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Fight Club

Helena Bonham Carter , Zach Grenier , David Fincher    R (Restricted)   DVD
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All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control. Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown

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The first rule of Fight Club may be that you don't talk about Fight Club, but that didn't stop the powers that be from assembling four separate commentaries for you to partake of in your viewing pleasure of the Fight Club DVD. Listen to director David Fincher solo, or with stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter; novelist Chuck Palahniuk and screenwriter Jim Uhls discuss the differences between the book and the film; and the film's design team dissects the numerous visual effects that went into the film. Wretched excess? Hardly. If any film was worthy of such intimate dissection, it's this one, and the two-disc DVD set is a film aficionado's dream. The first disc, containing the film and the commentaries, is one of the best film-to-DVD transfers you'll see, with nifty, seamless interactive menus. The second disc is given over entirely to extras, from storyboards and dissections of seminal sequences to alternate filmings of certain scenes, to deleted scenes that didn't make the final cut (with helpful explanations placing them in context, noting why they weren't used, and showing the scenes that did make the final cut). There's also just as much information given over to the promotion and marketing of the film as there is the production of it; you'll find innumerable trailers, including Internet-only clips and Norton and Pitt's hilarious "public service announcements." And keep an eye out for the fake "warning" at the beginning of the film as well as the hidden smiley-face that will take you to some hilarious Fight Club promotional items, including the "Your life is ticking away one minute at a time" clock, ripe for desktop service. All in all, this is one of the best DVD sets you'll ever find, in terms of technology and information. --Mark Englehart

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ruined by a bout of Twister, Dec 26 2002
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O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews
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First impressions count, they last, and I think they explain the overwhelmingly positive reactions of the Amazon readership to this film. The first hour of Fight Club is truly, exquisitely, brilliant: patiently (if acidly) observed, witty and deadpan, and the punches it lands - good, solid punches - are of the purely figurative kind. The first hour is nothing like what I was expecting (well, there's no fighting, for a start), so much so that I had to check I actually had the right film. But it was so good, so clever, and so funny that I really didn't mind whether I did or not.

So, on the strength of that, sans doubte, five stars: Norton is beautifully understated as the nameless narrator, Helena Bonham-Carter reveals the burned out sex-kitten side of herself that previously I could only fantasise existed, and Brad Pitt, always arch and aware, is as charismatic and magnetic as anyone I've seen on screen. Because he's so cool you tend to overlook the fact that he's an extraordinary actor as well.

But doubts began creeping into my mind the minute the first punch was thrown. They took a while to solidify - the game could have gone any one of a number of ways; the violence stayed intermittent and along with the punches there were some interesting (if, er, heavy handed) consumerism vs. individualism arguments getting thrown about, and there seemed to be a Brad Pitt as Jesus thread gathering pace, but suddenly everything went terribly wrong, the narrative ceased making any sense, and this clever, articulate and stylish film devolved into an ultra-violent, but otherwise pretty run-of-the-mill high-octane action movie.

What happened? Well, put some of it down to Curse Of The Twist. This is a phenomenon which really only started in earnest with the Crying Game, where the twist made the film; was followed (cleverly) by the Sixth Sense and (laboriously) by the Usual Suspects, and now seems to be obligatory way of finishing off a film where what seemed a great idea when it started turned out not to be (see for example the Shawshank Redemption, Signs, and A Beautiful Mind). Problem here is that the twist completely undoes all the good work done in the first hour of the film. A picture that was making some clever points in a pretty palatable way all of a sudden just doesn't any more. And all of a sudden there are lots of guns and lots of punching. Great.

And I'm not sure the twist even works (I'd have to watch it again, and to be honest I can't be bothered): the point of a twist is to give you a set of facts and imply that they should be interpreted in a certain way, and then to reveal the critical piece of information which reveals that everything must actually be viewed another way. I have a sense that some of the facts from the first half don't square with the revised scenario.

This was all immensely disappointing, because this could have been a great film - I still think the first 60 minutes is a great film, but I guess if they had stopped there then, on account of the lack of fighting, they couldn't have called it "Fight Club".

Olly Buxton

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2.0 out of 5 stars A revolting film., Dec 24 2002
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kenneth groom (Manchester, England.) - See all my reviews
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Someone said that you either love or hate this film. Well I hated it. and I find it difficult to understand how anyone could do otherwise. It is an ugly, squalid, repulsive film about the dark side of human nature. Everything about it is depressing from the brutish thugs who spend their time bashing the hell out of each other, to the dirty, dank, derelict building in which they carry on their odious activity. And it's unrealistic.
They would all soon end up in Intensive care with broken noses and their handsome faces reduced to pulp. And why should any handsome bloke volunteer to have this done to them? And suffer the pain that goes with it? It's not only not realistic, it doesn't make sense.

Not only do I hate this film but I find it inexplicable that someone of the calibre of Helena Bonham Carter should be willing to appear in it. It can have done her reputation no good (in my opinion). From the beauty of Merchant Ivory to this pretentious rubbish. What a come down. However, I must admit I didn't see the whole film; I was so sickened I couldn't watch any more.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowingly Amazing, Dec 15 2002
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Jeremy (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the best movie in the world!!
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