Fight Club... when I saw it the first time, I thought it was the greatest movie eva.

When I saw it again recently, I felt it is just pretentious movie trying to be cooler than it really is. Everyone is so COOL and sarcastic and whatnot in the movie. I guess it came out at the right time when everyone was still like gee Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are sooooo cooooooool (and Fight Club was too).

hahaha, so like a bed of boobies would just be amazing then, eh?
HUSH YOUR MOUTH! all those movies are amazing.

:)

It's how I prefer to sleep.

hahahahaha

you should write to a mattress factory. you could make a fortune.

Are they though? I hear this complaint often about it but it never makes much sense to me. Spoiler Ahead.

Nolan is pathetic at the beginning of the movie. A guy who works a job he hates that competely desensitized him and turned him into a cynic. He has to build his Identity around IKEA furniture and the only way he can feel human contact is at revelling in the misery of others at self help meetings. He loathes himself so much he has to create a fantasy version of himself to pick himself up.

Tyler (Brad Pitt) is THE cool guy. He's the friend you always wanted, who can do whatever he wants and fuck any girl he wants, but he still hangs out with a loser like nolan and always covers his back because they bonded. That's the whole point of his character he's not real, there's no Cool Guy Tyler Durden in reality.

Marla seems to be this quickwitted woman with a sharp tongue, but that too is just a front she's an emotinally fragile mess behind that facade who never moved beyond being the edgy girl in highschool.

The Fight Club itself is just a refuge for loosers who haven't hit rock bottom hard enough to become criminals but like Norton don't enjoy their lives either.

I do agree though that the film works much better when you're a teen or just a bit older and you really get swept up in Tyler's persona and his whole Anti-system anti-capitalist thing, before the movie slams it back into your face (the book handled it better, especially the ending but I liked both). A good substite movie is American Beauty which basically also deals with being unsatisfied by your life but with a lot less angst/edge and more actual real adult fears.

And if you are in any way shape or form implying Pulp Fiction still isn't the coolest film ever there's something wrong with you, man.

I love the Big Lebowski too (And yeah all Coen films I've seen so far were great) but that's like comparing apples and oranges.

I do get what you mean some films just want to be "cool" and just end up being annoying and every character is a narcissist prick (For people who want to suffer watch The Item, or the RLM episode). But for me the movies that were actually great and not just stupid schlock still feel "cool". Hell I even like the new Tarantino movies. What annoys me far more in movies nowadays are characters that the audience is just supposed to identify as cool, but do everything half-assedly or flub their one liners and just go "whatever" and are cool in an ironic way (New DmC comes to mind), that very rarely works for me.

As for Robert "Manboobs" Paulson, god bless Meatloaf, he seems to be just a side character but for me he's one of the reason the Nolans cynicism or coolness doesn't rub me as annoying, is because he isn't manboobs the plucky comedic relief to make the mc look better. He's actually one of the more sympathetic figures in the film.

Well or maybe I'm too young to feel jaded about movies yet.

Have people been invoking the Name of His Dudeness?
White Russians all around!

Cynthia Rothrock even more!

Cyndia, Carlos, Bruce and Van Damme are my favorites ever! Good on the stage, in life and in person!

I agree which reminds of an excellent review of the book I read recently.

That movie is amazing, I watched it a little more than a year ago and it floored me.

That short clips shows and proves the continuing degradation of the human race.
Why do people have to act like animals or some viral zombies?
Don't they have even an ounce of pride, backbone and self esteem?

At first I thought that Pitt Brad was visiting the monkey yard of some obscure zoo...

He is so dreamy.

No gossip, just Mr. Pitt saving a young girl from a retarded crowd.

"We" need rescue from "retarded crowds", too; the same retarded crowds that his wife is partly responsible for polluting my yard and entirely responsible for them having to remain here indefinitely.