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Review: Fight Club By SKillBot, (DT) October 17, 1999 7:05 PM PT |
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We got tired of moving yesterday, so we went to see Fight Club.?You should read our review.?Then you should go see it. |
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We get out to see movies every once in a while. Having just moved, our whole internet connectivity is through a guerilla linux box dialing up a forgotten college account through a hijacked phone line. It sucks. Watching Fight Club made us feel much better. Based on the book by some guy, it's an excellent piece of cinematography that translates the cool aspects of text onto the screen. For instance, some parts are narrated by Ed Norton's character, and it's nicely balanced with the dialogue and action. There are some really cool illustrations of the scene during narrations. They're like the title sequence which is just the camera zooming out of someone's skin and down a gun. I could tell I would love this movie within the first 30 seconds. The story is great, and I can't wait until I have enough time to read the book. It's a movie about a guy who's tired of his normal life and then he decides to turn it upside down by hitting rock bottom. But it's so much more. It has Meatloaf with huge boobs fighting people. Everything is dark and dirty, but it's not depressing or anything. There are a lot of sickly humurous aspects of it, but the plot is very cool... except for the ending. Egor and Syndicate saw it with me, and we couldn't believe the ending. It was like they presented four different versions to a focus group and they picked the disney ending. It just didn't fit at all. But it could hardly ruin the feeling from seeing the previous two hours. It was much like the Matrix. Everything is not what it seems, transcending reality kinda stuff, but it's way more aggressive and psychological. Don't go if you don't have at least a mild sense of humor about violence. Edward Norton was great. He plays the best ass kicking whiny guy I've seen since Michael Douglass in Falling Down. Brad Pitt played a really good role as an ass kicking maniac. And Bonham-Carter was a really good... well, she played her part convincingly. Go see it. Then go see Seven, and American History X. |
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