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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 1310 reviews)
Sales Rank: 267
Category: DVD
Director: David Fincher
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Label: 20th Century Fox
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Dubbed, Subtitled, Thx, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Edition: Special Edition
Running Time: 139 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.5
UPC: 024543000358
EAN: 0024543000358
ASIN: B00003W8NM
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1999
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Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential video
All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiraling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control.
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown
Description
"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12 Monkeys", "Seven"), Edward Norton ("Primal Fear," "American History X") and Helena Bonham Carter ("Mighty Aphrodite," "A Room With A View") turn in powerful "performances of which movie legends are made" (Chicago Tribune) in this action-packed hit. A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.
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Customer Reviews: Read 1305 more reviews...
 Cult Hit June 17, 2006
Definately one of the biggest Cult Hits in recent years. "Fight Club" tells the story of a man trying to hit rock bottom and stripping down everything along the way. Everything comes together in a surprising ending that will leave you shocked and surprised.
 How to fight yourself June 7, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've read the book and seen the movie. The book is much better.
As usual, Brad Pitt gives an exceptional performance as Edward Norton's make believe other half. What starts out as a simple meeting on a plane, ends up as a full blown 'club' where the characters basically beat the hell out of each other. After a while, you start seeing people popping up all over the city with bandages on them but it must all be kept a secret. As the fighting dies down, the 'gang' start to dabble in more dangerous ventures. All living in 'Tylers' house, they hang around making plans for their next plot. This is an excellent movie and book. Very entertaining and although the ending was a little disappointing to me (shooting one's head up the side works wonders), I still fully recommend it.
Someting to say May 29, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Still the only movie that, for me, describes the experiences of my generation-our values dictated by consumerism and badly in need of violent negation in order to bring us back to ourselves. It's also VERY funny, very stylish, mischevious and the acting (Bonham Carter just gets better every time you watch it) is transfixing. Makes Fincher's follow-up (Panic Room) seem kind of empty.
 Dismembers Only May 24, 2006
11 out of 31 found this review helpful
Though stylish and well crafted, it would be hard to find a more disingenuous, manipulative, and hideous movie than Fight Club. Imagine a film that showed beautiful people eating a fabulous, decadent meal, savoring every luscious mouthful - then, five minutes before the end, a spokesman for the American Heart Association came on screen with a warning that high fat foods cause heart attacks. Or, imagine a film showing scantily clad women in provocative poses until, five minutes before the end, a representative from N.O.W. came on screen and warned that we live in a sexist society and, simply by watching this trash, viewers are validating her point. Such is the awe-inspiring hypocrisy of Fight Club, a film that purports to be a cautionary tale about violence but is in fact a tutorial in it. The basic premise, that urban man has lost touch with his inner Neanderthal, is an interesting one, and would have served as the basis of a good movie. To see how a better director approached the idea of innate violence, revisit Clockwork Orange, a masterpiece that director Fincher (Se7en - a much better movie) has certainly studied. Kubrick's chilling adaptation of the Burgess novel came complete with skinheads, one of many similarities between the two works. The second act of Fight Club is an orgy of brute violence with absolutely no redeeming qualities, and the third act offers one of the shabbiest, cheapest, and stupidest "reveals" - or "aha" moments - in the history of recent film. Ed Norton is a really fine actor, but his performance is wasted. Brad Pitt, by contrast, doesn't get beaten up nearly enough to redeem this abomination. Should have used the club on the director.
 A punch in the face, allright! April 7, 2006
7 out of 50 found this review helpful
I bought this DVD on the basis of the raving reviews here, and was sorely disappointed. Yes, if you're thirty and live with your parents, if you have (or aspire to) a dead-end job, if you make the club scene but can't get into the chicks or the kicks, you'll love this movie. If you think anarchy, nihilism, and cliches about consumerism and corporate America are philosophically deep, you'll love this movie. Otherwise, avoid this juvenile and unfunny morass of pointless self-indulgence.
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