT
there is no god damn way i am rewatching it because i have good memories of it and i know those would be ruined if i ever rewatched it
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Post by wilcinema on Jul 22, 2018 8:14:26 GMT
My problem with it is that I first watched it after reading the book (a masterpiece) and I never really liked the movie. I've never felt the need to rewatch it either.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 22, 2018 10:07:42 GMT
It's one of those films that's importance comes from another medium that people then wrongly try to foster into filmmaking attributes - what you read can work on you quite differently from what you see. What you see, particularly satire falls apart the more heavily it's applied until it curdles and turns into something else.
It's not a terrible film but it will always be incorrectly deemed special because of what it says and who made it and its initial source. But that isn't to rate its effectiveness as a film at all, because it's cumulative effect doesn't add up, it rather diminishes.
Satire is something which is almost never done correctly in American film and was done far better that year by the great Election which works as a movie first, and as satire second - once you violate that rule, you're in trouble.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 22, 2018 21:07:42 GMT
It's one of those films that's importance comes from another medium that people then wrongly try to foster into filmmaking attributes - what you read can work on you quite differently from what you see. What you see, particularly satire falls apart the more heavily it's applied until it curdles and turns into something else. It's not a terrible film but it will always be incorrectly deemed special because of what it says and who made it and its initial source. But that isn't to rate its effectiveness as a film at all, because it's cumulative effect doesn't add up, it rather diminishes. Satire is something which is almost never done correctly in American film and was done far better that year by the great Election which works as a movie first, and as satire second - once you violate that rule, you're in trouble. Totes mahgoats. |
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