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Somebody talked about Fight Club!

post #1 of 18
1/19/10 at 2:35pm
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...-winnipeg.html

That month-long punishment, of deprived gym access, should come with an automatic fail in film studies, or English classes dealing with comprehension of topics like subtext and metaphor.

I wonder how many dressed up Rocky Horror fans in drag have been attacked en route to a screening of their favorite movie.
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post #2 of 18
1/19/10 at 2:41pm
I am always amazed at the moronic UFC-emulating chuckleheads who completely miss the message in Fight Club.
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post #3 of 18
1/19/10 at 2:47pm
You guys do realize the story brought the movie up, but there's not a piece of the story that indicates this had anything to do with the movie? You also realize that such clubs existed before the movie?

I mean, assuming this all had to do with the movie certainly helps to make your points but it has nothing at all to do with the story linked.
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post #4 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:05pm
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Originally Posted by A-Pathetic View Post
You guys do realize the story brought the movie up, but there's not a piece of the story that indicates this had anything to do with the movie? You also realize that such clubs existed before the movie?

I mean, assuming this all had to do with the movie certainly helps to make your points but it has nothing at all to do with the story linked.
Apologies. I've known several acquaintances who specifically have expressed a desire to emulate Fight Club as presented in the film, and I (possibly) assumed these bright young fellows did not independently concoct locker room sparring sessions.
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post #5 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:08pm
I'm always surprised when people say they are surprised that people missed the meaning of Fight Club. The fact that there are people like that out there makes the movie ring a little more true.
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post #6 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:13pm
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I'm always surprised when people say they are surprised that people missed the meaning of Fight Club. The fact that there are people like that out there makes the movie ring a little more true.
I agree, it's not as if the film doesn't hit you over the head with fact that "These space monkeys are morons who don't think for themselves."
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post #7 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:16pm
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I'm always surprised when people say they are surprised that people missed the meaning of Fight Club. The fact that there are people like that out there makes the movie ring a little more true.
It's pretty scary how the movie has been mis interpeted by a large chunk of it's fanbase, though. I don't think that's any fault of Fight Club, which is a great film, it just so happens that something about the movie appeals to a lot of idiots.
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post #8 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:17pm
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It's pretty scary how the movie has been mis interpeted by a large chunk of it's fanbase, though. I don't think that's any fault of Fight Club, which is a great film, it just so happens that something about the movie appeals to a lot of idiots.
It's like watching Pinochio and saying "Hey, that island the kids party on looks like a lot of fun."
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post #9 of 18
1/19/10 at 3:23pm
I think Fight Club has a somewhat Nietzscheian undertone that once you get through nihilism you'll find a way to live that makes sense.

The idiots like to stop at the nihilism and destruction. The full scope of the film's message isn't apparent until the third act.
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post #10 of 18
1/19/10 at 5:14pm
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Originally Posted by therewillbezodiac View Post
I think Fight Club has a somewhat Nietzscheian undertone that once you get through nihilism you'll find a way to live that makes sense.

The idiots like to stop at the nihilism and destruction. The full scope of the film's message isn't apparent until the third act.
That's more or less how I see it too. I think the fight club in the book and film is supposed to have an allure, it's supposed to seem like a cool idea. For the first couple of acts you're meant to feel the charisma that pulls people into the main character's orbit and you're meant to wish you could be part of the club. If you feel that while you're watching the film its not because you're a neanderthal, it's because the filmmakers are succeeding.

But by the end they've shone a more focused light on the situation and all that instinctually thrilling knuckle-dragger stuff has been subverted - or at least it has to anyone who's paid attention. These twats who take the film as an inspiration to get into street level fisticuffs just don't/can't pay attention to anything even slightly below the surface so all they retain is the bloody, sweaty, meathead coolness of the fight club.
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post #11 of 18
1/19/10 at 5:24pm
The bloody, sweat, meathead coolness of the Fight Club is what the film was advertised as. I wonder if that plays into it at all?

I was pretty young when Fight Club came out (13 or 14 I think), but even to my young eyes the trailers to that movie made it look stupid and shallow. It wasn't until I saw it on video that I was blown away.

And if a 14 year old who's paying attention can get Fight Club, I think all the grown up idiots need some serious help. It's not like the movie is Mulholland Drive and it's message is wrapped in weirdness and Naomi Watts masturbation scenes the whole time or anything. If you follow the plot of the movie, I'm pretty sure that you should be able to get the message.
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post #12 of 18
1/19/10 at 5:35pm
Ludwig lost his gym privileges for a month.
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post #13 of 18
1/19/10 at 6:23pm
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The bloody, sweat, meathead coolness of the Fight Club is what the film was advertised as. I wonder if that plays into it at all?

I was pretty young when Fight Club came out (13 or 14 I think), but even to my young eyes the trailers to that movie made it look stupid and shallow. It wasn't until I saw it on video that I was blown away.

And if a 14 year old who's paying attention can get Fight Club, I think all the grown up idiots need some serious help. It's not like the movie is Mulholland Drive and it's message is wrapped in weirdness and Naomi Watts masturbation scenes the whole time or anything. If you follow the plot of the movie, I'm pretty sure that you should be able to get the message.
So were you the world's forgotten boy back then? Because if not then I can understand why you weren't searching only to destroy. There were clearly other drivers to your searching as a 13 or 14 year old is what I'm saying.

Anyway, it's been nice chatting, but for some reason I feel I must leave the discussion to go and watch Naomi Watts now.
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post #14 of 18
1/21/10 at 12:41am
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Ludwig lost his gym privileges for a month.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FIGHT CLUB! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FIGHT CLUB!!!!

From what I understand (from scuttlebut around my Tae Kwon Do school), it was a bunch of fight enthusiasts/martial artists, they wore gear, and there was a ref at every fight. It was dumb that they even invoked the movie name, as if they had called it "MMA Training Night" or just went and registered www.manitobafighttraining.ca or some shit, there would be no story. As it was, the school is suspending some of the regulars for a month. Wooo. Even they realize it wasn't anything at all to do with the movie and was harmless overall. Stupid reporters.
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post #15 of 18
1/21/10 at 1:19am
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Wow, somebody else from Winnipeg is on here.
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post #16 of 18
1/21/10 at 2:12am
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So were you the world's forgotten boy back then? Because if not then I can understand why you weren't searching only to destroy. There were clearly other drivers to your searching as a 13 or 14 year old is what I'm saying.

Anyway, it's been nice chatting, but for some reason I feel I must leave the discussion to go and watch Naomi Watts now.
I am confused by the first part of your post. But watching Naomi Watts is never a bad thing. So thumbs up.
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post #17 of 18
1/21/10 at 7:12am
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I am confused by the first part of your post. But watching Naomi Watts is never a bad thing. So thumbs up.
Under your user name you tag yourself as "the world's forgotten boy", a lyric from the greatest song ever created in the history of music (and coincidentally the exact same line I wore under my username for the first year or so I belonged to the CHUD forums). "Searching only to destroy" is from the next line of said song. Then, being a genius, I linked that into the fact that even at 14 you realized that the type of macho destructive violence displayed in Fight Club is stupid. The fact you realized macho destruction is stupid means that at 14 you weren't "seeking only to destroy" and therefore at the time probably weren't "the world's forgotten boy". Yet.
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post #18 of 18
1/24/10 at 2:09am
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You also realize that such clubs existed before the movie?
Do NOT talk about LIONHEART!

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