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  • Actors: Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham-Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Edward Norton
  • Directors: David Fincher
  • Format: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Mar 2006
  • Run Time: 134 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (219 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000ECXWLS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,395 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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All films take a certain suspension of disbelief. Fight Club takes perhaps more than others, but if you're willing to let yourself get caught up in the anarchy, this film, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is a modern-day morality play warning of the decay of society. Edward Norton is the unnamed protagonist, a man going through life on cruise control, feeling nothing. To fill his hours, he begins attending support groups and 12-step meetings. True, he isn't actually afflicted with the problems, but he finds solace in the groups. This is destroyed, however, when he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), also faking her way through groups. Spiralling back into insomnia, Norton finds his life is changed once again, by a chance encounter with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), whose forthright style and no-nonsense way of taking what he wants appeal to our narrator. Tyler and the protagonist find a new way to feel release: they fight. They fight each other, and then as others are attracted to their ways, they fight the men who come to join their newly formed Fight Club. Marla begins a destructive affair with Tyler, and things fly out of control, as Fight Club grows into a nationwide fascist group that escapes the protagonist's control. Fight Club, directed by David Fincher (Seven), is not for the faint of heart; the violence is no holds barred. But the film is captivating and beautifully shot, with some thought-provoking ideas. Pitt and Norton are an unbeatable duo, and the film has some surprisingly humorous moments. The film leaves you with a sense of profound discomfort and a desire to see it again, if for no other reason than to just to take it all in. --Jenny Brown

Synopsis

FIGHT CLUB is narrated by a lonely, unfulfilled young man (Edward Norton) who finds his only comfort in feigning terminal illness and attending disease support groups. Hopping from group to group, he encounters another pretender, or 'tourist', the morose Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who immediately gets under his skin. However, while returning from a business trip, he meets a more intriguing character--the subversive Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). They become fast friends, bonding over a mutual disgust for corporate consumer-culture hypocrisy. Eventually, the two start Fight Club, which convenes in a bar basement where angry men get to vent their frustrations in brutal, bare-knuckle bouts. Fight Club soon becomes the men's only real priority; when the club starts a cross-country expansion, things start getting really crazy. Like Tyler Durden himself, director David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, is startlingly aggressive and gleefully mischievous as it skewers the superficiality of American pop culture. Outstanding performances by Norton and Pitt are supported by a razor-sharp script and an arsenal of stunning visual effects that include computer animation and sleight-of-hand editing. One of the most unique films of the late 20th century, FIGHT CLUB is a pitch-black comedy of striking intensity.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I am Jack's sense of overwhelming enjoyment..., 23 Nov 2009
By Mr. W. Coles "Wilsner" (Beyond the Thunderdome) - See all my reviews
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Really difficult to summarise this epic splattering of consumer culture rebellion without doing a dissertation but here goes;

Firstly, I couldn't think of a movie that is more worth owning than this, it is one of the most unique films I have ever seen and it has so many levels, so many ideas and so many unadulterated and powerful observations of the world we live in that it takes a few viewings to absorb it all in.
It overloads on barely known trivia; wrist-thick kudzu vines & haiku poems are mentioned for Gods sake?! It will have you Googling for definitions, it's that deep. Not to say you need to know all of what's mentioned, but if you've ever heard of the term `movie anorak' you will love to find these titbits out, most of which you can through the features on this disc.

Simply put, which is not something that comes with this film, a bored, white collar insomniac spends his time looking for what is missing in his IKEA catalogue filled life through self help groups where he tries to feel something in an otherwise numb existence.
Whilst at his body clock disturbing job as a car recall investigator, flying from city to city he stumbles across Tyler Durden, which if ever there was a better executed performance from Pitt I haven't found it. Norton becomes alive when around Durden and finds everything that he isn't in his new best friend.

The actual fighting in `Fight Club' is not really what this films about. True they do start up a club where blokes beat the hell out of each other and then hug after - but this is all to show how the cult led by Pitt begins. Between him and Norton they gather a bunch of guys who attempt to right what they feel is wrong, fight against the machine and try to break the monotony of the notion that we are what we own. It's fun and exciting and really interesting to see how it grows, all the while verbal spiel is delivered, mainly from Pitt, that will go down in movie history.

It's got a great support cast too, Helena Bonham Carter creates a stir as one corner of the odd love triangle who is also a self help group `tourist' with a perm-cigarette that messes with Norton's routine. Then you've got oddly, but well cast Meatloaf as an ex-powerlifter with moobs, and Jared Leto mills around too, probably murmuring to himself about not talking about something...

The ideas dripping from every pore is a revelation, the immense opinions of today's generation with bold statement after bold statement in the story is nothing short of incredible, a pure shock-value idea of the state of the developed world, and if you've ever had a `Screw It' moment in your life you will identify with lots that appears on the screen.

Without ruining anything, about ¾'s through comes the sucker punch in this masterpiece, which as I mentioned before, justifies a second viewing and justifies owning this, which is ironically everything the ideas in this film object to...oh well. If this is your first time at Fight Club...you have to buy it!

Sort of flopped when it came out in the cinema, but came into it's own on DVD and justifiably so. There are tonnes of extras on this disc, the original was packed but this has the HD transfer which really does it justice - the snappy CGI scenes are razor sharp although nothing changed sound wise, no biggie.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rule Number One, 7 Dec 2007
By J. Alexander (Chester) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fight Club [1999] [DVD] (DVD)
Rule Number One, you do not talk about fight club,
Rule Number Two, you do NOT talk about fight club.

Except DO talk about it. Tell everyone! This film is a modern classic.

David Fincher's directorial career had been a bizarre one in the build up to this effort. Alien3 had been heavily altered by the studio, which lead to a poor first feature from the director. He followed it up sometime later, with another modern classic: Se7en. He then proceeded to make the cult film 'The Game', which divided critics and film goers alike.

And then came Fight Club.

It was heavily anticipated, but poor reviews from critic test screenings meant that it flopped at the box office. Only on DVD was it resurrected, when it too became a cult film, before it was finally (and justly), recognised as a classic modern piece.

Due to the nature of the story, it is difficult to give away too much of the plot without spoling it. Suffice to say, the film is a self narrated account of Jack's boring and meaningless life, and how it changes when he meets a rather strange character on a plane... and his house blows up.

Jack and his new friend start a secret underground fight club, which proves suprisingly popular.

Whilst the obvious credit goes to Brad Pitt, for his stunning performance as soap salesman Tyler Duerden, it is Edward Nortons quietly composed performance as 'Jack' which really makes the film, giving it a human face which we can all relate too, while Helena Bonham Carter and Meat Loaf provide crackling support.

With sparkling dialogue, heart pumping action, and a twist that will knock your socks off, Fight Club is possibly one of the most entertaining modern films ever made, and I would recommend it to anyone who isnt of a really sensitive disposition (as some of the fight scenes get quite brutal).

Whether it is a good as Se7en is up for debate, but Brad Pitt's contrasting performances in both films do make them excellent companion pieces.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Moody, 27 Dec 2007
A dark, moody, disturbing and really gripping film, with some great quotes. Ed Norton is absolutely awesome as the 'office monkey' who hits rock bottom spiritual-bankcruptcy as his very being is crushed beneath his soulless existence. Brad Pitt is great as his quirky, twitchy journey-companion.

The whole thing is a very dramatic alternative take on Martha Stout's 'Myth of Sanity' and also is an oblique commentary on the human condition and the edge of the abyss to which he has brought himself.

As others have probably noted, it ends with a spectacular twist. Also, the film stands rewatching in light of knowing what happens at the end, you can then spot all kinds of quirks and anomalies throughout the film that now make sense. Fantastic!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I am Jack's complete lack of surprise (at just how much of a phenomena this film has gone on to become)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Help save Angelina Jolie from this loser!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm gonna need a bigger TV
Film: Spot on brilliant. No need to review

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5.0 out of 5 stars ???
Fantastic movie, one of my favourites! Can somebody tell me if this Blu-ray comes with any subtitles or other languages? Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars fight club
One of the best films I've ever seen... in a Tyler sort of way !!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fincher's greatest?
Fight Club, in my book the ultimate bloke film. Last week, we were given Heat on BD and this week we have Fight club - Xmas has come early! Read more
Published 2 months ago by The usual suspect

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY FIGHT CLUB!
Who dont know this film, has to buy it immidiatly!
Who knows it but dont own it, has to buy it IMMIDIATLY!
And who owns it, can buy it a second time.
Published 4 months ago by Al P.

4.0 out of 5 stars Rule Number One, you do not talk about fight club
There is not much more I can say then this is a film like no other. Entertaining, thought provoking, and superbly directed. Read more
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