Fight Club
1999/Fincher

3rd or 4th viewing

Wow, what a film. The type of movie that is so extremely well crafted and has so much to say that it almost makes you not even want to make movies anymore because you know you'll never make anything as good as this. I love everything that this film has to say and I love the way it says it. I love Edward Norton and Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter and David Fincher. Probably the best work any of them have ever done/ever will do. Such a finely paced, exquisitely executed piece of cinema. Intensely edited, so innovatively shot. Every shot packs such a punch, and clearly shows evidence of serious contemplation in search of perfection. This generation's Apocalypse Now. Biting and acidic in tone. Tragically, unforgivingly, and viciously beautiful. And oh man, isn't "Where is My Mind?" just the perfect capper?

5/5 Stars


I dream in widescreen.