Fight Club (1999)

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8.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

David Fincher

Starring (View all)

Edward Norton
The Narrator

Brad Pitt
Tyler Durden

Meat Loaf
Robert 'Bob' Paulsen

Zach Grenier
Richard Chesler

Richmond Arquette
Intern

David Andrews
Thomas

George Maguire
Group Leader

Eugenie Bondurant
Weeping Woman

Written by

Chuck Palahniuk
(novel)

Jim Uhls
(screenplay)

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I am Jack's Half Baked Review

15 years, 3 months ago at Jun 18 20:29

Seaworth

29 votes

The Indie film has become more and more popular as the years go on. Blockbusters and high concept movies are losing their appeal as favourite films because the audience strives for a deeper meaning and an alternative look on the big screen. Being a teen in the late 90s, this is one of the first films that stood out for me in the Indie bracket.

So, David Fincher directed an adaptatio... read more

Join the Club...Join the revolution...

14 years, 10 months ago at Nov 18 17:32

Lexi

10 votes

''Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.''

An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.

Edward Norton: The Narrator

Brad Pitt: Tyler Durden

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8 years, 12 months ago at Oct 6 16:19

Dark Warrior

4 votes

after all those years i've finally watched this crazy movie entirely but i'm still wondering why it's so popular.
Technically and artistically it's a well done plus the directing of David Fincher is great and the casting is interesting.
Edward Norton as the narrator in the leading role is impressive, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden and Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer the nymphomaniac ar... read more

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Description: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion. Be forewarned. This is a film chest-deep in violence. It begins with a man pointing a gun into another's mouth, and it ends with the bombing of a skyline of urban office buildings. In between, you'll see a lot of young men bashing in each other's faces as blood freely flows all over the place. Americans are used to covering A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Be forewarned. This is a film chest-deep in violence. It begins with a man pointing a gun into another's mouth, and it ends with the bombing of a skyline of urban office buildings. In between, you'll see a lot of young men bashing in each other's faces as blood freely flows all over the place.

Americans are used to covering up the nation's defects as much as possible. When some unfortunate tendency surfaces with tragic results, as in school shootings, we look to teams of experts interviewed on the media to explain the problem and suggest how we might remedy it. Fight Club spits in the face of all such grand projects of self-improvement and national justification. This fast-paced, clever, and visually stunning drama reveals the shadow side of America — one that is impervious to moral bromides and easy answers.

The screenplay by Jim Uhls, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is chock full of witty and cynical takes on self-examination, the New Age, Martha Stewart, mail-order catalogs, law and order, and sexual politics. Here corporate culture and consumerism are identified as the excesses that give rise to the darker side of the American personality.

The narrator of this mesmerizing film is played with spooky intensity by Edward Norton. He has an odious job as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. When he tries to get some relief from his insomnia, his doctor suggests that to really feel pain, he should attend a group for victims of testicular cancer. The narrator soon becomes addicted to a variety of support groups. For the first time in his life, he gets in touch with his emotions and cries freely. However, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), another tourist in the land of genuine suffering, spoils this therapeutic release for him by holding up a mirror to his dishonesty.

The narrator's life is radically changed when he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a very mysterious fellow who is a philosophical nihilist. His various jobs comprise a concerted attack on corporate America. Durden makes soap out of human fat retrieved from liposuction clinics and sells it to posh department stores; the enterprise is actually a cover for making nitroglycerin for bombs. While moonlighting as a projectionist, he splices momentary pornographic images into family films. Working as a waiter, he urinates into the soup of unsuspecting customers. He lives in a boarded-up abandoned house on the outskirts of town, a place where nobody would think to look for anybody. The narrator moves in with him.

Before long these two alienated young men have found a new outlet for their pent-up anger-all-out bare-knuckle fist fighting. They establish Fight Club, after-hours gatherings of men who share their pleasure in masochistic pain. The secret movement spreads until there are clubs all over the country. These then evolve into guerilla war units in a project Durden calls "Mayhem." Through various acts of violence and vandalism, their goal is the downfall of corporate America. Because business-as-usual only benefits the rich and the powerful, these frustrated and unfulfilled men are determined to level the playing field-literally. Their devil-may-care love of violence is more evidence of the shadow in America. ... (more)

Release date: 15 October 1999
UPC: 024543000358

Tags: Action (77), Drama (72), Thriller (46), 1999 (42), Violence (35), 1990s (35), Crime (27), Black Comedy (26), Satire (24), Mystery (20), Twist Ending (20), Terrorism (18), Cult (18), (18), Based On Novel (18), Psychological (16), Surreal (16), Based On Book (16), Adaptation (15), Soap (13)

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