Thread 213512018

It's not, okay? Let's get this out of the way. It's okay, but not kino level.

I'm pretty sure people over exaggerate about how kino this movie is simply because Brad Pitt had nice abs in it.

>>213512018 (OP)
You wouldn't get it

>>213512018 (OP)
only OP and the author watched Fight Club for the abs

>Durden makes valid points throughout the movie about the widespread alienation and consumerism affecting society
>People get mad when you agree with him
What gives?

>>213512087
The abs were a nice lil bonus, but I actually watched it for the fights, but sadly there weren't much

i mostly like the atmosphere

>>213512130
even if you agree with him, there is no solution offered. nobody cares about whiners.

>>213512018 (OP)
>I'm pretty sure people over exaggerate about how kino this movie is
it was groundbreaking at the time. Often imitated over the years so if you're just now watching for the first time, some things may seem old hat

>>213512966
Honest question, imitate which aspect? The plot twist where tyler is actually the narrator himself?

>>213513019
>Honest question, imitate which aspect?
Twists had happened before, but there definitely was a resurgence of 'twist' endings after.

But i was more speaking of the cinematography, visual effects, breaking the 4th wall. Incorporating so much CGI in a non action film especially.

>>213513360
>breaking the 4th wall.

>>213512909
Did you not watch the ending?

>>213513360
Ah i see

>>213513380
my father worked for a film reproduction company that produced reels for cinemas (before everything went digital and he got laid off) and he told me when they reproduced fight club and were doing the first quality checks they were checking the final reel first and got tricked by the ending fourth wall break....the one with the cock right at the credits

>>213513570
>Ah i see
slow motion zooms, quick jump cuts...suddenly it was everywhere

>>213513533
> What are redundancies?
Blowing up a few buildings doesn’t erase debt. Banking has so many redundancies and backups of data and that data is distributed all over the place.

>>213513769
>Banking has so many redundancies and backups of data and that data is distributed all over the place
1999, pre cloud computing. I'm sure alot of stuff was stored offsite on tape backups, but every consumer debt? I can suspend belief enough to enjoy the movie still. GLBA didn't go into effect until 2000

>>213512018 (OP)
that's not how it fucking works you retard. you don't form your own opinions on movies. you watch the movies then you come here and ask us what your opinion is on the movie. faggot. retard. moron.

>>213512018 (OP)
The only good thing about it is Brad Pitt.

i love brad pitts nice abs. norton was very cute too

Take brad pitt out and you got a shitty movie.

>>213512018 (OP)
Is this truly the only movie where you explicitly see Brad Pitt's penis? I think other movies only implied or otherwise hinted at it.

>>213512018 (OP)
i rewatched it again for the first time in probably 7 years or something and now that i'm older and jaded and hate everything about modern society, this movie hit a lot harder
one of my favorites

>>213512018 (OP)
You started the film from the contrarian position and that is why your opinion has no value.

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>>213512837
i know it was all filmed in LA, but the book and movie takes place in wilmington, delaware. i looked up wilmington, delaware and it's a raging ghetto shithole

>>213512018 (OP)
it's literally gay, the story is about gayness

>>213512909
Here's my solution: Nuclear bombs. Every city on Earth. Could solve the problem in one day.

>>213512018 (OP)
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one one who saw how average this movie is

>>213513704
>slow motion zooms, quick jump cuts...suddenly it was everywhere
I don't think that was due to Fight Club. It was just part of the general film editing zeitgeist of the time.

You had to be there

>>213512018 (OP)
Lil bro got filtered by Fight Club lmao

>>213512018 (OP)
>It's not, okay?
WRONG
The wrongest we have seen in perhaps a long, long time.

>>213512909
The solution is Project Mayhem. It might not be correct or virtuous or graceful, but it is a solution for characters in the movie.

>>213512018 (OP)
>people keep talking about how this is kino
Seen from the perspective of the 1990s it was. You probably don't know how bland and boring the 1990s were. This was after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, and before 9/11 and middle eastern terrorists murdering people all over the world. People got on the internet and bought the first affordable mobile phones and most problems seemed solved. People lived like the nameless Edward Norton guy from the movie. And then along comes a movie like "Fight Club" and brings a little breeze into their lives.

>>213513769
The movie becomes what it was parodying in the last act when it diverges from the book. In the book the target is a museum.

>Book: Target is the Museum of Natural History (an entirely different symbol that underscores just what nihilism is aiming at). Marla saves The Narrator by making him conscious of himself (i.e. traditional archetypal role for a female love interest). The bombs fail to go off (it's an anti-climax). The Narrator tries to kill himself but fails and ends up in the psych ward. In the end, he's lost his mind and he sees what he did as an achievement; Project Mayhem still lives (i.e. the violent impulse is eternal and it's part of a forever war).

>Movie: The target is credit card companies (i.e. instead of the true nature of nihilism we get a mission the audience sympathizes with and cheers on). The Narrator goes on a heroic rescue mission to save the damsel in distress. He sacrifices himself by shooting himself in the head to kill Durden and save Marla. He embraces her, starts making out with her (even though he just shot himself in the mouth, kek), The Pixies blare, and the bombs go off in the background. There are no consequences and all irony is lost.

P.S. Most retards miss the use of irony in the story as well, for example:
>the violence of the Fight Club is ironic: the characters destroy their bodies in an attempt to reclaim them
>they don't catch that the Fight Club develops into a cult (i.e. Project Mayhem) and its adherents merely sublimated their personal emptiness/lack of agency into a destructive nihilism that's the same thing (only reactionary)

Why are timmies like this?

>>213512909
I really hate people like you. Yes we are all too cowardly to do anything about it, but you are too cowardly to even admit there's a problem, and you want people who genuinely care about the well being of humanity to stop speaking the truth because you already built a life on comforting and lies and don't like thinking about it.
>no solution
Everyone knows what the solution is you soulless faggot

It's one of the better American movies of the 90s. I've been going through all those popular 90s movies and this was a dreadful decade. Almost every popular flick from the 90s is a shitty Oscar bait or some other sanitized crap. I'm not the greatest fan of Fincher, but I can appreciate his edginess.

>>213512909
>there is no solution offered
Start a fight club and bomb banks. Did you even watch the movie?

>>213520857
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1754736010112564.mp4

>>213512065
fpbp

>>213512018 (OP)
>It's not, okay?
Yeah, you're a faggot.

>>213512130
NPC are afraid of the truth,
just leave them be under their contaminated chyna-made mask
vaxxed self correcting problem

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>>213521052
a solution is something that works or is at least plausible

>>213523318
Mayhem went awry, but even if they were just a lure the fight clubs were working.
Plenty of guys were not just re-evaluating their lives and careers but forming close knit, active support groups.

Of course in real life these would be monitored and dismantled, but that's a byproduct of the problem not a failure of the solution.

>>213512018 (OP)
>watch a movie
>first thing that springs to mind is some dude's abs
zoomers are confirmed effeminate homosexuals