Fight Club

[stu]

Perhaps they saw it in a double-feature with "Airplane!".

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by Sir Frizz
Me and Wij are one and the same.

Frizz invented me to get out of his boring humdrum life ! I'm the one who gets all the sex. He just wakes up to find spunky tissues by his bed.

 

[old.Fweddy]

Does he beat you up?

 

[Wij]

Some 'beating' occurs yes.

 

[Xtro]

Originally posted by stu
Perhaps they saw it in a double-feature with "Airplane!".

Stu, that post really did make me laugh out loud - ta

 

[doh_boy]

I managed 15 mins before turning it off, it was pedestrian and the constant one frame flashes of brad pitt were doing my nut. :/

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Originally posted by JohnyWishbone
Your a bit of a nob are'nt you, how much of a shit sandwich would you need to eat before you realised you didnt like it ?

Havent you ever heard just part of a record before you knew you it wasnt to your taste ?

Or is your mind too slow to make a decision before you swallow that last piece of shite ?

Originally posted by JohnyWishbone
well i might give it another go then just fast forward to where I left of..

You hate the taste of shit sandwhiches so much you wish to go back and try them again. This is what I was talking about, you are retarded.

 

[Summo]

Dammit! Fight Club is one of the best films of all time. I think it's safe to say that Pitt and (to a less-certain extent) Norton will never appear in a better film.

 

[JohnyWishbone]

Originally posted by Wazzerphuk
You hate the taste of shit sandwhiches so much you wish to go back and try them again. This is what I was talking about, you are retarded.

Yes Wazzik, I bow to your superior intellect, what was I thinking (or not thinking )

 

[Padwah]

read the book, its better in every respect and the ending is better than anyone could ask for. The film on the other hand is average.

 

[stu]

Originally posted by Summo
Dammit! Fight Club is one of the best films of all time. I think it's safe to say that Pitt and (to a less-certain extent) Norton will never appear in a better film.

se7en?

 

[Wij]

Originally posted by stu
se7en?

It's good but I prefer Fight Club.

 

[sheepsteak]

Meet Joe Black?


Or not.

 

[dysfunction]

Not

 

[Trem]

Originally posted by Padwah
read the book, its better in every respect and the ending is better than anyone could ask for.

Yes the book is a hundred times better, and a lot more violent. The film is still one of the best I have ever seen though.

 

[xane]

I did like Fight Club when I eventually caught up with it, but it was overrated, like the Matrix was really (*ducks for cover*)

Both films suffered from corny predictable endings, dissappointing for a story that is considered clever and breaks from the norm, they eventually settle into stock hollywood "exciting" finales, it makes my blood cringe thinking about the Matrix ending.

A good example is American Beauty, a _much_ better finish, made you think for ages afterwards.

I did like the bit in Fight Club where that guy is prevoking for a fight by hosing down passersby Anyone seen that advert where everyone is pillow fighting, no one I know seems to recognise it as Fight Club ?

 

[stu]

Hollywood execs generally won't let filmmakers make films without happy endings. There's a classic anecdote about the execs at Miramax (I think?) getting wound up about Pulp Fiction because Travolta gets killed half way through. In the end they relented when they saw the final print due to the sequencing of the scenes - the argument being "when the credits roll he's alive, so it's a happy ending".

In the novel (Fight Club), the buildings *don't* explode - there's a bit of a lame explanation about how Tyler used paraffin (which Jack tells us at the beginning "has never, ever worked for me"), and got the mixture wrong. Having said that, the conclusion is with Jack in hospital, having been severely smashed up, thinking everything is ok, and the doctors talking to him as Tyler (one of the themes in the book which isn't as deeply explored in the film is the idea of what he's put in motion getting out of control), so there's a much more foreboding feel to the close.

In theory, the ending to the film isn't "happy" at all - the economy as we know it has been utterly destroyed - but given the emphasis on Jack and Marla's relationship, it 'feels' happy, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was again due to movie house influence.

Interesting you should use American Beauty as a comparison - personally I found *that* very overrated, corny and predictable. It was quirky-by-numbers, right down to the plastic bag scene, and felt like it was trying too hard to be deep and meaningful.

 

[nath]

Apparently they wanted to stop Shawshank at the scene where you see Red driven off in the coach to look for Andy. Even that wasn't enough for them, so they had to show them meeting up. Would have been much better the other way, tbh.

 

[Sir Frizz]

Originally posted by nath
Apparently they wanted to stop Shawshank at the scene where you see Red driven off in the coach to look for Andy. Even that wasn't enough for them, so they had to show them meeting up. Would have been much better the other way, tbh.

Disagreed.

 

[nath]

Well, you're entitled to your (wrong) opinion

 

[Tom]

Originally posted by Sir Frizz
Disagreed.

Seconded. Red seeing the ocean was an important part of the film (I hope the sea is as blue as it has been in my dreams).

 

[dysfunction]

I enjoyed the ending to Shawshank. It rounded the film off nicely...I would not have liked it cutting short as suggested earlier in this thread.

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by Summo
Dammit! Fight Club is one of the best films of all time. I think it's safe to say that Pitt and (to a less-certain extent) Norton will never appear in a better film.

American History X.

 

[bodhi]

Originally posted by dysfunction
I enjoyed the ending to Shawshank.

Me too. It meant I didn't have to sit through any more of it.

 

[nath]

Originally posted by Tom[SHOTTEH]
Seconded. Red seeing the ocean was an important part of the film (I hope the sea is as blue as it has been in my dreams).

It would be better to end on the coach. That way it would have ended on a note that the entire film was based on - hope.

Having a conclusion kinda messes that up.

 

[old.RedVenom]

Originally posted by bodhi
American History X.

Teeth. Kerb.

*cringe*

 

[Lester]

The commentary to Fight Club is class too. I hate Brad Pitt. Handsome, rich, shagging Jen, and actually seems like a nice bloke too

In the commentary Norton is talking about the didactic nature of movie acting and the iambic pentameter or some such and all Pitt keeps saying is stuff like :" whoa dude! I love the squelchy sound when I punch your face man."

Heh.

 

[Arnor]

Originally posted by JohnyWishbone

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Originally posted by nath
So you didn't find out that Brad Pitt's character is actually a figment of Ed Nortons characters imagination?
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WHAT ? your kidding right

Curses, I will have to go through it again now..

Hes kidding right?

I mean, he even says it out loud ffs!


ps: the movie rocks!

 

[nath]

Jesus christ, arnor. Sort out your shitty sig plz!

And the reason he didn't find out is that he didn't watch it to the end.

 

[Arnor]

Originally posted by nath
Jesus christ, arnor. Sort out your shitty sig plz!

And the reason he didn't find out is that he didn't watch it to the end.

to be honest, I cut like 4 lines from it before posting here with regard to your fragile little minds.

You should have a look at the daoc forums, they are madmen there.... MADMEN!!! (&wimmin)



and he says it in the hotelroom, which is kinda more like 3/4th into the film innit?