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intereact!Director: David Fincher
Actors: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf, Helena Bonham Carter, and Zach Grenier
Rated: R (Restricted)
Retail Price (not our price): $19.98
Release Date: 2002-08-27
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-10-15
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 139 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com essential video
All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown2) Description
"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12 Monkeys", "Seven"), Edward Norton ("Primal Fear," "American History X") and Helena Bonham Carter ("Mighty Aphrodite," "A Room With A View") turn in powerful "performances of which movie legends are made" (Chicago Tribune) in this action-packed hit. A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Many miss the point [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I'm amazed at how few reviewers understand the message of this movie is:Modernity is inherently alienating and dehumanizing, ANY kind of re humanization is better than none or rather that it's inevitable that humans will eventually be thrust back together in more tribal-type relations and that although the form that this will take will often be ugly the process is both necessary and better than the alternative (the cube,the suburbs etc). The fight club doesn't represent the corruption of the characters, it is their salvation! The fact that they have to be saved in such an ugly way just high lites how pathetic their normal lives are. The fight club represents a true society albeit one that is very brutal and unsustainable (versus one like out own that is temporal,artificial ultimately irrelevant[since it really can't inform the future]). Maybe it's just because I have reading so much about Bedouins for the last 2 years but it just was very recognizable to me. The fact is that wherever or whenever you go, a real economy of human relations will have certain basic traits:it will be relatively small (50-200 people),it will have a hierarchy based on ability and needs, it will be efficient and it will be intimate. A beautiful,timely film.Matt2) a good buy [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I received the movie in a very timely manner and am satisfied with my purchase.3) You have to see this movie. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
It kind of scary in a "this is too familiar" way but it also has humor. Brad Pitt isn't a pretty boy in this one. His character is kind of cool but a little retarded and whacked out psychologically. Which I liked.I love the story line except the ending but that did not mess up the rest of the movie, at all. It made sense though. The whole movie. As strange as it was-it reaches you on a deeper level without being deep or wishywashy/sappy. I'd say it's a dvd you'd want in your collection. I've seen it 3 times but now I'd like to have it on hand to watch again and again. Yeah, it's that kind of a movie.ENJOY!!!!!4) Fight Club [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is one of my top favorite movies. I have a lot of respect for Chuck Palahniuk's work, and this movie is VERY well adapted from the novel. It's gritty, sexy, and thought-provoking. Cover your eyes in some parts if you're not up for gun shot wounds and graphic fights.Good stuff. Well done.5) Great movie but this steelbox release offers nothing new [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I won't review the movie as others have done a fine job at that already - just feel compelled to add that if you already have the brown-wrapper 2-disc issued in 2000 then this steelcase edition offers no new content. Also, contrary to amazon's listing, this is NOT a DTS sound edition - it offers 5.1 dolby and below only. This is an excellent film - if you don't have the 2000 2DSE then by all means pick this up - the extras are marvelous. But don't make my mistake and buy it thinking it's new - it's just a repackaging of that 2000 edition.