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Leonidas:
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--- Quote from: *insert silly name here* ---The next person to quote Napolean Dynamite gets chopped in half and should be stricken from our collective memories forever.
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I LOVE YOU.
I saw the movie before it was really popular, and I thought it was stupid and pointless and retarted, but it had some good humor to it.
Then everyone started quoting it.
It got kind of annoying, but I still thought the movie was remotely funny.
Then everyone started wearing the shirts and merchandise and buying anything to do with it.
Man, I hate that movie now.
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I knew this movie was going to suck as soon as I saw the Mtv symbol at the start. I hadn't realised before that Mtv had anything to do with it. As soon as I did, I knew that what I hoped would be an intelligent and funny film would just become something stupid.
I don't hate the movie, but I didn't think it was very good.
Merkava:
--- Quote from: Inlander ---I hate Fight Club. Yes, that's right. Brilliantly acted, directed, and designed . . . but the central idea behind it is just so repugnant to me. I mean, the way I interpreted it, it essentially seemed to be saying that men could only truly become men by beating the living shit out of each other. This is the equivalent of a film saying women will not be truly happy until they accept that their role in life is to cook all the food and do all the housework. The vision of masculinity presented in Fight Club is such an objectionably narrow and retrograde one that I just can't relate to it at all. It's completely at odds with the way I was raised, and what I understand masculinity to be, which is essentially generous in spirit. Ugh.
And before anyone asks, no, I haven't read the book.
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I don't think that was the point of the movie at all. I think it was dealing with the fact that all men have a violent side and that we should embrace it, before it becomes an entity all it's own.
Of course, I haven't seen the movie in a while.
NaA: You don't /get/ art, do you? :P
Gryff:
Regarding both Fight Club and American Beauty:
I love art that deals with extremes of human nature/emotion.
Fight Club is not suggesting that "men could only truly become men by beating the living shit out of each other". It's saying that, as Merkava points out, there is a violent side in all of us, whether we embrace it or not.
American Beauty was saying that people should stop being so goddamn subtle all the time and actually live.
Switchblade:
--- Quote from: Merkava ---NaA: You don't /get/ art, do you? :P
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I know I don't seem to. All the "art" films that everyone lauds as being really great just fail to score with me, but I genuinely enjoy about 60% or so of what Hollywood puts out.
No wonder I got an "E" in Film Studies.
Aphi:
--- Quote from: Gryff ---Fight Club is not suggesting that "men could only truly become men by beating the living shit out of each other". It's saying that, as Merkava points out, there is a violent side in all of us, whether we embrace it or not.
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Has anyone else read an essay written by Stephen King about why we as people enjoy horror movies so much? I kind of think that Fight Club was the same general idea. Gotta keep them gators fed, or you'll have a problem. A pretty serious one.
Then again, I could just be rambling in a desperate effort to defend one of my favorite movies /ever/.
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