Fight Club's cult status

[Chris]

i absolutely love this movie, i though it was one of the 3 best that came out of it's year. besides the mixed negative and positive criticisms i think the movie's gonna gain a very strong cult following over the next 10 years or so. Fincher really pushed the envelope. what do you all think though.
 p.s. the dvd rocks!!
"You're not a snow flake. You're not unique and special!" ha ha ha.

[Neville]

I think "Fight Club" is already a classic! At least all the people I advised to watch it love it as well. Not only is compelling and powerful, but also thought-provoking and visually creative. My favourite part is when Narrator visits his totem animal (the ice cave scene) and later finds it substituted by Marla.

It is also one of the few movies which are better than the novels they are based upon (same happens with "A simple plan", and I love its sarcasm. I really did not understand all those critics who said it encouraged violence or it was fascist. I mean, what I though after leaving the cinema was not exactly: "Cool, let's enter a terrorist group" or "Great! I'm creating/joining a fight club right now" but "Oh my God, let's hope things never go so bad".

You can get the film script at www.movie-page.com

[Nathan]

Me, I thought that Fight Clu was great -- for the first half.  There were some powerful statements being set up about the place of male aggression in modern society, and then they were dropped as we somehow got into this plot about urban terrorism.  And instead of finding the climactic revelation a fulfilling culmination, I instead thought it yet another way to keep from actually dealing with the issues brought up in the first half.

YMMV.


Nathan

[Chris]

awesome thanks for the info with the script.  yeah i think that those critics who said those things seriously missed the films point! if anything it's really making of people who are extremist and take their views WAY to seriously. and if you look at what phalahnuik did with this story he's lifting it directly from our countries headlines: abortion protestors killing doctors, people forming militias, and people joining cults. Edward Norton made a great comment about "project mayhem" on the dvd: "these people are really a bunch of frat boys who started reading neitzche and started taking themselves to seriously."

[Brock]

The critics didn't miss the point; they were trying to stop the people who did miss the point.  There are a ton of people out there who missed the satire and actual point, and are out there starting Fight Clubs.  They quote it like it's the freaking bible or something.  The whole thing goes right over their heads.

So there should proably be an IQ requirement for films of that sort.  I also think that the second half with the terrorism and everything was a mistake, and only helped to obscure the point.  That may be what confuses so many idiotic white trash goth wannabes into kicking the s**t out of eachother.

[Nathan]

Yes!  You're the only other person I've heard who agrees that the second half was a major derailment.   Now we can duck-and-cover together from the militants who don't agree.

Nathan

[The Militants]

I have came from a major Ass-Kicking! How dare you not say the words of Tyler Druden are not THE BIBLE!!!!! Project Mayhem is being worked on now. But in the future In the world I see -- you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You will wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You will climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. You will see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of the ruins of a superhighway.


And why do I say that? You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f**king khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

[Lee]

AHH! LOOK OUT, MILLITANTS! LOL!