Films I have never watched to the end.
15:00 Wednesday 5 Dec 07
Films I have not watched to the end despite starting more than once:
Fight Club
I just don’t get this film at all
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I think it’s Sean “Just one accent” Connery that ruins this one.
Bringing out the dead
If I don’t get Fight Club then this is even further way. I really want to watch it too.
Blues Brothers 2000
No. The first was unique maybe.
Nikita
Transparent plot.
Any given Sunday
I don’t know. Must try again…
Summer of Sam
It gets just plain boring.
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fight club is such a brilliant book (and movie). You have to understand that there is a deeper meaning behind it (and the book explains it more clearly, but the movie does a great job of it as well).
The story criticizes many things. One obvious one being materialism/consumerism/capitalism. This can be pretty much summed up with some very great quotes from the movie.
“You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can’t sleep. What happens then is there’s a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler says the things you own, end up owning you. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Fight Club represents that kind of freedom. First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Tyler says self-improvement is masturbation. Tyler says self-destruction might be the answer.”
It also reflects the lack of a prominent male role-model in many gen xer’s lives. If god is our father figure and our fathers fail us, what does that say about god?
Fight Club is a reflection of the suffering experienced by the ‘Generation X’ male who feels trapped in a world of the grey-collar (or service) working-class, a world filled with materialism and distractions, a group of men raised in single-parent families often devoid of a male role-model, and a world where there is no great cause for the average North American male to fight for.
Brad Pitt even says in the movie (can’t remember if it’s in the book) that we are a group of men raised by women.
I never saw this movie when it came out. It wasn’t til several years later that i actually watched it. It is one of my all time favorite movies now. The book is even better and now i will read anything by chuck palahniuk. if you’re into cynicism and vonnegut-like books, then you’d like palahniuk.
15:12 Wednesday 5 Dec 07
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Ehhhh, you should watch the end of Fight Club. The rest, yeah not so much.
16:16 Wednesday 5 Dec 07
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Fight Club starts as a rebellion against consumerism and materialism, and suggests nihilism and anarchy as a cure — a cure that ultimately falls short. At the end, you have two failed philosophies and no real answers. But the ride quite a trip.
20:39 Wednesday 5 Dec 07
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Stick with Bringing Out The Dead. It might take a couple of watches but I class it as a favourite now.
21:38 Wednesday 5 Dec 07