Fight Club is one of my favouritist films evah

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:51, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I don't like that film
I appreciate why others do, but I'm so fucking sick of people claiming it's one of the best films evah! See also: Se7en, Nightmare before Christmas, American Beauty, and Titanic.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:54, Reply)

Se7en is awesome, the others less so, especially Titanic

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:55, Reply)

agreed
though American Beauty has it's merits
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:58, Reply)

I like it, but not as much as I like Se7en
Titanic can fuck off.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Se7en was a great film
Saw it when I was 11 or 12 and still remember it vividly
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:16, Reply)

I bloody love it
That it has a NIN song in it is icing on the cake. The mood of that film is perfect.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:19, Reply)

yeah
it plays around with the film noir tropes (rain, dark streets, desolation) but in a perfect way. It means the film feels remarkably undated as well.

Fact Fans: The scene where Brad Pitt's hand goes through glass, was written in on the day because he injured his hand in another incident
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)

I have a ritual
After seeing a film for the first time, I have to check IMDB and read the trivia section.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)

Really?
I have no idea where I picked up my handy fact from. But I do remember (possibly from imdb) that Brad Pitt refused to promote the film unless they used David Fincher's ending rather than the one the studio wanted. Gave me more respect for him actually.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)

I watched MegaMind at the weekend
and it had the most awesome soundtrack for a kid's film; AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Guns N Roses, it was brilliant.

There was an awesome bit where the trainee bad guy goes "what's the difference between a villain and a supervillain" and MegaMind says "presentation" and steps out of a giant image of his own head to 'Highway to Hell'.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)

I can see why you don't like those films.
Alas, my heart will go on.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:56, Reply)

Didn't we have this argument yesterday?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 15:59, Reply)

Only about Nightmare Before Christmas
The songs are good, but the film is poor.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:05, Reply)

Probably for the best that we didn't talk about Fight Club
I would have hit you.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Isn't that the first rule anyway?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:08, Reply)

Good point, well made.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:09, Reply)

WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT!

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:09, Reply)

I'm not saying it's shit
I just don't enjoy it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:10, Reply)

But... how?!?!

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:13, Reply)

First time I watched it, I had to pause it for half an hour before the magic reveal about Tyler Durden
So it lost any tension there was, and I didn't fancy watching it again. My friends found this out, and pestered me for about a year to rewatch it. Eventually they made me, but were continually pointing out the best bits, and I just didn't give a shit.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:15, Reply)

dude speak on it,
It's utterly bollocks and the book is somehow worse.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:16, Reply)

You're either trolling or wrong.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)

No I really hated both
they bored the shit out of me.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:19, Reply)

but Ed Norton is the sex

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)

probably
if you're a bird or a gay.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)

no
he just IS.
Ever seen Primal Fear?
Oh lordy. That little geeky boy with the stutter, then BOOM here comes the rage?
Fucking phwoar.
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)

do you need a towel? and a hand back to your chair?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)

I'm fine!
*shakes it off*
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)

the film was great
why didn't you like the book?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)

I found it really dull to be honest. I read it years ago and can't remember exactly why
just remember it was toss.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)

Hm.
There's a really big film that I've never finished watching, can't remember what it is though. I keep falling asleep whenever anyone tries to make me watch it.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:18, Reply)

the rohypnol adventures. brilliant film.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:21, Reply)

Pam & Tommy sex tape?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Probably
Nah, I just remembered that it's Scarface.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)

I tried watching that once
I will again at some point, but I just wasn't in the mood for that long a film that day.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I fell asleep during the Godfather
and my (Italian) friend got really angry with me for renaming the two main guys Don Tagliatelle and Don Cannelloni.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)

I love Fight Club
it's one of the only films I've ever seen where the book is almost identical.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:14, Reply)

yeah they captured the tone brilliantly
the ending would've been better if it'd stuck to the book, but apart from that, really closely adapted
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:17, Reply)

The Rules Of Attraction
They fucked about with the storyline but captured the tone of the book completely perfectly. Which is why it is my favourite film ever.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)

ugh, Dawson's sex face
I love Shannyn Sossamon though
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Yeah, his sexface is pretty rank
The scene with Ian Somerhalder in the hotel more than makes up for it though. I like that.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:50, Reply)

oh the one where they're dancing on the bed to George Michael?
I fucking love that scene!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)

You knows it!
I actually love the whole thing when they're at the hotel, Dick is the best incidental character in any film ever. EVER.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 16:57, Reply)

Ker-Ching! They got it right on the money.
my a-level english lit teacher lent me his copy of less than zero a fortnight after it was published in the uk (fuck me, that makes me feel well old ;-( what with christmas coming on!) and it blew my fucking mind!
IT BLEW MY FUCKING MIND!
sorry for shouting, but BEL has long been a fave author of mine and to see a novel translated to the screen like TROA was does the author the opposite of a dis-service which i guess is a service.
the hotel new hampshire*, on the other fucking hand was an absolute travesty of a clockwork abortion of a film. it really serviced the novel and the author, but in more of an arse-rapey way. tear lubricated**.
wanted to like the film, from knowing the novel, but...
it spoiled the novel for me :-(
is it wrong to hate that?
*John Irving. Incest, bears, death, rape, sorrow (obviously), schlagobbers(sp?) etc.
**Jimmy Carr.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 23:48, Reply)