Hi friends! I would just like to apologize for the lack of attention my written reviews have been getting lately. With working at KSL Movie Show reviews in other formats have been monopolizing all of my time. I have still been doing written reviews for theatre which you should check out but it just hasn’t been possible to write and make all the other content I need to make lately. But we do have blind spot and it was a fun pick for August. Manda had seen David Fincher’s Fight Club but I never had so we watched it and talked about it together.
This, of course, is one of those movies one hears about but for whatever reason I just hadn’t seen it. Given it was made in 1999 the year I started college I probably would have loved it if I had seen it back then. It’s fascinating how many movies were made during those late 90s years about work both dramatic and comedic in tone. It is definitely something that was on the mind at that time.
The thing about Fight Club is I don’t know if I needed it to have the added meta layer of Tyler Durden and the multiple personalities. If it had just been a fight club as a rebellion against office slavery it might have been enough? What do you think?
Still, I really enjoyed the movie and it was a lot of fun to talk about with Manda. It’s very well-made and acted and speaks to anyone who has been unhappy with the life they’ve been given. I mentioned on the pod that Fight Club really isn’t that different in themes and ideas from Office Space (a film I adore) which makes sense as they were both released the same year.
It’s also a great looking film and tightly edited making it not drag the way some of Fincher films can. Overall it’s a good and entertaining film with an intriguing premise that invites debate and discussion. It’s certainly one I’m glad to have checked off my blind spot list. (I like it much better than Gone Girl...)
