Fight Club [Blu-ray] [1999]

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Soon, he meets Tyler. Tyler has no use for material objects, but has as much distain for the touchy feely, microwave sensativity alter-exisistance of our protagonist. Tyler beleives in living in the moment, which requires shedding of all attachments, physical and mental. "It is only when you have lost everything," he says, "that you are free to do anything" Standing amongst those giants, 'Fight Club' still towers as a singular experience, one that seems to almost burst with the limitless possibilities of turn-of-the-century filmmaking. Think about all those computer-assisted camera moves that zoomed through buildings and brains. We see those every week on the various 'CSI' series, but at the time nobody had done that before (or even thought to do that before). In fact, virtually every stylistic element of 'Fight Club,' from its opening title sequence to its casual mixture of violence and nihilism to its gotcha(!) twist ending have been aped, parodied, or shamelessly ripped off in the decade since its release. There are a few moments which look somewhat muddy, but that is most likely an aesthetic decision rather than a fault of the transfer. There isn't a whole lot of color in this movie, but the moments that are punctuated by color are done brilliantly (a fireball erupting from a computer store, a flash cut to a lush green rainforest). This section contains well designed biographies for eighteen members of the cast and crew, including the writers, producers, and musical talent. This is how talent files should be done, and I hope other releases mirror this type of extensive cast and crew information in the future. From the two leads to the costume designer, all the bases are covered in this section. Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? Plot: What’s it about?

either the point in the film where it's referenced, or to the appropriate featurette in the special Sadly, most of the extras on this disc are simply carried over from the admittedly high-water-mark-setting 2000 DVD. There are a couple of new special features, but nothing in the way of retrospective documentaries - I would have loved a feature about the post-'Fight Club' fallout like then-Fox head Bill Mechanic getting axed. Also, Fincher recently spoke about doing a 'Fight Club' Broadway musical to celebrate the movie's tenth anniversary, with a score by Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor. Wouldn’t it have been fun to hear more about that? Yeah, I thought so too. During a business trip, the workaholic encounters an ambitious man with a style, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, Legends of the Fall), who immediately impresses him. He introduces the workaholic to a secret society, "The Fight Club", where people would beat up each other for pleasure.

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While these features are numerous, none offer any new material for fans. The four feature-length commentaries, while interesting, are a tad redundant at times and are unlikely to be utilized by most viewers. The "Behind the Scenes" vignettes offer brief insights into the production and development of the film, but none delve into any topic with any significant detail. Instead, the short videos piece together brief production footage with final cut footage and very little narrative. The deleted and alternate scenes come accompanied by menu summaries that identify the differences between the selected scenes and the final cut – a small but well-appreciated effort. The PSAs, which feature Tyler Durden and The Narrator, are amusing, but account for only a few minutes of supplemental viewing. Presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.40:1, encoded with VC-1 and granted a 1080p transfer David Fincher's, Fight Club debuts on Blu-ray courtesy of German distributors Kinowelt. Fincher then followed up the successful Seven with the dark thriller, The Game, which returned his work to the darker, less commercial area. The Game was a solid and thrilling film, but it left me wanting more from Fincher. After years of directing commercials and music videos, Fincher has truly become an elite director now, thanks to his incredible work on this film, Fight Club. I was skeptical to say the least on what Fincher could do with this movie, given the excellent and complex novel the film was based on. But Fincher has proven himself to me and the film business with this movie, and I have to admit it now ranks as one of my all time favorites, and one of the finest directorial turns I’ve seen. This marks Fincher’s best effort to date, and I have serious doubts if he can top this movie. While that might prove difficult to do, I certainly hope he can do it, and I look forward to Fincher’s future projects.

A preachy dark ode to violence with strong nihilistic overtones, David Fincher's "Fight Club" (1999) is the perfect example of a good idea gone terribly wrong. The film supposedly condemns everything its protagonists promote, but it does so in a manner that is so transparently exploitative that it resonates better as a flashy fascist tale than a condemnation of the excessive brutality its narrative is built upon. Courtesy of German distributors Kinowelt. Paper Street House- Video options include principle photography and preproduction, where the crew is designing and building the house. You can also view a split screen of both, if you so choose. Audio options include the location scout and principle photography.This movie left me with the strong impression of watching one of the most aggressive criticisms towards the dangers of excessive consumerism, of my generation.

spookiness and big beats sound a bit dated now, but the music is still bold and effective. I really Nihilistic – Other than the high-profile cast, willingly indulging themselves into excruciating lessons in self-mutilation, I am unsure why one would want to see Fight Club (is this actually a good reason to see this film?). One could argue that their gradual moral degradation is what makes this film an intriguing watch, but its narrative hardly sustains such a read. On the contrary, Fight Club focuses exclusively on the main protagonists' destructive actions, and by doing so, it eliminates any possibility of being read as a credible condemnation of violence. Critics and viewers who think this is about getting your macho up miss the point. So do those who think this is a "violent" film. Fight Club is really about personal liberation, and genius that osolates into insanity.It's sort of hard to fathom that 'Fight Club,' David Fincher's blistering thriller, was released ten years ago. It makes me feel very old. It was a film released in the midst of a wave of energetic filmmaking, made by a media savvy crop of young filmmakers that looked like it would affect the way that movies were made (and viewed) for the new millennium. Its Films of 1999 classmates included such boundary-pushing affairs as 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Three Kings,' 'Election,' 'The Matrix' and 'Magnolia' (imagine that yearbook). expresses variations of the credo that "it's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do

manufacturer. His life is defined by his Ikea-furnished lifestyle solutions, by his khakis, his dinner sex and belligerent neurosis. The script is tightly written, the editing is brisk and playful, and theFair enough, but anarchy was not what our narrator intended--all the guy was really trying to do was get some sleep--and he sets out to stop Tyler from executing his master plan. Is Fight Club perfect? No, it feels drawn out at times and the conclusion can be dissatisfying to some, but it is an experience unlike any other. You may not watch it multiple times in a year, but its definitely a film worth having in your collection for dark and rainy days.