Indeed, fight club is dumb

[RP33]

so if there is a movie that you don't fully understand, and want to attempt to understand it more, you should..

read the book that it was created from

I personally loved fight club, the movie, but the book was even better, and gives you a better perspective on the story, as usual..

you probably really don't like the movie because so many people like it and you feel you should like it so you have expectations for it that it doesn't live up to..

anyway, in general i'd just say the story is a product of superficiality in society and how Ed Norton's character is so numb to his everyday life because it is so meaningless.. and he can't sleep.. So finally when he goes to these meetings, he is able to sleep.. until Marla comes along..

and then you have the creation of fight club, to bring some meaning into ed nortons characters life.. He was so numb to his everyday routine, his everyday sequence of going to work, that he eventually, mostly through his insomnia wished he could be someone else (tyler).. and did become that person.. and brought a self-destructive lifestyle to his life to add some meaning and excitement to it.. It was it's own form of therapy.. in fight club you became someone else..

that's my interpretation of a general theme of the movie..

[OumaFan]

It was ok, maybe even good, I got it so to speak. Did not freak out about it like a lot of people I know.

[Douglas]

I posted a topic about this very movie awhile back and was told I'd really like it if I watched it again. They say you wouldn't get it the first time you watched it. I haven't had a chance to watch it again, so I really don't know...

The movie didn't make sense to me either.

[Fenster]

Fight Club is truely brilliant.

It's worth multiple viewings for the quotes alone (credit to Chuck Palahniuk of course)

[Lance Uppercut]

I thought fight club was excellent. The anti-materialism/anti-corporation message of the imaginary Tyler Dyrdan, the dark comedy of the protagonist who must go to meetings with the terminally ill just to sleep and the violence is insane.

The author of fight club, Chuck Palunik has several other great books.

[Dizaster]

I do get the anti-commercialism message, but I already undstand and get that pretty well on it's own, so I guess maybe that message feel on deaf ears a bit..


I'm sure reading the book would come across a LOT more complete and I would probably get it all a little better...

One movie that is a little hard to understand,,,, well,,,, a lot hard to understand but is competely freakin awesome is Donnie Darko...

That's a trip of a movie, which probably has no message, and may not even be there to be understood. But it's cool.. The randomness of that movie really works!

The twists in fight club kind of feel like a real stretch. Like it's supposed to be clever, but you're just kind of like, ahhh, okay, fine then, he's both guys... The first time I watched it when I was 16 I would have said it was awesome! But now i've watched it for something a little more,,, it just doesn't provide.

[SE7EN]

It's alright.