God, Fight Club is fucking *brilliant.*
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Steph L. - Jan 06, 2006 6:03:13 am PST #9643 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Volans - Jan 06, 2006 6:19:40 am PST #9644 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I'm with erika and ita in not being large with the Brad-love. I know there was something I thought he was hot in, but I can't remember it now...mostly I'm just surprised when it turns out he can act as well as look pretty.
Fight Club was like American Beauty for me...except worse, because Ed Norton gives me hives. I know people love it, and even people whose movie taste I trust, respect, and know to generally square with mine. That's why I've taken more than one run at it.
Maybe I should read the book. (Although the book couldn't do the fun stuff, like zapping Brad into a frame or two for a what-the-hell-was-that moment).
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 06, 2006 6:21:36 am PST #9645 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Heh. I just can't put my finger on why, but that's pretty much it for me, too.
For me it was Tilda Swinton. Her role had the most deviation from the source material, but I think all the changes (and her performance, naturally) were brilliant and greatly improved upon the original.
I thought Keanu did a good job portraying some character that coincidentally shared the same name and smoking habits as the John Constantine from the comics. As long as I didn't let myself look at it as an adaptation, it was entertaining.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2006 6:33:25 am PST #9646 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Maybe I should read the book.
I wouldn't recommend it, actually. It's the perfect kind of book for a movie adaptation -- fantastic ideas and themes, but bloody awful writing.
erikaj - Jan 06, 2006 6:34:21 am PST #9647 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I thought it was weird, like one type of movie in the first half and another in the second. Not very good, although there were interesting things in it.About Constantine...haven't ever seen all of Fight Club yet.
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 6:43:03 am PST #9648 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm with erika and ita in not being large with the Brad-love
Not this ita and this erika--I think he ranges from hot to pretty onscreen. erika, NSM.
Scrappy - Jan 06, 2006 6:51:05 am PST #9649 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loved the first hour of Fight Club, and then lost patience with it. The performances were all excellent, though.
I find Mr. Pitt very pretty (he's blindingly perfect in A River Runs Through It) but not particularly sexy most of the time. I was skeeved out by him in Troy. I agree with ita on the Smith and Ocean's love, though.
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2006 7:01:30 am PST #9650 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
(he's blindingly perfect in A River Runs Through It)
It's astonishing how much he resembled a young Redford in that movie.
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 7:02:36 am PST #9651 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's astonishing how much he resembled a young Redford in that movie.
Did you see Spy Games? It was distracting to have them not playing relatives.
P.M. Marc - Jan 06, 2006 7:10:32 am PST #9652 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I find Mr. Pitt very pretty (he's blindingly perfect in A River Runs Through It) but not particularly sexy most of the time.
Agreed. He's like a male version of Charisma Carpenter. (Who I also think is very pretty, but not sexy to me in the least.)