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Fingersmith101

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Incredible and intelligent... I've watched this over 20 times now and i still enjoy it, look forward to favourite parts and still find it inspires the way to think about things. The storyline is deep and twisted, grinding against all that society...
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Incredible and intelligent... I've watched this over 20 times now and i still enjoy it, look forward to favourite parts and still find it inspires the way to think about things. The storyline is deep and twisted, grinding against all that society would view as "nice" and questions how and why we've all fallen into our materialistic bubbles and refuse to come out.

Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are mesmerising and Helena Bonham Carter's natural acting insanity just adds to the surrealism that engulfs this film. Meatloaf doesn't add much with his role but the idea of Bob is an eye-opening one. Plus a touch of Jared Leto as a bleached rebel is a little bonus.

It's not a film about fighting but it should leave its mark on you. If it doesn't, you need to just open your mind and... slide :)

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Posted may 7, 2009 5:20 am pt

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The previous poster is right - straight after this I immediately went out and bought three of Norton's films. Fight Club really has some fantastic moments. The plot is amazing, and the twist at the end makes the whole viewing all the more worth...
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The previous poster is right - straight after this I immediately went out and bought three of Norton's films. Fight Club really has some fantastic moments. The plot is amazing, and the twist at the end makes the whole viewing all the more worth it. I love Fincher's way of making his movies look dark, which looks very artistic and anti-blockbuster. Subtle moments of comedy are put in. Brad Pitt does a good job as the anti-material Tyler Durden and Helena does an amazing job as the suicidal love interest. This is easily one of my favourite movies and its thanks to this movie that I became a huge fan of the films of David Fincher and Edward Norton. Buy it, its well worth the cash.

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Posted jul 5, 2008 10:35 pm pt

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You hardly ever find sh!t this good. SO worth watching, no matter who you are. Plus,you become an instant Edward Norton fan.

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Posted jun 12, 2008 5:19 pm pt

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Brad is Great in this movie... I like Fight club.

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Posted may 2, 2008 7:45 pm pt

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bradd pitt v.s. fat albert

p.s. good movie

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Posted feb 22, 2008 11:00 pm pt

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I believe that Fight Club is the greatest movie ever made.

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Posted jan 30, 2008 6:49 am pt

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Few movies come around that I can't figure out the funky twist ending. This is one of them. The dialogue alone is worth it, if the title alone doesn't sell you. The visuals are outstanding especially the fight secenes that make you think...
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Few movies come around that I can't figure out the funky twist ending. This is one of them. The dialogue alone is worth it, if the title alone doesn't sell you. The visuals are outstanding especially the fight secenes that make you think "this is Hollywood?" This is a fun smart guy flick, watch it, enjoy it and don't talk about it.

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Posted dec 27, 2007 12:45 pm pt

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Instant cult classic. Controversial and violent but definitely worth watching!

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Posted sep 5, 2007 10:31 am pt

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First of all I have to say Edvard Norton and Brad Pitt are great actors (among the best).

In everyday lives we live/act different roles - different personalities. This movie shows this duality of a person. And not just that it show...
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First of all I have to say Edvard Norton and Brad Pitt are great actors (among the best).

In everyday lives we live/act different roles - different personalities. This movie shows this duality of a person. And not just that it show hidden dark personality of a person. The personality that we sometimes deny or are even not aware of. This movie freaks me out and excites me at the same time!!!!

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Posted jul 2, 2007 9:59 pm pt

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In the beginning of this very unique movie, you are introduced to the narrator. (Edward Norton) The narrator is an insomniac who works at a major car company. Right in the beginning he trys to find a way to sleep, but he can't. After his doctor...
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In the beginning of this very unique movie, you are introduced to the narrator. (Edward Norton) The narrator is an insomniac who works at a major car company. Right in the beginning he trys to find a way to sleep, but he can't. After his doctor tells him to check out disease support groups to see real pain, the narrator actually checks out these support groups and finds himself addicted. Tuberculosis, Testicular Cancer, no he doesn't have any of this, but he goes because he can sleep. He can sleep because he can cry and he can cry because he goes to these support groups where he can feel sorry for the people who actually have these diseases.
One day, another faker named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) comes to the support groups, all of them because "they're cheaper than movies and you get free coffee." She attends all the ones the narrator attends and since he knows there is another faker, he can't cry so he cannot sleep.
He works out a deal with Marla to split the weeks and have him go some nights and her others so they won't have to see each other.
Soon after the narrator meets a man named Tyler Durden on the plane. Tyler Durden was a very interesting man. His philosophy on life was that being God's unwanted child was better than him not knowing in all. In other words, God hating you is better than having no attention from God whatsoever.
Tyler sold soap. He used human body fat to make soap and then he sold it.
After the Narrator returned home from his business trip, he discovered that his condo had been blown up. Every piece of furniture he loved was in that condo, in fact he didn't own that furniture, the furniture owned him.
So he called up his new friend Tyler and stayed with him.
They walk out of a bar.
Tyler asks the narrator to hit him as hard as he can.
The narrator was clueless on what Tyler was thinking, but Tyler insisted that he hit him, so he did.
Thus giving birth to Fight Club, a place where men can fight not for grudges, not for hatred, just to fight.
"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?" -Tyler Durden
However, Fight Club evolved, Tyler Durden and the narrator wanted to get back at everything that wasn't right, to teach people to accept that their stuff shouldn't own them, to make sacrifices.

Then there is this huge twist at the end, I'm not going to say, just watch the movie. It's really amazing.

Fight Club is an exceptional movie.

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Posted jun 25, 2007 10:03 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.

  by Bob Graham | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  100
  Fight Club -- cue the blurb machine -- is a knockout.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  100
  Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] TNT RoughCut
  
  100
  Frighteningly intelligent and visually stunning film.

  by Graham Verdon | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  100
  It always surprises, never bores. It's also just damn good, on every possible level -- so go see it. Now.

  by Gemma Files | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  100
  A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  91
  It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief.

  by Paula Nechak | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie.

  by David Rooney | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  88
  It's a genuine shocker - a dazzler of a film - a hellishly funny picture.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  88
  It's the rawest, most hot-blooded, provocatively audacious, dangerous movie to come of out Hollywood this year.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film.com
  
  80
  Never less than dazzling to look at, and the scorching humor keeps it alive from scene to scene.

  by Robert Horton | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  80
  A brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  As a piece of storytelling, Fight Club is a bit of a dud: It's a good 15 minutes too long, and the tension doesn't build the way you wish it would.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »