Tyler Durden says........use soap (Fight Club (DVD))

Member Name: Moominpapa

Product:	Fight Club (DVD)
Date:	28/12/00 (65 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Everything about it is superb

Disadvantages: none in my opinion

The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club.
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Jack works in an office. Jack earns a decent salary. Jack has carefully selected every single item of furniture in his apartment, especially those displaying a Yin-Yang. Jack enjoys lying on his couch and watching mindless gameshow bullsh*t. Why? Because Jack is an insomniac. He is neither awake nor asleep at anytime of the day. This is until he finds himself strangely addicted to a new ‘hobby’ of his. He finds that upon assuming different identities and pretending to be terminally ill at counselling groups creates a new feeling inside him and … he cries. The tears destroy his insomnia and he begins ‘sleeping like a baby’. Whether he is battling with brain parasites or chatting with the testicular amputees at the testicular cancer meetings, Jack is happy. That is until he meets Marla. Marla intrudes on his ‘hobby’ and once again, Jack can’t sleep.

The second rule of Fight Club is, You DO NOT talk about Fight Club.
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Jack meets Tyler Durden, soap specialist. Tyler ‘frees’ Jack from his apartment, his job, his ‘hobby’ and of course his designer furniture. Tyler Durden says… ‘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 Khahkis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.’ And most important of all Tyler Durden says….’use soap’. Tyler helps Jack find a new hobby. A more adventurous, more rewarding hobby. FIGHT CLUB. A place where men can release there anger on friends or strangers and receive a bizarre sadistic pleasure from being punched, kicked, stamped on, and hit in the ear.

Third rule: when someone says ‘Stop’ or goes limp, the f
ight is over.
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Fight Club is a ‘follow-up’ to the film Se7en (Seven). Not a follow-up as in ‘sequel’ but as in same director, same producer, and some of the same cast, but different characters, different film basically. ‘Fight Club is to Se7en as Notting Hill is to Four Weddings and a Funeral’ is probably the best way of explaining it. The combination of stunning direction, a mind-blowing script (based on the book of the same name) and incredible acting from the fantastic Edward Norton and the multi-talented Brad Pitt make this one of the greatest films I have ever seen. Meatloaf also makes a convincing job of the testicular amputee, whose HRT induced breasts first make Jack (Norton) cry. Fight Club forces the viewer to question his or her own life, using both gritty and controversial violence, and dark humour to aid both sides of the argument of secure or on-the-edge living.

Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight.
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The DVD
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Picture Quality
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An astounding effort has been made by 20th Century Fox to ensure that the picture is crisp and pin-sharp. The colours, which vary from very bright to very dark, are bold and there is no colour bleed, especially in the scene where Jack meets his power animal in the ice cave. The effect is dazzling, and really shows that if a film company really puts a lot of effort into their DVD’s the results can be spectacular. It’s just a shame that so many brilliant films on DVD have been quickly knocked up over a weekend, and look blurred and grainy, but fortunately Fight Club is not amongst these.

Audio
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As many DVD owners will know, although Surround Sound is a great thing to have with your player, pumping up the volume always has a major effect on the quality of the audio. The opening sequence w
ill blow you away if you do, and even though the neighbours will complain like hell, it is so worth it. Every note of the soundtrack and every word which leaves the actors mouths comes across with utmost clarity, so that nothing is missing from the cinema experience.

‘I am Jack’s endless features’
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The special features include deleted/alternate scenes, which give an insight into scenes that were either removed or re-edited to give the film more flare. The behind the scenes documentaries with alternate angles are very interesting, as they show how many different shots are taken before the film is edited. Commentaries from David Fincher (director), Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter provoke laughter and interest. Other features include the Dust Brothers music video, cast and crew bios, transcript of an Ed Norton interview, Trailers and internet spots, an art gallery and original artwork (Storyboards). There are also some public service messages from Jack and Tyler (Pitt), which are absolutely hilarious. The ‘how to start a fight’ booklet is also very interesting as it charts the stages the producers had to go through to turn a little heard of book into a box-office movie.

Fifth rule: one fight at a time.
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Tyler Durden says…. Don’t spoil this film for your mates, as this instantly promotes you to scum of the earth.

Sixth rule: No shoes no shirts.
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Many critics tried their best to destroy this film by showing their disgust at the levels of extreme violence, but, as we all know, controversy can only do good for films these days. When a film is this good it makes me sick to think that people will simply dismiss it because violence and thus fail to see or understand the messages it gives to the viewer. Fight Club also showed that David Fincher loves and thrives
on making his films full of gloom and death. Look at his other films, such as Alien 3 in which he killed a small girl and I think Se7en goes without saying.

Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to.
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Every single word of this that you read is a second of your life wasted. Think what you could have done in the time it’s taken to read this whole opinion. Your could have started a new underground pokemon training card/drug ring. You could have went down to your video shop and rented or preferably bought Fight Club, the new film from David Fincher.

Eighth rule: if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
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