Mentions (24)
"Letterboxd: William Shakesqueer says 'ok but like can we talk about how fight club is lowkey a gay romance also edward norton didn't know how joan of arc felt im sorry what was the question.'"
"Classic Fight Club style failure of tonally glorifying the thing you wish to critique giving audience members the wrong memories that "stick" in their brains."
"10 years "Film Bro" used to mean a guy into entry level stuff like Tarantino and Fight Club. Now it means a guy into impenetrable arthouse cinema like Tarantino and Fight Club."
"Because it's an undeniably entertaining and creative movie, progressives who enjoy Fight Club (and many films with similar reputations) have adopted a standardized take of 'most people who like this movie don't understand it, it's actually a critique of the things they like'. I recently watched it, "
"Or the 90s the weird ennui of end of history manifesting in angst and derealization, eventually culminating in the 1999 Fight Club/American Beauty/Matrix "break free from the Matrix" thesis."
"For example there is definitely a not-insignifcant number of people who have permanently injured themselves or died in a street fight after trying to imitate Fight Club"
"Late night street racing, gator wrangling/bull riding, squirrel suiting, scuba diving, street fighting/demolition derbies all acceptable, some more accessible than others. Not rock climbing as its been co-opted by dorks. No I did not just watch Fight Club."
"ohhh he's a symbol of toxic masculinity and the negative effects of capitalist alienation on young men!!" why did you make him so cool and hot then idiot??"
"And now I find myself working with a 6ft2 Tyler Durden."
"Shooter just goes home and hops back onto discord to keep meming and consooming slop as if nothing even happened. Total disassociation."
"There's a pretty common observation that the nineties, especially the late nineties, had a lot of 'cubicle movies' about how bad and soul-sucking modern times are, and 'rampage movies' as a sub-genre how the only reprieve is acts of violence. Think your Fight Club (1999), before that Falling Down (1"
"And before you go 'umm 1999? duhh'. I agree it was a great year too, but not as KINO as 2006 was for me (I think Fight Club and Eye Wide Shut are a fun watch, but overrated overall)"
"Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Old Boy, Doom, Columbine, Woodstock 99, Marilyn Manson, Fight Club, Something awful, NewGrounds games. It was a much less politically polarized time but it's strange to look back on just how celebratory and gratioutus a lot of media was back then and how it feels almost"
"But nearing my thirties working a corpo job I feel I just need one more whatsapp message from a client and I am absolutely ready to bare knuckle fight random strangers in a basement"
"We've progressed past the extreme rebellion of media like Office Space and Fight Club, and further past the genuine counter-cultural vision of films like The Graduate."
"Fightclub is about: instead of blowing up banks, put a nice poster in your cubicle. like a cat hanging of a tree with the caption "hang in there". Because blowing up banks isn't cool, it's bad."
"I'm constantly getting recommended these dumbass Reddit movie subs, and almost daily I see posts like, 'Anyone think Wolf of Wall Street glorified Jordan Belfort?' or 'Fight Club made Tyler Durden seem too cool.'"
"Wanted tried to deepcopy the entire Fight Club trope of "shlubby man wanting to be something greater", but instead of CTE-induced facial disfigurements in a schizo cult it brought...bending bullets?"
"Gen X: Creators of Reddit atheism (Dawkins-style anti-religion, distinct from Boomer spiritual atheism or Space Race atheism). Their media was openly nihilistic and hostile toward optimism—Fight Club, The Matrix, The Simpsons, South Park, Office Space, Seinfeld, Nirvana, Pulp Fiction."
"There's a pretty common observation that the nineties, especially the late nineties, had a lot of 'cubicle movies' about how bad and soul-sucking modern times are, and 'rampage movies' as a sub-genre how the only reprieve is acts of violence. Think your Fight Club (1999)"
"the film is pretty clear about what it's saying tbh. but girls keep saying stuff like 'men don't understand fight club' or whatever."
"Fight Club is a heckin yikes"
"The wife of the worlds richest man was in Fight Club."
"Wanted tried to deepcopy the entire Fight Club trope of 'shlubby man wanting to be something greater', but instead of CTE-induced facial disfigurements in a schizo cult it brought...bending bullets?"