Fight Club

[Onyx]

So I'm roughly a decade late in watching this. I never gave it a chance because I thought it was about boxing or something, didn't give it a second look, plus I despise Brad Pitt.

I kept seeing recommendations and needed a break last week. I loved it. Really loved it. I have to wonder what the reaction would have been if it were released after 911, or even if they would have had the guts.

I notice a lot of the reviews on Amazon are stupid - so many people thought it was about blowing up buildings or beating people to a pulp. How can so many miss the entire point? It hit home - I hate my fucking job now - they are giving me the shit work and outsourcing all the gravy jobs to India and since I'm paid on production it really has cut into my cash, and too many personal crises in my life lately, pretty close to losing it altogether lately. Time for me to cut some things out of my life and find a new way to make a living - oh hell, a whole new way to live even.

Anyway, some quotes I loved ..

Narrator: This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

Tyler Durden: Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Tyler Durden: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel's life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.

Tyler Durden: First you have to give up, first you have to *know*... not fear... *know*... that someday you're gonna die.

Tyler Durden: All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.

Tyler Durden: She's a predator posing as a house pet.

Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just...

Marla Singer: - instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?

Narrator: After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.

Narrator: And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

[Guest greyhalo]

I think the book is better than the movie. I like Chuck Palahniuk's books, and no movie can totally capture his warped sense of humor.

I did think the movie was pretty good though.

[bean]

Tyler Durden: She's a predator posing as a house pet.

Tyler Durden: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just...

Marla Singer: - instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?

One of my favorite movies.

The three quotes above are my favorite. I use the first one quite a bit to describe certain people.

The second one rings true. When you have nothing, you really are free to do whatever you want. The fear of "losing something" is gone.

The third one made me think. After I watched that movie I started paying attention to conversations - my own and others. If you pay attention, many people do this - they aren't really listening that closely, just catching what they need to catch and then waiting to speak. Some people are worse offenders that others, and it is situational.

I had started reading the book at some point. I miss reading - but I just don't have time for it with school and everything else.

[n0Mad]

One of my favorite quotes is, "On a long enough time line, everyone's life expectancy is zero."

[TheGimp]

one of my fav movies

[Eevee]

I just watched this a couple nights ago on G4.

It was pretty freakin' sweet...minus the whole getting his brains blown out thing...yuck.

[hunhee]

Two words..

Edward Norton...

[TheGimp]

Two words..

Edward Norton...

+1

[Eevee]

+1

I totally don't understand the whole +1 thing, lol

[TheGimp]

it stand for me to

[n0Mad]

Two words..

Edward Norton...

My ex has a thing for Ed Norton. Maybe that's why she dated me because she said I look kinda like him. Especially in American History X (which I still haven't seen yet).

I totally don't understand the whole +1 thing, lol

"+1" is like saying, "I agree with you." +20Billion is when you agree with them a lot. Since I'm a geek, I tend to say "X10²³". Take chemistry and you'll understand that one.

[Head Wreck]

the film is deffinatly one of my favourites

[TheGimp]

My ex has a thing for Ed Norton. Maybe that's why she dated me because she said I look kinda like him. Especially in American History X (which I still haven't seen yet).

"+1" is like saying, "I agree with you." +20Billion is when you agree with them a lot. Since I'm a geek, I tend to say "X10²³". Take chemistry and you'll understand that one.

u really need to see american history X

[Constantin]

ed is great american history x is great fight club is great woe if i said everything was great all the time that would be so annoying

[jynxxxedangel]

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Amen. This has been my life for the past six years.

[Destroit]

One of my favorite quotes is, "On a long enough time line, everyone's life expectancy is zero."

I wrote that in the girl's bathroom at Gusoline Alley when I was SHITFACED...about...6 years ago? (I was sixteen, do the math) I believe it is there to this day along with my rendition of TROGDOR the BURNINATORRRR!!

[Destroit]

My ex has a thing for Ed Norton. Maybe that's why she dated me because she said I look kinda like him. Especially in American History X (which I still haven't seen yet).

"+1" is like saying, "I agree with you." +20Billion is when you agree with them a lot. Since I'm a geek, I tend to say "X10²³". Take chemistry and you'll understand that one.

You actually do, a lot, and now I will never be able to take you seriously again. If it's anything, Edward Norton did NOT look like Edward Norton at alllll in that movie. I have friends that love him and have seen American History X and then nearly shat their pants HALFWAY (at least) through the movie when they realized who the star was. You were awesome in Death to Smoochy, btw.

[Mouf Breathah]

My favorite part was the part with Lou in the basement of the bar.

"You don't know where I been, Lou!!"