So I FINALLY watched Fight Club...what, it only came out like 7 years ago or something, right? My first feeling was that I was rather disappointed in it, and that might not be wrong, but then I've been thinking it over all day so maybe it was effective on some level.
*****WARNING : Spoilers follow. If you wait years and years to watch movies but still don't want to hear about the plot twists, read no further!****
I was really peeved by the revelation that Tyler was actually Edward Norton's character (Jack?). It kind of wrecked the end of the movie for me. I was willing to suspend disbelief enough to accept that these guys could all pound the shit out of each other and just need a couple of band aids the next day, I was willing to buy that somehow Tyler rigged IKEA boy's apartment to explode a week before they actually met, and I'll allow that maybe that many dudes can actually meet up for this secret club without attracting the attention of the authorities. But the whole "they're the same guy" thing didn't jibe for me. I mean, how does this office drone guy learn all this shit about high explosives and soap making and crap? Was his alternate personality busy learning this stuff while he was sleeping? Obviously it's a fantasy, so maybe I'm getting too caught up in storyline. I didn't find there to be much message under the ultraviolence either. I guess maybe I just don't really "get" satire. Sure, there's a lot of "issue raising" - the modern male's confusing perceptions of masculinity, a yearning to resolve one's problems through primal physical conflict, commercialism vs. self-reliance. But the issues don't really get answered, and the whole film just kind of blew up at the end - literally. I liked some of the cinematography, and the pace of the film was good (although it was a little long). I just don't think the end of the film met the expectations set by the first hour. I think it failed for me on many levels, although it did succeed in making me try to grasp some deeper meaning from the underneath all the glossy, bloody facade.
Oh yeah, and there's a WHOLE lotta Ho-yay (although maybe not since it's the same guy).
*****WARNING : Spoilers follow. If you wait years and years to watch movies but still don't want to hear about the plot twists, read no further!****
I was really peeved by the revelation that Tyler was actually Edward Norton's character (Jack?). It kind of wrecked the end of the movie for me. I was willing to suspend disbelief enough to accept that these guys could all pound the shit out of each other and just need a couple of band aids the next day, I was willing to buy that somehow Tyler rigged IKEA boy's apartment to explode a week before they actually met, and I'll allow that maybe that many dudes can actually meet up for this secret club without attracting the attention of the authorities. But the whole "they're the same guy" thing didn't jibe for me. I mean, how does this office drone guy learn all this shit about high explosives and soap making and crap? Was his alternate personality busy learning this stuff while he was sleeping? Obviously it's a fantasy, so maybe I'm getting too caught up in storyline. I didn't find there to be much message under the ultraviolence either. I guess maybe I just don't really "get" satire. Sure, there's a lot of "issue raising" - the modern male's confusing perceptions of masculinity, a yearning to resolve one's problems through primal physical conflict, commercialism vs. self-reliance. But the issues don't really get answered, and the whole film just kind of blew up at the end - literally. I liked some of the cinematography, and the pace of the film was good (although it was a little long). I just don't think the end of the film met the expectations set by the first hour. I think it failed for me on many levels, although it did succeed in making me try to grasp some deeper meaning from the underneath all the glossy, bloody facade.
Oh yeah, and there's a WHOLE lotta Ho-yay (although maybe not since it's the same guy).
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