The
People's Review of Fight Club
The
People's Average Score -90 |
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wendlyn
score = 100
One of those rare and precious films that rachets you to a whole new
evolutionary level - if you're ready. This isn't about enacting violence
against others, it's about allowing Life to maul you freely. If you don't
get it, you ate the clam chowder. Maybe in the next lifetime.
Laura
score = 90
I thought this movie was excellent! I had to watch it a couple of times in
order to get the bits and pieces in there correct places. This movie really
makes you think! I don't think i have seen a movie this good for a long
time. If you are looking for a movie that is full of action with some
comedic entrances, then this movie is definatly worth seeing for you!
FunkEmonkY
score = 100
I was at a party when I first saw this movie. I'll admit that, at the time,
I was thinking "oh great, another lame action movie." From the
first ten minutes I could tell that I was terribly wrong. I think the
details about how much I enjoyed every aspect of this movie need not be
mentioned by the mere fact that I gave it a 100. I'm a picky movie-rater
too. I wanted to point out the intelligent comments from all people who gave
Fight Club high ratings. I'd hate to say it, but for those of you who bash
it, maybe you just don't get it. Suddenly, you fight club bashers are making
me "want to put a bullet in the head of every panda that wouldn't mate
to save it's own species."
Williams
score = 100
Just wow, this movie keeps you so interested from beginning all the way to
the end. You had to see this one in the Theatre to get the full feel of the
movies awsome visuals and the music and sound just pulls you away. There is
no other film that can top Fight Club, it is a one of a kind masterpiece.
Movie
score = 80
I definitely thought that this movie was clever. Many ingenious satirical
comments. Somewhat depressing, but offered much food for thought. Those who
cannot see through the violence are close-minded. If you are lacking in the
intellectual department, this movie is not for you. A must see.
ciprian
score = 100
absolutely great - the mirror alwayshas two faces. The inner me and the
actual me that you all see - always acombat - this is pretty much what I
also feel. Only that someof us never get to know the origibal self and leave
a whole life in misery.
Beckie
score = 100
I SAW THE
SHOW OPENING NIGHT. I THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUSLY CLEVER! I NEVER EXPECTED IT TO BE THAT
FUNNY. I ALSO THOUGHT THE SCRIPT WAS TWISTEDLY EINSTIEN! I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A SMART
MOVIE. IT PLAYED WITH YOU'RE BRAIN, SCRATCHING AT IT AND PUTTING PRESSURE ON IT TO GET THE
GAME TYLER'S PLAYING. <***spoiler removed***> SURE THEIR WAS FIGHTING VIOLENCE BUT
THEIR IS THE SAME STUFF IN HORRORS AND ACTION SO WHY IS EVERYONE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL
OVER THIS. THEIR WAS HARDLY ANY KILLING AND IT HAD COMEDY. EVERYONE WHO SAYS IT'S JUST
ABOUT VIOLENCE...GO BACK HOME AND DO WHAT YOU ALWAYS DO, RENT THE SERIES OF CHILDS PLAY.
Elle
score = 100
This is by far the best film i've ever seen! The acting is outstanding! The directing is
amazeing! And the story line is pure genius! I've seen it twice so far, and would have to
say it's even better the second time! To me this movie is about one person wanting to
change his entire life, he just goes about it in a radical way. If you listen to the films
you go and see, and absorb the content. Then you will find Fight Club will get inside you
and make you think!!! And is'nt that the point of a really good film!?
John
Epstein
score = 100
This film was enourmously gripping, a perfect description of the anarchist-genius and the
fine line between it and madness.
Aquaboy
score = 40
I want to buy Fight Club when it hits video. Then I want to EDIT out about 50% of the
movie. The profanity starts off mildly enough, but unfortunatly didn't stay mild. The
violence started off sensible (if there is such a thing) but then when ballistic. The
story started off very interesting but became ridiculous. And this whole splicing porn
thing didn't fit with either the movie, the character or the story. And what this may
cause today's brainwashed teens to do is become more violent and uncaring of others
property and rights. First rule of Fight Club: DO NOT SEE FIght Club,especially with
anyone under 18, come on people, I saw 6 yr olds and 10 year olds in the theater, what
kind of kids do you want raised??? Wake up people, we are still HUMANS, not animals...no
matter how Hollywood wants to paint us.
Robert
score = 100
THIS FILM IS YET ANOTHER MASTERPIECE BY DAVID FINCHER, AND I WOULD SAY HIS BEST BY FAR.
I HAVE READ REVIEWS BY FILM CRITICS WHO CONDEMN THIS FILM, BUT ALL THE REVIEWS I
HAVE READ BY YOUR AVERAGE JOE HAVE HAD NOTHING BUT PRAISE AND MORE PRAISE. MAYBE
BECAUSE ITS ABOUT THE AVERAGE JOE, AND THE ACTIVITY OF HIS HUMAN MIND.
A
This film was absolutly amazing! I loved every minute of it. It was thrilling, funny,
twisted, completly original. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are both exellent! Helena Bohnam
Carter as teriffic! Director, David Fincher, is a genius! I loved this movie and I think
you will to. A MUST SEE!
The
ranger
Hey aquaboy relax, you are so worry when films depicts things that are harsher, or blunt.
Stop being so moralistic, just because it frightens you, it is okay, life is a
unbelievable mystery, but it is beautiful. All the problems in the world you are seing
comes from the fact that people are trying to be good and moral, and by not doing or
showing how they are really feelin`. Films like plesantville, american beauty are
scratching that surface and it feels really good. Cheers
Cathy
score = None
I wouldn't try to give this movie a score, so "none" is not meant as
"zero." However. One thing about "Fight Club" was painfully obvious.
There was a constant undertone of repressed homosexuality, of "men's house"
culture, that never came within a million miles of being acknowledged. I mean, come on!
Nothing but bare-chested, sweaty, blood-covered men in this movie laying violent hands on
each other, and then ONE woman tossed in (Helena Bonham-Carter) to prove that the main
characters weren't gay! Of course, SHE never got to participate in the fight club, because
"women just don't have those violent impulses," you see. Actually, the mere
existence of this film proves THAT wrong-- seeing it made me want to beat someone up. It
was an inventive film, and a lot of people would enjoy it. Those who wouldn't are free to
stay away. So I don't criticize the profanity or violence. But if it had been made with an
all-female cast and one man thrown in, that would have been the first thing everyone saw.
Why is the opposite somehow beneath notice???
Unknown1
score = 100
I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!! <sorry but this reviewer was reveling to many etails of the
movie>. A GREAT MOVIE "A must see".
Richard
Monterosso
score = 50
I really wasn't thrilled with this movie I found it hard to follow. I didn't like the idea
of being left hanging. In my opinion this movie was just brainless blood and guts.
Although the action was pretty good i'll give it points for that. 6 on a scale of 1 to 10.
eurdjen
score = 100
This was one of the best movies I've ever seen !! I've never seen such a combination
of humor and violence in a movie before, but in this picture it turned out be a
perfect combination
Review of
"Fight Club" by Paul Mc Connell
The "Fight Club" has to be one of the decades premium films.It stars two of the
best young male actors around at present and is the new outing by David Fincher,of Se7en
fame.
Edward Norton,is bored.He is sick of his life and all that he digests and is unhappy with
his slave to consumerism stature,
this then drops him into the rings of self help groups where he finds fufillment and the
ability tosleep again.
The peace is rudely interupted by Marla Singer,a chain smoking tourist (someone who visits
the help groups to ease their inner demons when they don`t even have that disease) who
infiltrates the sessions as Norton did.
This causes a lapse of serenity for Norton,then he can`t sleep and things fall apart until
he meets the enigmatic Tyler Durden (Pitt on career best form).He shows him that life is
about experience and not material wealth........thus begins Fight Club.
The film draws on a lot of resources to create it`s splendour:
Norton as the Narrator with his unbelievable dialogue.
Bonham Carter as the suicidal smoker Marla
and most of all Pitt as the films centric enigma.
Pitt has of late been following the Leonardo DiCaprio school of thought with "Seven
Years I Tibet" and "The Devils Own"
but this is more of a Johnny Depp ethos as he must ,by now , have lost all 14 year old
girls as fans due to the chipped tooth and explicit fights.
Fight Club is definitey my second fave of the year after the Matrix.In a way we cannot
compare them but this films message overlooks the violence, of which there is little in my
opinion, as Norton and Pitt try desperately to live instead of being society`s poster
boys.
10/10
from Pablo :
paul_mc_connell@hotmail.com
John
score = 100
it was the best movie i have ever seen. rosie o donnell said it should be
nc-17. but she doesnt know anything, she has a crappy not worth watching.
Gillityr
score = 90
This is a mindblowing movie, you may very well try to talk me into that it
isn't. Still I see that the wholeness of the movie gives you this years
movie experience.
Carina
score
= None
I couldn't
say that I really got it. The whole film is so complex. How come it worked?
What is so fascinating about anarchy? Why did the Narrator want for it to
happen? He must have want it, otherwise his personality wouldn't have split.
Or was it always split? Why wasn't he able to get sleep before? Was it
because of his unhappiness? But was he more happy in the fight club? How
come it worked? Why did they enjoy being humiliated? Control... they enjoyed
having Tyler in control. The power of anarchy. What I find confusing is that
the film refers to a lot of psychological and social-critical
elements. But in the end nothing is clear. Thinking about the movie, I've
got to say that it's divine. But it has to be seen again. Just as pulp
fiction can't be watched merely for one time.
Blade
score = 90
Just as one is able to accept how Calvin gets along with Hobbes, why can't
Carina accept the concept of mental unstability in Fight Club? The theme is
definitely degrading the values of humanity, but hey, what the heck with
knowing a little bit about yourself? Fincher, a toast to your movie.
Grifftor
score = 100
Beautifully crafted masterpiece that just blew me away, and left me with the
same feeling of having the carpet renched out from under me that "The
Game" did. I must admit that when I first saw the previews, I
thought this movie was going to be a brawler with very little brains.
This is not the case. In fact, the violence is downplayed to the point that
you could count the amount of deaths on one hand. (But the fights can get a
little brutal, like one fight when Edward Norton lets loose on a poor
follower) All in all a great flick, which made me society in a whole new
light, which I believe was probably Fincher's idea to begin with.
Tyler
Durdon
score = 100
I thought that Fight Club was one of the best movies Ive ever seen, but, if
you are the churchy type, you'd better stay home, for Fight Club is chock
full of violence and mayhem. Unfortunatley, people who see this movie are
the type who like the kicking-the-crap-outta-each-other stuff. I didn't
think that was what this movie was about at all. My interpretation of the
movie was of a man who was trying to break free from capitalism and
consumerism, and he couldn't and it was driving him insane. I definitly
thought that this movie was NOT about fighting.
Lon
score = 100
This is one of the best movies that I have seen this year. I dont want to
give away to much of the movie, but Brad Pitt and Edward Norton did a very
good job. I think alot of people didnt like the movie because they are to
sensitive and cant deal with the raw power that this movie offers. It makes
you think about how your own live is run,and how you live it. David Fincher
directs the movie perfect. I also have read the book, and I could say that
its one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time.The book
also goes right along with the movie.Unlike alot of books to movies have
done. Anyway if your looking for a different kind of movie check out Fight
Club.
Tyler
score = 100
FIGHT CLUB is really one of the best movies I've ever seen!! The plot of the
story is amazing and all characters are perfect and "crazy"!! Also
the book by CHUCK PALAHNIUK is well writen. so go out and see this
wounderful combination of violence, sex and pscholocical problems!
incredible!!!
REDGUTS
score = 100
I don't know what these critics were thinking. I believed Fight Club
was the best film of 99 and I'm pissed it didn't get an oscar nominee.
But my personal choices never do. Hollywood is afraid today, they see
a good movie and they don't give their true feelings on it in order to sound
mature. This kicks it more than any drama movie! Rock on
Fincher, wake up Ebert!
Rich
score = 90
Fight Club is a daring movie: a brilliant satire bordering on horror. Upon
watching it, however, I was puzzled at how anyone could feel that this film
advocates violence. Far from glorifying the acts of violence inherent to the
plot, I felt that it was really sort of a character study of an entire
mentality; a freakish look at masculinity gone horribly awry. Dealing with
such issues as homoeroticism, materialism, and the emasculation of the
American male and the viability of anarchy as a lifestyle choice, the movie
never struck me as painting a positive picture of the events that ensue in
the least. To me, the notion that males need to seek out the violent little
boys in themselves in order to feel alive is rather pathetic and a sad
commentary on our society. I believe Fincher knew this, and as one reviewer
said, he is "in on the joke." Fight Club was a haunting,
disturbing and, at times, hilarious satire. How anyone could take it as a
blueprint for male empowerment is beyond me. Fincher was interviewed about
the movie shortly after it was released in theatres, and asked the reporter,
almost pleadingly, "You thought it was funny, right?" Sorry,
David. I don't think most people got it. For those of us that did, however,
it was a tremendously entertaining and thought-provoking thrill ride,
well-made and hard to shake, even days after viewing. Great film ... great
acting, great cinematography, and, most of all, brilliantly directed.
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