Does anyone understand "Fight Club"?

[FallenAngel411]

Just rented it with some friends of mine...well, we rented it mainly for Brad (lol) but I expected it, from the title, to be typical male ego I-AM-A-GOD crap. And yet, it wasn't. I actually liked it for some strange reason, and I can't pinpoint why. None of my other friends liked it though (guess I'm just a strange girl ). I have this gut feeling about it, but I can't seem to put my feelings about it into words...is there anyone out there who's seen it that comprehended it? I know there's some really deep stuff hidden under all the gore and testosterone...

The ending also freaked me out. It felt too incomplete...like the movie was missing another forty minutes. Edward Norton's character probably just ended up in jail for life, lol.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

The movie was perfect in everyway. It needs nothing added to it. You friends should be ashamed for not loving it. I hate them. So much.

So very much.

[Mindflare]

Though, I've never read the book, they say it makes the ending a bit more final. I loved the movie, and some day, I may actually read the book. There is so much to draw from that movie, it was so well written. Amazing stuff, I think.

[krissy]

the book has a very different ending than the movie i though. yeah. more ending ending in book, but if it wasnt for the movie, no one would have read the book.

fave movie 4 eva.

[Doomgaze]

The book's better, but the movie's still very good. It made sense to me, though - just watch it a second time, it should all fit.

[TheAbominatrix]

The book ending (SPOILER)has the narrator (hereafter referred to as Jack, but that is NOT his name) on top of a building set to explode, with Marla and the support group folks trying to talk him down. The building doesnt explode, and Jack shoots himself... and wakes up in 'Heaven' (a psyche ward). Project Mayhem is still going strong.

The author preferred the movie ending, and so did I. It's supposed to leave you with a lot to think about.

[gokufusionss1]

tyler durden is dead, the "hero" wins that's where most films end.
Never accuse fight club of being incomplete.

[Pure Strife]

The movie was perfect in everyway. It needs nothing added to it. You friends should be ashamed for not loving it. I hate them. So much.

So very much.

And to think, the whole film would have never happened if that doctor at the start had given him those sleeping pills.

[jrgen]

It's one of my favourite movies.
Not incomplete in any way.

[TheAbominatrix]

Well, Tyler isnt really dead as he (SPOILER)never existed in the first place. Jack takes control of his life, <i>including</i> the part of himself that created Tyler. Tyler was in him always, I think there's a little bit of Tyler in all of us, that part that we bury deeper everytime we hold in our anger, everytime we deny aspects of ourselves. I think that's what the author (Chuck Palahniuk) was trying to convey. Notice Jack's acceptance of the situation... see the odd way Marla is looking at him... see the way Jack takes charge of things (ordering the Space Monkeys around). He took the ultimate control by attempting to take his life, and elimated the need for Tyler to exist as a seperate entity. Jack was ready to take control of things, and he no longer needed Tyler to do it all for him.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I prefer the name 'Rupert'

[TheAbominatrix]

I use Jack because it's the one he speaks of most often, though he doesnt refer to himself as Jack. The whole "I am Jack's raging bile duct." and so forth.

His support group names are awesome, too.

edit: Oh and I just noticed something in the first post. Jack ending up in jail is very unlikely, thanks to the Fight Clubs. So many people are loyal to Tyler Durden that, even if he <i>was</i> convicted and sent to prison, he'd have guards on his side to bust him out, or at the very least to make his stay extremely comfortable and give him continued access to Project Mayhem.

[gokufusionss1]

when i said tyler durden i obviously meant (SPOILER)the persona of tyler durden, shooting himself in the head was as much a cycological act as an physical one.

[TheAbominatrix]

Tyler Durden's being shot in the head had (SPOILER)nothing to do with physical. Only psychological. Only because Jack had the presence and control of mind to take that control. He could have destroyed Tyler many times over, without a gun, if he had only taken control of his life.

[Rostum]

I love this movie, it leaves you with a fair bit to think about.