Tell me! Is this the greatest movie ever, or what?

[thebitterguy]

[Poll #986454]

For those curious, this was my inspiration.

Man, does that link even work? They've blocked the main Onion page at work, but you can still get into the AV club.

Comments

[deven-science.livejournal.com]

You did this just because the other day I mentioned no longer having a Fight Club icon, didn't you? Damnit. It saddens me that I'm the only "yes" vote so far. I even have a Fight Club related tattoo.

I do have a question, though. How did an article about the awesomeness (and it is) of Reservoir Dogs inspire this? Is Fight Club your favorite movie?

Oh, I do have a Clockwork Orange icon, so I'll use that, as it works with the article.

Horrorshow

[thebitterguy]

I admit, your mention of a FC icon just put it into my brain (and, yes, your Seabee/FC tattoo is quite sweet).

The RD one just made me add the 'I am a Girl' option, because it just seemed to fit a necessay third category.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

::bzzzt::

Rule One and Rule Two violations detected.

[thebitterguy]

Thank God you're just a figment of my imagination, then.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

The more distance I put between me and Fight Club, the more overrated I think it is. Good cinema, but mediocre movie, if that makes any sense.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Isn't that typical of Fincher? Great craftsman, but not a whole lot of depth? Also, that might be typical of the whole "ad- or music-video director turned movie director" phenomenon?

These training ground disciplines seem to produce directors that are fascinated with visuals (even ranging to being devotedly tyranical towards talent in order to get "the right shot"), rather than character, acting, story.

So you get visual feasts that are essentially cold and heartless at the core because of their lack of depth in character and story?

That's just a hunch and not really informed by anything...

[thebitterguy]

Could you elucidate on that, actually? By mediocre movie do you mean it was not an enjoyable film experience?

[easyalchemy.livejournal.com]

It's true, I am a girl, but I do like action movies, and I like Ed Norton and Brad Pitt, and yet I still agree with sixteenbynine.

I knew a lot of people who like, went out and started fight clubs after watching it. I'd like to pretend they were being ironic, but the fact is that they just missed the point. I think.

It's follwoing reminds me of Boondock Saints. I don't get it. After hearing half the guys I know go on and on about its awesomeness, I watched it and couldn't quite put together what it was they liked. The script seemed like it was written by a bunch of little boys pretending to know how to be badasses. I could barely watch the whole thing.

[thebitterguy]

I agree about Boondock saints. I could never figure out what the deal was with that film. The backstory is way more interesting than the film (other than the 'spot the TO location' game, which always rocks).

[darthmarysue.livejournal.com]

I can't pick both b and c....

[thebitterguy]

That's why I put it in there. After all, if you think it's awesome you can't be too girly, now can you?

[ketronic.livejournal.com]

BIG TIME offended by the "I am a girl" category.....

[thebitterguy]

Well, you obviously aren't, because you've seen Fight Club, neh?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

B and C.

I protest the discriminatory absence of ticky boxes from this poll.

[thebitterguy]

Life's about making hard choices.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

b, and I'm a girl.

[thebitterguy]

Are you EVER!

I can't make out the icon, though. Wazzit?

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Bollywood slash. Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan. You asked.

The blurry words say 'See the pretty men'.

[rodshark.livejournal.com]

How dare you make a POLL about Fight Club, hell you're not even supposed to TALK about Fight Club, hell man its the first freakin rule!

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, well, I broke rule #4, too.

[cinn48.livejournal.com]

Hey, I am a girl and I think that Fight Club is the best film ever made.

I think it is the best film ever made, not because the dialogue was good, or the production values were good, or the stars were hot. It is the best film ever made because it started a huge amount of dialogue, both feminist and malinist (hey I just coined a word!) I am a feminist who truly believes that the two genders are different and that we need to celebrate our differences, not blend them.

Of course, saying anything is THE best ever is not true, it is one of the best ever. Nothing is necessarily better than Fight Club but many movies are equally good and caused as much conversation, like Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tannenbaums etc...

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Dude - I am girl but I also think Fight Club is awesome. I just don't think that it is the awesomest.

Also... Rule One?

So sad, dude, so sad.

[thebitterguy]

Man, that's, like, three Rule 1 jokes.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

What did you expect when you talk about Fight Club?

[pope-j-rod.livejournal.com]

Fight Club Is a good movie. It was pretty well done, has a lot of fun telling the story and when you go back and watch it again you are able to pick up on the subtle clues. Sadly I do not think it is the best thing ever. I would have difficulty applying that label to any one movie as I like many movies a great deal, but for very different reasons and they don't always compare well.

[celisnebula.livejournal.com]

Sorry, while I do like the movie, Fight Club is not the greatest movie ever. Yes I'm a girl, and yes, I adore action movies.

Although, I loved Torchwood's take on the Fight Club movie.

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

Fight Club is not the greatest movie ever, sorry, although it did make for one of the more amusing non anime cosplays I've seen at an anime convention ever, (including a hand carved Fight Club soap).

I answered "I am a girl" which seemed like the only reasonable thing to do, since, a) I'm not ashamed of my girlness, b) "Fight Club is highly overrated" wasn't an option.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Actually, I remain firmly convinced that "Fight Club" is one of the most overpraised and badly done films of the last ten years. Where the book was a pretty serious commentary on the rage of young men, it earned that by honestly depicting that rage and taking it to truly dark and dangerous places. People forget that in the book Tyler wants to throw us back to the Stone Age, and the book ends on a much more downbeat note than the movie.

The movie lacks substance. It wants to seem all nihilistic and dark, but it actively avoids the parts of the novels that might offend a mainstream audience, and butchers the novel's structure into the bargain (everything in the novel has some form of resonance later on in the book.) The movie doesn't want to tell us anything we don't already know on some level, and it doesn't want to provoke any thought. There's no real consistency or logic to the movie, either.

In short, I think the book is great and the adaptation is about what Hollywood usually does to books worth reading.

[thebitterguy]

So, Girl, then?

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Hey, I read the book fifteen times, eight of those in a row, when I first got it. Chuck Palahniuk put down on paper what I felt so intensely in high school (and in large part still feel) that it shocked me.

Plus I own "Kiss of the Dragon" and "Master of the Flying Guillotine". And I turned you on to "Rififi." I would say my penis credentials are well established. :-)