Released: 1999
Directed By: David Fincher
Written By: Chuck Palahniuk (novel) and Jim Uhls (screenplay)
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter
Rating: R
Rent or Buy?: BUY! Should be ritualisticly watched on a regular basis!!!
"Mischief. Mayhem. Soap"
Story:
The story begins as the narrator also sometimes known as "Jack" suffers from insomnia and goes to support groups for different diseases allowing him to once again sleep. One day a woman named Marla Singer starts going to all the support groups as him and Jack is once again unable to sleep. While away on a business trip he meets a strange person named Tyler Durden and while away his apartment blows up and Jack stays with Tyler and the two start a fight club which eventually turns into a cult of mayhem, anarchy and murder.
Justin's Review:
This has to be one of the greatest movies ever. This is my favourite one indeed. Although most of the music is techno the opening song while showing the different parts of Jack's brain and going up the barrel of a gun is simply awesome. Many memorable quotes and great acting by everyone.
* * * * stars out of 4 stars. Perfect. Excellent. Superb. Awesome. What else is there to say?
Special Trivia: David Fincher shot over 1,500 reels of film, more than three times the normal amount. The original recipes for making bombs were gonna be the real recipe but in the interest of public safety dud recipes were made. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt found out during rehearsals that they both hate the Volkswagen Beetle and in the film the two are seen hitting one with bats. Some fake names that Jack uses at support groups are characters from Planet Of The Apes or classic Robert DeNiro characters.
Hilarious/Memorable Quotes:
Jack: This is your life and its ending one minute at a time.
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Marla Singer: (after sex with Tyler) My god, I haven't been fucked like that since grade school.
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Tyler Durden: Man, I seen in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damnit, an entire generation pumping gas and waiting tables; slaves with white collars.Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very very pissed off !
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Tyler Durden: The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. Third rule of Fight Club, someone yells "Stop!", goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule, one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes. Seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
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Tyler Durden: Ok, any historical figure.
Jack: I'd fight Gandhi.
Tyler Durden: Good answer.
Jack: How bout you ?
Tyler Durden: Lincoln.
Jack: Lincoln ?
Tyler Durden: Big guy, big reach. Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger.
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Jack: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall ? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman: Are there alot of these kind of accidents ?
Jack: You wouldn't believe.
Business Woman: What car company do you work for ?
Jack: A major one.
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Tyler Durden: Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.
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Jack: If I had a tumor, I'd name it Marla.
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Jack: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
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Tyler Durden: Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
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Tyler Durden: I'll bring us through this. As always. I'll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you'll thank me.
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Tyler Durden: Would you like to say anything to mark the occasion ?
Jack: (gun barrel in mouth) mm mm mm mmm mmmm.
(Tyler removes gun)
Jack: I still can't think of anything.
Tyler Durden: Ah. Flashback humour.
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Tyler Durden: Look. . .the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls. We drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us.
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Tyler Durden: Self improvement is masturbation. Self-destruction...may be the answer.