What’s So Great About ‘Fight Club’?

It’s an interesting film, but has a bro cult following that loves it. It’s like many films, looking back, it’s hard to see it as groundbreaking cinema.. i remember boomers talking about how terrified they were by Psycho and The Exorcist, but for me they were good scary films, but not as terrifying as they described. However, at the time they saw them, they were.

The punchy editing. The raw, dystopian plot. The twist at the end.

Movies that young men are into get glorified. Been that way since Star wars.

The twist at the end?

Fraus' liposuctioned fat being manufactured into high-end, luxury soap.

It has a twist that you see coming and the film goes on a bit too long, but I like it a lot and it's one of Pitt's best performances and of course Norton is terrific.

It's a film that defined masculinity for it's zeitgeist, and it was written by a gay man.

It was a bro cult film for millennials while the movie American Psycho recently had a resurgence from the gen z male crowd, I’ve seen millions of tik tok vids dedicated to this movie and Patrick Bateman is worship over there and labeled as the “true sigma male”

Was it highly rated? I thought it was just popular with the macho bro crowd?

Do some meth and watch it again, all the pieces fall nicely into place

You’re insane, Op! It’s genius. The characters amplify and inhabit every notion women and gay men have about masculinity.

It's a "super intellectual" movie for bros who would have worshipped Joe Rogan had they been 15 years younger.

So what was with the flash of a penis at the end of the movie?

R3 is absolutely right. I would amend it and say movies that young WHITE men are into get glorified. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a story about an entitled little twerp, is treated like the Citizen Cain of teen films just because puerile white frat boy types cackle their immature asses off over it.

IIRC, the reviews were pretty meh when it first came out, and It think the reviews had it right the first time. It felt like it was written by a cocky high school boy who had read a couple books about society and commercialism.

[QUOTE] Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a story about an entitled little twerp, is treated like the Citizen Cain of teen films just because puerile white frat boy types cackle their immature asses off over it.

Uhh, excuse me R14 but Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a great movie and will not be lumped in with this garbage.

Read the book and it makes a million times more sense. I'm gay and related to the protagonist's depression and emptiness. Just going back and forth in a routine with no purpose like a wind-up doll. He's obviously attracted to his alter ego Tyler who is meant to be the embodiment of masculinity. A lot of homoeroticism and violence. It's a critique on capitalism and toxic masculinity that turns society sociopathic, cold and unfeeling. The straight frat bros obviously wouldn't get it and if they read the book it would trigger them.

American Psycho is another one written by a gay man that again satirizes the empty shallownness of American society, consumer capitalism and sociopathic traits that pervade the white upper-class. Again, people miss the point as with most satire.

[QUOTE] He's obviously attracted to his alter ego Tyler who is meant to be the embodiment of masculinity. A lot of homoeroticism and violence.

Now if Brad Pitt and Ed Norton were getting it on in this movie, we might have something. But the bros wouldn’t worship it.

I love the movie. It's not my favorite but I understand the appeal. Plus, Brad Pitt has never looked sexier.

Straight bro-dawgs love this stupid film. The only thing I care for is the soundtrack.

As a teen in the early 2000s I used to pause the VHS at the still of that cock Tyler edited into movies. You know the one.

I like it because it captures dystopian LA correctly (even though it takes place in an anonymous city). Same thing with Fincher’s other LA-filmed movie, Se7en.

We don't talk about what's great about fight club.

R18, it's funny how straight white men get American Psycho so wrong. I saw one video on Youtube where some 'film analyst' thought Bateman was killing because he was rebelling against his soulless, consumerist world.

It’s great because it had Edward Norton in it. And no, I’m not Edward Norton.

I did enjoy the scene where the narrator and Marla fight over who gets which self-help group.

The Machinist did it better.

My mother on this film: "I didn't see why he couldn't just stop subscribing to the Pottery Barn catalogue if it upsets him so much."

[quote] The twist at the end?

Tyler Durden and the narrator are the same person.

The movie didn't capture all of the book's themes. As typical for adaptations. They toned down the bisexual narrator's sexual attraction to Tyler. They upped the action but less focus on the philosophy, relationships and psychoanalysis. Hollywood as usual dumbed things down. They straightwashed Less Than Zero, The Color Purple, The Dreamers and The Basketball Diaries too.

Countless movies would’ve been greater if they’d just gay it up more.

The Color Purple adaptations will never get the explicit, heated lesbian sex scenes of the novel. At least as long as self-hating lesbian Oprah is alive and in charge of the productions.

OP has revealed himself as a puerile, white frat boy type. Thanks for coming out R16.

It was the first film to have that annoying green blue color scheme

You people are pathetic. Straight SMART hetero bros get both Fight Club and American Psycho.

Shitty movie for sure.

Straight Bros, often the slackers or stoners among them, are exactly the type of viewers to sit around and watch these bro movies and think deeply about them. They quickly understand the basic epistemology of such movies. Then go looking around for clever significations to discuss with each other and chicks.

Bros love that "Jackass" series, as well. Pushing other "adult" males in shopping carts down flights of stairs and kicking each other off guard, right in the nuts.

Smart bros are different than deplorable stupid bros.

I like Jackass as a gay man for the perverted homoeroticism of it all.

Hwy, Oprah loves Jackass too!

OP, to answer your question: Nothing.

R39, well the bros did secured Jackass as the #1 movie in the box-office and it did beat Moonfall.

Jackass is hilarious. I jerked off many a times to Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius. Way better than the later crap MTV put on like Laguna Beach and The Hills.

Orca loves "Jackass" because she is dude-ish. Closet lesbian, which would be so cool if she would just come out already.

Who cares what bros like? People who can actually read and think deeply knows the true message of Fight Club. People who know Palahniuk is gay even more so because it's a gay man's perspective. Satire gets misunderstood all the time as most people see thinks at face value.

The book is about a closeted gay man coming in terms with his sexuality and his complicated relationship with masculinity. Tyler is his alter ego he creates to fit into society and Tyler is his masturbation fantasy. As represents the masculine, confident male who is desirable to society and to gay men.