Fight Club (1999)

• Year: 1999
• Released: 15 Oct 1999
• Country: United States, Germany
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 38 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Fight_Club
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/fight-club
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama
• Runtime: 139 min
• Writer: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls
• Director: David Fincher
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf
• Keywords: based on novel or book, cult film, dystopia, fight, dual identity,

	8.8/10
	66/100
	79% – Critics
	96% – Audience

Fight Club Storyline

A young urban professional who works for a major car manufacturer can’t sleep. Although he doesn’t have any of the associated afflictions, he stumbles across support groups as a means to let out whatever emotions he is feeling, which in turn allows him to sleep. But the use of these support groups is ruined when he meets a young woman named Marla Singer, who is also going to all these support group meetings. Because he knows she too is not afflicted with any of the maladies for which the groups exist, her presence has lessened the impact of the stories he hears. His life changes when he meets a soap manufacturer named Tyler Durden, who in many ways is the antithesis of the insomniac. Due to unusual circumstances with his own condo, the insomniac moves in with Tyler, who lives in a large dilapidated house in an otherwise abandoned part of town. After a bit of spontaneous roughhousing with Tyler in a bar parking lot, the insomniac finds it becomes a ritual between the two of them, which helps him cope with the other more difficult aspects of his life. The fights also attract a following, others who not only want to watch but join in. Understanding that there are other men like them, the insomniac and Tyler begin a secret fight club. As the fight club’s popularity grows, so does its scope in all aspects. Marla becomes a circle not specifically of the fight clubs but of Tyler and the insomniac’s collectives lives. As the nature of the fight clubs becomes out of control in the insomniac’s view, the insomniac’s life, in association, is one where he no longer understands what is happening around him, or how he can get out of it without harming himself.

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love the premise at the start but not the twist

A nameless man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia is a traveling investigator for a car company. He goes to a support meeting. He is addicted and starts going to all kinds of support meetings. He encounters another meeting groupie Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). She is uninhibited. On a flight home, he encounters Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) who makes his own soap. They bond over their dislike of consumerism. Man with no name loses his apartment due to a gas explosion. Outside a bar, Tyler asks him to hit him. He starts staying at Tyler’s dilapidated isolated mansion.

I want to like this a lot more. I want this movie to say something about consumerism and effeminization of society. I want this movie to take a profound stance on the state of the male position in modern society. It also touches on the isolation of the modern world. It seems set up for something great but then the movie gives a twist that takes much of the punch away. The movie becomes about the twist and I don’t know what the movie says about anything else.

Impossibly overrated and unsettling

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt form a very strange bond that seems, at times, like it has strong sadomasochistic and gay undertones. They both get off on fighting and at times there seems to be a very odd chemistry between them. During the course of their friendship, Pitt shows Norton how to be more and more and more bizarre and wrapped up in a weird hobby they created, the “Fight Club” where testosterone-hyped idiots experience the joy of beating each others’ brains in so they can prove their manliness. However, as the film progresses, the club becomes more like a club for anarchists and Norton begins to question where they are headed.

This is a movie that had lots of interesting little touches and twists. However, in many cases, they were very cool but also didn’t particularly make much sense. The last 20 minutes of the film in particular is really cool–but it just doesn’t make sense psychologically and seemed more interested in wowing the audience instead of ringing true. Because of this, I felt that this cult film is impossibly overrated–especially since it’s now #25 all-time on IMDb! I won’t spoil the surprises, don’t worry but suffice to say that by the movie is finished you have absolutely no idea what actually happened.

As a high school teacher, I also was alarmed that this film actually encouraged the growth of a sick subculture. A group of boys in my school started their own “fight club” and took great pleasure in proving their manliness. I guess if they didn’t get off by hurting each other UFC-style, they’d have to “prove” their manliness by shooting bunnies or some other mindless guy way–but I hate to see that supposedly civilized people LIKE the idea of watching others become hurt.

Additionally, the film is packed with some of the most brutal violence you’ll find on celluloid and there is tons of nudity, sexuality and terrorism–just the sort of stuff you’d never want your teens to watch. Unfortunately, among teenage boys, this film is practically a “must-see”. Parents, exercise some common sense and keep this nihilistic and cruel film away from your kids. If you want to see it yourself, fine, since you probably WON’T be tempted to imitate it. Kids will—I can attest to that.

You love it or you hate it, personally I loved it

Perhaps a little too long, but Fight Club is just a very well-made, brilliantly written and superlatively performed film. Essentially a satirical fable, it tells of an insomniac loser teaming up with a seditious soap salesman to form a no-holds-barred-fight club as an outlet for their direction-less aggression. This concept is an intriguing and original one, and works really well. Then there is the script, it is absolutely superb, with dialogue that will make you both laugh and think. Fight Club is very well made, with elaborate production design, great editing and startling images. David Fincher’s direction is brilliantly handled and the performances of Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are superb. Overall, just a great film, a mesmerising ride through the 1990s male psyche. 9/10 Bethany Cox