Posted by Malcolm Load at spider-te012.proxy.aol.com on October 16, 1999 at 15:58:28:
*possible spoilers*
OK
This ain't the forum...I know...I know...I just have to get this off my chest.
On the past bored somebody posted about Fight Club and it's brilliance.....exclaiming that he identified with it's themes of worthlessness and such.
Also proclaiming it wanted to make him fight the first person he saw.
You silly silly little man.
Fincher has dumped a big testosterone driven brain dead piece of shit on yer lap.....and your treating it like he let you fuck his sister.
The movie , and it's romatic notions of violence......and the awakening of our primitive self was as Fincher said suppoused to be a comedy.
Well....That is the only thing "funny" about that misogynistic, childish and draining effort that I saw.
The thing that scare me most as that it feeds the romanticized notions of alienation and nihilism that seems to be in over abundance this year...Being the end o da millenium and all....and it leaves us with an unclear stance on what it is really trying to say.
I mean...feeding us with 3/4 of a violent and some could argue sexy film......about mostly beautiful disenchanted boys...beating the crap out of eachother to "feel" again...and then tossing in a pseudo paranoid thriller twist ...is just too having yer cake and eating it too.
If there was a true message in that film...I defy someone to eloquently point it out..,,(aside from the violence bad....suppousedly imparted message...that I truly felt is being thrust upon it unfairly...the movie never truly never showed the consequences of a true ass kicking....Leto aside...and wasn't that nihlistic ending kinda truly a happy ending...I mean...we as humans are now all equal(creditwise anyway...) Plus he's got the sexy little hellcat at his side....and maybe explain what that stupid ending truly meant (aside from the fact that it is now ok for a director to totally ignore whole sections of the films continuity and tone to add a gimmick that is getting a little stale).
I have no problems with you "boys" being so entranced by this drivel forming yer own fucking clubs and kicking the shit out of eachother...in fact I encourage it. Just don't be taking on innocent people you are exiting the theater...they have real lives to lead. Ones that might be equally "anguished"...but who have the good sense and humanity to realize that..it's only a movie...a bad one at that.
and remeber...follow the rules...
First rule of fight club........please...PLEASE...don't talk about fight club!
-Malcolm
p.s
I like Ikea