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I saw this the 1st time in the theatre with my brother the film reel broke during the last 20 min everybody thought it was part of the movie. They brought in a spare but took them 20 min to get it setup.
Lol this movie is horrible. I know us Americans lose our shit over a "twist ending" but that doesn't make it a great movie. The ideology is juvenile at best. Same with memento. It just uses that non linear timeline gimmick and everybody thinks it's "original" or "complex". Even though Akira Kurosawa did it back in the 50's with Rashomon.
I made a drunken guess and got it right after i know this because tyler knows this. That said i may have heard the spoiler before and just not consciously remembered it
@@maciek8159 Everybody is entitled to their opinion. I thought it was a great movie, especially compared to the marvel superhero turds that gets crapped out every couple of months. The ideology in the movie was changed slightly from the book, I think because it was too extreme. In the book it was all about toppling capitalism. While I don't agree with that (unrealistic expectations) I still enjoyed the story.
If you enjoyed the non-linear story telling in this movie you may enjoy an extra dose with a Christopher Nolan film released the following year. "Memento" follows the story of someone who can no longer make new memories, and the story is told in bite sized scenes riffle shuffled together like a deck of cards. As if someone folded the timeline in half you watch forward from the beginning and backwards from the end until you final reach the middle with an inflection point as the movie finishes its run time.
11:55 - “i haven’t been f*$&ked like that since grade school” the original line, “i wanna have your abortion,” was allegedly too spicy for the studio’s taste. story goes fincher agreed to reshoot the scene on the condition that the execs accept whatever replacement dialogue he came up with, and this is what he delivered… they begged him to change it back to the abortion line :0)
@@sergeantbigmac ha! right? i have my doubts about film executives essentially being tricked into honoring a verbal agreement that could hurt their bottom line, so maybe that bit’s apocryphal, but the alternate take with that line definitely exists and is readily searchable
Like she didn't already know. Her reaction to "figuring it out" was so fake, how did you not notice that? Then again, I do remember when I was 12 and believed way more things on the internet were real than they actually were. Actually, keep staying with that mindset. I've seen so many "real" things that turned out to be fake afterwards that it's just so easy to spot now. Cherish that naivety, it'll make you happier in the end.
Ariana is a smart cookie. Great reaction! And I sooo wish, you guys would at some point react to "The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford", another of Mr. Pitt´s finest moments and so much more than this. Got a bit of the short stick between "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" of the same year. Yeah, 2007 had quite something up it´s sleeves.
In third grade, we watched a film called "I am Jim's Heart" and it scared the sh** out of me. About heart attacks. Because, you know, third graders have a high incidence of heart disease.
An entire generation (myself included) grew up watching this. I saw it at a "strange time in my life". I had never seen anything like it. It make me question what it was to be a man, a consumer, a human being. It opened up my eyes in a way nothing else has. Still my favorite movie. Also, David Fincher's best work (the visual storytelling, as you mentioned). I think people underestimate how much this movie changed the way an entire generation of men think. It changed the visual medium of film to at least a degree, and it changed people's lives. Glad you got to see it. Watch it again, you'll pick up on a lot. I've seen it a dozen times and picked up something new just about every time I watched it.
IT is a great movie but it is my 2nd best! Also it is true, dont be a consumer just buying shit to feed the corporate ASSHO%ES!!! The number one movie is "BRINGING OUT THE DEAD" Nick Cage, BRILLANT MOVIE!!!!
True! But nobody picks up that everyone there is a another personality, she almost did. Only thing missing was figuring out Marla is also a personality
I'd been living on a commune for a few years when this came out. First film I'd seen in a theater for a long time, and it completely twisted my head around. For the first 10 or 15 minutes after it ended, I couldn't look anyone in the eyes, because I felt like I would get lost in our mystical shared identity. Like other commenters, I congratulate you on putting the pieces together as quickly as you did!
I like to think that when Marla says "Tyler, you're the worst thing that's ever happened to me", that's the closest she's capable of coming to saying "I love you."
I saw this mentioned elsewhere, because at the beginning he says she's constantly waiting for something terrible to happen to her, and then disappointed when it doesn't happen.
I've had insomnia where I got less than an hour or two of sleep per day/night if any. If a doctor told me to go chew some valerian root I would have cut the fucker before I even realized what was happening and then been jailed. That scene is the most unrealistic in the movie IMO.
I knew you are smart. Still amazed you are the only person I have ever seen figure it out before the movie reveal. And you followed every plot point that many miss. Great reaction!
Everybody keep saying this movie is juvenile, cheesy, for immature men, but I'm just fascinated of how well shot it is and how amazingly well everyone acts. It is a fantastic movie and I like it more the more I grow older
Anyone with half a brain realize that the movie is using Tyler Durden as an example of how NOT to be, how NOT to think and how NOT to act. It has a shit ton of layers one can dissect if one cares to spend the effort. I was personally introduced to the movie when I was first studying Post-modernism with a film teacher, and we spent a lot of time going through it. If anyone takes the movie at face value and idolize Tyler or think the movie is juvenile and for Tyler fans, it only reflects back on their own failure to understand and have any sort of depth or reflective capability. The book the movie was based on was written by a gay man as a critique of modern masculinity, it was not meant to glorify violence, rebellion, terrorism or modern masculinity in any way.
@@Burke1O1 there should be more support for men, and issues men have taken more seriously by some parts of society, but obviously this film doesn’t intend for Tyler to be a role model.
@@jonathanlane3282 Insofar as blowing up society, i agree. however, everything he says otherwise i find true and has helped me. i am of course one personality and set of experiences among the millions. I would invite you to watch bob doyles video on fight club (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NpxHFNvlUmU.html). i find it brilliant and a great introduction to nietzsche and the last man hypothesis.
Wow Ive seen this movie over 20 times at least but never thought of the idea that Marla is another one of his personalities! But I still think she is just a....complicated woman. 😆
If one keeps oneself to the movie, there is no guarantee that anyone else is real. Though Project Mayhem probably do have at least some amount of people in it given Tyler's access to secure locations and such, he probably recruited at least some people to aid him. Tyler spent a lot of time setting things up, even before he "meet" the narrator. It is pretty much impossible to say how much of everything is Tyler and how much is really other people. In the end one isn't meant to know what is real and what isn't, it's about the journey and the message really.
Easily the best film of 1999. ("American Beauty" is nice enough, but this is the same story told much, much better.) Didn't even get nominated for Best Picture. (It received a grand total of ONE Academy Award nomination. For Sound Editing. Which it lost [to "The Matrix"].) Seriously, Adapted Screenplay, at least. Oh, well. Nice job guessing the twist; I missed the clues, myself.
The greatest drug in the world is walking out of a movie theatre and wondering what the fuck did I just see. This was that kind of film. Props to you for recognizing the split personality halfway through the movie.
@Kevin Sieg - the gratest one is seeing Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday), in that movie - as the guy with large tits. The one singing the famous: "I'd do anything for Love" from 1993... ;)
I always wonder with this one about the first guys that came up to Durden after seeing him kick the shit out of himself in the parking lot and want to join him. Clearly Durden was insane...but those guys? Who sees an insane person and goes "yea, man!"?
It was really fun seeing Adrianna break down these scenes where it very subtly shows the symptoms of D.I.D . Especially when he beats himself up in his bosses office 😆
@@lampad4549 maybe not of the average individual with it, but still, an interesting take on it. i dont think anyone would argue anyone with DID is an anarchist maniac.
“My eyes are open”. Men’s exponential crisis of living a purposeless existence. Feel the pain, live the pain, understanding why you live and for what purpose allows you to understand the pain of everyday life.
After watching this several times, it's amazing how every time you start to question things, they come with something that either distracts or tries to contradict what you are thinking.
Love the watch/review. Nobody can tell me the best part of this film isn't Brad Pitt casually riding that tiny bike/tricycle around and suddenly eating shit, so beleivably. I adore it. Ill never get tired of it. Fun film. I can't say more that anyone else hasn't. R.I.P. Mearloaf. Go chdck out his music if you dont know.
There's another Movie based on Chuck's writing called Choking? I believe, the style and character arcs we're similar, neurotic men needing self acceptance. I love how the author alluded to self destruction being art by call self improvement, masturbation. More literally is self destruction the only thing that can have meaning?
I think the split personality trope is used more frequently now so people that see it for the first time will be better at picking it up. When I saw it in 1999 it never even crossed my mind that it would be a possibility. Also, this is one of those movies where the wrong audience latched onto it like with The Matrix. Lots of incels see Tyler as their hero when it's pretty clear that he's the antagonist. He wraps his literal terrorism in anti-consumerism and feelings of disenfranchisement, which are by themselves valid. He's basically a fascist pretending to be an anarchist.
this film .. it does speak to a kind of lost modern man :) the post feminist man, searching for place and meaning .. its not just a joke, its something many of us feel :) the disconnect between our natural urge to fight, our lust for chaos and violence .. and the fact theres no place for it in this civilization :) ahh well .. one could always go to the new guinea highlands and pick up a bow and an axe I suppose lol
A little detail a lot seem to miss... @4:48 "Soap, I make and I sell soap" The soap is called 'Paper Street'... @31:53 "Let's go over to that house on 'Paper Street'"...
You said it reminded you of joker when he’s organizing everything. This movie could be a joker Origen notice how in the end when he shoots himself he finally accepts himself and becomes one person, that person definitely is not the normal one.
Bob is Rock singer Meat Loaf, check out the song on RU-vid , Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Lights. The length is 8:26 to get the best performance.
4:59 - watched the movie almost a hundret times over the years and never saw that the space the window seat was empty when Norton looked at Tyler's card.
She figured it out about the same time I've seen several figured it out the 3 way combo with Marla narrator and Tyler speaking for the narrator thsts the usual figure out moment
Tyler never throws the first punch, closest he comes to starting a fight is with the guy in charge of investigation of project mayhem and he is trying to bring them down
The flashes in the beginning are Jack (Tyler) forming the alter ego and its beginning to slowly infect his world view. I didnt notice this till now but when he calls Brad Pitt from the payphone and he asks who it is Jack answers “Tyler?” Not just asking if its him picking up but also hes answering that its Tyler calling
In the book, he wakes up later in the hospital unable to move, and after the doctors leave him, a janitor leans over and whispers "don't worry sir, everything is under control."
To your point about the dark coloring of the movie, that leather jacket that Tyler wears in the movie is actually bright red in real life, like Michael Jackson Thriller video red. That's how much they played with the coloring in post-production.
i have diagnosed insomnia it is really not fun at all the staying awake causes me to have epileptic Episodes it's only after one of those i can get some sleep which can last upto 4 hours.... yay for me.
I am glad you left most of the Finale in the cut. The "The gun isn't in your hand..." Scene is David Fincher at his best. "My Eyes are open" *BANG*... then the 2 Thuds when Tyler is going down, even though he disappears after the first one. BRILLIANCE
Some hints: Jack gets of the bus with folders in his hand, planning the bomb placements After the car accident he gets out of the wrong side of the car Later he closes a door and there are tons of driver licenses hanging behind the door When Jack is awake he is normal, when he sleeps ( or sleepwalking) he's Tyler Jack accumulated a lot of credit card debts on his apartment, basically the reason he went after the credit card companies At the police station there's a picture of the space monkey hanging on the wall The robe Tyler wears in the kitchen actually belonged to a roommate of Brad Pitts Tyler makes toast which is a staple food, Jack eats corn flakes meaning he (Jack) is still consumed with advertisement, where Tyler isn't In the bathtub Tyler says " we are a generation of men raised by woman, yet they scream we oppresse them" The whole movie is basically about the suffering or abuse of the middle class working male
A great movie. I think the DVD/Blu-ray versions frame rates kinda mess it up a little. In the theater you could see a flash, but it was impossible to tell what the flashes were. So, watching it on a TV clues a person in just a little too much.
I saw it in theaters several times and it was just as easy to tell. Sure, if you blinked for too long at the wrong spot you could miss some of them, but it's fucking 24 frames per second. Hell even at 60 FPS you'd catch it easily. If I can train myself to perform frame-perfect tricks with high consistency like the CWJ over the moat in Super Metroid, then it's nothing at all to catch a frame with your eyes, requiring no actual skill, that lasts more than twice as long. Actually the CWJ over the moat is a frame-perfect first jump followed by the actual continuous wall jump which is a two-frame window. And almost nobody ever misses the second jump unless they're nervous, as missing that one is an auto-reset if you're speedrunning. Point is, that whole bullshit about Tyler splicing single frames of pornography into films is so stupid. That would be SOOOOOO obvious to the point where I'd immediately get up and ask the theater staff why I just saw a huge cock during a children's film. If you had trouble seeing it in theaters you must've been looking down at your text that you were trying to send (or that you received). And yes, 1999 is when texting was new and really taking off. Everyone I knew who wasn't afraid of technology was already texting with their flip phones by October of that year when this came out. Ahh those were good times.
If you notice, in the beginning, after Ed Norton has the gun taken out of his mouth, he says "I can't think of anything,", but in the end, in that same scene when asked, Norton says "I still can't think of anything."
Ive had my relatable moment with the crying scene. After 12yrs in the Army. Signal Corps. Now a civilian. I no longer felt useful or important. That depression was just building. Then one day, just by myself, in a really dark place. Had a good cry... AS A MAN. Felt like someone released a pressure valve. Went to the porch, had a smoke. Walked around the block. Took a nap. Ordered a pizza. Made some phone calls. Just... called people. Its not something I do. A good cry, as a guy, goes a long way. Sometimes I catch myself wanting to leech other peoples' emotional moment.
what not many realize, is the darker part to the ending. "tyler's" plan is called a 'closed loop' plan. if not for disarming the van bomb, it would've been perfectly executed. the van's bomb was timed to go off shortly after marla arriving. when everyone got to the top floor, they would've watched the other bombs go off, then be killed in their building's explosion/collapse. with "tyler," marla, and the rest of the group dead, there wouldn't be anyone in a "leadership role" to properly charge/question about the attacks. what's also inferred/hinted: everyone else involved in project mayhem [the "human sacrifices"] died. when the narrator was confessing to the plan, he told the feds the targets were "3credit card buildings downtown." but when the bombs went off, we saw several additional buildings blow up as well. the additional buildings were where the rest of the group was watching everything unfold. they wouldn't have known, because no one but "tyler" knew what the entire plan was.
In the novel, during the 'pillow talk' scene, Marla originally said "I wanna have your abortion," which the producer thought was too offensive. As if "I haven't been f*cked like that since grade school" was any better.
This movie is the bible for men who wanted to get their life in control. I am what I am after getting inspired from this movie. It's so amazing a movie can impact your whole life.
The random flashes was Tyler. If you look close. It is literally Tyler. It was when he was changing personalities . And Marla has been highly suspected as being another personality. And the narrator played by Edward Norton. His name is Jack.
8:55 "We are a generation of men raised by women..." "Deep seated daddy issues there." Wow it's cool to get to see the maximum level of female accountability possible on display here 😅
This movie hit Gen X so well because of its message about how you can reject consumerism and find happiness without all the designer trappings. It also showed that anarchism and nihilism are just as pointless and that a lot if us just need a good, healthy partnership. Damn shame Millennials and Zoomers didn't get that message chose to deify Tyler Durden instead.
_The writers and directors of this movie tried to tell us about the central global banking towers, also known as the twin towers, going down in New York, how well placed explosives were placed on every 47 columns in the twin towers._ _I myself was working at a short environments on Broadway just a couple of blocks from The world traits in a complex, and I tell you this truth, no planes hit those buildings, and they came down in a controlled demolition, there are other movies that depict the destruction of the twin towers. Most of the elites in Hollywood knew about what was going to take place before it happened_
