Fight Club - David Fincher (1999)

Here is my tale of woe with this movie.....

I actually had never seen 'Fight Club' before. I knew that Brad Pitt and Edward Norton were in it. I knew that the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club. And I knew there was a twist at the end. I purposefully avoided anything having to do with 'Fight Club' so that I could experience it not knowing the ending. All was fine.....and then I watched the game show 'Jeopardy'. I guess when the topic was 'Movies with Twists' I should have changed the channel....but alas, I did not. Sigh. So I was tipped off to how the movie goes down.

I am not really into violent movies for the sake of violence. Hence my reticence to watch this movie previously. The movie is based on a Chuck Palahniuk novel (I thought about reading the novel before seeing the movie, then thought again. Read his novel 'Choke' instead. One word: interesting.)

The film was directed by David Fincher. Who, according to IMDB directed some of Madonna's videos (one of my personal favourites: 'Vogue'). As well as Sting's 'Englishman in New York'. (Another fave.) And on the downside, did Paula Abdul's video 'Straight Up'. You can't win them all.

Overall this was a good film. And I get why it's on the list. Who hasn't heard the line: The first rule of fight club.... (I stole the line for a book club I was in....the first rule of book club is you can't talk about book club. I thought it was funny.)

One word to describe 'Fight Club': Twisty.