Fight Club (1999) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching! 

I love that twist is revealed hidden at the beginning of the movie. During the pay phone scene he tries to call Tyler but nobody answers the phone so he hangs up. Almost immediately after hanging up he gets a call back from Tyler but if you look at the bottom of the phone there is a small sign that reads "No Incoming Calls" meaning the entire conversation, even the phone ringing in the first place, happened in his head 🤯

This movie is perfect for Whimsory's watch style. She watches and reacts for us, then she watches it again before telling us her thoughts. I'm glad she liked it.

As a teenager the one thing i disliked about this movie was I always thought it was so unbelievable that someone would go to support meetings when they don't even have a condition just to get sympathy. Then as an adult, I had to go to some of these meetings and realized there's actually a LOT of people who do this.

"What's in the toilet?" Ohh my dear child you're so precious.

"Seven" is another great David Fincher / Brad Pitt movie high up on the list of IMDB Top 250 Movies. Essential viewing really.

I think what sets this reaction channel apart is all the damn research! Kudos to your work ethic. Keep'em comin.

"We were raised on television that tells us we're all gonna be rockstars and movie stars," he says looking directly at Jared Leto.

David Fincher was one of a handful of directors (Spike Jones, Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, etc.) who came from music videos, so they incorporated their surrealistic visual sensibilities in their work, and that's what makes '90s cinema (particularly 1999) so great overall.

The author of fight club, Chuck Palahniuk, wrote another book called Choke that is hilarious. The film adaptation is good too. Sam Rockwell stars in it. I don't think it's a reaction type movie but it's worth the watch when you have the time.

Some people say that Tyler’s philosophies influenced many GenX teens, but it’s the other way around. As a teen during the 90s - rightly or wrongly, some of the stuff he was saying was a snapshot of what many GenX-ers had been thinking for years. A lot of what he says and does is nonsense, but there are *some* nuggets of truths buried in there.

Hello, new subscriber here. I just have to say that I really appreciate how comprehensive your videos are and the extra research that you do is great to see. I'm almost 48 and I have seen many films in my time, and Fight Club is one hell of an experience. I truly hope you enjoy it. Best wishes from Australia.

This movie is a cultural phenomenon. It's impossible to describe just how much impact it had when it first came out. It truly is one of the greatest movies of Gen X.

Whimsory's talk about Fight Club was a knockout, always a winner!

A particular hint of them being the same person is how Tyler was the only one responding to the narrator as he's explaining to the audience about Tyler's jobs

There's nothing wrong with just watching the reveal, it's a lot to take in. It's one of my all time favorite movies and it continues to hold up pretty well.

Another good one :) Hey, don't worry about what your reaction is during the movie. You've carved out a great place with your post-movie discussion. It's true, people probably find you because they enjoy reactions, but you've got something extra going on with all the work you put in for each video.

HBC is utterly incredible in every single movie. Her charisma is insane. You can't look away from her, no matter what she's doing.

Can I say that the awards are a genius way to react to films? I've seen this film a million times. And instead of just saying what you thought about it. Showing off how much you know about cinematography. Or you know how good the Key Grip did. You act like a fan. I love it!

I love that you picked up so much on what a funny movie it is. The narration carries so much weight, and Norton's whole performance... you just never know how much insanity there is in the everyman in the next cubicle.

Congrats Whimsory you've just had a near-life experience

This is my first time seeing one of your reactions. I've also just come off watching around 30 other reactions to Fight Club in the last month. Yours is the best. Adding in your thoughts at the end, and especially rewatching and giving some post re-watch thoughts is way more satisfying to listen to. Not to mention you're fun and I like your quirky personality! But really, so many people watch a movie and it ends and they do a glorified "so that happened!" and they are done. Kudos on rewatching and researching to support your thoughtful commentary. One last note - the first two rules of Fight Club are why it continues to be a success and you had not heard of the twist even though you heard other references to the movie in popular culture. It was great to share your first time through and see you as shocked as I was when this first came out. It totally got me too. Thanks again, and I've just subscribed!

I’ve been passingly aware of the extent you go into for these vids- the rewatching, the research, etc, but I never really appreciated how much it adds to your videos overall. Keep knockin’ em outta the park, ma’am!

Helena Bonham-Carter was fantastic in this movie.

I see Fight Club as an exploration and social commentary on men's need for authentic emotional connection to other men in a society that neither acknowledges this or teaches boys and men the language to do so. The inevitable result being men acting out in the only language that is deemed 'manly/acceptable' but is also the most base--fighting.

I spent a night in a ball pit with a friend and Chuck Palahniuk at a book release party of his back in 2017. Hands down the most Portland, OR thing I've ever done in Portland, OR.

I loved your reaction and analysis of this, it's certainly an unique film, and all the better for it. We need good cinema to challenge us and to make us consider things.

I love that you re-watch and give your thoughts keep up the awesome work.

"She just wants to be your friend, you jerk!" is probably one of the most on-point observations about some of the core themes of this movie, as complicated as it is - there are so many instances, little moments, that just show you how easily some of this madness could be averted (such as the start of the movie, where the protagonist gets to cry and hug a little, for then to sleep like a baby)

I've always thought the scene on the highway when Tyler asks the two dudes in the back seat "What would you want to do before you die?" is very revealing and *extremely* underappreciated when examining themes. Because, look. The answers are "paint a self-portrait" and "build a house," which are fantastic goals and worthy endeavors. If these guys are like most people, they'd never even think of such things. Tyler Durden and Fight Club have taken them out of the everyday. They're doing something radically different. But the radically different thing they're doing _in that moment_ is sitting passively in a car going the wrong way on a freeway while Tyler sends the car towards a head-on collision. Tyler says things like that, helps people realize and articulate that something is missing from their lives, but instead of learning painting or carpentry, these guys stood on a porch in the toxic-waste part of town for three days with $300 _personal burial money_ because "In Tyler they trusted." It tells you *so many things* about what's happening, if you stop to examine it. Like, that's it; that's the movie. That's the two sides of Tyler Durden, laid bare in a few sentences juxtaposed with contradictory action. It's so perfect.

The speech he gives talking about how they had no great war to fight in etc really resonated with me when this movie came out. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and my parents came of age in the tumultuous 60s. So I think there was this general feeling among some of us gen X folk that our generation kind of "missed out" on any kind of real character defining moments in history. Or at least that's the way it seemed to me at the time. Looking back on it now after 9/11, the 2008 recession, all the political turmoil in the past decade, the pandemic and lock downs, and now escalating global tensions and a looming possible WWIII, I can't help but think of how naive I was in my young adulthood being envious of strife. I didn't appreciate how good we had it for those few decades. But I guess that was part of growing up in that generation. We were the first generation after the major cultural deconstruction/revolution of the 60s. I think we felt 'enlightened' but were also aware that we didn't actually live through the defining moments of that 'enlightenment' and thus were kind of undeserving. And I think this film captures some of the angst associated with that.

I absolutely love that you did a full on analysis and really put in the work instead of just watching a single time with no research. Earned you a subscriber

Love your outro format!!! Been wanting something like that after so many great reaction videos -thank you 🤩 I just found you in fight club (shhh can’t talk about it.;) Your heart and humor are infectious! ❤️😹

I just found this channel from a shout-out by You Me And The Movies, and I have binged every single episode😭😭😭 now I'm waiting for more content

The insomnia quote really hits home. Staying up for days and going from dreadfully tired to oddly energetic and suddenly after 2 days nothing feels quite real and you just feel like you're watching a movie of your life. Not really keeping track of time or the date. After the first few days I felt above sleep like id never need it again. Then boom I crash hard and feel dazed the next day. Watched this movie when i was a teenager and was the first time i ever heard of people talking about insomnia and the effects.

As much as I love watching first time movie reactions, the thing that kills me about them is knowing that most of you are watching on tiny laptop/monitor screens, and hearing them on cheap headphones or earbuds! As a long time home theater enthusiast, I can say without a doubt that so much of the experience is lost when watching movies the way people do for reaction videos, so one day I hope to do a video series where I invite movie reactors to choose 3 movies that they wish they'd seen in the theater, and then filming their experience of rewatching them in a Home Cinema! I think that would be pretty cool.

8:23 "like Disney" lmaoooo

I did not walk into this film completely blind. I knew Pitt, Norton, and Carter were in it. I knew the title. I saw the film in a theater in the unsolved murder capital of the USA at the time. I grew up there. I was so amazed by the themes and the strong masculine energy of it that I had to watch it again an the same theater, next showing. So I watched twice back to back. Both views were entirely different films for me. I could write a whole book of impressions the script left with me. Crazy huh?. Anyway thanks for watching and sharing. I love your reviews and rarely comment. Now you know why? I ramble and digress.

I love this film, I love your real-time reactions and I love the time you spend afterwards to really think about and analyse the films. Brilliant.

This is one of my favourite movies, I really enjoyed your reaction and outro. The writing is so clever and I think a lot of lessons can be learned from it, mainly that you don't have to work to get everything and end up having to work so hard that you never have time to enjoy any of it or even enjoy life at all, sometimes, less is more.

This is why I like your reactions. You've got a brain, use it, and are a delight to watch. 🎉😂❤ (I'm 76, so a Boomer, a former rock drummer, film critic & writer. I loved your take on every level here!!)

I appreciate your approach of watching, then taking time to process and rewatch and study before coming back and filming your final thoughts.

I love so much that you re-watch the movies and then research, it means alot.

Wow, really well done. I enjoyed the lengthy and researched commentary at the end. Plus, you put in a twist at the end….I didn’t realize until just how much you talked about Fight Club. Maybe more than anyone ever. Good luck with that, hahaha.

Love that after watching the movies a cpl of times you still go and look them up n do your homework on them n then you go back to do the analysis, that's dedication, respect.

Great reaction! This was fun to watch. As always, you're analysis after the movie is a very nice addition. Keep it up!

This is my first time watching your reaction. I've watched many reaction videos from other streamers, but I have to say this was very impressive, especially, awards, and discussions sections. They were unique. Keep it up and good luck!

Damn, girl, you always come through. I've been on a Fight Club kick for the last week or so, rewatching it, and looking up reactions. And what do I find today? One of the better reactors seemingly catering to me. Beautiful. You're good. I generally like your perspective quite a bit, too. Thank you. Great minds, eh? This movie is particularly appealing to people who grew up rough, because there are a lot of irl tropes that seem familiar here. And as to you not reacting, because you were so absorbed, I have a thought to share. *F* us. Appreciating the experience of movies as written is a personal experience, to be experienced in a group. That's the theater experience, and traditionally movies are written to have you get absorbed and to have your internal experience reinforced by the audible reaction of people around you in the theater. As a reactor you are often expected to break that frame, which means not getting fully absorbed. With many movies this is possible, to multitask. But sometimes it's neither possible nor warranted, if you also want to do the movie justice. For instance, I perennially advocate for reactors to do second watches for movies like *Apocalypse Now* (1979), because you are meant to become lost in the narrative the first time through. And as long as it's fresh, the enthusiasm and initial reaction is still easily communicated. But if you do a first watch as a reactor, you will be robbed of that first watch experience. Idk. Maybe it isn't so important, but I see good films as the masterworks of our day. Ancient Egypt has the Pyramids; Greece has the Parthenon; we have Hollywood (et al, around the world) to share our cultural myths and values, and our greatest export and deepest artistic legacy. As a movie reactor, which comes first, the movies or the likes? My personal answer would be You, you come first. Don't cheat yourself. But I believe in movies as myths. Your mileage may differ. I'll shut up now.

Can confirm that we did have a fight club when i was in highschool (2001 to be specific) but it only lasted maybe 5 months. It was fun though. 😄

Your reactions are always so whimsical!

12:59 - "What was in that toilet?" Aw....you're so innocent. 😊

I really love watching your reviews, specifially your final words, the effort you put in to understand the movie and the details after is amazing. Not many reviewers do that. And your wide eyed look reminds me of the first time i watched these movies.With confusion and anticipation. Its ver nostalgic.

I am really excited that you reviewed this movie. I personally think that it is a masterpiece. Since you asked, I'll tell you what I got from the movie. As a product of the 80s and 90s this movie was really impactful. The movie felt like a counter to the themes that my generation was raised on. The "take no prisoners, own everything" attitude that movies like Wall Street (1987) inspired us to do. Comically the actual moral to Wall Street went right over the heads of my generation. Fight Club felt like the answer to the many people that didn't make it to the top. Really enjoy your breakdowns.

Excellent commentary on a complex themed movie. Your analysis was very well thought out and detailed. Keep up the good work, Whimsory!👏👍

Before I even watch the video I just wanted to let you know that I think you are a breath of fresh air. You've already shot up to the top of the charts for movie reaction channels as far as I'm concerned. Now, back to the video. 😊

Just thought I'd say, I appreciate the work you put into making these videos. You always do lots of research and multiple viewings to make sure you catch all the cool details and backstory us fans crave. Keep it up, you got a good thing goin'! 👏 "You don't know where I've been, Lou" "brghrghrghghrgh"🤣

I read the book before watching the movie, and being at an impressionable age for both it took me a few years to sort out my thoughts over Fight Club 😅 I still agree with many of Tyler's speeches about consumerism, and respecting 'menial labor' ("We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we guard you while you sleep... do not F with us!") but with Raymond his ethos goes off the wall into random terrorism. I used to think he was helping Raymond improve his life, but realistically he just traumatized Raymond and forced him into financial debt to return to Vet school under the threat of death 😬

The anti-consumerism movie made you buy a TV. Thats my kind of humor

Your breakdowns are awesome! Thanks for the great content! 💖

Again, I am blown away by the amount of detail you put into each Outro-especially in movies like this. I am hoping to find your reaction to The Sixth Sense. I just adore you.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. It gives you clues all through the movie about what's really going on. The writing is first rate. I use the phrase "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise" all the time.

Sadly in 1999, there weren't many people discussing the twist ending in this movie, because hardly anyone went and seen it at the theater... I for one was there opening weekend at the theater, and then months later I picked up the awesome DVD release on launch day, so I could watch the movie over and over! Such a classic film that was underappreciated at the box office and during awards season... : (

Whimsory, thank you so much. Your reactions are awesome, your post-movie analyses are awesome, you're awesome. Thank You for being expressive, real, and fun. *Salutes*

Out of all the MANY, MANY, MANY movie reaction channels on RU-vid I personally love your one the best!! You just make me laugh is mostly why I think.

For many years this has been my fav movie of all time. I still love it with all my heart. David Fincher is a genius! Watch all his movies! 😇

You are hands down the best reactor on the Interweb !! I admire the work you put in for research. It's the most I've ever seen someone do, and it should be awarded with a Golden Research Statuette !! If I had money I would have given it to you. Much Love to You and Ukraine 💙💛💙🌻🌻🌻

I love the single frame Tylers. They're clever on multiple levels, from his projection room pranks to his background influence on the scene to teasing his emergence as a separate character.

Havent't read all the comments so I might be repeating some of them, but nevertheless. As I see it, what you've mentioned - consumerism, masculinity, etc. - are not what the story is about. This is the story of a "30-year-old boy" who has no relationships, no friends, no true goals, no purpose in life. The mental illness you spoke of is definitely a key component, but it only starts actually progressing when Jack faces a psychological crisis coupled with insomnia which, combined, causes his psyche to create a new personality. Everything else, everything Tyler does and represents, are Jack's ways of trying to find a purpose without having real-life social and emotional attachments, because his only idea of a relationship is drawn from his dysfunctional family. His parents left such a deep scar on him, that the very concepts of love, trust, sharing, and opening himself to someone are lost on him. Instead, when the midlife crisis crisis kicks in topped off by insomnia, he resorts to complete nihilism because he doesn't know any better. And this causes a personality split (dissociative identity disorder), with Tyler becoming the embodiment of what Jack couldn't or was afraid to do. Marla represents his actual relationship with someone and his fear of it, the fear of becoming attached, not knowing what to do with it, failing to trust and take responsibility. Basically, Marla is Jack's bridge to normal life and solving his psychological issues, while Tyler represents his traumatized and socio-phobic part through nihilism, denial, and revolt against the society that Jack views as responsible for the way he is. It's a story about desperately searching for and finding a purpose in life through trauma and mistakes, about accepting yourself and taking responsibility for your life by accepting your feelings and responsibility for someone else. It's about hitting rock bottom in order to be able to reevaluate your life and make changes.in order to make peace with yourself and find genuine happiness.

Fight club was an incredibly important movie for me growing up. My friends and I discovered it when we were teens (2015 or 2016) and it struck a cord with us. We started our own fight club, as most young boys that watched this movie probably did. Tyler is right about the act of fighting. There is something primal that comes out, something we are taught to suppress our whole lives. We got hooked on fighting each other for a while. Got broken up when we started coming home with black eyes and bruises lol. We all joined an MMA gym to fight in a more "safe" way, but it doesn't quite feel the same as just going at it. Probably something to do with how society has distanced itself from violence when humans are inherently violent. Or we were just a bunch of idiot teen boys that let a movie convince us to knock the crap out of each other haha.

Fight Club is my all time favorite movie. It's always fun to see people react when they "figure it out." Awesome channel.

there was a fight club when i was in school, and im from siberia... huge impact on society

Hello Miss Whimsory!😊 Fargo was one of my mom's favorite movies, too. Nice reactions to this crazy movie with a twist, Miss Whimsory!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏

one of my alltime favorites i wish they would make movies like this today

12:58 “What was in that 🚽 did you see that?” Who’s gonna tell her? 🤭😂🤣

Love your reactions, Whimsory!❤

Awesome! Can’t wait to watch this one! Fight Club is one of my all time favorite movies. I am Jack’s extreme excitement!!!

I saw a teaser trailer for this film in 98... and thought nope not for me... then a movie critic that I can't stand said "Fight Club is an orgiastic cacophony of violence and mayhem with no social redeeming value what so ever." I saw this film 5 times in the 3 weeks it ran in my city, I took all my brothers and my sisters, and the entire staff of the company where i was employed. I no longer watch movie trailers until I have seen the film.

7:27 that actually happened in real life. Lorena Bobbit cut her husbands pp off with a Ginsu carving knife. After the incident she rushed to her car, drove down roadside field on Maplewood Drive, pulled down the window and threw the thing out. Well, luckily "it" was recovered after an "exhaustive search" and was fortunately abled to be reattached by the doctors. The more you know right haha.

omg, this upload is a godsend on this godawful day! Thank you Whimsory!

Fun fact: Fun facts are never fun, and rarely facts.

It's amazing to me that you have no idea about Fight Club. It's been such a big part of my life for so long. A genuine reaction is so refreshing.

That was a funny reaction video. 😂 If you liked Brad Pitt in this movie (as an actor), I suggest watching "12 Monkeys" with him and Bruce Willis.

Tyler was practicing nunchucks in the background when Marla called Jack. Nunchucks. Two sticks connected by a chain. Bruce Lee was an expert and it was the weapon of choice for Michelangelo, the teenaged mutant ninja turtle in a half-shell with the orange bands. What, are you some kind of hermit zoomer that doesn't already know all of the things that everyone did back when this movie came out almost 3 decades ago!? GAH!!! Yeah, it's kinda sad to see these awesome films from my youth slowly devolve into being dated. The story is still awesome, still ahead of its time even today, but all the details and the time/place and everything just gets lost and it's sad to see. For instance, "Most of the week we were Ozzie and Harriet", that was a reference to a sitcom from the 50s/60s. Even in the 90s watching this movie I was too young to know that reference. I'm glad you got to watch this film, because everyone who lives in the first world should. It definitely is a bummer though when I show my kids films from my youth and they don't get references and whatnot that were current when the film came out. It's just one of those things, a fact of life. I guess the best a filmmaker can aspire to is telling a timeless tale - but sometimes the most poignant story you can tell at a given point in history is one that reflects that point in time back at itself, like this film did. "I star-sixty-nined you, I never pickup my phone." Yeah, star-sixty-nine was so cool as a kid. You just had a phone plugged into the wall and it would randomly ring, and you had no idea why, no clue who it was that was calling. You could set up an answering machine that had a little cassette tape in it to record a message the way cellphone voicemails do for you now, but otherwise you had no idea who was calling. Then we were able to pay extra to the phone company to get Caller ID, which would show on a little display module you had to hook up what the phone number was that was calling you - a totally free and normal average feature on cell phones today. Back then we had no idea who was calling unless we paid extra! When you didn't have caller ID, or an answering machine, the phone service had a thing where if you pressed *69 on your phone it would automatically call the last number that called you, so you would be calling back whatever mystery caller that had called you. It would be like if emails were anonymous, but you could send an email back to someone who anonymously emailed you. Anyway, I'm rambling. This film was super unpopular when it came out - not that people didn't like it, it was just that boomers and Gen Xers didn't vibe with it, so it went largely unnoticed - until us millennials discovered it. Now it's sorta become our anthem. I'm not saying millennials are anti-social (in the actual sense, not the 'I am uncomfy around people' sense that newbies assume it means), but we were the first generation to really wake up to the lameness of materialism and consumerism across the board. Now what we're concerned about is corruption and anti-American ideologies, because you don't have an accomplished nation like the USA without people sacrificing everything, and themselves, for others to have the freedom we enjoy today. You can create value any way you see fit, for your fellow humans, and earn the compensation you deserve for it in return. That's freedom. Anyone can create value by creating products, goods, or providing services, and nobody can stop you. Meanwhile, you have food readily accessible to you, and all kinds of goods, shelter, water, warmth, air conditioning, clothes, the works. None of these things just magically exist - they all require someone doing work in order for you to have them, or even just access to them at all. America is the place where dreams actually come true, and it's only naive ignorant selfish fools who decide to feel sorry for themselves that don't. People flock here from the world over and make something of themselves, over and over, because this is the land of opportunity. Lately we've been seeing a lot of kids who've been born here, spoiled rotten by first-world convenience and luxury, who take it entirely for granted - like nobody had to work hard for them to have what they have, or die for the freedom they have, and they don't understand or appreciate what it takes just to sustain their luxurious first-world existence. Spoiled rotten ingrate brats. Fight Club's pretty cool though.

On the one hand I feel like the younger generations have enough on their plate without learning about people like Lorena Bobbitt, on the other hand it was such a large touch stone of my generation that it was referenced in a lot of popular culture like this film. IDK but it always catches me off guard when people miss references like that in movies. I guess it doesn't matter either way I always come back for more Whimsory!

"You don't know where I've been Lou" is also one of my favorite parts. Sums up the entire vibe of the movie. Its also kind of unique, movies always show people getting what they want through kindness or violence or money or seduction or intimidation or whatever. But I can't think of another instance where someone gets what they want by just being gross and making the other person dirty. My other favorite line is "we should do this again sometime." The idea of men bonding by fighting each other also always struck a chord with me. One of my best friends since childhood, we hated each other at first. I don't even remember why, we just did. We were also in a Tae Kwon Do class together, around 10 or 11 years old. One Friday night, its that night where all the parents come and watch and everyone shows off what they've been learning. We all do Katas, there's some ceremonies where kids get promoted to the next color of belt, and then at the end of the night there's sparing. We get randomly assigned a partner, and each pair spars in the middle of the room for like 5 minutes. Me and this kid get paired up. Our turn comes, we square up, the teacher says go, and its freaking ON. Technique didn't quite go out the window, but discipline certainly did. We just start launching bombs at eachother, and neither of us are really playing defense so a lot of those bombs land. We bust each others noses, we're both bleeding all over our faces and all over each other, some of the parents start shrieking, everyone is freaking out, the teachers come and pull us apart, but we're both just like "dude that was awesome!" Spent the rest of that weekend shooting bb guns in the woods and playing video games. I think about that every time I hear that line "we should do this again sometime."

13:00 ..."what was in the toilet?! did you see that?!"... 😂

50:23 speaking of tv’s, I watch RU-vid on a 120” theater 5.2.2 system. You’re actually life size.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for not censoring every single slur like in 90% of the other movie reaction for this movie!

I love that closing shot. I saw this with some friends when it came out and after the movie got out while waiting for the Trolley my buddy and I were so about the whole "I want you to hit me as hard as you can" thing but our friends talked us out of it.

Actually, the movie plot twist is revealed in the first few moments of the movie. The scene when the Narrator has the pistol in his mouth. He narrates: "How do I know this? Because Tyler Durden knows this." That's not even two minutes into the movie and even before we get to see the entire story how he ended up there. But hey - we're all distracted by the gun, the narration and, well, Brad Pitt, that we completely gloss over that piece of information. But yeah, the Narrator completely spoils the twist at the very start of the movie if you pick up on it. Do people pick up on it? My mother did on her first watch, so I suppose there should be others as well. *Themes* Most shows and novels have a 'main' theme that the author or director wants to convey, but in order to have _good_ characters, you'll have to give them character development. Character development usually comes with a side-theme for that particular character. If you do it properly, those themes actually complement each other, but that's pretty difficult to do. *Marla* I actually think Marla's real, because she's the trigger for the narrator's character development. By meeting her, he _needs_ to change. By the end, with everything crumbling, he has made peace with himself _and_ accepts that he doesn't need sympathy, just a person who accepts him for who he is. Faults and all. In that sense you can see this movie as a love story as well, albeit a very unconventional one, perhaps even a broken one because both characters are broken from the start until he comes to terms with himself and she accepting that he's the one she needs to get out of her own spiraling situation. In a sense they clash and burn, but you can see them reaching out for each other to crawl out of the hole they cannot seem to escape. Which, in a sense, is another theme; when you're down, depressed or addicted, you need someone to save you from yourself. Sometimes just being there and not actively trying to save you can be enough of a lifeline.

His book "CHOKE" Is equally disturbingly well written.

A really great reaction and enjoyed the deeper dive that you took after the fact. Gave a lot more context and informs the reaction you had while watching. If I might offer a suggestion of a movie that really benefits from multiple watches, is super snappily written and edited (quite a different vibe from Fight Club, but still) is Hot Fuzz. Edgar Wright is one of the best directors working today and Hot Fuzz is him at his very best.

"Stop touching people" always makes me laugh when u say that. One of ur unintended catchphrases now. One of my favorite films btw.

Fight Club - probably my no.1 favourite movie of all time. I remember how impressed my barely adult self was by Tyler Durden. Back then he was the coolest person ever. It took awile before I finally seen him for what he really is: anarchistic megalomaniac of a cult leader who twists lost men without a purpose into his personal army with the power of his intellect, charisma and catchy lines (more or less). He's not a hero or an idol, he's the villain. And he wouldn't be such a good villain so many of us fall for, if a lot of the BS he spews didn't ring true (like "the things you own end up owning you").

This has been my favorite reaction from you so far!

Believe me, Whim, I'm nearly 70 and I still laugh at fart jokes. If it's funny, it's funny no matter how old you are. Don't change. I love you just the way you are. I'm honoured to get to watch these films with you, so thanks.

I really love how in depth you go with your review at the end! My big takeaway is I think the most obvious. It’s drying to de-program yourself from all of the advertising you’ve been fed and trying to focus on what I actually truly want. The scene that sticks out for me is when they are driving in the car and Tyler asks if you were about to die what is the one thing you’d wish you hade done. For a good chunk of my life I don’t think I would have an answer. Even now I could come up with a few answers but nothing really stands out.

I’m glad your getting a bigger screen. 📺 there is a lot you can’t take in on a small laptop. Glad to hear that you are watching some of the Top 100 films. Back in the early 2000 I justified buying my first DVD player by saying I would watch the AFI Top 100. Took a few years but I watched them all. Not every one was my cup of tea, but they made me enjoy movies more. The will for sure make you a better film reviewer. Thanks for the great job and work you put in.

I liked the theory that Marla was also one of the personalities of the narrator. Someone even did a whole analysis with the points supporting that, like "Tyler and Marla never being in the same room at the same time" - could be that he is just imagining her. Or a phone line in an seemingly abandoned house, on which narrator speaks with Marla. Or her smoking in inappropriate places, without anyone bothering. Or her joining support groups for men with testicular cancer, again no one bothering. So she could be some of the narrator imaginary friends/alter ego.

Yay a new Whimsory video 😊😊😊

Jared does a fenomenal role in "Requiem for a dream" (And Jennifer Connelly is so impossible to not fall in love with in that.)